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Available in Stores Monday 5th July
To buy the limited edition vinyl of this release email vitamin@vitamin.net.au“How to describe it?” Gyan gazes out into the bush that butts up against her wooden verandah. A bush turkey peers back. She’s trying to put the track ‘I’ve Lost The Sea’, from her new album SUPERFRAGILISTICALLY, into words. “It’s about a homesick mermaid in a London bathroom.” Gyan is an unusual girl.
Hidden away behind a dreamy national park on the NSW North Coast, Gyan, 90’s pop star, global drifter, new millennium poet recluse, has been busy. In 2008 she conjured up and toured the exquisite Billy the Rabbit with national treasure Michael Leunig. In 2009 she penned the gorgeously bent story behind artist M S Dawson’s haunting drawings and paintings, for the shortlisted book How WEIRD is That…
Yet somehow she has found time to haul into her studio a list of musical pals that reads like the family that fled from the cloistered Conservatorium of Music, up into the light of the North. Cellists, trombone virtuosi, musical saw and pedal steel players, and long time collaborators James Cruickshank (The Cruel Sea) and Tim Gaze (Morning of the Earth), all appeared from the forest when they heard Gyan’s call.
This is what mermaids do, after all. Lure souls seeking something.
“It’s like having our own Big Pink or Yellow House collective,” Gyan smiles, as a butcherbird now joins the menagerie on the verandah. “I feel fortunate to have found a bunch of like minded souls …the super sensitive ones.” Gyan’s whole house is alive with her friends’ artwork on the walls. Cruickshank can be heard tinkering (often bashing) away on a century old Steinway upright piano, the ‘Sacre Coeur’ of the album. Its rich musical voice, combined with other vintage
instruments provides a moviesque backdrop for Gyan’s broody stories. “I prefer the old movies…you know the ones where you can see the fishing wire pulling the paper rockets across the
screen” Gyan laughs “I see the sound and chase the pictures that follow…so this bunch of tunes runs like a mini film festival in my head …but without the CGI.”
Four years in the making, Superfragilistically is a labour of love. “We took the windy road through the back hills,” Gyan says with a wry smile “We decided to paint around the original sketches …a longer road but hopefully longer lasting.”Gyan’s partner, and the album’s producer, Simon Greaves disappears through the bush beyond the verandah, his longboard under arm.
And the album’s title?
“I came to this record with the idea of capturing precious little moments of beauty and holding them up just long enough to take their picture before they run for cover, like most endangered species,” says Gyan “Thus SuperFRAGILE.” And the “istically” part of the title? Is that a little present for Julie Andrews? “Give me an umbrella and I can fly!” Gyan laughs.
With an ARIA award and platinum sales for her self-titled debut album in 1990, Gyan moved to the UK, then the USA where she signed to Universal working with Ricky Martin, Leanne Rimes and producer Desmond Child. She won a Sydney Theatre Award in 2008 for her sell-out Sydney Opera House multi-media performances with Michael Leunig. Her book How WEIRD Is That... with artist M S Dawson was CBCA short-listed in 2009.
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The Courier Mail - Noel Mengel
GYAN had a crack at the big leagues with a pop career in the 90's but this skin suits her much better.
The "timeless" description has been rendered impotent through overuse,so let's just say this...more |
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Ed Nimmervoll - JB HiFI Magazine July 2010.
"An 80s Australian female pop singer/songwriter (rare then) Gyan still attracts the finest musicians around. Here, she's collaborated with James Cruickshank (The Cruel Sea) and Tim Gaze (Tamam Shud): ...more |
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Bruce Elder - Sydney Morning Herald
Is it really possible to be totally original? Certainly Gyan seems to elude easy categorisation in her determination to find sounds, silences and lyrics that are unpredictable, never cliched.
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