Real Talk: April 12, 2012

Micronations presents…
Real Talk: Brain Drain (Sydney) + Do The Robot + Primitive Motion
Thursday 12 April, 2012
The Waiting Room (11 Browning St, West End, Brisbane)
$7, 8pm.

Micronations is extremely excited to present the return of an irregular series of music, Real Talk. Real Talk, which sauntered into being in 2011, is a relatively relaxed event compared to its Micronations sibling/BFF-series ‘The Decline Of Modern Civilisation’, focusing on exploratory, abstract, minimal, beautiful and otherwise wonderfully sitdown-ish sounds from throughout Australia and across the globe. Real Talk will guide your ears and eyes through a radical and diverse vortex of awesome. Real Talk.

The first Real Talk night of 2012 once features a well overdue return of a musical expatriate wonder, and some of Brisbane’s most loved innovative musicians. Real Talk.

Real Talk: Brain Drain (Sydney) + Do The Robot + Primitive Motion
Thursday 12 April, 2012
The Waiting Room (11 Browning St, West End, Brisbane)
$7, 8pm.

Brain Drain: Brain Drain is the musical alter-ego of Sydney residing, otherwise globetrotting, and erstwhile Brisbane lad Adam McFillin. Brain Drain’s beautiful minimalist-via-pop pieces straddle the divide between structure and improvisation, often revelling in the contrast between the two. McFillin’s primarily guitar-driven pieces centre around creating both mood and rhythm through loops and using this repetition as a foundation on which to improvise. A follow up to Brain Drain’s debut self titled cassette release will be launched for Brisbane audiences at Real Talk. http://braindrain.bandcamp.com/

Do The Robot: Deasy squared are joined at the hip and tied by the shoelaces, with enigmatic lips sealed tight. Their intimate live shows gently coax the audience towards the rocks with their haunting charms before smashing you asunder with some deftly timed walls of noise. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Do-The-Robot

Primitive Motion: With lyrics cut from dated astronomy texts & ping pong vocal rounds soaked in reverb, Primitive Motion (Leighton Craig & Sandra Selig) create their own brand of spontaneous, steam-driven electronic pop. Their moves recall Joe Jones’ readymades, Joe Meek’s I Hear a New World & the minimalism of The Door and Window, as preset keyboard, voices and cosmic flute intersect with machine / human beat systems across the four songs on Certain Materials. http://kindlingrecords.blogspot.com.au/

Mixes from the Micronations mix series (www.micronationstours.com) before/between/after sets.