The debut mini-album by the Berlin-based artist attracts inspiration from Western funeral music and the darkish balladry of Nick Cave.
One conversant in Nick Cave can instantly see the place Berlin-based Joshua Murphy comes from. Aside from the shared metropolis of residence and nation of beginning, each appear to be impressed by the supernatural solemnity of funeral music.
Murphy moved to Berlin from Australia and received concerned within the native music scene, finally changing into a promoter and membership proprietor. His debut album was written and recorded shortly earlier than the pandemic in 2019 – 2020. Instrumentally, the report addresses the musician’s motherland. “I needed to signify these broad open and remoted locations that I grew up in, but in addition try to seize the great thing about these locations, and of rising up there, the unimaginable landscapes, the limitless vastness of it”, says Murphy.
Lowlands shall be launched 2 December by way of aufnahme + wiedergabe.
The EP may be pre-ordered right here.
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