BSIDE Water

Featured Artist: Kerryn Fields

Featured Vinyl: Water

 

Alexis’ Hot Pick	Escape
Sam’s Hot Pick	Mamma

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https://kerrynfields.bandcamp.com/album/water  

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CREDITS

Created and Hosted by Alexis Naylor

Co-Host: Sam Timmerman

Music by Alexis Naylor & Ruby Miguel

Voiceover: Ruby Miguel

Edited and Produced by Ruby Miguel

 

00:09 - Intro (Announcement)

Welcome to B-Side, the mini-series from Through the Creative Door. Join Alexis and Sam as they dive into the timeless world of vinyl. For Alexis, vinyl was more than music. It was a Sunday ritual she shared with her dad, listening, talking and soaking in the stories behind each album and the artwork on every sleeve. Though her dad is no longer with us, she continues this tradition with her friend, Sam Timmerman. Join them as they share their passion for vinyl and the stories these records hold. 

 

00:44 - Alexis (Host)

Hello brother. 

 

00:46 - Sam (Host)

Good afternoon. Is it afternoon over there? I think it is. 

 

00:52 - Alexis (Host)

Evening. We have a time difference between the west and the east coast. 

 

00:57 - Sam (Host)

I was about to do signs, and that's a really bad thing to do. West Coast. 

 

01:04 - Alexis (Host)

West Coast. Yeah, all right, what do we got? Got another week, another. Oh, it's my turn. 

 

01:14 - Alexis (Host)

Episode five, and I am sharing 10-minute timer 10-minute timer. Boom, all right. 

 

01:23 - Sam (Host)

You're sharing. What have we got? 

 

01:25 - Alexis (Host)

We got an album called Water. You know I like my elements.

 

01:30 - Sam (Host)

True, Kerryn Fields. This artwork is gorgeous, by the way. 

 

01:36 - Alexis (Host)

Yes, so we've got another Australian artist that we get to represent, get to talk about. It's so beautiful, so this album. She had a marriage breakdown and she went down the Great Ocean Road in Victoria and wrote this phenomenal album. The artwork is based off the beach and the ocean down that way and there's an artist who did the artwork and somewhere, I think on karen's socials you can see, like all of the behind the scenes photos and the art artist putting together that. 

 

02:25 - Sam (Host)

Those of you in that region or in Australia, or even if you're not, if you have not been to the Great Ocean Road change that. 

 

02:33 - Alexis (Host)

Yeah, but the artist who painted the artwork? I believe her name is Louise Mitchell, but alongside with Karen Fields they designed the the record. 

 

02:46 - Sam (Host)

Did they design it off a photo. I think, or were they there? 

 

02:50 - Alexis (Host)

No, I think Louise based it off a photo, but I think she went to the beach and they like figured it out, yeah, and she painted, and then Kerryn put together this beautiful piece. 

 

03:07 - Sam (Host)

It's fantastic. They're pretty, very pretty pretty, and recorded in Colingwood I believe. 

 

03:11 - Alexis (Host)

Yeah, yeah, because I think some of it was recorded in the actual house down the great ocean road wow yeah, so I believe that there was a house called the Water House, which is, I mean, makes sense when the album's called Water. And then, yes, I think Avery Studios in Collingwood was where the rest of it got recorded. 

 

03:36 - Sam (Host)

That's fantastic. Yeah, did they do the entire album as a single room single mic, or did they split, because I know some of the tracks were done single mic? 

 

03:45 - Alexis (Host)

Yeah, so my understanding is that Karen performed, yeah, live, and they taped it. So, yeah, so it was vocals, guitar, drums, upright bass in one room, from memory, and then I think there might have been some features that were done later. 

 

04:12 - Sam (Host)

There are a few other records that have been done that style and they're some of my favourites. Shout out to the Seals, okay, yeah, vibe, they're some of my favourites. 

 

04:34 - Alexis (Host)

Shout out to the seals see, okay, yeah, bud um, charlie phil tom, love you all represent they're not playing together anymore, but that's okay. 

 

04:37 - Sam (Host)

I mean projects, so you might have to listen to that one sometime. 

 

04:39 - Alexis (Host)

Yeah, this beautiful record I really liked inside. The artwork inside is really pretty and it has, like all of the little thank yous and all that kind of hoo-ha Love it. But one thing that I love the most is this little bit this album was independently crowdfunded with the support from 173 friends. 

 

05:07 - Sam (Host)

Oh, that's gorgeous. 

 

05:09 - Alexis (Host)

Yeah, isn't that pretty, I love and thank you all. 

 

05:13 - Sam (Host)

Amazing. 

 

05:14 - Alexis (Host)

Yeah, beautiful, huh, beautiful, all right. Well, on that note, what was your hot pick, Sam? 

