Name: Searchlight Moonbeam
Brand: Various

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ES032

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Black

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2023-11-17

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4251804143233

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Black LPx2

ES032CD

2023-11-24

4251804143240

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Various

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Psychedelic

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Efficient Space

Efficient Space is a Melbourne-based music label that is operated by Noise In My Head. With a focus on showcasing unique and diverse sounds, Efficient Space has become known for its exceptional curation of *artists* and *performers*. The label's dedication to unearthing hidden gems from the past and present has earned it a reputation as an authoritative voice in the music industry.

Efficient Space prides itself on its commitment to preserving and reissuing rare recordings, ensuring that these important pieces of musical history are accessible to a wider audience. The label's attention to detail in their releases is evident through their high-quality vinyl pressings and beautifully designed artwork.

As a platform for both established and emerging talent, Efficient Space continues to push boundaries with its eclectic roster of artists. From ambient electronica to experimental pop, the label embraces genres across the spectrum while maintaining its distinct identity. With each release, Efficient Space consistently delivers captivating music that challenges conventions and captivates listeners.

Newest Listed Items

After the killer compilations Sky Girl and Ghost Riders Efficient Space now present Searchlight Moonbeam.

Searchlight Moonbeam is the new narrative compilation from Time Is Away (Jack Rollo and Elaine Tierney) whose eponymous monthly NTS Radio shows, tinctured fusions of fugitive sounds and reverie-inducing archival speech, have won them an ardent following. It follows from the London-based duo’s Ballads, a remarkable driftwerk released on A Colourful Storm in 2022.

Searchlight Moonbeam is an autumnal dreamscape, intimate and vespertine, pensive and irresolute. An imagined community where differences drop off and resonances emerge – between Maher Shalal Hash Baz affiliates Kasumi Trio, Taiwanese score composer Chen Ming Chang whose ‘Rainwater’ (written for Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s 1986 film Dust In The Wind) is exquisitely heartbroken, and the plangent improvisations of self-taught French pianist Delphine Dora.

Revelations are frequent: the bedsit isolationism of Bo Harwood and John Cassavetes’ ‘No One Around to Hear It’ (from The Killing of a Chinese Bookie); the narked minimalism of Klang (an early 2000s band formed by ex-Elastica guitarist and featuring prize-winning experimental novelist Isabel Waidner on bass); the etude-grooves and echoic wobble of below-the-radar French avant-gardists Omertà ; the beautiful, plaintively dubby ‘Is It You?’ by Slapp Happy; a psych-tinged reimagining of PiL’s ‘Poptones’ by Simon Fisher Turner (one half of Deux Filles, and here, recording for él as The King of Luxembourg) that's as perverse as the cover of Throbbing Gristle’s 20 Jazz Funk Greats.

Searchlight Moonbeam is the musical analog of an Italo Calvino novel or a medieval fable. Associative, intuitive, borderless. Emotional and mysterious. Endowed with the tactility of Braille. A private language that is both unknowable and understood. It is a record of the seasons, for the seasons.

2023 marks the tenth anniversary of Time Is Away’s first broadcast. Featuring an evocative essay by writer Jeremy Atherton Lin and disarming cover art by Penny Davenport, Searchlight Moonbeam showcases Rollo and Tierney’s still-unrivalled talent for gloaming melodies, disques du crépuscule, ensorcelled storytelling.

Searchlight Moonbeam

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Discover Searchlight Moonbeam by Various on Efficient Space. An autumnal dreamscape of intimate and vespertine music. Vinyl records available.