Past Event

The Royal Parks, Slow Motion Pictures and Amarina Waters

29th Apr 2017

Presenter: LS Presents
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Event Duration: 180 minutes

Named after a beautiful park in Melbourne’s north, the land of which had long been a camping ground for ceremony for the Wurundjeri People, we acknowledge the traditional owners of the land where we live and make music, and acknowledge that sovereignty has never been ceded.

Formally playing under the name Dan and Amy, 2016 saw The Royal Parks embark on an incredible recording journey after legendary indie-folk producer Noah Georgeson (Joanna Newsom, Devendra Banhart, Robin Pecknold (Fleet Foxes), HUSKY) offered to fly to Melbourne to produce and mix their debut album Suburb Home after hearing their demos. 

They are so excited to release this debut album, a dreamy indie-folk record featuring soaring three part-harmonies, capturing the melodies & harmonies of bands like Fleetwood Mac, The Beach Boys, Fleet Foxes and GOANNA.

“They play songs about love, loss and life, all of which are delivered with melodic perfection and hair-raising harmonies.” - Izzy Tolhurst – themusic

“A harmonic journey of meticulous storytelling.” - Taylor Anne Koniw – adamNOTeve

Slow Motion Pictures is a pop duo formed by two Melbourne songwriters, Ben Cornall and Sianna Lee. Ben originally from ‘The Harlocks’ and Sianna from ‘Love Outside Andromeda’, they create pop songs tinged with an Australian sensibility, using electric guitars, subtle beats and poetic lyrics that trigger echoes of artistc stalwarts like the Go-Betweens and The Triffids. 

Amarina Waters plays high-lonesome sweet folk, stealing ideas from places such as the moon, her backyard, other people, the world. There's a thread of redemption and gratitude about her songs. Good humoured, delicate and melodic, they are indi folk with dreamscape electric guitars. Amarina’s live sets bring songs with a ring of truth, disarming honesty and candid lyrics; a refreshing lack of anything contrived.