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Raising Funds for Ollie
In 2022 Ollie Olsen was diagnosed with Multiple System Atrophy, an aggressive and degenerative condition for which there is currently no cure. All proceeds from the sales of the vinyl and digital versions of this album will go to assisting Ollie Olsen and his ongoing medical care, with love and admiration from Heavy Machinery and It Records and all his fans who appreciate him for the seminal musical force that he is and all the wonderful music he has gifted the world.
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It Records and Heavy Machinery Records are proud to present Taipan Tiger Girls’ third and final LP. A hypnotic, cosmic freakout that combines analogue electronics, drums, guitar and the mammoth drones of the Melbourne Town Hall Grand Organ. Recorded live at Melbourne Music Week in 2017 in front of an ecstatic sold out hometown crowd, this record marks the zenith of the short but incendiary career of an extraordinary band.
An instrumental outfit with a relentless drive to experiment, Taipan Tiger Girls are composer, producer and all-round electric statesman Ollie Olsen (WhirlyWirld / Max Q / NO / Third-Eye / Psy-Harmonics), experimental drummer and synth obsessive Mat Watson (Boredoms BoaDrum / E.S.G / ULMD / Other Places), and feedback guitar droner and organist Lisa MacKinney (Mystic Eyes / Hospital Pass / Super-Luminum). On Live At the Melbourne Town Hall they are joined by very special guest guitarist Bonnie Mercer (Grey Daturas/Hospital Pass/Breathing Shrine) with MacKinney commanding the historic Melbourne Town Hall pipe organ.
Taipan Tiger Girls previously released two beloved and quickly sold-out albums via Melbourne indie imprint It Records: Taipan Tiger Girls #1 in 2015 and #2 in 2016.
The Music described their debut album as “a monster kosmische grind that writhes and hypnotises.” Labelmate Stuart Grant of Primitive calculators compared them to ”Prince’s band in the ‘80s, not stylistically, but in the way they sat on a groove, though more abstract, and then nailed it to the wall and turned corners and took you somewhere else altogether. There is the same majesty, the same control, the same force, the same delicacy, the same funk, except this is an internal textural funkiness where the one never stops. The ability to make funk out of layers of texture without riff is rare but these guys do it effortlessly.”
On their second album, Taipan Tiger Girls #2, these master improvisers threw temporal constraints to the wind and further developed explorations only hinted at on their debut LP, with longer tracks and more instruments including piano, organ and bells augmenting their already expansive sonic.
This third and final outing from this remarkable band is a monument to the combined talents of a group of phenomenal musicians whose fusion created a magic elixir made all the more precious by its temporary nature. Live at the Melbourne Town Hall showcases the improvisatory prowess of the band at the peak of their powers and bolts off into the stratosphere in a thrilling surge of psychedelic expansion.
Raising Funds for Ollie
In 2022 Ollie Olsen was diagnosed with Multiple System Atrophy, an aggressive and degenerative condition for which there is currently no cure. All proceeds from the sales of the vinyl and digital versions of this album will go to assisting Ollie Olsen and his ongoing medical care, with love and admiration from Heavy Machinery and It Records and all his fans who appreciate him for the seminal musical force that he is and all the wonderful music he has gifted the world.
credits
released September 22, 2023
Co-Released by Heavy Machinery Records & It Records
Recorded at the Melbourne Town Hall for Melbourne Music Week, Sunday 19 November 2017
Synthesizers — Ollie Olsen
Grand Organ— Lisa MacKinney
Drums — Mat Watson
Guitar— Bonnie Mercer
All compositions by Olsen/Watson/MacKinney/Mercer
Recording and live engineering by George Kailis
Mixed by Kalju Tonuma
Mastered by David Walker at Stepford Audio Melbourne
Artwork and design by Luke Fraser at Grin Creative
Live Photography by Jayden Otswold
Series curated and produced by Miles Brown
supported by 9 fans who also own “Live At The Melbourne Town Hall”
All killer no filler. An album that straddles clever and innovative nods to the past with creativity that surges forward into the future with a sassy swagger. SabreTonik
The metal’s band revelatory new record crosses genres and styles, effortlessly combining seemingly incompatible subgenres. Bandcamp Album of the Day Apr 26, 2024
