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A Place Tells A Story is the fourth anthology from Melbourne-based publishers And Collective.

It comes with a CD which features various artists and includes 5 brand new tracks from Perfect Black Swan, titled Big City Seaside. The book also features new photographs by Warwick Baker.

The 5 tracks are now available as a Digital EP for just $2

Toby describes the recording:
"This was recorded in and around the house where I lived nine years ago, when I first moved to Los Angeles. It’s an old, weatherboard, “Arts-n-Crafts”-style house – wedged between a busy road and the Pacific Ocean. So many sounds; birds, breezes, cars, waves, wood, furniture, runners, bikers, boardwalk-whistlers and me."

Listen to
Big City Seaside
by Perfect Black Swan (from A Place tells A Story)

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Click here for information on where to buy the book.

 


Photographs by Warwick Baker from A Place Tells A Story

More Details from And Collective:

106pp, cloth hardcover, white emboss, hand numbered, silk-screened jacket, CD.
Limited edition: 1000 copies.
Release: September 2008.

Place is layer, is fabric. Community is detail, is flux. Definition and identity are never so clear-cut.

A Place Tells a Story is a book and CD project that engages with subjective notions of place and community. Via visual art, text, music and artefact, the project sees some of Melbourne’s most exciting young artists map, question, celebrate and reflect upon a scattering of our unofficial community sites.

Milk bars, street corners, neighbourhoods, roads; within the context of an increasingly globalised consciousness, A Place Tells a Story reconnects with locality and specificity. It explores these sites’ histories and narratives; it poses questions about their future.

Produced by Marc Martin, Justine Ellis and Dan Rule of local independent publishers the And Collective, A Place Tells a Story features the work of: Warwick Baker, Tom Civil, Oslo Davis, Kubota Fumikazu, Rachael Wenona Guy, Andy Jackson, Kyle de Kuijer, Brigid McCarthy, Meg Mundell, Mandy Ord, Liza Power, Memuzin River, Lou Smith, Salote Tawale and Eve Vincent.

With music and sound by: Perfect Black Swan, Nadia Combe, Saddleback, Bird Traps, Chris Smith, Lee Memorial and Jon Tjhia.