The Hall Of Counterfeits, by Steve Kilbey & The Winged Heels

The Hall Of Counterfeits

by Steve Kilbey & The Winged Heels

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2.	Swinging On The Moon 04:44		buy track
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5.	Horizon Meets The Ground 03:35		buy track
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18.	I Shall Not Want 05:05		buy track
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STEVE KILBEY'S INTRODUCTION TO THE HALL OF COUNTERFEITS

“In 1990 I released a sprawling double album called Remindlessness* in which I attempted to take in everything I had ever been fascinated by in my life and reconcile the whole damn lot with a weird and wild bunch of songs far far from the mainstream and its tepid commercial tripe that informed me of absolutely nothing.

Well, one could see The Hall of Counterfeits as my answer to myself. 30 years on, armed with three brilliant musicians, time has enabled me to give voice to those same preoccupations: past lives, Indian and Middle Eastern music, religion, ancient history, the Beatles and the many implications of their work. Myth, magic, drugs, chaos and order, spirit, good and evil, love and hatred...well it’s all there.

Barton Price an unbelievable walloping drummer. Gareth Koch and his beautiful classical and flamenco guitar (and a host of other stringed ethnic instruments). Roger Mason on piano organ hurdy gurdy, cello (and again a load of other weird arcane and esoteric instruments). I called these players the Winged Heels and together we have come up with this mercurial record that is surely the most important thing I have ever done anywhere anytime.

A new sprawling double album that attempts to reconcile everything all over again. A labour of love. The record I had to make before I shuffle off this mortal coil and begin again all over - some other time, some other place.

I could not possibly have hoped to have made a record nearer to my heart than this. It contains all the voices in my head and heart that have always swirled around inside me some giving me direction and others leading me astray. I have given each voice a song. They are all me and yet none of them are me.

At this late stage of the game, on the eve of my 67th birthday I am in a supercharged relationship with my muse who pours thoughts ideas and music down the cosmic line into my mind 24 hours a day. Energising me to go on creating more and more music than most people would dream possible – I’ve been part of 8 new records in the last 18 months.

But this record is the big one and even if I do get another 30 years down here it will be a hard one to ever top.

I’m lucky to have found these players plus Andrew Beck an American engineer and co-producer of this record who have helped create this huge strange unwieldy chaotic dense bunch of songs that we have plucked fresh out of the thin air. I have never been prouder of an achievement in my life.

Please, if you will, wander through the Hall of Counterfeits and take it all in.…”

- Steve Kilbey
May 2021

* Remindlessness
stevekilbey.bandcamp.com/album/remindlessness

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REVIEWS

American Songwriter

BY TINA BENITEZ-EVES
JUNE 2021

"When Steve Kilbey released his fourth solo album Remindlessness in 1990, it was an exercise in rallying a mental montage of inspirations and fascinations and turning them into song. More than 30 years later, The Church frontman, along with a team of musicians dubbed The Winged Heels, has gathered a new batch of obsessions on the double album, The Hall of Counterfeits (MGM), out June 4.

“Time has enabled me to give voice to those same preoccupations—past lives, Indian and Middle Eastern music, religion, ancient history, the Beatles and the many implications of their work,” shares Kilbey.

A follow up to Kilbeys’ 2020 release Eleven Women—11 songs each focused on incomparable female subjects—and Jupiter 13, a collaborative effort with Martin Kennedy, The Hall of Counterfeits features a new selection of musicians, with The Winged Heels featuring drummer Barton Price, flamenco guitarist Gareth Koch, and Roger Mason on piano, organ, hurdy gurdy, and cello.

“Together we have come up with this mercurial record that is surely the most important thing I have ever done anywhere anytime,” says Kilbey, who calls The Hall of Counterfeits “a new, sprawling double album, a labor of love.”

Co-produced and engineered by Andrew Beck, The Hall of Counterfeits is an “unwieldy chaotic dense bunch of songs that we have plucked fresh out of the thin air,” says Kilbey, who has continued to tour in his native Australia and is planning to release a 26th album with The Church later this year.

“[It’s] the record I had to make before I shuffle off this mortal coil and begin again all over—some other time, some other place,” he says. “But this record is the big one, and even if I do get another 30 years down here it will be a hard one to ever top.”

Kilbey adds, “I have never been prouder of an achievement in my life. Please, if you will, wander through The Hall of Counterfeits and take it all in.”

The Hall of Counterfeits Track List:
1. Arcadia
2. Swinging On The Moon
3. Karnak
4. Warren
5. Horizon
6. Brass Razoo
7. I’ve Been Here Before
8. Euphoric Recall
9. Angelesa
10. Amorous Plethora
11. I Wish
12. Bound In Servitude
13. Unrule
14. More Or Less
15. Tears Of Mer Ek
16. Everything For Sale
17. I Shall Not Want
18. Tantric Hammer
19. A Temple
20. Beginning Of Mercy
21. A Gone Dream
22. Love Song Yet To Be Named

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americansongwriter.com/steve-kilbey-and-the-winged-heels-invite-listeners-into-the-hall-of-counterfeits/

(note: Ariadne is a digital only track)

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released June 4, 2021

Credits

All Songs Written By Steve Kilbey*
*except;
Track 5 (Steve Kilbey, Barton Price)
Tracks 1, 3, 5, 8, 10, 12, 15, 17, 19, 21 (Steve Kilbey, Gareth Koch, Roger Mason)

Vocals, Guitar [12 String], Electric Guitar, Bass Guitar, Percussion, Keyboards – Steve Kilbey

Backing Vocals – Rachel Poh

Banjo [cumbus], Lute [Yayli Tambur], Oud, Classical Guitar, Flamenco Guitar, Bass Guitar, Electric Guitar, Keyboards, Percussion, Backing Vocals – Gareth Koch

Drums, Percussion – Barton Price

Harmonica – Reuben Alexander (2)

Harp – Taras Jones

Piano, Organ, Cello, Nyckelharpa, Dulcimer [Lap], Dulcimer [Hammered], Dulcimer [Bowed], Harp [Japanese Key], Mellotron, Hurdy Gurdy, Synthesizer, Psaltery, Percussion, Backing Vocals, Mandolin [Octave], Accordion [Irish] – Roger Mason

The Winged Heels are Gareth Koch, Roger Mason and Barton Price

Artwork [Collage] – Christiana Monored

Photography By – Rachel Poh

Layout – Jamie Coghill

Mastered By – William Bowden

Co-producer, Engineer – Andrew Beck

Executive-Producer – Jason Comerford

Producer – Steve Kilbey

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