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Sulphur-crested cockatoos screech circling mountain ash. A cicada rave cascades over quartz and clay. Ocean swells flanked by volcanic rock beckon.  'Day and night have equal weight', the third release from ambient / post-folk group Cold Hands Warm Heart, is a deep listening offering as antidote to the anthropocentric condition. A sonic meditation on landscape, connection to place and reciprocity with nature, this album is in collaboration with soundscapes of Kulin Country; cicadas, eastern froglets and lyrebirds contribute to the improvisations and inspire the compositions, communing with the shared musical language of the ensemble that has intuitively formed over a decade of making sounds together.


‘Day and night have equal weight’ holds space for two projects; the first a live set recorded for Jack Rollo / Time is Away / NTS radio at Naarm based artist run space Eastmint studios, broadcast in 2024. The second is a series of remixes / rewordings of tracks from Cold Hands Warm Heart’s 2023 release 'Luxury Bat' by Nipaluna based duo Troth, acclaimed ambient mix masters Time is Away and pianist / composer Grace Ferguson.

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Bark. Branches. Stones. Clay. Cold Hands Warm Heart is a Narrm-based collective of 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 (Triple R Album of the week).

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.

CHWH are Genevieve Fry, Georgia Harvey, Esala Liyanage, and Travis John.

'Best thing I've heard in a while' ~ Michael Kucyk, Efficient Space (on Luxury Bat)

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