Nomadic duo OUT of ABINGDON release RED DIRT TRACKS
For 3 years now guitar and double bass playing duo OUT of ABINGDON, Warwick and Tina, have been living in their converted house truck, touring the vast, magnificent land of OZ sharing their soulful, acoustic, lounge music.
From Barngarla Country, Port Lincoln in SA, through Wilyakali Country, Broken Hill in Western NSW to Rinyirru Country in Cape York, Far North QLD, their travels have taken them along many red dirt tracks…
OUT of ABINGDON will release their long awaited 4th studio album RED DIRT TRACKS with a CD launch at the BUG - Brisbane Unplugged Folk/Acoustic Music Night at the NEW FARM BOWLS CLUB on Tuesday APRIL 2nd
‘The BUG was where OUT of ABINGDON launched our first album in 2011’ says Tina ‘and we want to celebrate with our hometown community before heading North on another regional QLD tour.’
RED DIRT TRACKS was recorded a few songs at a time when they stopped into Meanjin with long term friend and collaborator, award winning engineer Mark Smith of Real Productions. ‘Mark recorded us live and acoustically, capturing the rawness and intimacy of campsite jam sessions, where we wrote these tunes’ says Warwick ‘the songs were inspired by places we’ve had the privilege to spend time, stories we’ve heard, by shaking up the status quo, even butterflies and blue days…’
’We’re incredibly grateful to have had Aria award winning artist Dave Steel add some subtle and beautiful slide guitar work to ‘Red Dirt, Salt Bush and Daisies’ a moving song written to honour the adventurous spirit of a woman who had passed away alone in her travelling home, at a roadside rest stop outside of Broken Hill.
‘Playing with Dave Steel at Black Mountain Unplugged Music festival in Far North Queensland has been one of our musical highlights, along with supporting Australian music legend Vince Jones at a South Coast NSW Pottery… and jamming on stage with luminaries Phil Manning and Neil Murray’ they both agree ‘is part of the joy of playing small festivals and connecting with the wider music community’.
‘One More Chance’, the atmospheric video single from the album was recorded by ‘Black Box Studios’ team in a rural Far North Queensland Hall 'on a day hotter than a vindaloo’ says Warwick. It’s rhythmic groove underpins thought provoking, topical lyrics.
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RED DIRT TRACKS’ stripped back guitar, double bass and vocal blend is a grooving,soothing, sonic elixir in amongst a bustling soundscape.
'Very cool, very smooth ... these guys are fascinating!'
Steve Austin, ABC Radio Brisbane