June marked the release of Australian duo Muscular Rose's debut album, "Born to Be Free". Muscular Rose is the collaborative project of Peter Grigoriadis (AKA Muscularteeth) and Tania Rose ( www.taniarose.net ) two Adelaide-born artists living on opposite sides of Australia. Peter's industrial and eclectic trip-hop-style instrumental music blends with the multi-instrumental organic talents of composer and singer/songwriter Tania Rose, to create a down-beat and earthy-come-angelic moody debut album in "Born to be Free", released through Tania Rose's own label, Artscope Music and Management.
Soul, funk, world music and the classics influence this unusual partnership, where visual art is as much an influence as sound. Brought about through a fledgling friendship, separated by thousands of kilometres, Peter and Tania discovered a special and unique connection in music that gave rise to a deep and ongoing long-distant collaboration project known as Muscular Rose. This debut album is their first recording, and contains their first batch of melodic chill-out songs. Spanning several years, this project created a unique working partnership in which all of the songs evolve from the physical distance between the two artists, and where a passion for the creative has forged a dedication towards their collaboration on both a personal and a musical plane.
Tania Rose is well-known for her mostly instrumental music (10 albums) in the ambient and instrumental music genres, most notably her film soundtrack to the multi-award-winning film CORAL SEA DREAMING (by Emmy Award winner and Australian, David Hannan). As an eclectic multi-instrumentalist and vocalist, Tania adds her unique improvisational techniques to Peter Grigoriadis’ industrious production processes. This unique partnership results in a warm blend of the musician and the craftsman, where their music is created via the airwaves, rarely spending time in the same state, let alone in the same room.
Within their mutual admiration lies the key to their results. They both have “big ears”, able to recognise and interpret each other’s musical movements as they bandy back and forth their ideas and recordings to each other. A somewhat unusual working process, but one which produces tracks which reflect their strong connection. And what's for the future? Album number 2 is already under construction.
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