Dedications is not an album, it’s one night in 2010. 

In April 2010 the boats went into Irene’s Warehouse studio in Brunswick, Melbourne with Seth Rees (The Spheres, Amplifier Machine) and recorded a live improvisation of several pieces in front of a private audience. 

The idea was to capture the band together before I left overseas to live in Berlin for 2 years. The session included some special guests such as Cathryn Kohn on violin and sometimes Seth and Noah Symons would jump up on the piano. 

It was as a particularly moody evening as I had just returned from a friend’s funeral in Hobart literally a day before and so there was a lot of emotion in the air, also due to the fact that this would be the band’s last performance for a long time, and no one knew how long. Some of the jams were great and had a good energy such as ‘Don’t sleep, grasp the sky and scream!’ and ‘Falling…landing…leaving’ which was a 10 minute epic originally. 

However, not everything went as planned, there were technical problems causing the recordings to stop and start, rendering many of the takes unusable, and so far the existing material has not yielded any hopes for an album, leaving me only a handful of beautiful moments to mix together. However, the result is haunting and melancholic. Soundzoo proudly presents these rare recordings for your listening pleasure.

Dedications is for Rose Lerchbacher who died April 2010. 

Nick Conolly - guitar, piano

Jona Byron - guitar, piano

Paul Guseli - drums

Seth Rees - piano

Cathryn Kohn - violin

Recorded by Seth Rees at Irene’s Warehouse, April 2010. Mixed/mastered by J. Byron, Nov 2012.

In Berlin during mid 2011 I was hired to help complete a massive album project, recording overdubs, arranging, producing and mixing the debut album by Berlin band The Major Pins. Eventually, due to my own time constrictions I had to step away from the project and it was passed to Yensin Jahn to complete. Katharina Gade is a very talented singer songwriter and it was great to be involved in helping shape her album. This is just one out of many tracks I was involved in, recently remixed in Berlin. 

The latest production I was responsible for was the work of French artist Fabien Thomas’s project ‘Douglas First’. I was also involved in the project as guitarist, producer and sound engineer. - JB

Check out ‘Whipping Wind’ and look out for the EP ‘Tide’ out soon!