Welcome to Super Melody World!
There’s a new website on its way..
But while you wait, the news:
The debut Super Melody album
“Destination Unknown” will be
available in Australia July 30
on Love & Mercy Records!
Super Melody images by Antuong Nguyen.
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Album Cover by Jeremy Dower
Listen to tracks from the new album here:
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Super Melody is the brainchild of James Cecil, the Melbourne-based artist and producer who made his name with globe- and genre-trotting pop group Architecture In Helsinki. After two years in the studio, Super Melody's debut album - entitled "Destination Unknown - is finally ready for the world.
The album was written by James during 2008 at his Super Melody World studio (in reality the spare room at his dad's house in the Melbourne suburb of Kew, painted bright pink by his little sister when it was her bedroom). When dad went away for the weekend, his sister's bed was tilted up against the wall, in came a drum kit and an old 8-track tape recorder, and all the drums for the album were recorded amidst tense negotiations with the neighbours.
At the end of 2008, James' friend Cornel Wilczek - better known as electronic pop brainiac Qua - opened Electric Dreams Studio in South Melbourne, and James was able to shift production of the album to after-hours sessions in this space-age sonic laboratory. Now there was room for such luxuries as a string section, and thanks to some beautiful arrangements from viola player Biddy Connor (who James met when he recorded Kes Band's first album), "Destination Unknown" was starting to sound like a record.
Other guests included another Kes Band alumnus Laura Jean Englert, who lent her glass-clear voice to the album's opening track "Tinder Hearted". Cornel Wilczek - an LA-certified, electric guitar masterclass-giving, fret-shredding rock God in his teen years - laid down some smoking hot riffs for the album's lead-off single "Worker Bee". Julian Gilchrist of The Casinos channeled the spirit of the 80s through is tenor saxophone for the George Michael-meets-Marvin Gaye dance ballad "Tell Me That You'll Be Good To Me", as the Wagons' velvet-voiced secret weapon Mark Dawson gave Nate Dogg a run for his money with his emotive vocal adlibs.
In 2010 Super Melody is moving the crowd with a 4-piece live lineup that features Cornel Wilczek (aka Qua) blazing the lead guitar, and the un-sit-stillable rhythm section of Sashi Dharann (bass) and Tom Gould (drums and samples) of euphoric party-starters World's End Press holding it all together. Look out for W.E.P. and Super Melody hitting the road together later in the year, continuing their quest to turn chin-scratching into butt-shaking and destroy the screen-induced inertia that is pinning young people to the back wall of clubs across the nation!
About Super Melody & “Destination Unknown”
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Super Melody (clockwise from top):
James Cecil, Cornel Wilczek,
Tom Gould, Sashi Dharann