VA - Seven Wonders - New Movements in Australian Jazz & Soul (Plug Seven)
Seven Wonders Is a Vital New Compilation Capturing Australia’s Irrepressible Groove-Led Music Scene
From their place at the bottom of the world, outside of the traditional jazz and soul centres, Australia’s groove-led musicians have struggled for recognition on the world stage. But all of that is changing as increasingly the country’s vital community of close-knit, broadly adventurous players command the attention of international audiences.
Bouncing off the selections of independent radio DJs and esoteric record store collections, these musicians jump across African diaspora music traditions – from funk to house music, hip-hop to Ethio-jazz – before pollinating those rhythms with a uniquely Australian flavour.
This magpie-like curiosity forges new sounds and forms – all of which can be found on Seven Wonders, a new compilation by Plug Seven Records and Wondercore Island. Seven Wonders is testament to Wondercore’s relentless support of Australia’s forward-thinking beat makers and neo-soul bands; and to Plug Seven’s commitment to the magic of analogue music, as seen at its Melbourne record store and nearby studio.
From traditional jazz and soul, to esoteric experimentation, the breadth of styles showcased on Seven Wonders is testament to Australia’s deep understanding of jazz, soul and groove-led music’s roots. It’s a snapshot of a moment in time in which Australia’s players are moving from the confines of house parties and local clubs to claim their spot on the world stage. And they’re doing it thorough a deep, transcendent connection with audiences.
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TRISTAN JALLEH (Australia)
Malaysian/Australian Multimedia Artist and Music Video Director based in Hanoi who has produced work for the NGA (with Club Ate), NGV Triennial, MONA FOMA, Sydney Biennale, Australian Centre for Photography, Australian Centre for Moving Image, AsiaTOPA Festival 2017 & 2019, Melbourne RISING Festival 2021, Heart Of Cyberpunk Festival 2020 in Hong Kong, Vincom Centre for Contemporary Art 2020 in Vietnam, as well as Red Bull Music Festivals, Boiler Room, Splendour in the Grass Festival (Sydney), Sugar Mountain Festival (Melbourne), Soft Centre Festival (Sydney) and more.
Music Videos
2021 CORIN Mnemosyne / UIQ Records
2021 BANOFFEE Cheeks (VFX)
2019 CORIN Maria’s Dream / Bedouin Records
2019 CORIN Exo / Bedouin Records
2018 DMA’S Time and Money / I OH YOU Records
2017 TQX The Day That You Moved On
2017 CORIN Vexations / Wondercore Island Records
2016 CORIN Void / Wondercore Island Records
2016 CORIN Virtuality / Wondercore Island Records
2016 OKS Hands / Wondercore Island Records
2015 DMA’S Lay Down / I OH YOU Records
2015 ALPINE Shot Fox / Ivy League Records
2015 ALPINE Foolish / Ivy League Records
2013 OKS All I Could Do / Wondercore Island Records
2013 OKS It’s Coming / Wondercore Island Records
Art Exhibitions (Group and Solo)
2021 ‘The hearts of the people are measured by the size of the land’ RISING Festival, Melbourne
2021 ’TIL IT’S GONE’ at MONA FOMA, Tasmania
2020 HEART OF CYBERPUNK Fashion Festival for DDHK Hong Kong
2020 ‘From hereon: posthuman, nonhuman, antihuman’ Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
2020 ‘In Muva We Trust’ Club Até for Enlighten Festival, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
2020 ‘The Foliage III’ Vincom Centre for Contemporary Art, Hanoi, Vietnam.
2019 ‘Earth, 1900-2100’ commissioned by Runway Art Journal ‘Oceans’ Issue #39
2019 Pitch Music & Arts Festival, Central Victoria, Australia
2019 Solo Exhibition ‘MNEMORY PALACE’ Mars Gallery, Melbourne
2018 ‘Nikki Yume’ commissioned The Keir Choreography Awards for Runway Issue #36 Launch, Carriageworks
2018 Club Ate: Lolo Ex Machina installation collaboration with Justin Shoulder, NGA Canberra
2018 Blak-Queer Futurism, collaboration with Bhenji Ra, with Midsumma Festival, Blak Dot Gallery Melbourne, Artspace Sydney
2017 FUTURE TENSE, CHANNELS Festival 2017, Melbourne
2017 Liveworks Experimental Art Festival, Carriageworks, Sydney
2017 Club Ate @ ARTBAR with Bhenji Ra, MCA, Sydney
2017 WITNESS: Contemporary Video, La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo
2017 Ex Nilalang Episode 4, with Club Ate Collective, part of ASIATOPA, Commissioned by ACMI Melbourne
2016 Melbourne Central Art Loop: ‘Patio Ops’, Melbourne Central Portals, Melbourne
2016 Solo Exhibition Future Plants, Mars Gallery, Melbourne
2016 Solo Exhibition The Economy of Vegetation, Nicholas Projects, Melbourne
2016 Consolidated Volume, C3 Artspace, Melbourne
2015 Inaugural Show, Nicholas Projects, Melbourne
2015 Video Contemporary, Sydney Contemporary 2015, Carriageworks
2014 Put Up A Signal, ASIALINK project, New Low Gallery, BUS Projects, Federation Square, Melbourne
2014 Conquest Of Space, Curated by Andrew Frost, Galleries UNSW, College of Fine Arts, Sydney
2013 Solo Exhibition Spectacular - Architecture of the Near Future, New Low Gallery, Melbourne
2012 Experimenta International Biennial of Media Art, RMIT Gallery Melbourne, Powerhouse Museum Sydney
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