Michael Beach 'Big Black Plume' Album Launch with Lost Animal, Leah Senior

On his fifth LP, Big Black Plume, Melbourne-based and Californian-born musician Michael Beach reveals the vitalizing power of connection in an often hostile world. Equally informed by the songwriting of Bill Fay and Peter Laughner, the minimalism of Tony Conrad and Terry Riley, and the rock and roll heart of the Goner Records roster, Big Black Plume provides deliberate compositions adorned with genuine madness. The songs on this album range from spare, textural ballads, to spiraling psychedelic overtures connected to a propulsive cosmic pulse.



"I was wrestling with the beauty and intensity of the natural world and coming to grips with the human destruction of it," says Beach.  "I have an overwhelming sense that humans will come and go, and the world we depend on will outlast us."