Big City Whispers, by Cayn Borthwick

Big City Whispers

by Cayn Borthwick

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Clear vinyl record with red splatters in beautifully designed outer and inner sleeves – artwork by Ben Pell.

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1.	Big City Whispers 05:18		buy track
2.	Lizard Brain 04:45	info	buy track
3.	Transit 04:37		buy track
4.	Keep Me 04:40	info	buy track
5.	Smoke Fingers 04:08		buy track
6.	Web 04:17		buy track
7.	Burning 04:10		buy track
8.	Dance for Love 03:38	info	buy track
9.	Maybe 05:33		buy track

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Following his two earlier singles — the creepy primordial 'Lizard Brain' and the restorative ballad 'Dance for Love' — Melbourne composer and sax charmer with NO ZU and Mighty Duke & The Lords, Cayn Borthwick now serves up his entire self-produced debut platter Big City Whispers.

The album arrives on the back of his latest beguiling single 'Keep Me', a smooth instrumental love song with a heart of lo-fi boogie gold.

Big City Whispers is an album about our relationships.

The title track is a young person’s romance with Melbourne, a juxtaposition of the city as a fresh map with secret cobblestone alleys leading to new experiences versus the feeling of an old ally that still surprises and invigorates.

'Keep Me' is a love song to Victoria's Surfcoast, to the ocean, to the journey to the water and surfing.

'Dance for Love' is a post-apocalyptic love song about the loss of youth, ignorance, death and love.

'Maybe' is a memory of teenage innocence and desire during a weekend of camping at the beach.

'Burning' imagines a hunger that began in the dust of the Big Bang.

'Smoke Fingers' is about a slippery and un-maintainable love.

'Lizard Brain' is more of a feeling.

'Web' imagines the birth of a sentience, deep in the internet, that must immediately decide its own fate in the face of the conscious condition.

Lastly, 'Transit' is about airplanes.

The album takes many twists and turns stylistically, but the mainstays are saxophones, synths, vocals and drum machines. The thread holding this together is Borthwick’s production style and musical idiosyncrasies.

Big City Whispers was written and recorded in Borthwick’s Brunswick studio over two months. John Lee of Phaedra Studios mixed and mastered the record.

Cayn collaborated with Lost and Lonesome and Royal Mint records to produce a 7 inch vinyl single that contained the shape of a brain and a (fake) lizard.

Audible in the resulting nine tracks are a range of influences including Dwight Sykes, Arthur Russell, Suicide, James Chance and more. Cayn’s compositional voice speaks through this diversity, holding together tropicana slow jams, washed out bossa novas, lo-fi boogie beats, quirky electronica and post-apocalyptic love songs.

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released March 27, 2020

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Cayn Borthwick Melbourne, Australia

Cayn Borthwick is an award-winning composer, multi-instrumentalist and researcher based in Naarm/Melboure. He creates left- field experimental dance pop, art music and public art installations. Poised at the intersection of sound, art and technology, Borthwick pushes boundaries to find ways to immerse audiences in new musical experiences. ... more

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