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Release Date: 31 July 2026
Label: Earshift Music
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 9324690437368
Genres: Jazz Contemporary
Description
Sydney collective Microfiche mark a decade together with With Time, a bold third album and their debut on Earshift Music. Moving between acoustic intimacy and immersive electronics, the record captures a band refining its language while opening new sonic terrain. Recorded by Tim Whitten, With Time distills ten years of deep listening, collective improvisation and evolving identity into a work of striking clarity and quiet intensity.
Two distinct sound worlds can be heard on With Time: alongside the acoustic orientation Microfiche have become well known for, they introduce a new electric sound with prominent use of keyboards, samples and post-production. The band first explored this sonic terrain during their 2021 residency at Redfern's 107 Projects, and in the intervening years they have significantly expanded their incorporation of synths, electric bass, SPDs and electronics into their music, with the new album celebrating the hybrid of the old and new.
Throughout the album, we hear the band's celebrated sense of melodicism, texture and telepathic improvisation, but with the overall mood markedly more subdued than previous releases. Despite the darker tone, there is a streak of optimism heard throughout, heard most prominently on Everything is Everything VIII and the final track Outpouring.
Microfiche are a long-running collective of six of Australia's most creative and boundary-pushing improvising musicians. Since forming in 2015, Microfiche's individual members have become some of Australia's most cutting-edge and esteemed improvisers, and collectively as an ensemble they have developed their own recognisable aesthetic and a strong shared musical telepathy. Their music emerges from a lineage of Australian acts as diverse as The Necks, Simon Barker and The Australian Art Orchestra, forging a distinctive and celebrated approach all their own. The group folds together beautifully composed and orchestrated compositions, meditative soundscapes, electronics and timbral explorations with post-rock arcs and energetic free-jazz eruptions. This is music with a vanguard spirit.
Tracklisting
The Vampires
Elysian Fields
Vazesh
Kristin Berardi
The Vampires
Trichotomy
Open Thread
Matthew Ottignon
Ben Crosland Quintet
Samuel Blaser Quartet
Microfiche
Supereon
Orchestre National de Jazz
Enrico Pieranunzi & Bebo Ferra
Gretchen Parlato
Trio Ivoire (Hans Ludemann, Aly Keita & Christian Thome)
