NED COLLETTE - "Jokes and Trials" LP

Ned Collette - Jokes & Trials LP (Sophomore Lounge, 2022) First-time-on-vinyl reissue of Ned's debut full-length, originally a CD-only Australian release (Dot Dash, 2006). LP edition co-released with our friends at Feeding Tube Records... "What a pleasure it is to bring you the first vinyl version of Jokes and Trials, the 2006 solo debut by Melbourne's Ned Collette, whose incredible song cycle "Old Chestnut" and brilliant instrumental album "Afternoon-Dusk" have been widely and correctly lauded as classics.As Mark Harwood explains in his excellent liner notes, Ned emerged from the Melbourne improv underground along with people like Will Guthrie and Joe Talia. Indeed, it was Talia who turned Ned onto Jim O'Rourke's 2001 classic, "Insignificance" as a way of demonstrating possible connections between pop song form and avant garde strategies. Ned's own first moves in this direction built around loops. But by the time he was ready to cut Jokes and Trials, he was eager to try more tradi