Australian down-tempo act All India Radio began life in 1999 after founding member Martin Kennedy heard a scratchy cassette recording of Indian street noises and decided it contained some of the most evocative sounds he had ever heard. Taking his inspiration from the KLF classic 1988 album Chill Out, Martin fused the lo-fi cassette recordings together with KLF-inspired ambient soundscapes and All India Radio was born.
The music of All India Radio is an eclectic mix of ambient electronics, indie guitar pop and cinematic soundscapes and textures. Live, the band takes on a powerful raw edge as the ambient soundscapes are combined with the energy of live drums, bass and guitar, creating an melodic wall of sound with an almost shoegazer feel. In 2003 they were nominated for an ARIA Award and had their music used in Warner TV series ONE TREE HILL and in ABC TV and SBS TV productions.
The new album Echo Other is released in North America through Chicago based label Minty Fresh (The Cardigans, Veruca Salt, Bettie Serveert & Tahiti 80).
The band are also working a new project featuring the fantastic atmospheric slide guitar of Graham Lee (who played with the legendary Triffids as well as the equally legendary KLF) and a collaborative album with The Church's Steve Kilbey ('Under The Milky Way' from Donnie Darko).
Drawing similarities to Boards of Canada, All India Radio deliver a powerful edge as spectacular ambience takes over leaving only the Australian masterminds who collaborated on this album and your mind to perceive what it may. Echo Other is undeniably one of the most elegantly laid out and ethereal albums of the year. - adapt magazine
Beautiful electronic soundscapes - the tripwire
All India Radio makes juicy, atmospheric music—that bulbous genre that people talk about when referring to the space between Radiohead’s more trippy stuff and bands like Sigur Rós and Ai Phoenix...If there’s a complaint to be made, it’s that “Echo Other” is too brief, and we’re left hungering for more. But there’s enough here to keep us occupied till their next album—which, you know, better be soon. - Zero Mag
Lonesome sagebrush guitar meets swirling deep-space technology during the high points of this Australian trio's fourth album, suggesting a futuristic spaghetti western. - Spin
Spaghetti western guitar, lazed out breaks, drifting horns, padded synth keys, church organ, robotic toy voices, and walls of ambient washes round out the bulk of All India Radio's sound. Don't ever think you've got it all figured out because the trio throw enough unexpected twists and turns in their sound to keep your ears on their toes to the end. Finally, the perfect album to do some hazy relaxing to. - properlychilled.com
Soothing, Sensual and Sexy? We're totally there! We hestitate to call All India Radio ambient, for there's more to their swooping sound than typical numbing rhythms and dreamy drops. There's a distinct cinematic quality to their melange of electronica and live-band reverberations. It's no surprise to hear, then, that they count the legendary composer Ennio Maricone and Brit-rebel band KLF among their influences. - queerty.com
They’re one Sophia Coppola film soundtrack away from being the next big thing on the softer side of electronica. The music is beautiful and organic with enough depth to keep coming back for multiple listening sessions...it’s a delicate and intriguing piece of work - Wonka Vision magazine
There is a song on Echo Other, the new album from Australia’s All India Radio, that sounds like the first day of the end of an ice age. It’s brief, with an overwhelming sense of warmth, like the soundtrack of rebirth. They call it Sunshine Briefly. It’s a fitting title. It’s a prime example that you don’t always have to break the ground that you stand so firmly on top of. - thespacelab.tv
If you ever find yourself longing for the era where trip-hop bands were dishing out beat-driven noir, then you may want to check out this Australian trio.....slow, cinematic, trip-hop....ambient textures derived from sources like Neu! and Eno, which gives their music a wide open feeling. - Losing Today
music which will entice listeners into a dreamier world if they let themselves be encapsulated by flawless rhythms - mediasearch.com.au
Melbourne’s All India Radio have produced an album that is guaranteed to send even the most cynical listener (i.e., me on a bad day) drifting off into blissful reverie… their definitive album...a sophisticated instrumental soundtrack to walking on the moon while sipping cocktails. - Luna Kafe (Norway)
otherwordly guitar and absolutely breathtaking beats … in this collection of cinematic, striking pieces. It’s the kind of music that could make you see beauty in tragedy, like light refracting through breaking glass or the sun appearing behind a collapsing forest. – Rave Magazine
5 STARS It's been three years since their last, self-titled, release, but Martin Kennedy and co have another sublimely relaxing album of windswept landscapey music. You can see the clouds from up here. - The Monkey Puzzle
FOUR STARS Morricone-style stark, lanky guitar lines set upon aural textures reminiscent at times of electro-minimalists the Boards of Canada...this is tasty music that sets your imagination loose - it's musically provocative yet effortless in its blending of sounds and melodies. - ABC RADIO online
Everything sounds so perfect, so luscious, so warm....a palpable feeling of timeless beauty - Inpress Magazine
Melbourne instrumental outfit All India Radio allow a sense of stillness in accelerated times. A celestial cinescape. - The Sunday Age
I like my rock of the Post variety, so hearing an Australian band like All India Radio bringing the spirit of Post-Rock to the table with some stunning electronicly-tinged strings, smooth down-tempo rhythms and subtle guitar licks makes for a very satisfying experience. After one listen of this band I was hooked. - whiteboydancefloor.blogspot.com
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