HELL HERONS
Founded in 2021, Hell Herons is an Australian spoken-word/music collective featuring award-winning writers Melinda Smith, CJ Bowerbird, Stuart Barnes, and Nigel Featherstone. The collective is currently working on a series of demos that fuse lyrical language with evocative soundscapes, and some pop and dance is thrown in for good measure. Thanks to generous support from artsACT, an album is scheduled for release in 2024.
For more information, please visit www.hellherons.com.
THE FINAL HOURS
This suite of 5 songs evolved from an invitation by the Tuggeranong Arts Centre in Canberra, Australia, to spend a day surrounded by the visual art of Myuran Sukumaran, an Australian man executed by the Indonesian Government after being found guilty of smuggling heroin.
A collaboration with singer-songwriter Pete Lyon; after mixing by Kimmo Vennonen, the songs were released on 15 June 2019 through Bandcamp.
All proceeds to be donated to an Australian art-in-prison program.
Art work by John Fry, Six Heads, Melbourne
‘We Are Freedom’
A collaboration with Andrew Bull / Hyperconfidence. After mixing by Darren Ziesing, the song was released in February 2019 through CD Baby and can be found here.
‘Yes of Love’
A collaboration with composer James Humberstone, this song was written in the context of Australia’s final debate on marriage equality laws; after mixing by Jordan Thomas Mitchell, the song was released in October 2018 through Youtube.