Cold Hands Warm Heart
Make soundscapes to pay homage to the environment
Cold Hands Warm Heart (CHWH) are musicians Genevieve Fry, Georgia Harvey, Esala Liyanage, and Travis John. Collectively they make beautiful minimal sounds evoking bark, branches, stones and clay. Instead of focusing on their own thoughts, feelings and emotions, CHWH focus on nature with things like a fallen tree, teeming with life or the swell of a river, after rain.
As I listen to Luxury Bat now in the surrounds of Lilydale Lake in the Yarra Valley, Woiwurrung territory (traditionally part of the Kulin Nation), it feels perfect as the sounds of nature around me override my headphones. Time slows down as this record makes you focus and notice what’s going on around you in a sensory experience.
The legendary TripleR Radio chose Luxury Bat as their album of the week in December 2023 saying, “The album's six tracks blend structured songwriting with improvisation to create fluid, open-ended soundscapes connected to the natural world”.
Also mentioned through the Triple R write up:
“The recordings were made over three days at Super Melody World, a studio set in a 19th-century schoolhouse within the Macedon Ranges. Surrounded by nature, Genevieve along with Georgia Harvey, Esala Liyanage, and Travis John tracked these new songs, capturing them primarily in single live takes. Field recordings further ground the album to place like the Cicadas and frogs heard during hikes along Mount Tarangawa and Mount Muru”.
Genevieve and Esala from CHWH also run Eastmint, a local artist-run studio, event space and label, which released Luxury Bat in November 2023.
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Today! Saturday, April 13th - Cold Hands Warm Heart Launch, Luxury Bat.
Fairfield Amphitheatre Fairfield Park Dr, Fairfield VIC 3078, Australia
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Details below:
CHWH 'Luxury Bat' album launch / Duré Dara + Aarti Jadu / Smoking Ceremony with Aunty Joy Wandin
This event will be held on the stolen lands of the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to Elders past and present. Sovereignty was never ceded. ALWAYS WAS, ALWAYS WILL BE
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Eastmint presents
Cold Hands Warm Heart 'Luxury Bat' launch / Duré Dara + Aarti Jadu / Smoking Ceremony + Welcome to Country with Aunty Joy Wandin
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Doors 3:30pm
4:00 Welcome to Country + Smoking Ceremony by Aunty Joy Wandin
4:30 Abby Sundborn + Duré Dara + Aarti Jadu
5:30 CHWH
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ALL AGES SHOW ~ KIDS FREE ~ BYO
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Vegan soysage sizzle fundraiser for 'Fly by Night Bat Clinic' / Lemon Myrtle Tea. / Card and Cash accepted / BYO keep cups and alcoholic bevies
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~ waged, unwaged broke af and free tix available
~ free First Nations tix
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Cold Hands Warm Heart invite you to join them by the Banks of the Birrarung to launch their second LP 'Luxury Bat', alongside a set from Abby Sundborn, a Welcome To Country and the launching into the night of the Yarra Bend flying fox colony.
Cold Hands Warm Heart
Bark. Branches. Stones. Clay. Cold Hands Warm Heart is a Narrm-based collective of four musicians who seek to pay homage to nature by evoking it through experimental soundscapes. A fallen tree, teeming with life. The swell of a river, after rain. This is music that draws attention to deep time by inviting deep listening.
The band’s work springs from the base compositions of Genevieve Fry (Hantu, Whelk, Hear My Eyes: Suspiria, Grand Salvo), combining harp, synth, recorder, percussion and guitar to guide listeners through sonic spaces that are both pre-arranged and improvised.
CHWH’s self-titled, award-winning 2016 LP is now followed by the band’s new album, Luxury Bat.
Releasing on November 24th, 2023, this latest release, recorded with James Cecil at Super Melody World (Time for Dreams, Totally Mild), mixed by Joe Talia (Oren Ambarchi, Francis Plagne, Yuko Kono) and mastered by Rashad Becker (HTRK, Imogen Cygler, Keiji Haino), is an offering of tracks that continue this work of centring the natural world—namely the Country of the Wurundjeri, Boonwurrung and Dja Dja Wurrung peoples. Luxury Bat pays tribute to the existence, experience and protection of these lands, and their ever regenerating cycles.///////////////////
Duré Dara
Duré Dara OAM is Indian by race, Malaysian by birth and Australian by choice from the age of 15. Since the 1960s, she has frequently performed on ABC radio, recordings and at festivals and concerts around Australia as an improvising musician and contemporary jazz player most notably in a duet with David Tolley, her deceased husband. She is widely celebrated as a trailblazing restaurateur, business woman, women’s equity activist and percussionist.
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Aarti Jadu
Aarti Jadu began her sound journey in the context of devotional music, originating from India. Being a first generation Australian artist, Aarti’s practice naturally bridges diverse ideologies for the survival of her own integrity. She fervently explores voice through electronics to greater understand energy and its potential in relationships. Her recent work in trauma informed voice workshops + somatics, along with years of study in yoga and raga music, forged a path to collaborate with neuroscience graduates to communicate and discuss matters of human experience, philosophy + science.
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Accessibility
There are steps to access the main seating bank of the amphitheatre. For the least number of steps please follow the ramped path down towards the river, there will be chalked directions.
There is a wheelchair accessible viewing platform on the southern side of the top of the amphitheatre. Access is via the path toward the pipe bridge. An accessible toilet is located in the Canoe Club complex which will be open to audience. Please follow chalked signs and get in touch with us eastmintrecords@gmail.com for more information regarding accessibility questions not addressed here.