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VELVET TRIP
announce
East Coast Album Tour
kicks off this March
TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE
Debut album
HARMONY BLOOMS
out this Friday February 9
PRE-SAVE ALBUM HERE
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Photo: JACQUI MITCHELL
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“Velvet Trip are hitting that same sweet spot that groups like Parcels have mastered. A duo that are definitely worth keeping an eye on” – Nick Findlay, triple j (Music Director)
“It’s giving me Daft Punk energy in the production and then it unfolds into this trippy, psychedelic blissed out jam that lets you melt right into it.” – Claire Mooney, triple j (Assistant Music Director)
“A cathartic, incandescent anthem with a groove so deep you would need sonar to reach the bottom.” – Backseat Mafia
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In support of their highly anticipated debut album Harmony Blooms out this Friday February 9, Sydney’s psychedelic duo Velvet Trip have today announced they will be heading along the East Coast this March & April for a run of shows.
The tour will see them head to Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide, Melbourne, Wollongong, Newcastle & Avalon, including two appearances at Bluesfest over Easter, opening for John Butler Trio at Taronga Twilights, and a support slot with Ocean Alley at Summersalt Festival, performing their brand-new album for the very first time.
Over the past three years, Zeppelin Hamilton and Clay Allen have tinkered away as the world spun into collective chaos, piecing together an album that has seen through a pandemic, bounced between time zones, and conquered physical and mental demons.
The seeds of the album were planted while Hamilton was in Europe, “I was exposed to a wide variety of artists and sounds on my travels. I remember seeing acts like Kikagaku Moyo in a London warehouse, Lil Simz at the Berghain and King Krule’s saxophonist at a house party. I learned and wrote a lot in that period. Clay and I eventually reunited in Berlin. It was here that we began discussing the album and the sound we wanted to create when we got home.”
Revved-up and ready to write, Hamilton broke his hand shortly after returning to Australia, and lockdowns followed. The combination of the injury and isolation caused another path-shifting wrinkle in the album’s creation, as Hamilton was forced to record one-handed on a MIDI keyboard.
With over 20 demos recorded, they teamed up with Phan Sjarif (Middle Kids, Bird Of Tokyo) and began co-producing the record between their garage and Parliament Studios. In the studio they enlisted friends to contribute to the record including ARIA-nominated composer Sinj Clarke who played keys/synths and Nick Savvas who played bass.
“This record feels like stepping into a different state of mind both musically and personally,” Allen says. “After coming out of an uneasy time in our lives and working through a challenging yet cathartic creative process, it feels like we have shed some skin and are moving forward into some new territory.”
2023 saw the release of singles ‘It’s Only Human’, ‘Silly Boy’, ‘Electric Dreams’, and ‘Moving On’, with all four singles receiving massive support from editorial playlisting, rotation on triple j, reaching #1 on the AMRAP Metro Charts, and landing a triple j Unearthed Feature Artist.
Notably, Velvet Trip signed with the prestigious booking agency Cult Artists, after touring Australia with Daft Punk collaborators Parcels, and graced stages at events like SXSW Sydney and Lost Paradise Festival.
Harmony Blooms is a sliding doors record – one that would never have existed in this form had fate not guided the ship a handful of times.
Hamilton says on the album, “Through hell and high water, Harmony Blooms is finally here. For us, the fact that it even exists is a huge success and we are so proud to have seen this through to completion. Now we have the opportunity to share our music with everyone and start a fresh chapter – for us this feels like the beginning of something beautiful and we can’t wait to hear what people think. It’s very scary and we are psyched. We are so grateful for the amazing community around us that supported our vision; it’s been a mega group effort by all.”
The record is an immersive listen that doesn’t let up; a technicolour experience with nods to Air, Khruangbin, Tame Impala, and Steve Lacey. Up-tempo neo-psych jams, never-ending layers of vocals, buoyed by guitars that sway between funky and fiery, groovy basslines and spacey synths.
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PRE-SAVE HARMONY BLOOMS HERE
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VELVET TRIP
HARMONY BLOOMS
Album Tour
Tickets available HERE
SUNDAY FEBRUARY 11 | TWILIGHT AT TARONGA, SYDNEY • GADIGAL
SUPPORTING JOHN BUTLER TRIO
FRIDAY MARCH 15 | STRANDED BAR, BRISBANE • MEANJIN
SATURDAY MARCH 16 | MARY’S UNDERGROUND, SYDNEY • GADIGAL
FRIDAY MARCH 22 | CROWN & ANCHOR, ADELAIDE • KAURNA
SATURDAY MARCH 23 | THE WORKERS CLUB, MELBOURNE • WURUNDJERI
FRIDAY MARCH 29 & SATURDAY MARCH 30 | BLUESFEST, BYRON BAY • BUNDJALUNG
THURSDAY APRIL 4 | HAMILTON STATION HOTEL, NEWCASTLE • AWABAKAL
FRIDAY APRIL 5 | LA LA LA’S, WOLLONGONG • DHARAWAL
SATURDAY APRIL 6 | AVALON RSL, AVALON • GURINGAI
SUNDAY APRIL 7 | SUMMERSALT FESTIVAL, BRIBIE ISLAND • KABI KABI
SUPPORTING OCEAN ALLEY
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