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In the spring of 2011, T.K. Bollinger began jamming with long time musical collaborators Vis Ortis (Mekigah) and R. S. Amor. The project’s main catalyst was their mutual love affair with Doom metal and a desire to evolve the slowcore arrangements that permeated Bollinger's acoustic recording into a fuller band setting.
What emerged was a kind of doom blues that was launched onto an unsuspecting audience, one fetid and sultry summer afternoon in late January at the Brunswick Hotel in Melbourne.
With Ortis’ and Amor’s sympathetic backing, Bollinger’s songs took on a new dimension — a stripped back and sinister power that was pregnant with hidden menace. In August 2014, the band released its first album, A Catalogue of Woe. Three years in the making, the base tracks (Voice, Guitar, Bass and Drums) were recorded live during the band’s weekly jams and rehearsals using a motley collection of digital recorders and a couple high end mics.
The feel of the song was considered paramount in these recordings, a bung note here and there would sometimes grudgingly be accepted so long as the spirit of the song was faithfully captured. Overdubs were then applied, by Bollinger, Amor and Chad Shields, who provided the frenetic pizzicato passages and the soulful lead in Rich Man’s Heaven.
A new album from the same sessions, Doom Blues, was finally completed in 2018. Each song from the album, beginning with My Shadow's Loving Arms, will be released as a single from November 2019.
What emerged was a kind of doom blues that was launched onto an unsuspecting audience, one fetid and sultry summer afternoon in late January at the Brunswick Hotel in Melbourne.
With Ortis’ and Amor’s sympathetic backing, Bollinger’s songs took on a new dimension — a stripped back and sinister power that was pregnant with hidden menace. In August 2014, the band released its first album, A Catalogue of Woe. Three years in the making, the base tracks (Voice, Guitar, Bass and Drums) were recorded live during the band’s weekly jams and rehearsals using a motley collection of digital recorders and a couple high end mics.
The feel of the song was considered paramount in these recordings, a bung note here and there would sometimes grudgingly be accepted so long as the spirit of the song was faithfully captured. Overdubs were then applied, by Bollinger, Amor and Chad Shields, who provided the frenetic pizzicato passages and the soulful lead in Rich Man’s Heaven.
A new album from the same sessions, Doom Blues, was finally completed in 2018. Each song from the album, beginning with My Shadow's Loving Arms, will be released as a single from November 2019.
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