Album Notes

Grandchildren began in 2004 as a collaboration between Aleks Martray, Roman Salcic, Tristan Palazolo and Russell Brodie. The group set out to forge an sound greater than the sum of its parts, blending horns, keyboards and electronically layered guitar melodies that were orchestrally interwoven. The result was the debut recording Quilts (2004), an array of heavily instrumental epic compositions in which layers of looping melodies emerge into an orchestral wall of sound. In their new release the orchestral and horn-heavy rock has given way to a more meditative confrontation of the electronic and acoustic. With dizzying syncopation and surreal choirs of ominous voices, the new beat-driven sound is transportive, composed of the tribal and synthetic. The music hijacks neurons and conjures up discarded memories from every region of the brain, from the primal, to the mathematical, to the nostalgic.