release date: 24th March 2007
Propelled by the massive response from Australian and international audiences, and the successful release of his debut album Megafauna, Melbourne-based electronic producer Spoonbill lays his anticipated second album: Nestegg.
Spoonbill’s latest call from the wild is both cerebral sonic entertainment and smoothly-beaten groove, coming together
as a heavily edited fusion of live recorded instrumentation and fabricated electronica. From antique tones to
genre-warping sound art, Nestegg is a mastery of chaos. Enticing listeners with its smooth, shiny shell of downtempo
tunes, Nestegg breaks open to reveal a thick and fast-flowing yolk of intricate beat chemistry.
...Spoonbills debut album Megafauna...
Megafauna is an elegant and quirky symphony of honey-scented grooves, jovial humour and joyous beat trickery, melding an ever-evolving array of styles into a distinctive ozzie blend. From its richly textured electronic centre to the live licks around its jazzier edges, Megafauna celebrates and pokes fun at colloquial Australiana.
Call it quirk-funk or downbeat with bite, Megafauna takes the listener firmly by the scruff of the ear and leads them into a shady forest of rhodes, horns, and deep double bass, then back out into an eccentric wonderland of glitched-out grooves infused with AM talkback radio and rowdy bush cobbers.