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The Necks release new album
In true Necks-style, the album comprises just a single 67 minute– long track, which can be loosely divided into around six or eight distinct parts that flow into each other.
Silverwater – the name of the track and the album - is an industrial suburb in the inner west of Sydney, best known for its jail. The band explain it as an apt metaphor for the recording, which is both beautiful and menacing.
This will be the fourteenth release for The Necks, and their first studio album since ‘Chemist’, which came out in 2006.
Silverwater is due out on Friday, and the band will follow it up with a tour around the country in February next year.
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The Necks are an experimental jazz trio from Sydney, Australia, comprising Chris Abrahams on piano and Hammond organ, Tony Buck on drums, percussion and electric guitar and Lloyd Swanton on bass guitar and double bass. The band plays improvisational pieces of up to an hour in length that explore the development and demise of repeating musical figures. Typically a live performance will begin very...
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