This is a musical tribute to the greatest tourist trap ever built - the Murray Bridge Bunyip. When I was a kid my family would pass through Murray Bridge on the way to and from Adelaide, and we'd always stop to put in a twenty cent coin and watch the bunyip do its routine. It would usually be dark, either early in the morning or late at night, and the whole experience would scare the crap out of me. I loved it.

https://www.murraybridge.sa.gov.au/thebunyip

This track is not an endorsement of Vegemite or the Vegemite lifestyle, which I personally find abhorrent. But the Aeroplane Jelly song is in waltz time, so I couldn't get it to fit.

If I drew a Venn diagram that included people familiar with the Vegemite song and those familiar with the works of Wayne Smith, I suspect they would barely overlap. For the ignorant:

https://www.clashmusic.com/features/under-mi-sleng-teng-the-birth-of-digital-dancehall

https://australianfoodtimeline.com.au/happy-little-vegemites/

Someone asked me for a version of the main track from the album *without* Gerald's vocals for a Resident Advisor mix...so here it is. I'd never listened to it nude before...the whole thing was built around the recitation, much like building a house around the occupants while they go about their daily routines.

My hometown. They say it's a nice place to visit.

Dreaming Dogs 2 by stobiepole

Another bonus track...

A bonus track...

I don't really know what happened here...started off with a well-balanced rhythm built in Xronomorph ( http://www.dynamictonality.com/xronomorph.htm ) then it sort of went wayward...the voice is provided by a Gakken NSX-39 Pocket Miku played with a stylus, just like a stylophone. Nice to finally record some slappy bass stuff too...the fuzz pedal is a Tech21 American Woman, which is terribly under-rated, with a Digitech Whammy II through an EHX Chillswitch pedal for the octave leaps. Both the guitar and the voice were fed through the Eventide Mangleverb plugin, pretty much on the default setting...the drum sounds are made with Softube Heartbeat, the pad sounds with a Waldorf Streichfett and the deep bloops with Iris 2.

A bonus track...full album details here: https://culturesack.bandcamp.com/album/words-in-order

Gerald Murnane performing Thomas Hardy's poem 'At The Drapers', from the forthcoming album 'Words in Order'. Pre-order the digital album now at https://culturesack.bandcamp.com/album/words-in-order or on vinyl from https://www.readings.com.au/products/25620066/words-in-order