Welcome back to semester 2, 2o1o of the Slow Release WAAPA Music Label. We have some exciting releases coming your way from a variety or genres that are offered here on the Slow Release website. These releases will include works by artists from Contemporary, Jazz, (possibly Classical), and New Music. We will be releasing works by Graham Wood (Jazz), Cat Hope (New Music), Adrian Kelly (Jazz), Gata Negra (Contemporary), Lindsay Vickery (New Music), and possibly Johnathon Paget (Classical). Stay tuned for more updates about the “Slow Release Lucky Dip”. We guarantee, you won’t be disappointed.
Slow Release Lucky Dip!
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010Kouhei Harada EP Launch!.!.!
Friday, May 14th, 2010
Wednesday the 19th of May is the premier release of Kouhei Harada’s “Augapfel” EP on Slow Release Music.
The Launch night will be held at the Kurongkurl Katitjin (KK) Gallery @ ECU Mount Lawley Campus on Central Ave in Mount Lawley.
Kouhei Harada’s Augapfel EP is a lush world of sound, filled with warm acoustics and disembodied environments flickering between a field of digital transmissions.
Born in Tokyo in 1983 Kouhei Harada is a Japanese sound artist who uses field recordings, acoustic instruments and modified guitar that is processed and arranged through the use of Max/MSP programming to deconstruct and re-construct new acousmatic worlds filled with beautiful layers of melodic noise. Harada see’s the concepts of Glitch not as a style or a type of sound but as moments of sound caught in time and space. Harada studied Anthropology & Philosophy in Tamagawa University, having been influenced by German philosophers Arnold Gehlen, Anti-Illusionism & French philosopher Gilles Deleuze’s Mille Plateaux (1980 – Deleuze & Guattari) Harada turned to composition.
In 2006, he formed the side project “SAWADA + HARADA and by 2006 Harada Played as a closing act for the Avantgarde Festival organized by legendary German Krautrockers FAUST. 2009 saw Kouhei Harada tour Australia which led to his current signing to Western Australian Label Slow Release. http://slowrelease.waapamusic.com/
The Augapfel EP and many other great Slow Release Music Releases can be previewed and purchased online at http://slowrelease.waapamusic.com/
Slow Release is a music label based at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University in Mount Lawley, Western Australia. Established in 2009, the label releases music by staff, senior students and visiting artists to the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.
The label is run by third year students from the Bachelor of Music (Music Technology) overseen by an editorial board of WAAPA staff. The label structure reflects the expertise of the Music Department at WAAPA and covers Jazz, Classical, Contemporary and New Music genres.
Kouhei Harada – Abrutschen (taken from Augapfel EP) by Slow Release Music
Kouhei Harada
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
The WAAPA Slow Release Music Label is proud to present it’s new upcoming release by Japanese sound artist, Kouhei Harada. Kouhei works specifically with the program Max/MSP to manipulate field recordings, instruments, and effected sounds. Kouhei specializes in composing, improvising, designing, organizing, engineering, and booking talent for oversea’s musicians to go to Tokyo, Japan. The exciting multi-track release is called “Augapfel” and will be available for your own personal download in the coming weeks. If you want a preview of Kouhei’s works, please click on this Myspace link.
“Out In Perth” – Graham Wood Review
Thursday, March 18th, 2010
“In the Mood For Jazz“
“Last month Wood launched his newest album The G-Train at The Ellington. The session musicians included saxophonist Carl Macke and trumpet player Matt Jordell to complement the Graham Wood Trio. Together they improvised the album’s grittiest tracks. Wood composed the album’s most poignant and evocative songs. Dahli’s Delight has a melody that is like a child walking in autumn. It is beautiful and melancholic. Closes, inspired by a late night drinking partner, consists of a rhythmic swagger and piano runs which evoke the sensation of liquor tumbling down your throat.”
The Graham Wood Quintet was reviewed on the website, www.outinperth.com after the G-Train Launch. To view more of this review click on Out In Perth Review or to access any downloads from the G-Train LP, click on G-Train Downloads.
Stay tuned for more exciting news about upcoming artists.
