NEW WEIRD AUSTRALIA – SOLITARY WAVE (OUT) & (IN)
"We are concerned with what might be called a 'sense': an organ that perceives, a direction that may be conceived, and a directly lived movement progressing towards the horizon." Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space, 423. Solitary Wave (Out) and (In) is the first new release of music from Scott Buchanan’s New Weird Australia imprint after a five-year hiatus. The 26-track, two-volume compilation marks the rejuvenation of an annual survey of music from around the continent. It's an eclectic mix of experimental artists drawing on outside influences to smelt an authentic voice in defiance of a cancelled future. Earlier NWA releases like Vox, Western Schism and Rural, Regional and Remote are more com prehensive representations of spatial inquiry. Inquisitive listeners can draw their own conclusions by sampling the label's entire discography via the Bandcamp link below. “Created in isolation" according to the liner notes, but does the home