NECKS, THE

"...lways a lush, patient, slow build, all texture and mood, super dynamic, but in a way most bands can't pull off, just bass drums and piano, their sound dense and dark, doleful and lovely." [Aquarius Rec.]

Album	Format	Label & Cat. Number	Description	Year	Price (incl. 19% VAT)
Hanging Gardens	CD	ReR Megacorp ReRNECKS1	first album on ReR by the unique Australian ambient-Jazz combo, a long one-tracker 60+ minutes forming a highly repetitive, poly-rhythmic & minimalistic sound sculpture...	1999	€13.00
Aether	CD	ReR Megacorp ReR Necks2	the Australian "genre-free" trio with a very minimal fully instrumental "ambient" work	2001	€13.00
Drive by	CD	ReR Megacorp ReRNECKS3	composition from 2003, slowly evolving handplayed jazz-trance.. (one-tracker, 60+ minutes); "a steady moderate tempo piece with some beautiful floating chords and inspired drum passages..."	2003	€14.00
Mosquito / See through	do-CD	ReR Megacorp ReRNECKS4/5	two over one hour long pieces from 2004 by the Australian minimal Jazz trio, comparions have been made with ALICE COLTRANE or TALK TALK...	2004	€18.00
Music for the feature film: The Boys	CD	ReR Megacorp ReRNECKS4	soundtrack to the prize-winning movie, showing a different side (shorter tracks) of the Australian jazz-magicians	2004	€13.00
Chemist	CD	ReR Megacorp ReRNECKS7	three pieces of hyper-groovy & trancy minimal jazz-drone, with endlessly floating piano & organ sounds implented, reaching out to a full suspension of the mind... great stuff again, one long one-tracker	2006	€13.00
Townsville	CD	ReR Megacorp ReR Necks8	digipack	2007	€14.00
Silverwater	CD	ReR Megacorp ReR NECKS9	first studio album in three years	2009	€14.00
Mindset	CD	ReR Megacorp ReR NECKS 10	new release by this great Australian "drone Jazz" trio; presenting two long tracks of their unique poly-metric & hypnotic (all handplayed) tunes, using ethereal piano-patterns, bass, drums, electronics, Hammon-organs and noisy guitars... mesmerizing, fully acoustic stuff !!	2011	€13.00
Open	CD	ReR Megacorp RER	one long piece of music (68 min.) that somehow stops the time-flow of the modern world => a very reduced & clear handplayed subtleness, maybe their most quiet & meditative work yet..... 17th album in the 26 year career of this unique Australian trio..	2013	€14.00
Vertigo	CD	ReR Megacorp RER NECKS 11	the NECKS are a Jazz-band but if you like 'handplayed' floating drone & ambient expanses with rich details its difficult to not being seduced by them... 'Vertigo' sounds especially open, fluent, atmospheric... "always a lush, patient, slow build, all texture and mood, super dynamic, but in a way most bands can't pull off, just bass drums and piano, their sound dense and dark, doleful and lovely" [Aquarius Records]	2015	€14.00
Vertigo	LP	ReR Megacorp RER NECKS 12	the NECKS are a Jazz-band but if you like 'handplayed' floating drone & ambient expanses with rich details its difficult to not being seduced by them... 'Vertigo' sounds especially open, fluent, atmospheric... "always a lush, patient, slow build, all texture and mood, super dynamic, but in a way most bands can't pull off, just bass drums and piano, their sound dense and dark, doleful and lovely" [Aquarius Records]; limited vinyl version, Side B ends in a lock groove; non-sealed covers!	2015	€20.00
Three	CD	ReR Megacorp RER NECKS 14	three excellent new 20+ minutes pieces by everone's favourite floating Jazz trio, the first piece with hallucinogenic percussion work must be one of their best ever! "Das selbstgesteckte Ziel, auf jedem Album anders klingen zu wollen, erfüllt das Trio mit seinem vielschichtigen, immersiven Klanggebräu aus experimentellem Jazz, Minimal Music, Ambient und Neoklassik abermals bravourös" [Laut.de]	2020	€13.00
Travel	do-LP	Northern Spy NS 158	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." - gatefold cover	2023	€39.50
Travel	CD	Northern Spy NS 158	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.	2023	€16.50
Bleed	CD	Northern Spy - NS168	the Australian "jazz-impro-drone" legends in a very ambient mood, a long one-tracker of 42+ minutes. - Bleed explores a sublime language of stillness. With a single, 42-minute composition, The Necks masterfully express the unspeakable beauty of decay and space... - "might just be the best record we’ve heard all year.." [Soundohm] - comes in gatefold card sleeve, with a green die-cut card inner sleeve.	2024	€16.00
Bleed	LP	Northern Spy - NS168	the Australian "jazz-impro-drone" legends in a very ambient mood, two side long tracks... - Bleed explores a sublime language of stillness. With a single, 42-minute composition, The Necks masterfully express the unspeakable beauty of decay and space... - "might just be the best record we’ve heard all year.." [Soundohm] - BLACK VINYL	2024	€29.50
Bleed (colour vinyl)	LP	Northern Spy - NS 168	the Australian "jazz-impro-drone" legends in a very ambient mood, two side long tracks... - Bleed explores a sublime language of stillness. With a single, 42-minute composition, The Necks masterfully express the unspeakable beauty of decay and space... - "might just be the best record we’ve heard all year.." [Soundohm] - lim. ed on GREEN vinyl !	2024	€30.50
Disquiet	3 x CD	Northern Spy - NS 174	On Disquiet, The Necks stretch their immersive, shape-shifting sound across three discs and more than three hours of labyrinthine, patient intensity. This is their twentieth studio recording and it marks the 39th year of the band’s existence. - 4 long expanses	2025	€37.50