Jonnine
FRI 18 August 2023
9:30pm
A note from Angus Andrew:
Jonnine Standish is one of Australia’s most preternaturally cool and intimidatingly creative musicians.
She has described her process as getting “adrenaline mixed with an indescribable intuitive feeling of excitement” to know when a song is finished.
Jonnine’s solo work both dilates and deconstructs the damaged, sensual minimalism of her iconic, two decade collaboration alongside Nigel Yang in HTRK. Skeletal rhythms slink and echo through dimly lit streets framed by fragments of guitar, bass, breath, keys, scrapes, and haze anchored by Jonnine’s narcotic, nocturnal voice. The moods she conjures are lovelorn but oblique, between dream and coma, overlooked scenes glimpsed through fogged glass.
‘Maritz’, the most recent collection of songs for DJ Sundae’s Idle Press, is a further embrace of cracked mirror intimacy and torch song abstraction.
Jonnine’s Essential Tremors appearance will be in collaboration with percussionist Maria Moles, performing pieces from ‘Maritz’ alongside unreleased material. Her body of work and artistic vision continue to bloom and beguile, and in the live setting its mysteries assume forms even more untethered and unknown.
Ballot Closed
FRI 18 August 2023
9:30pm
Phoenix Central Park
Ballot draw date: TUE 8 August 2023