New Rouseabout Release:
Mic Conway’s National Junk Band – Corporate Chook
Rouseabout RRR45

Economists are predicting a spike in corporate growth from the beginning of the new financial year. New figures suggest a large cooked chook is about to hit the retail sector. The financial markets are set to swing with Mic Conway’s National Junk Band’s first CD release in four years – “Corporate Chook”.

This inflated chook has already reached the top of the consumer price index, with executive musicianship, high-value production and seventeen consumer-targeted tracks, commenting on social and political trends, the human condition and corporate worlds with humour and a high standard of mediocrity.

Opening with the theme of compulsive consumerism and finishing with a race of life to death, the CD is filled with value-added material, played with economy and expertise by the masters of junk music.

The All Ordinaries have taken a dive while consumer confidence rating has had an upswing in the commodities sector. In a misguided attempt to divert attention from American Independence Day celebrations, “CORPORATE CHOOK” will be launched at the Bald Faced Stage Hotel (Leichhardt), with very special guest Liz Frencham, on 4th July 2008.

Tour Dates: See the Gig Guide.

Corporate Chook (RRR45) is out on Rouseabout Records through MGM Distribution 5th July.

More Information:  Artist Page  |  Artist Website  |  Artist MySpace

New Rouseabout Release:
Forte – Golden Fiddlers
Rouseabout RRR44

Forte is an album of strung-out mayhem featuring Four Play, Marcy Taylor, CODA, Fiddlers Feast, Cin Cin, Mykl Lozin, Dirty Lucy and more.
 
Hey diddle diddle - these folks can sure play the fiddle!
 
Released in conjunction with the Golden Fiddle Awards, the first awards which focus on nurturing, supporting and rewarding the wealth of violin playing, performing and composing talent in Australian and New Zealand, each and every particpant on this unique and entertaining collection belongs to a select group with acknowledged credentials. There's the new generation fiddling as displayed by Migel MacLean, Peter O'Shea and the 'family' bands of The Bostocks and the Davidson Brothers. Jenny Thomas breathes new life into a fiddle-centric version of 'Waltzing Matilda' and Ian Cooper makes his 'Brazil' really swing. Original compositions are also featured, especially with the music of Sean O'Boyle, Marcela Taylor (nominated for this year's CMAA Golden Guitar Instrumental of the Year) anMykl Lozin. There are some wonderful ensemble tracks too where the fiddle jumps out and dances - Four Play, Cin Cin, CODA, Dirty Lucy and of course, Rouseabout's Fiddlers Feast.
 
Golden Fiddle players all!

FORTE (RRR44) is out on Rouseabout Records through MGM Distribution in February.
 
The 2008 Golden Fiddle Awards will be held at the Tamworth Country Music Festival on January 25.
 

New Silent Release:
Shaun Parker – This Show Is About People
Silent SIL016

This Show Is About People is a daring music-theatre-dance collaboration between dancer-choreographer and counter-tenor Shaun Parker and the renowned musicians and vocalists Mara and Llew Kiek. In the theatrical production the audience observes a group of strangers found in a transit lounge who are compelled to question their belief systems and the fundamental aspects of humanity. Robust, high-impact dance is layered with intricate gesture and fused with a sensitive array of live music. Drawing surprising connections between experiences both intense and peaceful, vigorous and gentle, This Show Is About People shows us how our sense of fun and capacity for joy depends as much on other people as on ourselves. This Show Is About People is music, dance and theatre at it's most arresting and world premiered at the Melbourne International Festival 2007 and the Sydney Festival 2008.
 
The other worldly soundtrack produced by CODA's Nick Wales and Mara & Llew Kiek features Bulgarian and medieval music and shepherds them into a chillingly contemporary setting to express the depth and complexity of emotional and spiritual ideas broached in This Show Is About People.

Shaun Parker THIS SHOW IS ABOUT PEOPLE (SIL016) is out on Silent Recordings through Vitamin in February 2008.