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Australian artist Andrew Kidman works in many mediums. Each discipline, be it music, writing, painting, photography, surfboard shaping or films is born from his innate connection to the ocean.
Kidman recently released Spirit of Akasha: a film and soundtrack Celebrating Albert Falzon’s 1972 classic Morning of The Earth. Along with his band The Windy Hills he recorded the open track for the film To Be Young. During the making of Spirit of Akasha, Kidman and the Windy Hills recorded their latest release Fall of Planet Esoteria, which was released in january by Warner Music.
Spirit of Akasha premiered at the Opera House in January 2014, closing The Festival of Sydney to a sold out Concert Hall with Kidman and the Windy Hills performing the opening track live to the film. [Louise Wright]
Andrew Kidman & The Windy Hills performing at the Sydney Opera House with Spirit of Akasha
Still from Lost in the Ether riding Michael Peterson's surfboard
excerpt from a review by Barnaby Smith
The Windy Hills Fall of Planet Esoteria 2014
Mess & Noise
Review by Barnaby Smith
As a stalwart of the nation’s more discerning, thoughtful and eco-oriented surf community, Andrew Kidman is currently enjoying a deserved period in the sun thanks to the Spirit of Akasha film, his wonderful sequel to Alby Falzon’s seminal 1972 movie Morning of the Earth. His surfing life extends to making boards and surf photography, while his filmmaking life extends to a filmography of five features, including 2010’s Lost in the Ether. His band, The Windy Hills, have now produced their follow-up to 2012’s Friend from Another Star, and it is perhaps best to consider this ambitious, studied collection in isolation from both surf sub-culture and any notion of film soundtracks; Fall of Planet Esoteria has hints of both but is far-reaching and often, indeed, esoteric in its influences and suggestions.
Extremely attractive instrumental passages give way to a vocal sequence that, with its eerie backing lines, allows the song to become a little threatening. The supernatural is further evoked on the superbly restrained ‘Snowflakes Falling on the Sea’, combining an early Devendra Banhart guitar mood with, again, evocations of Pink Floyd performing in an amphitheatre in Pompeii. It is spellbinding and mysterious and the record’s undoubted highpoint.
Elsewhere, the presence of a drum machine on ‘Some Love’ supports a sound exemplifying the folktronica boom of nearly 10 years ago, while another triumph must be ‘Cars’, which sees Kidman’s rhythmic preoccupations return before transmogrifying into a more unexpectedly bruising jam that again touches on something a little nasty.
Kidman agreed to make Spirit of Akasha as long as it remained strictly faithful to the attitudes and ideals of Morning of the Earth, in the face of Warner Music’s potential interference. This appears to typify him: here is a record that oozes heart and what we might call his ‘lifeforce’. This manifests itself, generally, as a sumptuous union of melody and texture, largely overriding the moments when Fall of Planet Esoteria hits its inevitable slumps.
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