 

05:22 - Sam (Host)

Mama, I got closely behind by On the Porch. Okay, I'm going to talk about On the Porch first, because that was just fun. It might have been. In whatever state of mind I was in first time listening through this record, it wasn't clicking for me for the first few tracks. And on the porch happened and I went oh, I'm home, here we go. That was fantastic. It's um such a fun little romping tune. I really liked that. But, mama, um more so. Let's keep saying it, more so lyrically than orally, musically. I was just listening to that going Mama's love's going to set you right. 

 

06:11

It doesn't matter what else, there's nothing else that's going to fix you. I think second verse they talk about their authorities are going to chase you and they're going to get you, but mum's love's going to fix you. And yeah, it just just has sat a little bit, sat really nicely. 

 

06:33 - Alexis (Host)

And I think it's that thing about exactly what you were saying, depending on what mood you come to music with the reasons for why an artist or someone, the vision of how and why they created it, it's almost null and void.

 

07:01 - Sam (Host)

I'm sorry, it just started cutting out again. Okay, I feel like it's only doing it when we're recording, which is weird because it's a connection issue. I'm very confused. 

Yeah, I think we are open to music how it comes to us. So, however, we're, you know, open to receive it at that time. I think this album obviously for myself and my own personal experiences. I really resonate with the fact that it's surrounding. You know the breakdown of a relationship. But, it doesn't need to mean that at all. 

 

08:09 - Sam (Host)

Yeah, it seems like a lot of powerful songs written about the breakdowns of relationships aren't necessarily written at the time of those breakdowns. Like a lot of amazing songs that have been written that are powerful like that. You read into it and you go. Well, this person didn't have any of that experience. 

 

It doesn't make the song any less powerful, but the identity of the song changes for the listener a little bit, whereas, like you're saying, you have a shared experience that allows you to come to that tune from that space 

 

9:00 - Alexis (Host) 

And I also think that part of losing a relationship, I mean there's grief that's connected in that and, and especially for you know this artist, she's originally from new zealand, so when you have something dissolved like that, it's also the homesickness and and community and everything around that, but like tapping into something else and creating something really beautiful from a not so great place yeah, absolutely. 

 

09:19 - Sam (Host)

There's a friend of mine who's I haven't had that experience per se myself. A friend of mine has had a very similar experience, though. Um, so I'm not going to name drop because that's not appropriate, but I might send them the album yeah, it's beautiful, really beautiful, really hits, hits a chord for me. 

 

09:38 - Alexis (Host)

The song that's my hot pick is um escape, um, and I think for everything that I've just sort of spoken about, it really sort of hits a chord with me, um, in a way that I probably can't really articulate, um, but I would say it's because it hits pretty close to home. So, yeah, yeah, but it's beautiful and it's. It's that heartbreaking, heart-wrenching, glorious beauty that comes in, you know, to art, where it's not shiny and beautiful, it's messy and all sorts and beautiful yeah, 

10:01 - Sam (Host) 

You can't grab it what onto something that doesn't have spikes or bumps, or if it's smooth and shiny, you can't latch on. 

 

10:24 - Alexis (Host)

Exactly, exactly and really anything to do with water. I'm such a beach baby and water baby so, like, everything about this album is just yeah. 

 

10:35 - Sam (Host)

I heard there's some sort of track about water in one of your new records coming up. 

 

10:39 - Intro (Announcement)

Oh yes. Well, yes, there's a bit of elements in my coming up. Oh yes, wow. 

 

10:42 - Alexis (Host)

Yes, there's a bit of elements in my new record. 

 

10:45 - Sam (Host)

There is a little bit in there that I've heard about, yeah, which will come up eventually, I'm sure. 

 

10:51 - Alexis (Host)

Yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll come back to that another day. 

 

10:54 - Sam (Host)

For those listening and watching, the little bits that I've heard have been spectacular. 

 

10:58 - Alexis (Host)

Oh, stop, stop, stop. That's not what this is for. 

 

11:01 - Sam (Host)

It's not. No, it's not, but we're allowed to. 

 

11:04 - Alexis (Host)

Yeah, yeah, yeah, true, true. But for those listening, oh, my goodness, again we've got another Australian artist. Please support local music. Please have a look at them on Bandcamp. Support, buy, donate, do all of the wonderful things to help out, Go to shows. 

 

11:23 - Sam (Host)

Go to shows. If they're playing live, go and see them. Say hi to them. Yeah, yeah it makes a huge difference to someone. Someone buying a record is amazing. Someone giving up their time to see you perform a record is next level. 

 

11:37 - Alexis (Host)

And if you have no money, oh, there's our timer 10 minutes. Um, yes, for those listening, karen fields album name is water. You will not be disappointed. Jump on to band camp, support her, support this album. It's glorious. 

 

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