MICHAEL BEACH 'Big Black Plume' CD

** Please note, this is a preorder and due to ship (or collect from PCR Shop) on/ about July 25th. **

CD version! 

California-raised, Melbourne-based musician, producer, and musical curator Michael Beach proudly announces his fifth LP, 'Big Black Plume', out Friday 25 July via independent labels Poison City and Goner Records!

On Big Black Plume, Beach revels in the vitalising power of connection in an often hostile world. “I was wrestling with the beauty and intensity of the natural world and coming to grips with the human destruction of it,” says Beach.  “I have an overwhelming sense that humans will come and go, and the world that we depend on will outlast us."  

Big Black Plume features contributions from a murderers' row of talent, building on Beach's network from over 20 years of touring, engineering and production work (across Melbourne, San Francisco, and Los Angeles), and work in independent touring venues.

Produced by Beach and Gareth Liddiard (Tropical Fuck Storm, The Drones), the record includes Dirty Three guitarist Mick Turner, The Necks bassist Lloyd Swanton, aforementioned Tropical Fuck Storm / The Drones members Gareth Liddiard and Fiona Kitschin, folk artist Leah Senior, Oren Ambarchi collaborator Joe Talia, and Comets on Fire’s Utrillo Kushner, among others.

Beach is a masterful songwriter — he writes songs as seen from 10,000 feet, from 6 feet under — from every angle. The songs here aren't stick-and-poke songs that will dry and fade on the skin, aimless prayers for jams; Beach has been making deliberate things for decades. Big Black Plume is a record about connections, mercurially curated, transforming individual contributions into something strikingly communal.

Equally informed by the songwriting of Bill Fay and Peter Laughner, the minimalism of Tony Conrad and Terry Riley, and the rock and roll heart of the Goner Records roster, Big Black Plume provides deliberate compositions adorned with genuine madness. The songs on this album range from spare, textural ballads to spiralling psychedelic overtures connected to a propulsive cosmic pulse.