EFFICIENT SPACE

26/03/2024

Free lobby jam at Ace Hotel Sydney with Gavsborg (Equiknoxx Music, Jamaica) tonight >

20/02/2024

One of Sky Girl’s runaway hits, the story of Joyce Heath has remained a curiosity with the comp’s ambiguous liner notes. At the gracious artist’s request, we’ve now made a 5-track EP available on all streaming services.

Forever fantasising of leaving Waller County, Texas for a music career in New York, Joyce Heath took the miraculous leap at the age of 22 as a two-time divorcee + mother of two. First anonymously performing the double entendre party record Angelina (The Singing Model), Heath’s big break came when Atlantic paired her little song ‘Rock + Cry’ with R&B singer Clyde McPhatter, transposed in a calypso style for the 1957 musical film Mister Rock + Roll.

With her reputation growing as a “one take artist”, she soon formed a 50 year partnership in love + music with the universally skilled Vincent Gagliano - a budding producer, engineer, songwriter, arranger + label owner. Together they would demo for giants such as Frank Loesser + Otis Blackwell, while selling masters to RCA Victor, Roulette, Laurie + a school of smaller labels. Riding the fading tail of doo-wop, she cut several singles at Gagliano’s Sound Center for his various imprints. With a fire escape stairwell turned echo chamber, the exciting sounds emitting from the studio were the envy of the industry.

Now burning brightly as part of Julien Dechery and DJ Sundae’s cult compilation, her signature tune ‘I Wouldn’t Dream Of It’ has also featured prominently in Lynne Ramsey’s You Were Never Really Here, New Zealand rom-com This Town + the cli-fi psychological thriller Foe. 🌟

13/02/2024

Out on 2LP/CD/digital April 26, Someone Like Me is a humanity-reminding suite of miracle moments that unites real people in the pursuit of a meaningful connection. Taping their lived experience in economic studios in quiet English counties, Pacific Northwest woodland retreats + the big city bustle of Sydney + LA, these kindred spirits rendered sheer beauty in the process. Custom pressed folk songs of love, loss + the lord saviour.

Illuminating minor works from seasoned players such as former Syndicate of Sound chart-topper Sharkey + late-era Canned Heat lynchpin James Thornbury, the collection in tandem honours the fleeting amateurism of hobby musicians. With one shot at tangible vinyl, freshman Lynne Ann Kingan realised her loose bubblegum rocker on campus time, while US Navy recruit Fred Potts cuts his unconditionally serene ballad remotely stationed on a Spanish naval base. Spartan production continues to reign with Jon Betmead’s hair-raising gospel, howling into infinite space, + Goldrust’s stripped back garden hymn.

Throughout the hour-long reflection, faith has an intermittent yet revelatory presence, most overtly with the divine choral soul of Seventh-day Adventists Remnant. More subtly, Gary Ramey + Jim Kennedy both turn to song in their spiritual quests, offering their all to a universal power. An irrefutable cornerstone, the National Office For Black Catholics showcased Charles Murphy’s lionhearted account of the Black experience at a 1971 concert (streaming above). Five years earlier, The Superwomen would use their hauntingly angelic harmonies to address racial inequity with a breathless take on ‘Lowlands’.

Compiled and lovingly restored by armchair digger Mikey Young (Eddy Current Suppression Ring/The Green Child), Someone Like Me pays due service to 17 rarefied journals of truth + devotion. Adorned with visual artist Chris Fallon’s figure + flora dream extractions, the uniting songbook is further detailed by expansive track-by-track liner notes + a forward from San Franciscan poet Rod Roland.

Preorder @ https://bit.ly/SomeoneLikeMeES

30/01/2024

Join us 2-5pm today at In Sheep's Clothing NYC for a listening session dedicated to Efficient Space! Few labels command our attention as consistently and completely as Michael Kucyk's Melbourne-based Efficient Space. From the seminal Sky Gir...

14/12/2023

Efficient Space presents a deep listening session at Ace Hotel Sydney with revered wayfinder DJ Chee Shimizu.

Hailed for his trademark blend of rare European Jazz, fusion, spiritual, ethnic and ambient, Shimizu is the coveted mind behind Tokyo's specialist store Organic Music. A propagator of the recent global boom in Japanese music curiosity, he has played a crucial hand in reviving Yasuaki Shimizu, Aragon, Toshifumi Hinata and more, with his legend further amplified by his incense pluming NTS residency and the penning of cult record guidebook Obscure Sound.

Join us in the lobby on Wednesday 3 January for an absorbing journey with master Chee Shimizu at the controls. From 7PM-11PM. Free entry.

30/11/2023

"Its spectral presence serves to underline Elaine and Jack’s overriding artistic, aural aim, to sonically synthesise a space free of geography and time."

The always supportive Ban Ban Ton Ton weighs in on Searchlight Moonbeam >

To help Jack Rollo and Elaine Tierney celebrate 10 years of their NTS radio show, Time Is Away, Efficient Space have released a set, complied by the pair, entitled Searchlight Moonbeam. The collect…

20/11/2023

Bhairavi Raman and Nanthesh Sivarajah’s transcendent ‘Bittersweet Reflections’. The Carnatic duo of violin and Mridangam will perform two sets at our Searchlight Moonbeam launch at ACMI this Saturday 25 November ~ at 5:30PM + 8:30PM (before Dust In the Wind + The Killing of a Chinese Bookie respectively).

Tickets available as individual sessions or as a double feature @ https://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/efficient-space/

16/11/2023

Time Is Away doing what they do best for Efficient Space on NTS Radio >

Playing Ambient, Modern Classical, Classical. Irregular extra special shows from the world of Melbourne reissue label Efficient Space.

14/11/2023

In more capable hands on NTS Radio today with station bedrocks Jack Rollo and Elaine Tierney at the dials. A Searchlight Moonbeam companion piece of spoken word, medieval music, Persian classical and naturally, Time Is Away guiding lights Simon Fisher Turner and Terre Thaemlitz >

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09/11/2023

In Sheeps Clothing hi-fi’s speaks with Time Is Away to learn more about 'Saerchlight Moonbeam'. their beginnings, pre-internet music communities, inspirations, and some of their personal favourite mixes >

Time is Away's latest compilation Searchlight Moonboom is out tomorrow via Efficient Space. Time is Away is the London-based DJ / historian / artist duo Jack Rollo and Elaine Tierney. Longtime NTS residents, the couple work across radio, research and site-specific projects exploring the relatio...

06/11/2023

To commemorate the release of Searchlight Moonbeam, Efficient Space presents a double feature at ACMI on Saturday 25 November, spotlighting the compilation’s score composers Bo Harwood and Chen Ming Chang via their respective contributions to John Cassavetes’ brooding crime drama 'The Killing of a Chinese Bookie' and Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s Taiwanese coming of age story 'Dust In The Wind'. Both film screenings will include pre-show performances from Bhairavi Raman and Nanthesh Sivarajah, whose duo of carnatic violin and mridangam is nothing short of spellbinding. Tickets @ https://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/efficient-space/

04/11/2023

Carhartt WIP recently drilled us with 20 questions to run alongside a catalogue mix that features the early releases that really shaped us, our album closing tracks, 12”s and 7”s that often go overlooked, and a preview of 2024 >

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