Author: Tylea

Hey Folks,

Next week, I’ll be releasing another track,’Right Angles’ on Friday, March 5 through Bandcamp and other digital platforms.

It was written late last year (post CO-VID lock down) while I was adjusting to the reality of a chronic health condition. The painful decision of ending my 25-year ‘live’ performing career in 2018 was essentially like not being able to breathe, but thankfully, I have had the encouragement of my immediate family to keep being creative in the studio.

Having this opportunity, has allowed me a real chance to build my confidence in ‘growing an idea’…. admittedly my confidence has always been rather low….sadly, I have dived back down there again in the last few months.

I must have been inadvertently trying to cheer myself up with this song. ‘Right Angles’ is certainly more upbeat than my past attempts – in this instance, I am using soft synths, programmed drums, surf guitar, vocal effects with multiple layers, blah, blah. Stuff the angular folk or rock aficionados might cringe at upon giving it a listen. 

To be honest, I don’t know what to think of it myself, but I hope it expresses optimism and motivation and lifts your spirits.

Even as I write about how it I think this song sounds, I am reminded of something an old friend, (Jeffrey Lovejoy) would proclaim ‘with repeated glee’ while describing my overall sound.

“ONYA, ENYA!”

Obviously, those words were a gentle dig and slightly insulting in the framework of the late 90s, but they were also a very poignant observation (and pretty accurate in reflection). 

I don’t know if anyone will listen to my song(s), or if the rantings I make here are known, but if you find yourself in this digital space, I thank you for bridging the gap and meeting me halfway by clicking here.  

Tx

I really hoping to scale down my merch situation this year and have put together two collective options for your possible enjoyment.

The packs will cost $15 to basically cover the postage within Australia.

Pack One
‘The Lake of Sand and Stone PACK’
*includes 5 items or more

1 x Vinyl LP
1 x T-shirt navy or white organic cotton (sizes limited)
1 x magnet or badge
1 x illustrated poster
1 x ‘Dark River’ Lyric tea towel
1 x download of ‘Graphic Touch’

‘The Lake of Sand and Stone’ was produced by Jamie Tresvaskis at Wild Mountain Sound and featured performances by: myself, Jamie Trevaskis, Dan McNaulty, Janey Mac, Scott Bromley, Chris Dale and Mia Goodwin.

All songs by tylea   

©  &  ℗  tylea

Pack Two
‘Tylea Historical Artefacts Pack’

*includes 5 items or more

1 x Bellowing Flower cassette (1994)

Recorded and mixed by Mick Borkowski, Vibrafeel Studios

1 x Tylea…with a T CD album (1997)

Recorded by Magoo at Airlock Mark 1 and Morrisey St, Woolloongabba

1 x ‘Tylea snd the Imaginary Music Score’ ep (2002)

Recorded and mixed at the Dead CockRoach by Magoo except ‘Chain Song’ which was recorded by Tylea

1 x ‘Colour your Insecurities’ double album disc booklet with 60 page booklet of Tylea drawings (2005)

Recorded by Magoo at the Dead Cockroach, Napier Place, South Melbourne. Except ‘Nervous’ which was written by Goold/Sigurdsson and REcorded by Valgeir Sigurdsson at Greenhouse Studios and Mt Macedon, Victoria.

1 x ‘Graphic Touch’ single (produced, recorded by Tylea, mixed by Magoo)

1 x Tylea Badge or magnet
1 x ‘Dark River’ Lyric Tea Towel
1 x download of ‘Life to Grow’

© by Tylea & ℗ by Mushroom Music (except ‘Graphic Touch’ ℗ by Tylea)

There are limited numbers in shirts and some albums. Feel free to email me if you need some ideas of stock numbers.

tyleabandcamp.com/merch

It is with much adieu that I would like to introduce my first single from the late 2020 writing period, Graphite Touch. It is the first of a body of work which I have recorded, produced, played and chalked up all the music and lyrics. This track has been mixed and mastered by old mate, Goo over Xmas/New Year period.

After falling out of work late last year, I set about writing “full steam ahead”. This track was written and recorded at my dining room table around October amongst my son’s illustrating/illustrations, failed dinner approaches, dirty dishes, rubbish and leads hanging in a terrifying manner across all doorways…it was a work place health and safety nightmare for the family – a spaghetti montage which would aggravate any self-respecting audio engineer/producer with tendencies for tidiness.

I would like to think the track is a dive into my, if not “our” early life influences(and indulgences) growing up in the 80s in a coastal regional town where there was space to breathe and your friend approval rating was high when you belted out “Whitney”  on the bus. High moments there! 🙂

Maybe this track is meshing the synth pop and new romantic drama that I still seem to adore……maybe it also resonates the vocal timbre of strong, powerful, washy but lush sounding vocalists like Annie Lennox’s “Why”, The Thompson Twins “If You Were Here”, David Bowie’s monster pop track,”Let’s Dance” and power pop anthems from Roland Orzabal/Curt Smith (Tears for Fears).

Graphite touch will be uploaded to Spotify and other platforms on January 22. If you’d like to preview the song, head to tylea.bandcamp.com page the week before and give it a listen.

As a sidenote:

The average subscriber to Spotify may pay around $16 per month to access and support original music. The service is extremely subscriber friendly, but for an independent artist, the cost to digitally distribute one track on multiple platforms can cost around $30 for one year.

For an artist to re-coup this money (let alone the cost of producing, recording the track), one would potentially need around 5000 plays to re-coup the $30 distribution fee.

5000 plays… is that humanely possible or achievable for an ancient artefact such as myself who lacks social sass or a promotional entourage?

Regardless, I enjoyed working on all aspects of this creation and now that I have a stronger grasp on how to glue all the ideas together, I am quite excited about the future – and hopefully having more control and ownership of my creative work.

Tylea