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Charcoal (2014 Special Edition)

by Brambles

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    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Special Edition Vinyl LP
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Available again for the first time since 2015 - Charcoal on black 12" virgin vinyl

    Includes unlimited streaming of Charcoal (2014 Special Edition) via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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  • CD Digipak
    Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    This is the brand new CD edition of Charcoal featuring artwork from the vinyl reissue. It also includes the bonus track featured on the vinyl release - a reworking of In The Androgynous Dark by Nest.

    The first 50 copies sold will come with a free cover art postcard.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Charcoal (2014 Special Edition) via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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This is the 2014 vinyl special edition of Charcoal by Brambles, also available digitally.



Brambles is the solo project of Mira Dawson, born in Britain, permanent resident of Australia and currently living who-knows-where as they travel Europe and beyond.

Thanks to a prolific spell of writing from Mira, what was originally pegged as an EP quickly turned into an album. Charcoal is the result of long hours spent recording, editing and mixing. A lot of this material was recorded during their stay at "The Painted Palace" (see the Brambles Forecast mix of the same name), a communal house in Melbourne open to all manner of creative outsiders.

Crucially, the house also played home to a piano; during the night-time this was where Brambles sat, working out melodies and making recordings into the small hours. Sometimes the piano is at the forefront (as on the solo piano piece, 'Unsayable'), while at other times it plays a support role to plucked and bowed strings, haunted woodwind instruments, whispered field recordings and distant chimes ('To Speak of Solitude').

This is undeniably a night-time album, it has that still, peaceful quality to it, the same you get when you walk down a deserted street at night. And despite the slow pace, the music rarely seems melancholic - there's a sense of contentedness which pervades the album from beginning to end. Mira seems very at ease with life and there's a similar spirit to the music, it is deep, thoughtful and optimistic - in the words of Donal Whelan (who mastered the final album), "it's like being wrapped up in a warm blanket". Even the slightly more sinister "Deep Corridor", which plunges you to the depths of the ocean, has that "cosy catastrophe" feel to it. I can't help but think of Blade Runner and Vangelis when I hear it.

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released November 15, 2014

Written and produced by Mira Dawson

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