In 2020, Andrew Tuttle delivered his fourth studio album, Alexandra, a psychogeographic reflection of his hometown on the east coast of Australia.
If Tuttle hadn’t picked up his five-string banjo and acoustic guitar, he might have been a photographer, for it’s his vision of the world that’s so alluring. He can find beauty in the commonplace, and, after listening to his music, you’re left with an urge to look again at what surrounds you, to see what you’ve been missing.
His new album ‘Fleeting Adventure‘ is his most collaborative album to date, which finds him in the company of fellow sonic explorers, including Steve Gunn, Chuck Johnson, Luke Schneider, Darren Cross and Balmorhea.
As mentioned in the album’s press, a deepening sense of life, love, health, loss, and luck shaped the outlines of Tuttle’s fifth album. These portraits he paints have an alluring shimmering ambience; as with his previous offering, there’s an absence of cynicism in his music; something we seem so flooded in that you want to hang onto them.
His latest album single is ‘New Breakfast Habit’, on which Luke Schneider’s pedal steel gives a weightless feel to Tuttle’s banjo (Schneider is also curating the latest Imaginational Anthem volume, which focuses on pedal steel). Joining them on this early morning flight is fellow Australian picker Darren Cross on acoustic guitar, whose latest release, Hot-wire the Lay-low, we reviewed back in March.
The accompanying video by M.C Schmidt captures the rising sun, overlaid with images that include a child running and leaping free, birds gliding across the sky…cast in an orange glow, it’s a beautiful visual response to Tuttle’s music. This is music you want to wake to.
Fleeting Adventure is released on 29th July 2022 on Basin Rock.