Greg Malcolm & Stefan Neville ‘Don’t Drown’ album release with Drorgan – 22/09/2023

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Audio Foundation is pleased to announce an Auckland show to celebrated the release of Greg Malcolm and Stefan Neville’s latest release ‘Don’t Drown’ on Okraina Records.

Who would attempt to combine cunning ethnological forgery, Scottish folk songs, claw-hammer guitar, untutored horn-tootling, elastically relaxed drumming and garage electronic fuckery? Only Greg and Stefan, high on sea, sunshine and mis-judged micro-dosing – that’s who. ‘Don’t Drown’ was offered as practical advice during the self-described ‘Yellow Submarine’ phase of making this record. And while they managed to avoid literally doing so (phew), they sound here like they got pretty ‘deep in’ to an Octopus’s sound world all their own. This surprisingly clear analogue recording has just enough Bikini Bottom grit to ensure traction. The tunes are inviting, and the sonic disruptions are too good-natured and goofy to upset even the most delicate digestion.

The sessions have had a couple of years to marinate, courtesy of some pandemic, and are here offered in that most Archducal of vinyl formats, the double ten inch. What are you waiting for, a side of Crabby Patties? Get your water-wings and dive in (unless you’re tripping)!– Bruce Russell (The Dead C)

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Drorgan – the psychedelic neanderthal stomp duo of Ben Holmes (drums) and Hermione Johnson (organ)

$20 on the door
$15 presales from UTR
members free