THE BOMBORA LABEL’S LATEST RELEASE

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Three former members of Midnight Oil join forces with the co-founder of Violent Femmes and unleash an almighty sound. The Break is Jim Moginie, Martin Rotsey, Brian Ritchie and Rob Hirst.

For more info – www.thebreak.net.au

Touring April & May With Hoodoo Gurus

RELIVE THE BREAK LIVE ON
“SPICKS & SPECKS”

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THE ATLANTICS Live at Freshwater DVD Australia's best ever surf band five decades on $25 plus postage.	SEARCHING FOR MICHAEL PETERSON A 5-star must-see $40 plus postage.
Guitar wizard Martin Cilia’s new CD THE ODD ONE OUT $20 plus postage.	REDESSENCE The Red Whyte 2 CD Anthology $25 plus postage.

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PICTURES OF THE COAST

Peter Howe & Tim Gaze

RHYTHMS MAGAZINE REVIEW

Argh, it warms me heart to see two such souls reunited.  Those who love their well-worn copies of Morning Of The Earth soundtrack will recognise each of these names as integral to that phenomenon – Gaze (who you can see at the Morning Of The Earth show at Bluesfest) as a member of Tamam Shud and Peter Howe, the somewhat mysterious name behind the otherworldly “I’m Alive” from which Bombora’s excellent collection of Australian surf music Delightful Rain gleaned its title.

Gaze and Howe joined forces on Delightful Rain and again for the recent premiere screening of the new surf doco Searching For Michael Peterson.

So where was Howe in between MOTE and Delightful Rain? Sailing the world, it seems.  His liner notes to this collection of originals tells how Howe retired from teaching, bought a boat and sailed around, writing songs on a little guitar as he went.  He then presented them to Tim Gaze, the Bombora team of David Minear, Kerryn Tolhurst and Mick Wordley jumped (ahem) onboard, and here you have it; the most gently ebbing and swelling instrumental guitar you could imagine.

As you read Howe’s annotations about each song, you might begin to realise that there are probably few albums in existence that have been so directly and thoroughly inspired by the sea.  How many records have been written entirely on a sailing boat? Each piece recalls a certain moment of tempest or calm, fear or glee on the sea for Howe, and the delicately intertwined guitars of Howe and Gaze actually take you there to witness the storms and sunsets in your own mind.  It’s rare for music to be so effectively evocative.  Thanks to the talents of all involved, but primarily to Howe’s genuine source of inspiration, Pictures Of The Coast is a jewel.  Highly recommended as an instant antidote to stress.

Martin Jones,
April 2009 RHYTHMS MAGAZINE

BOMBORA – The Story of Australian Surfing
On DVD and CD

A definitive history of surfing in Australia, Bombora tells the story of Australian beach culture through our surfing champions, writers, pioneers, entrepreneurs, mavericks, legends, drop-outs and drop-ins.

The two-part series follows the rise of surfing and its culture in Australia, using archival footage and classic Australian music to illustrate its growing importance in Australian society in the 20th century and beyond.

From the time we learnt to bodysurf, to our first attempts on boards, to Duke Kahanamoku’s 1914 visit which kicked off surfing’s roll to popularity, Australians have taken the surf and made it our own, spawning international legends such as Midget Farrelly, Nat Young and seven-time world champion Layne Beachley, along with global surfwear brands.

Set against a changing world, Bombora follows the history of surfing from its maverick early days, through three significant wars and a depression, the development of surf clubs and the ensuing battles between lifesavers and surfers, the sea-change seeking drug culture of the 1970s and its shift to a cleaner, more professional sport in the late 1980s.

Bombora interviews a rich seam of Australian characters, including our first surf champion Isabel Letham, author and surfer Tim Winton, legendary surfboard shaper Bob McTavish, accidental entrepreneur and Rip Curl founder Doug Warbrick and former world champion surfers Barton Lynch and Wayne ‘Rabbit’ Bartholomew.

It looks at the rise of women surfers and the explosion of Australian labels including Billabong, Rip Curl and Quiksilver, which helped to cement Australia’s position as a global force in international surfing.

A Screen Australia/Bombora Film and Music production. Developed and produced in association with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. A National Interest Program.

CD TRACKS

• Intro - Jack Thompson
• Jet - Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
• The Atlantics - Wedding Cake Island
• Velvet Underground - Foggy Notion
• Jesus & Mary Chain - Just Like Honey
• Martin Cilia - 1963
• Spoken Word Excerpt – Rabbit Bartholomew
• Deep Purple - Highway Star
• Santana - Oye Como Va
• G. Wayne Thomas - Morning Of The Earth
• Healing Force - Golden Miles
• Status Quo - Down Down
• Hunters & Collectors - The Slab
• The Triffids - Life of Crime
• Spoken Word Excerpt - Layne Beachley
• Widdershins - Ascension
• The Church - Under The Milky Way
• The Cruel Sea - 4
• Spoken Word Excerpt - Tim Winton
• The Waterboys - This Is The Sea
• The Atlantics - Bombora
• Sally Maer & Sally Whitwell - Spiegel im Spiegel [excerpt]

Prior to Pete Wells (of Rose Tattoo) and Melbourne’s Lobby Loyde’s untimely deaths, industry friends put together two rock concerts across Sydney and Melbourne that blew everyone’s minds and hearts and ‘Tribute’ is the live recorded result.
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