Earshift Music is proud to release the debut album from The Rest is Silence.
Bringing together four of Melbourne’s most prodigious young jazz artists, The Rest is Silence’s debut album A Short Film, explores melodically driven compositions against a backdrop of indie-rock, country, and electronica. Featuring siblings Flora Carbo (alto saxophone) and Theo Carbo (guitar) alongside long-time friends Isaac Gunnoo (double bass) and Maddison Carter (drums), their music is a breath of fresh air, fearlessly moving between genres to create a soundtrack to the multiplicity of our modern lives.
The Rest is Silence is a collective, with all members contributing compositions and directing the ensemble sound. The two deeply connected halves of the quartet unite to create unique and trusting musical explorations. They are influenced by artists as diverse as Carlo Gesualdo, Bill Frisell, Leonard Cohen, Ornette Coleman, Elliott Carter and Igor Stravinsky, and studied at the VCA/University of Melbourne and the James Morrison Academy in jazz and composition.
Despite being relatively young, they have individually played with leading artists from a variety of genres including Andrea Keller, Maceo Parker, Harry Angus, Barney McAll, Christopher Hale, John Flanagan, Tamara Murphy, The Maes, Nat Bartsch and STAV. They also each lead their own ensembles, creating visionary art music in different combinations.
The result of this melting pot of experience and influence is an expansive, eclectic ensemble sound. The Rest is Silence explores the dark and the light, the gentle and heavy, the acoustic and the electronic. After numerous performances at Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, the Jazzlab and the Wangaratta Festival of Jazz and Blues, they are now celebrating the release of their debut album, A Short Film, in 2020.
credits
released July 10, 2020
Flora Carbo | Alto saxophone, bass clarinet, & harmonium
Theo Carbo | Guitar & toy piano
Isaac Gunnoo | Bass & toy piano
Maddison Carter | Drums
Merinda Dias-Jayasinha | Voice (track 2)
Tracks 1, 3, 4, & 5 composed by F. Carbo; tracks 2 & 7 composed by T. Carbo; track 8 composed by I. Gunnoo; track 6 composed by M. Carter.
Recorded 22nd & 23rd September 2018
Engineered and mixed by Myles Mumford at Rolling Stock Studios
Additional recording/editing by Theo Carbo
Mastered by Lachlan Carrick at Moose Mastering
Photograph by Patrick Smith
Artwork/Design by Jessica Lindsay Smith
We acknowledge that this album was created on the stolen land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation and recognize that their sovereignty was never ceded.
Thanks to: Sandra and Misja Carbo for countless rehearsals in your relentlessly music-filled house; Merinda, for adding the extra sparkle onto the album; Myles, for your creative input and infectious enthusiasm; Lachlan, for mastering the album; Jeremy and Earshift Records, for your support; Patrick, for an excellent photo, Jess for making visual sense of our music; Julien Wilson, Andrea Keller, Eugene Ball, Tamara Murphy, Adam Simmons, Michael Tortoni, Sonny Rehe, Bar 303, and anyone who has ever supported us. A thousand thanks to the Carbos, Carters, Gunnoos, and for Mel and Jess for always being there. And thanks to you for buying, listening to, looking at, or even glancing toward this album.
Very glad they took the opportunity to jam and record together. They captured moments of concentrated listening and playing. Also like the airiness and spaciousness of the recording. freejazzy
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