Bananagun / Why is the Colour of the Sky? LP Black Vinyl
Bananagun 'Why is the Colour of the Sky?' LP Black Vinyl
Naarm-based Bananagun announce the highly anticipated follow up to debut album The True Story of Bananagun with "Why is the Colour of the Sky?" due for release on November 8th via Anti Fade Records & Full Time Hobby (UK).
Why is the Colour of the Sky? is an album that departs from the ultra-slick bursts of sunshine-pop and
afrobeat that defined True Story…, and muddies the waters with a heavy blend of incendiary jazz and freak-beat experimentation. It’s Bananagun alright, but braver, bolder and more mysterious than ever.
Recorded at Button Pusher Studio in Preston and tracking with minimal takes - ‘warts’ n’ all’ - provided “the most organic, pure way to record”. Also imperative was to manipulate the social conditions in which the takes were performed and nail the ‘vibe’ during recording: “It was all “attitude towards life and esoteric stuff, natural law, how energy transfers, sounds, chemistry between people”, explains the band’s guitarist/vocalist/flautist, and songwriter Nick van Bakel, “trying to foster an environment together where we can make some magic, capture the phenomena of energy and soundwaves interacting with each other in the room. And that was definitely what we wanted it to sound like - pro human.”
In many ways, “pro-human” captures the radical quintessence that Why Is the Colour of the Sky? is fulsomely jazz-shuffling towards. For a record that recognises, in it’s every breath and sinew the humbling, restorative and life-affirming power of collective creative endeavour - it’s also a work that resists an ever more technologically-driven and isolating world that can feel ever more dehumanising in its quests for ‘perfection’. “I feel like a lot of human nature and tradition is worth preserving because we've probably evolved to be this way.”, van Bakel notes, “[Why is the Colour…] is all just about not losing your head and being over stimulated by the ‘goggle box’; the need for spirituality and nature; the need to be able to communicate and share ideas and adapt in a rapidly changing world without being judged and profiled.“
It has been four years since the release of Bananagun’s debut album “The True Story of Bananagun” which placed at number two in the ARIA vinyl album charts and was named feature album at PBS and Triple R.
Bananagun's new album "Why is the Colour of the Sky?" is out November 8th via Anti Fade Records and Full Time Hobby (UK).
Tracklisting:
1. Brave Child of a New World
2. Children of the Man
3. Those Who Came Before
4. Feeding the Moon
5. Gift of the Open Hand
6. With the Night
7. Hippopotamusic
8. Free Energy
9. Wonder Part I
10. Wonder Part II
