Court Music From The Planet Of Love is the debut album from Prudence Rees-Lee.
A warm and enveloping album of great depth and beauty, touching on sounds
from across the spectrum of popular and obscure music to create something best described as a psychedelic masterwork. Pulling a White Rabbit out of a hat, as it were.
Recorded with legendary Melbourne producer Simon Grounds (GOD, Venom P. Stinger) and featuring a host of fellow musicians including Shags Chamberlain (Lost Animal, Pikelet), Laura Jean, Jacinta Masters (Useless Children, Gold Tango) and Lehmann B. Smith (Kes Band), it’s an album which places artist as conduit with stunning results.
Romance and fantasy are the order of the day, the world viewed through a soft-focus kaleidoscopic filter à la Jane Birkin and Linda Perhacs. The percussive push-pull of lead single ‘Emmanuelle’ and closing epic ‘Morning’ deftly evoke the soundtrack work of Jean-Claude Vannier while remaining within an energy field entirely of their own making.
From the Berlin Conservatorium of Music, to the Ashrams of South India and UFO landing sites in the Mojave Desert, Prudence Rees- Lee’s life to date has been an endless voyage seeking the points where music and earthly transcendence collide.
Prudence cut her teeth studying at the Melbourne University music department, where amidst the classical canon she was drawn to the polar eras of early baroque and late 20th century chamber music. Following her studies she joined experimental pop group Scissors For Sparrow before focusing her attentions on the sleek electronica of Hammocks & Honey.
Court Music From The Planet Of Love will be released
as a digital download on May 1 and as a 160g gatefold LP (with
photography by Darren Sylvester) on June 8 2013. The LP will also be
launched live at Melbourne’s The Curtin on June 8.
