Full Spectrum

On 12th December Catch Music launched its first CD - "Full Spectrum" - a snapshot of the Perth community music scene, and the culmination of a year-long CD project involving over 100 people.

Perth has a widely celebrated music scene, with hundreds of bands, orchestras, music schools, recording artists, and festivals. But one aspect of this scene is rarely given due credit – the people and organisations who bring amateur musicians together to make music in the community.

Full Spectrum is a celebration of the energy and diversity of these community groups, with eleven bands coming together from different community organisations across Perth to work towards the same goal.

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About the Album

The community music groups featured on the CD play their own interpretation of songs by a range of artists, such as Coldplay, Missy Higgins, Pink Floyd, and Sly and the Family Stone.

The songs were chosen through a "call out" that was sent around to schools and organisations across Perth. Hundreds of people responded to our invitation to nominate "a song that has changed your life", and the eleven songs on the CD were chosen from those nominations.

One of the songs, Under the Milky Way by The Church, was chosen and sung by Emma Vardy, a seventeen-year-old who has a visual impairment: “I like it how the song talks about the emptiness, until the stars come out and sends the emptiness away. I listen to this song a lot, and always get taken in by the story.”

The bands chosen to appear on the CD were selected on the basis of their commitment to being part of the project, and to its goal of celebrating the diversity and inclusiveness of the Perth community music scene.

David Hurst, a guitarist from The Leeders of Jamville, a band which features on Full Spectrum, is one of many people who have benefited from community music in Perth: “After years of depression, being involved in Catch Music and working on this CD has helped get me out of my head and feel confident again about meeting others in the community.”

The Songs

Here is a list of the songs on the CD, with the names of the groups that play each song, and a low-quality sample of each of the tracks (the CD audio is much higher quality!) Full details of all the bands are given in the CD booklet.

• 1. "Yellow" played by The Leeders of Jamville (sample)
• 2. "Iris" played by Damien Thornber and the Orphans (sample)
• 3. "Under the Milky Way" played by Epicuris (sample)
• 4. "Lover, You Should Have Come Over" played by Mr Bodangles (sample)
• 5. "Thank You" played by Loose Tooth (sample)
• 6. "Goodbye" played by The Exocets (sample)
• 7. "Fields of Gold" played by Blackwall Reach (sample)
• 8. "Unwritten" played by Amber Sparks and the Semitones (sample)
• 9. "Steer" played by The Coolingas (sample)
• 10. "Running" played by Hype (sample)
• 11. "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" played by The Phill Moncrieff Banned (sample)

Credits

The Full Spectrum community CD project was kindly funded by the Community Arts Network of WA (CAN WA) and the Department of Culture and the Arts (DCA).

The Full Spectrum CD album was recorded at Loop Recording Studios, with audio engineer Kieran Kenderessy, on 17, 18, 24 October and 14 November. The CD was mixed by Kieran Kenderessy, mastered by Turtlerock Mastering, and manufactured by DiskBank. The CD booklet was designed by eddshepherd.com with photos taken by Phil Deschamp, Mark Greenland and Steve Marshall from Opus. The CD was produced by Zoe Chua and Tim Roberton.

Media

An official Catch Music media release about Full Spectrum can be downloaded here.

An article about Full Spectrum and Catch Music was printed in Drum Media music magazine on 10th December, a copy of which can be downloaded here.

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Acknowledgements

Catch Music would like to thank... the Community Arts Network of WA (CAN WA) and the Department of Culture and the Arts (DCA) for their support of this project and of Catch Music and the Perth community music scene. Kieran Kenderessy at Loop Recording Studios for his countless hours of work, his patience and friendly professionalism, his attention to detail and flexibility, the salt on his desk…the list goes on! This project would not have been the same without him. Phil Deschamp, Mark Greenland and Steve Marshall from Opus for capturing the moments in such style. Colin Battersby from World Vision for his intelligent, thoughtful insights and his encouragement. Em Urquhart from Rock Scholars for her expertise, energy and inspiring commitment to Perth’s youth music scene. Edd Shepherd from eddshepherd.com for his continual willingness to design stuff for us. Jo Vassallo and Sarah Wells for their superb work at the Masterclass. Foodbank WA for their generous support of the CD launch. Steve Moore from Palate Catering for his valuable foody knowledge, and all his kind words and enthusiasm. David Metcalf and DiskBank for giving us such an awesome deal on CD manufacturing. Our beloved bands and the organisations that support and influence them: ABMUSIC, Disability in the Arts | Disadvantaged in the Arts WA (DADAA), Rock Scholars, The South Guildford Centre, and VOW International Services Inc. Rachel Nicholls, Sofie Cumming, Kade Brown, Andrea Stimson and the other music teachers in schools around Perth who encouraged their students to get involved. The Association of the Blind, Endeavour Primary School, La Salle College, Mercedes College, Noranda Primary, Perth College, St Stephen’s School, Wesley College, Westminster Primary and various offices of Disability Services Commission for sharing their stories with us and the Perth community. Neil Francis for stepping up to take care of all things database. All the other folks at Catch Music for helping us get this idea off the ground.