X-Press Magazine G-Train Interview!
Thursday, March 18th, 2010 
“Being in the big cities like Tokyo and New York means you spend a lot of time on the subway. The reason behind the title The G Train was that when I was in New York I was going to Brooklyn to check out a lot of the more underground gigs. The best way for me to get to Brooklyn was to connect to the G Train – a suburban line from Queens to Brooklyn. It was on some of those colourful late night jazz journeys on the G Train that I decided to follow this train theme with the album. You get to sit and think a lot when you are on the train – something not so common when I am in Perth – and I think that’s when the ideas were really hatching for me. It was the sounds, the smells, the interesting characters – freaks – and the whole hustle and bustle of New York.”
The Graham Wood Quintet was interviewed by X-Press Magazine. To view more about The Graham Wood Quintet, visit the X-Press Magazine Website to get more of an insight to this world of music.
Welcome To 2010!!!
Monday, March 1st, 2010The WAAPA Slow Release Label has new staff for the year of 2010. Staff includes Jarryd Bird, Mikaela Davies, Mark Bradstreet, Jake Steele and Petro Vouris.
This is a big year with lots of exciting projects, including the current release by The Graham Wood Quinet’s G-Train.
Stay tuned for new aurally stimulating releases from Kouhei Harada and David Wickham.
G-Train and Label Launch!
Monday, December 21st, 2009
Slow Release is proud to announce the label’s first professional album release by The Graham Wood Quintet: The G-Train CD (available in store now!)
The CD and Label launch is being held tonight at the:
Ellington Jazz Club
191 Beaufort St Perth 6000
Monday 21st and Tuesday 22nd December 2009 at 7.30pm
CDs are available on the night for the special launch price of $20.
Tonight is a celebration of the release of Graham’s 3rd CD as leader. The G Train was recorded over 2 days in 2008 and features Graham on piano with Matt Jodrell (trumpet) Carl Mackey (sax) Sam Anning (bass) and Daniel Susnjar (drums).
The tunes on this CD were written by Graham on a 3 week journey through Japan and The USA in 2008. There is a common train theme to the tunes and hence the title of the CD.
We are pleased to be joined by Daniel Susnjar who is returning from the USA for Christmas and will fortunately be here to perform. Graham and Carl are the other players on the release who will be present but unfortunately Matt Jodrell and Sam Anning will not be able to be in Perth for this launch. They will be replaced by Paul Pooley on bass and Ricki Mallet on Trumpet.
This evening will also celebrate the launch of the new WAAPA record label entitled “Slow Release”. Graham’s CD will be the first featured release and we look forward to many more interesting musical offerings from WAAPA staff and students.
Decibel on Slow Release!
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
New music electro-acoustic ensemble Decibel, formed in 2009 under the musical direction of Cat Hope and performing a wide range of new music compositions from Alvin Lucier to Brian Eno and emerging Western Australian composers, is set to release an album of original works in the new year on Slow Release Music. Stay tuned for more developments!
Cat Hope – In the Cut antibody (Tape It concert, WAAPA Auditorium, September 10 2009).
American Stories
Monday, November 30th, 2009
Coming Soon: Al Lewis (tenor) and David Wickham (piano)
American Stories
Al Lewis is a rising star on the Austrailian stage. He has performed internationally and most recently as both Raoul and the phantom in Phantom of the Opera to critical acclaim.
David Wickham is the Co-ordinator of Keyboard Studies at WAAPA, was a member of the music staff of the Australian Opera Studio from 2003 to 2006, where he was music director and as a repetiteur David has also worked for the English National Opera, Welsh National Opera and Scottish Opera.
Slow Release Music is excited to announce the upcoming release “American Stories” due out in the new year.
Gata Negra reborn on SRM
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
Slow Release Music is proud to announce the upcoming release of previously unpublished music by Gata Negra, a three piece pop band led by singer/bassist Cat Hope. Now defunct, this group was an important band in the alternative pop music scene in Perth from 1997 to 2007. Members include WAAPA graduates Pete Guazelli (drums), Bill Darby (guitar) and viola player Kathy Coercig.
