Aotearoa / New Zealand adventurous music label iiii Records is very excited to release an epic double LP by shape shifting, tectonic plate lifting supergroup Farewell Spit.
Named after and recorded at Lyttleton’s iconic music festival Port Noise, with an additional track recorded at Wellington’s Meow, the album is destined to be an instant classic and a work which stands as utterly unique in the oeuvre of each of the band members’ catalogues – all of whom are prolific and iconic figures in New Zealand music.
Over four sides of the double LP Farewell Spit traverse vast territories of sculptured sound, noise and melodicism, always a cohesive whole whilst eschewing instrumental tropes of flamboyant technical bravado or noodling twaddle.
Pre-order yours HERE.
Here’s what NZ legend Bruce Russell of the Dead C has to say:
"The expanded sextet Spit is almost that most preposterous of creatures, the Super Group. But it would be fairer to describe them simply as a dream team. What happens when the top shelf of Aotearoa jazz improvisers (Donaldson, Henderson) meets the supplest of rhythm sections (Gooch, Callwood)? Again, 'rhythm section' is almost an insult, these guys play all across the map; and over the edge. Then you throw in two wild card guitar-players, one from the ethno-musicological improv side of the street (Beban), the other a grown-up punk who can play free and choreographically (Carter) - and stand well clear. Listening to these four sides will answer all questions. Everyone does the unexpected: (Henderson's uncanny Abdullah Ibrahim pianisms are drawn from below the bottom of the probability deck) and we all go home barefoot... The highest compliment I can pay them is that I repeatedly fell asleep and half-awakened throughout the Port Noise set that comprises most of this double album -and I've slept in the front row of a solo Cecil Taylor gig. So for me, Farewell Spit are right-fucking-on."
Bruce Russell, Lyttelton.
Tickets $30 via Flicket
Special thanks to Creative NZ and Wellington City Council for supporting Pyramid Club's programme.
