Gilgamesh 10th Anniversary Edition - Tape Remaster

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1.	Time To Wander 03:55	info
2.	The Piper's Song 03:40	info
3.	Jona Vark 03:39	info	buy track
4.	Gilgamesh 04:27	info
5.	Sight Of A Tear 03:30	info
6.	Human Desire 04:35	info
7.	Parallel Universe 04:23	info
8.	Breakaway 04:19	info
9.	Watching me, Watching you 03:47	info
10.	Running Romeo 03:37	info
11.	A Perfect 2 03:04	info
12.	Fading Lines 04:20	info	buy track
13.	Videotapes 03:29	info	buy track
14.	The One 03:06	info	buy track
15.	Next To You 02:49	info	buy track

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Gilgamesh was written over the span of 6 months in the early stages of 2009 in our studio above a car mechanic on Market Street in South Melbourne, Victoria.

We met as resident DJ's at Charlton's in Melbourne CBD's 'China Town'. After a few weeks of talking around the subject, we decided to meet up at Lionel's studio and have a try at making music together. Initially, there was no real stylistic direction - the music fruited from these early sessions was something like forgettable dance music and edits for the nightclub we were djing at. But after six months of experimentation, a curiosity to introduce live instrumentation into dance loops quickly planted a stylistic flag in the ground. We began to meet more regularly.

After experimenting unsuccessfully with recording multiple friend singers on the earliest instrumentals from the project, Lionel suggested I try singing on the music. Suddenly instrumentals started shaping into stories and songs. The 3rd attempt at doing this was on an instrumental that would go on to be called 'Jona Vark'. We knew after writing Jona that we the kern of what could be an album. We got to work.

6 months later, after meeting at the studio every night until the morning and taking turns in getting sleep whilst working, we had chiseled out 10 songs, but we still had one instrumental remaining. Two days before leaving on a solo journey to India, we met in the studio and the result was the last piece of the puzzle - the appropriately titled 'Time To Wander'.

12 months on, Gilgamesh would be sent into orbit and go on to achieve:

Gold record status in Australia
2 singles (Time to Wander & Jona Vark) in Germany's top 10 radio chart.
#93 on Triple J's Hottest 100 Australian Albums of All Time
2 Aria Award Nominations
3 Songs in the Triple J Hottest 100

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released October 29, 2020

Written & Produced by Xavier Bacash & Lionel Towers

Artwork by Leif Podjhasky

P&C Alsatian Music for the Americas
Licensed courtesy of Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited for ROW

Album tape mastered by Joel Krozer at Six Bit Deep Copenhagen

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