Gram Antler – By Myself: 13th Floor New Song Of The Day
Pōneke based Gram Antler releases a new video for By Myself, the first single from a soon-to-be-released debut album. Produced by Studio Elga and seemingly shot on Handycam, the film is a b-reel assemblage of candid moments, camera setups and broken takes, jerry-rigged into a shape that pulses with the languid rhythm of the track.
Here is the blurb with more:
The single, written, performed and produced by Gram Antler and Tui Award winning producer Brett Stanton, is available on all streaming platforms.
Gram Antler is on tour this weekend with long-time collaborator and Taite Music Prize finalist Ebony Lamb:
Friday 5th April – Space Academy, Christchurch w/ Holly Arrowsmith
Saturday 6th April – Maggies, Dunedin w/ Keira Wallace
Tickets from www.ebonylamb.com
Gram Antler is the solo project of Pōneke singer, bass player and guitarist, Jason Johnson (Ebony Lamb, Marlon Willams, French For Rabbits, Eb & Sparrow).
Reformed choirboy and post-alt-country, Johnson presents Gram Antler as an anachronism, a man unstuck in time, so it goes. The songs aspire to be pop, but seem to congeal into a form that can only be described as Slacker Yacht-Rock.
Hooky and melodic, and full of lush texture, the soon-to-be-released record GRAM ANTLER was written and recorded with award-winning Melbourne-based producer Brett Stanton (The Phoenix Foundation, Beastwars, Hollie Smith).
“In 2018, just as Eb & Sparrow was winding up, I was hit by a car on my bicycle. My shoulder was totally smashed, and I really truly thought I might never be able to play guitar again. So I took the insurance money for my bike and went out and bought a synthesiser. And here we are. It turns out I also did manage to recover enough to play again. This album is a celebration of that, and a paean to the art-pop that Brett and I love, from Roxy Music to Richard Hawley.”
