great statue

(weird-pop

spooky-vox

project)

The great statue usually appears as a well-slicked, androgynous Laurie Anderson wannabe, lit from beneath by a cheap disco light, holding a bush chook in one hand, mic in the other: some strange karaoke performance of the classics you've never heard. 

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great statue combines lo-fi and hi-fi aesthetics, field recordings, 'spooky vox', dumb drum machines and alternative song structures informed by a variety of genres including synth-pop, ambient music, glitch and glitch folk, EDM, and experimental genres. Taking inspiration from artists such as Jenny Hval, Laurie Anderson and Oneohtrix Point Never, great statue weaves off-kilter beats with live vocal processing and electronics. 

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The project frequently appears around the usual Boorloo and Walyalup haunts. Great Statue recently contributed the single Clementin to Inclusives, a compilation/remix album from women, trans and non-binary gendered sound artists, presented by Fair Play and Tsuku Boshi. The single twenty fifth was released by Rathe on a V/A album titled Impressions/Sequences in August 2018, featuring contributions from each of the artists that performed at the first Rathe events (‘Impressions’ and ‘Sequences’). 

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Upcoming

26/6 Hachiku (Milk! Records, Melbourne) @ The Aardvark w/ New Nausea, The Shops & Great Statue

Performances

5/6 Beep Test, Strawberry Pete & Great Statue, The Buffalo Club, Fremantle

15/5 Web Rumors, The Sewing Room, Perth

7/5 Lana Rothnie 'In Delusion' single launch, The Bird, Northbridge

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21/11 Grace Sanders 'Not Fair' single launch, The Bird, Northbridge (2020)

5/9 Segue 'I Get It' EP Launch, Pig Melon, East Perth15/8 DW/Basic Mind + Great Statue + Bizness, Pig Melon, East Perth (2020)

22/8 Fox Scully + friends at the Lucky Goat, Fremantle (2020)

1/8 Sprawl 'Irrealis' Album Launch, Lyric Lane, Maylands (2020)

30/7 James Takenson Album Launch, The Bird, Northbridge (2020)

18/3 Segue '2 Things' Single Launch, The Bird, Northbridge (CANCELLED)

28/3 Jugular, Secret Location, Perth (CANCELLED)

9/4 James Takenson Album Launch, The Bird, Northbridge (CANCELLED)

Emlyn Johnson + Friends, Mojos Bar, Fremantle (2020) 

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Tura SOUP NIGHTS 1, The Sewing Room, Perth (2019)

Cat Walk/Blue Waters/Great Statue/Arrester Bed, Grumpy's Bar, Mt Lawley (2019)

DIRTYMOUTH VII, Mojos Bar, North Fremantle (2019)

Segue/Montana Wildhack/Sara Salt/Great Statue, 459 Bar, North Perth (2019)

Camp Doogs, Deepwater Greenhouse stage (ambient DJ set) 2019

Häxa House: Kickstart Festival, Centre For Stories, Northbridge (2019) 

VOLTA at The Bird, Northbridge (2019)

Micromove at The Blueroom Theatre, FRINGEWORLD 2019

Divine Feminine exhibition opening, City Arts Space (2019)

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In the Field, Sound Spectrum 2018.2 (2018)

Seiche T0nne single launch, 459 bar (2018)

Moon Shadows I - Middens launch, Northbridge (2018)

Rathe: Sequences, Paper Mountain (2018)

DJ set, Audible Edge (2018)

Abode Camp, J Shed (2018)