“Steady State” is my third album with Barnaby Oliver, part of a long association extending back to Barnaby’s “Wall of E” guitar orchestra in 2005. This album’s origin goes back to a concert we played in August 2022 at Melbourne’s Tempo Rubato. That concert was in itself the culmination of several year’s focus on developing a minimalist yet subtly expansive musical dialogue centred around my bowing of heavy aluminium bowls, with Barnaby playing various instruments including violin, bowed banjo and piano.

Playing acoustically in that space, with the 102-key Stuart & Sons grand concert piano for one piece, encouraged us to return to the venue one Sunday morning a couple of months later to record the same two pieces from our concert. We recorded them with the vision of two vinyl sides in mind, and finally they see the light of day here on “Steady State”. – Clinton Green

Out now on a limited edition of 100 copies, or available digitally on most platforms including Bandcamp

**Album launch coming up at a special Shame File Music curation of Make It Up Club on 9 December**