Super Melody is the creation of Melbourne’s James Cecil, one-time member of globe-and genre-trotting pop group Architecture In Helsinki.
After several years of recording in suburban studios in the garden city, with drum sessions conducted amid ‘tense negotiations’ with neighbours, the debut Super Melody album Destination Unknown is ready for the world. The album, which travels from Boogie to Yacht Rock to Modern R ‘n B to 60s Chanson and back again, is unified by a love of pop and a quest to make your feet move.
Mr Cecil is the unique front man – part crooner, part mad scientist, part tropical percussionist. Super Melody will shake the foundations with a 4-piece line up that features Cornel Wilczek (Qua) shredding the lead guitar, and a rhythm section of Sashi Dharann (bass) and Tom Gould (drums and samples) of euphoric party-starters World's End Press holding it all together.
The agenda for this launch party to remember can be summed up in three letters: F-U-N.