T.Wilds
Below are a few mp3’s not yet mastered but almost ready to be released, I have been working on these songs while writing and preparing for an album. Due for release mid-2023.
TANIA’S GRANT SEES THE RECORDING OF HER ALBUM ‘ORCHARD’ MADE IN THE UK WITH JOHN PARISH
People involved
JOHN PARISH
English composer, musician, producer, artist and collaborator, born 11 April 1959 in Yeovil, England. He has contributed to nearly fifty albums, toured globally with PJ Harvey, Eels and his own bands, and has written and recorded music for film, television and stage.
He started his career in 1980 in the new wave band Thieves Like Us. In 1982 he formed Automatic Dlamini, with Rob Ellis. In 1986 he began his career as a producer, working with The Chesterfields, The Brilliant Corners, The Becketts... In 1987 John met PJ Harvey and it was the beginning of their long-time collaboration.
Parish has now worked on seven albums with Harvey, including two co-written albums: Dance Hall at Louse Point (1996) and A Woman A Man Walked By (2009). He played in the PJ Harvey touring band (guitar/drums/keyboards) from 1994–1999, from 2009–2012 and from 2015–2017. He co-produced and played on To Bring You My Love (1995), White Chalk (2007), the Mercury Prize-winning Let England Shake (2011) and The Hope Six Demolition Project (2016).
He has produced and played on two albums by New Zealand singer-songwriter Aldous Harding, two This Is the Kit albums and two albums by Malian artist Rokia Traoré. He has also collaborated several times with two established European stars, the Italian singer Nada and Belgian singer Arno.
TANIA BOWERS AKA T.WILDS
Tania Wilds is the new project for singer/ songwriter Tania Bowers who cut her musical teeth in the all-female Sydney-based garage pop band Spdfgh often playing with prominent female led bands such as the Falling Joys, The Clouds, The Hummingbirds, Bikini Kill, Elastica and the Breeders.
After touring with Spdfgh, Ben Lee & Godstar and recording her first solo EP in Sydney, Tania relocated to Chicago at the end of the 1990s and began working under the name Via Tania.
Via Tania released 3 albums featuring impressive collaborators such as Howe Gelb of Giant Sand, Prefuse 73 , Doug McCombs of Tortoise and Casey Rice. The last album ‘Via Tania and the Tomorrow Music Orchestra’ was a collaboration with Brazilian-based composer Matthew Golombiksy which featured his chamber orchestra. Tania spent over a decade in the States before moving back home to Sydney and then the Blue Mountains.
Tania Wilds is an atmospheric folk-based project. Tania has been writing songs for an up-and-coming album and experimenting with stripped-back instrumentation and distinct vocals and harmonies with the help of Matthew Toohey, fellow mountains-based musician who releases work under the name ‘ Kid Cornered.’
MATT TOOHEY
Matt Toohey is Tania’s long time guitarist and collaborator. The two re-met in 2019 while both living in Katoomba, NSW and deciding to start jamming together. Matt is also Kid Cornered and an artist in his own right.
Kid Cornered has released five solo albums and received airplay on Triple J as well as community radio in Sydney and Melbourne. His move to the Blue Mountains in 2011 has seen him introduce the Ice Chest Orchestra. The Ice Chest Orchestra marks all music recorded in his studio in Katoomba.
Toohey recently recorded minimalist music for Blue Mountains based photographer Kurt Sorensen’s exhibition at the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, ‘Solitude is desolation’, also featuring author, Courtney Collins.
Kid Cornered and the Ice Chest Orchestra’s fifth album, loopholes, was released in 2017 by Half A Cow Records and Kid Cornered’s own ANARENE label. Its intricately crafted loops are held together by warm, soulful melodies in a reverb glow – an indie rock treasure.
Review:
“As with Machine Translations’ J. Walker, with whom the writer/producer shares an ability to not only conceive but realise a singular vision. His songs don’t impose which means they can be missed, or dismissed, by a casual listener. That would be a mistake, a waste.”
Bernard Zuel