This announcer spotlight was written by Lisa Gibbs about Ruby Soho - florist, flower farmer, secondary school teacher, musician, record label owner, Rock ‘n’ Roll nun AND Garageland presenter. First published in our biannual member magazine, Easey Mag, December 2017 edition. We hope you enjoy Ruby s story.
I started listening to PBS when I was 14. My brother got me in to the station after I stole one of his Dictators’ records and I got really into all the rock shows - Shock Treatment (with Kev Lobotomi), Sunglasses After Dark (with Phil MacDougall), Muscle Souls (with Phil Gionfriddo), Soulgroove ‘66 (with Pierre Baroni) and Acid Country (with David Heard).
This week s feature album is the debut release from Alex Albrecht
Campfire Stories. The ten-track release features collaborations with label and production partner Sean La Brooy, Allysha Joy (30/70), Thomas Gray, Ziggy Zeitgeist (ZFEX) and Carla Oliver (Badskin).
Since 2014 Alex Albrecht has been working with Sean La Brooy as Albrecht La Brooy, releasing an array of material across various labels. Their music is deep, hypnotic and straddles the emotive side of house, techno and ambient.
On
Campfire Stories, Albrecht explores dreams, the unconscious and the intertwining of feelings and memory. Interspersed field recordings lend to the fragmented way people recall experiences. It is a narrative in which the listener is encouraged to attach their own thoughts and impressions to the soundscapes.’’
PBS is heartbroken as we share the awful news that Pierre Baroni passed away yesterday following an 18 month battle with cancer. An extraordinary broadcaster, Pierre programmed and presented Soulgroove’66 on PBS since 2003 and was a broadcaster at the station since 1997. Pierre’s shows were meticulously planned, brilliantly researched and presented with a clear reverence for
Mere Women with their highly anticipated fourth LP
Romantic Notions.
Big Skies in 2017
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Romantic Notions captures the overwhelming intensity of obsessive love and control while sharing often-uncomfortable truths relating to women’s lived experiences; a ubiquitous theme throughout the Mere Women catalogue.
The looming Mere Women album was written and rehearsed in a riverside cottage in Sydney and later recorded with Tim G Carr at One Flight Up studios in March, on the cusp of lockdown. The foreboding threat of lockdown left a peculiar feeling throughout the recording process, filling the air with a tremendous sense of uncertainty and giving the overall process an unusual edge.