Legends: Vinyl LP

Pre-Order Item. Release Date Subject to Change.
Label: Efficient Space
Release Date: 9th May

Didn't realise a record that distills and fantasises Australian vineyard culture into an album of field recordings, ambient electronics, analogue twangs, and textures could be such a satisfying escape. So much charm, whimsy and space for contemplation in this record. 

Wilson Tanner return to dry land with Legends, a wine-soaked agricultural fantasy,
made among the grapevines at Manon Farm in South Australia. Where their earlier
works sehled into the sun-struck torpor of a suburban Perth backyard (69) or driÄed
off-course on a riverboat on Port Phillip Bay (ii), Legends trades salt air for vineyard
sweat, the scrape of boots on dry earth and workers’ radios humming with the
summer test cricket season.
Through this agricultural haze an image of a working vineyard emerges - ducks, dogs
and plovers intrude; tractors and quads fly-by; stainless steel gleams at the edges.
Recorded without mains power, the Manon demos overflow with farmyard ingenuity.
Wind, brass, balalaika, balloon, pipe and synth are trained onto the staff with wire,
tape and string.
A caricature of Australian vi^culture, Legends is packed to the horns with the
mythology and manure of natural wine. Swigging and belching in camaraderie,
Wilson Tanner press their surroundings into something raw and unfiltered, leong
bum notes, leÄovers and sediment linger in the bohle. A cornucopia of biodynamic
sounds.