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Wilson Tanner
Legends
Efficient Space - Cat No: ES043
- updated:2025-12-16
Andrew Richard Wilson has captivated ambient and electronic music fans, releasing work under several aliases including Andras Fox, Wilson Tanner, and Art Wilson. This is his first new album under the Wilson Tanner name in six years.
Track List
Wilson Tanner return to dry land with Legends, a wine-soaked agricultural fantasy, made among the grapevines at Manon Farm in South Australia. Where their earlier works settled into the sun-struck torpor of a suburban Perth backyard (69) or drifted off-course on a riverboat on Port Phillip Bay (ii), Legends trades salt air for vineyard sweat, the scrape of boots on dry earth and workers’ radios humming with the summer test cricket season.
Through this agricultural haze an image of a working vineyard emerges - ducks, dogs and plovers intrude; tractors and quads fly-by; stainless steel gleams at the edges. Recorded without mains power, the Manon demos overflow with farmyard ingenuity. Wind, brass, balalaika, balloon, pipe and synth are trained onto the staff with wire, tape and string.
A caricature of Australian viticulture, Legends is packed to the horns with the mythology and manure of natural wine. Swigging and belching in camaraderie, Wilson Tanner press their surroundings into something raw and unfiltered, letting bum notes, leftovers and sediment linger in the bottle. A cornucopia of biodynamic sounds.
Through this agricultural haze an image of a working vineyard emerges - ducks, dogs and plovers intrude; tractors and quads fly-by; stainless steel gleams at the edges. Recorded without mains power, the Manon demos overflow with farmyard ingenuity. Wind, brass, balalaika, balloon, pipe and synth are trained onto the staff with wire, tape and string.
A caricature of Australian viticulture, Legends is packed to the horns with the mythology and manure of natural wine. Swigging and belching in camaraderie, Wilson Tanner press their surroundings into something raw and unfiltered, letting bum notes, leftovers and sediment linger in the bottle. A cornucopia of biodynamic sounds.
A long-awaited new release under the Wilson Tanner name, following the classic 2016 debut album "69" and 2019's "II" — both of which have been reissued, repressed, and remain bestsellers at our shop. It's introduced with a wink: "Wilson Tanner returns to dry land with 'Legend,' a wine-soaked agrarian fantasy created among the vineyards of Manon Farm in South Australia..." It opens with "Cherry," a masterpiece-like piece that captures guitar and piano, electronics and noise, and even the sounds lurking in the background, painting a leisurely, nostalgic, and faintly hued world. (Original Japanese text by Saito)