NED COLLETTE "Jokes and Trials", by Ned Collette

NED COLLETTE "Jokes and Trials"

by Ned Collette

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Limited-edition (first time on vinyl) pressing of Ned Collette's debut "Jokes and Trials" LP, originally released on CD-only in 2006 via Australia's Dot Dash label.

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1.	Song For Louis 04:12	buy track
2.	The Happy Kidnapper 01:33	buy track
3.	A Plea For You Through Me 06:31	buy track
4.	Boulder 04:13	buy track
5.	Hill 00:49	buy track
6.	The Laughter Across The Street 07:16	buy track
7.	Heaven's The Key 04:13	buy track
8.	Janet 05:08	buy track
9.	Don't Talk 03:19	buy track
10.	Blame 07:42	buy track

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"What a pleasure it is to bring you the first vinyl version of Jokes and Trials, the 2006 solo debut by Melbourne's Ned Collette, whose incredible song cycle "Old Chestnut" and brilliant instrumental album "Afternoon-Dusk" have been widely and correctly lauded as classics.

As Mark Harwood explains in his excellent liner notes, Ned emerged from the Melbourne improv underground along with people like Will Guthrie and Joe Talia. Indeed, it was Talia who turned Ned onto Jim O'Rourke's 2001 classic, "Insignificance" as a way of demonstrating possible connections between pop song form and avant garde strategies. Ned's own first moves in this direction built around loops. But by the time he was ready to cut Jokes and Trials, he was eager to try more traditional musical structures, infused with subtle tendrils of experimentalism.

The songs on this album use elements like pedal steel, cello and a vocal chorus to create a set of music with a timelessness rooted equally in early '70s singer-songwriterism, and subsequent avant garde variations on the form. There is something at the base of Ned's guitar and voice here that put me in mind of Bert Jansch's work for the Charisma label. The vocals and words bespeak a knowledge or the same deep well of sorrow, although whether this is truth or artifice I cannot claim to know.

Several of the tunes on Jokes and Trials point directly towards the richness of Ned's evolving style, and his ability to use small changes to instrumentation in ways that feel radical. The more I play it, the more the detailing reveals itself. This album may represent an early step in Collette's stylistic journey, but it is a sure and beautiful one. Certain to massage the souls of those who came to his music later in the game.

A good one for sure." - Byron Coley, 2022

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released March 25, 2022

Ned Collette - voice, guitars, synths, organ, bass, percussion
Anna Steele, Emily Ulman, Lucy Richards - backing vocals
Barry Turnbull - pedal steel on 'Plea'
Alastair Watts - cello & double bass on 'Boulder' and 'Laughter'
Mei Lei Swann, Rachael Kim - violins on same
Ben Bourke - keyboards on 'Janet'
Joe Talia - drums on 'Laughter'
& the 3am Chinatown Choir - Gus Franklin, Anna Steele, Marcus Teague, Andrew Ramadge, Joe Talia on 'Laughter'

Recorded by Matt Maddock and Ned Collette
Mixed by Matt Maddock, Joe Talia and Ned Collette
Mastered by Lachlan Carrick and François Tétaz

Cover photograph by Tim McNeilage
Album artwork by Karla Pringle

Split-release w/ Feeding Tube Records (FTR630)

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