Drone Records

NECKS, THE - Travel

Format: CD

Label & Cat.Number: Northern Spy NS 158

Release Year: 2023

Note: THE NECKS start each day with a 20 min. impro session in the studio, the new album proofs again their unique profession to create the best floating droneZjazz of this planet, on the four new tracks, movements, developments, abstractions.. -*These tracks (save for some light overdubs and post-production) feel closest to their 30 years of celebrated live performances.* - CD digipak ed.

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Travel, the 19th studio album by Australian improvisational trio The Necks, documents their recent practice of starting each day in the studio with a 20-minute trio improvisation. The recordings offer some of their most ecstatic and captivating music cut to tape.

As bassist Lloyd Swanton puts it: “It’s a really nice communal activity to bring us together in focus each day, and some lovely music has resulted from it.” Although a straight “live” improvisation has never been recorded in the studio by the band, these tracks (save for some light overdubs and post-production) feel closest to their 30 years of celebrated live performances.

In 2017 Stephen O’Malley’s Ideologic Organ label released the band’s lauded Unfold, which first offered up this uncharacteristic studio work: four sub-20-minute pieces - instead of the typical 60+ minute arc for which the band is known - along with an obfuscated track list which leaves play order to the listener’s hand. The album quickly sold out, and persists as a treasure in collections or as a high-priced ‘Want’ on Discogs.

Produced by The Necks

Recorded by Tim Whitten, Studios 301, Alexandria, Australia

Mixed by Tim Whitten, Forbes Street Studios, Woolloomooloo, Australia

Mastered by Douglas Henderson, micro-moose-berlin, Germany

Photographs and design by Traianos Pakioufakis

Thanks to Jordan Verzar, Regina Greene, Lee Paterson

https://thenecksau.bandcamp.com/album/travel

"For the last 25 years, the Australian trio have created a radical new open form for musical improvisation with hour-long performances that touch upon motorik rock, minimalist composition, drone and more.... " THE WIRE