Past Event

Maya-Dreamer & The Future Happiness Orchestra: Light of The World - Album Launch

18th Nov 2016

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Presenter: Martin Mackerras
Website: http://maydreamers.com/
Event Duration: 180 minutes

To  celebrate with the release of their album Light of the World, Maya-dreamer will be joined on stage by members of the Future Happiness Orchestra to present their show at Bella Union, enhanced with visuals. The music includes songs and music influenced by avante-pop, krautrock and minimalism  dubbed 'existential pop

In 2015 Maya-Dreamer were given a grant by Creative Victoria to finish the album Light of the World. The album is a large scale experimental pop album for band and orchestra with sophisticated musical arrangements - a musical journey exploring songs, larger scale compositions, improvisation and collage all over a conceptual narrative.

In a creative life exploring both avant-garde composition and experimental pop, Martin Mackerras has arrived at this show as "The essence of my musical and spiritual explorations" the band includes  Martin Mackerras, Francis Plagne, Jo Abbott, Michelle Lamb,  Daniel Brates, Kate Connor, Gemma Horbury on visuals, and members of the Future Happiness Orchestra.

 On Love is your Destiny
"Using a six-piece band plus singers and an orchestra, Mackerras’s hour-plus debut as May Dreamers is reliably airy despite just how much is happening at one time….It’s baroque pop in the mode and scale of Burt Bacharach or Pet Sounds. The layers are as heady as the sentiments are sunny and hopeful (see the album title)". 
Doug Wallen, Mess and Noise

Maya-Dreamer will be supported by Small World Experience which has been gaining a cult following for over 15 years  The albums Shelf Life, Side Projects (released through Chapter) are all well out of print.  The songs of Pat Ridgewell have gone on to influence many Melbourne Bands. This performance is part of a re-issue tour.

DOORS OPEN @ 8.00PM