THIS WEEKEND! LATE BREAKING! Friends, we’re excited to be playing this weekend at Milani Gallery with our pal Anthony Burr who is in town from San Diego. Some of you will recall our album with Anthony a few years ago on A Guide to Saints (link in bio). This is our first live outing - be great to see you there. Performance starts at 3pm sharp. Check out Aleks Danko’s great exhibition MY FELLOW AUS-TRA-ALIENS (CODA) while you’re there.
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Primitive Motion - Lost Frequencies
Discreet, 2025
dbl CD
Hefty double CD collection of previously unheard material recorded by Brisbane duo Sandra Selig and Leighton Craig as Primitive Motion, an outfit that have been floating in and and out of these doors since they first opened back in 2018. Their history pre-dates ours (there’s a discography that stretches right the way back to the turn of the previous decade), though the music contained here is roughly contemporaneous with WOE’s early years, culled from December ‘17 to November ‘21. It’s not an incidental point, since the sounds they make feel very well attuned in both sensibility and aesthetic to much of what we consider to be the best music of the past seven or so years. Present across these 24 tracks is the sense of home-recorded freeness that feels equally private and determined, a mix of kraut, drone, spacerock and electronic experimentation that at any given point recalls Idea Fire Company, Ashtray Navigations, Windy & Carl or Astral Social Club, the kind of outsider artists that rarely find a way in because they’re never actually looking for it. If Lost Frequencies is outré by nature, it’s equally inspiring because of it. The thinking is unmoored, the application at times loose, others simply free, which makes for quite the trip when taken as one mammoth whole - take, for example, the run of tracks from five to eight, which starts with the simply overwhelming 18 minute hypnotic beast ‘Owl’ and ends with the succinct, Galaxie 500-like sweet ecstasy of ‘Higher’. Most likely wouldn’t tie one with the other, but with Primitive Motion it feels both natural and a logical extension of their taken name (to move onwards, haphazardly but inevitably). The connection to the Discreet universe makes perfect sense, though it’s also a similar spirit to that which drives, for example, Berlin’s Kashual Plastik or fellow Aussies Altered State Tapes. As such, Lost Frequencies ends up functioning as a lodestar of sorts, one that doesn’t so much guide the way as light up what might be possible should you be so inclined.
FFO: Idea Fire Company, Ashtray Navigations, Troth, Astral Social Club, Windy & Carl
It’s release day! Friends, our new double CD Lost Frequencies is out today via the amazing folk at Discreet Music in Sweden. Massive thanks to Matthias and Gustaf for pulling together this package - we couldn’t be happier!
This release is effectively a journal of our work in Sandra’s home studio over a few years, documented with over 2 hours of audio and a 12 page booklet of photos and recording notes. We think it’s the closest we’ve come to capturing the extent of our sound world. We hope you enjoy!
Please support @discreetmusic.gbg and grab a copy direct. These are also available from our Bandcamp page - see the link in our bio.
@sandra_selig@kindling_house
Saturday 31st of May: Primitive Motion are playing a live score to A Simple Lens @ Wreckers Upstairs.
6 - 9pm, performance at 7pm
🌀 I think it’s going to be brilliant ! 🌀
@primitivemotion@wreckersartspace
Friends - we are playing tomorrow night in the Big City Lights festival on the Gold Coast - our set is 6pm at 11 Nerang Street, Southport. Also playing Shoeb Ahmad and Meteor Infant. Curated by @room40shoots . Looking forward! @bigcitylightsfestival
@primitivemotion sound check for tonights performance at Volume festival@ 7pm @artgalleryofnsw we cant wait to make some amplified noise in the museum!
Release Day! Dear Friends - we are very excited to have Portrait of an Atmosphere out into the world today.
Huge thanks to the support of @room40shoots for everything from toasty mastering to releasing the album on his wonderful Guide to Saints imprint.
You can have a listen via the usual platforms and buy clear or black vinyl on our Bandcamp - link in bio. This album had been a long time coming - we trust you enjoy!
Cover 📷by Leighton’s Dad 1946. Back cover Sandra. Record labels Leighton
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