Sometimes from Unbroken by Bronwyn Eather and Paul Vassallo as Aether + Vassallo

Birdsong features again in "Sometimes". What antipodean ambience would be complete without the bonkers laughter of kookaburras. This is an instrumental track and throughout Vassallo incorporates a range of implements to scratch and scrape out raucous and menacing bird sounds from his guitar.
Inspired by a chapter in the book ‘I am magpie’ called “Sometimes when they laugh…” this is a reference to the first women convicts arriving in Australia in 1789-90. Their cackle and howling, their squabbling and bawling, their unchecked and raucous laughter brings to mind kookaburras. Mad. Fierce. Joyous. Menacing. Several varieties of human laughter are also incorporated in and among the kookaburra calls as the music modulates from minor to major to minor again.

Born in Tasmania, Bronwyn Eather came to Sydney to study acting, following almost a decade of pioneering work as a field linguist in Arnhem Land, in the remote north of Australia.
Her fifth recording 'Swaggerland' is due for release mid 2025. This follows 'Unbroken' 2024 with Paul Vassallo, 'Brave Old World' 2020, 'Against the Tide' 2017 and her debut EP 'On the Bones of Love' 2015.

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