Introducing Callum
Brothers and sisters,
Join us as we welcome multi-instrumentalist and travelling snake oil salesman Callum with his dusky debut album – 8 songs, self produced and mixed by Wayne Killbourne at Out of Tunes Studios.
Containing seven new songs written by Callum and friends, including the dark and somber “Misty Forests” and featuring Ollie Dear (Perch Creek Family Jug Band) on lead guitar and backing vocals on a remix of an ancient field song “Lower On The Hog.” “Kool Aid” darkly references the Jonestown Massacre with an eerie gypsy music influence that Callum picked up in Prague.
Callum was raised and home-schooled by a priest in a devotedly religious household and moved around Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and Europe as many as sixty times before settling in Melbourne in the musical hub known as St Kilda. As a result of the hustle and bustle of his travelling childhood, he has picked up influences from everywhere and created a provocative brand of rocking swamp-country blues with a psychedelic edge.
Callum’s travels saw him becoming involved the underground party scene in Sydney, enmeshed in the Kruezburg music scene in Berlin and dabbling in the mystic and spiritual lifestyle of the mountain healers in the Central Highlands. He also lived in the infamous George Building in St Kilda, while playing in the late night music club/pub scene.
With a long history of spiritual channeling and outer body experiences bought on by shamanic practices, Callum said, “I have no doubt that I am not the source of my music; rather that I serve as a conduit for other great spirits and the sacred energy that challenges and unifies us through the dark magic of sound.”
Poignant vocals with country harmonies and up-tempo distorted blues guitar create a Robert Johnson meets Led Zeppelin twang. Callum also indexes Creedence Clearwater Revival and Neil Young as inspiration behind his atmospheric sound.
Although Callum is an up-and-comer in the gig rotation around town he has some reputable experiences under his belt supporting well known artists such as The Resignators at The Bridge in Castlemaine and Hugo Race of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds fame at Pure Pop Records.
Jackson Rowe, the grandson of Roger Kemp, one of Australia’s foremost practitioners of transcendental abstraction, recorded and directed Callum’s freshmen film clip “Misty Forest,” a frame-by-frame art-deco arrangement.
iTunes launched Callum’s self-titled debut album on March 31st. Visit iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/misty-forests/id855277885?i=855277910
View the freshman film clip “Misty Forest” here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx4wT4u0CvY
