Aether + Vassallo UNBROKEN

Bronwyn Eather's soundscapes, piano & haunting vocalisations entwine with Paul Vassallo's dark, attentive and achingly sweet guitar to bring you Antipodean ambience and Gondwana dreamscape.

Field recordings and ambient musical compositions transport you to a wildlife sanctuary of birds and insects, of wind and rain, to creatures of the light and of the dark. Journeying through a single day from early morning to a deep night rainstorm, you experience the world through the lens of poetics and passion, from light and sweet to dark and monstrous.

The musical suite 'Unbroken' evolved from a short lyric novel 'I am magpie' written by Eather, inspired by her fascination with the colony’s first linguist and astronomer, William Dawes. The novel is set in Sydney in 1789-1791. The suite opens with the central character Eliza Swift waking from lucid dreaming in the land of the Yura in 1789. She reaches for the fading dream ... ‘I will hold you, hold you until we’re unbroken.'