“After a couple of weeks of this I was a wreck. I recall the very last night of recording vividly. The work complete, the gear packed away. I was spent. I stood at the glass doors, once more peering nervously out at the lamp that marked the start of the path through the marsh. However, this time the light was framed by a calmness. There were no swarming insects. It was bright and unobscured. With care I ventured to the outside. As usual the humidity hit me but this time it seemed comforting. I felt my fear ebb away. I wandered towards the lamp. It’s light cut cleanly into the black but now at its perfect edge lay only plain emptiness. No dark menace or dread, and overhead just the sound of a breeze rifling through the tips of tall grass. In that moment I realised that the monster hidden in the morass had been nothing more than the Record itself. That, even in spite of the countless opportunities it had had to reach out and drag me down into its depths, in the end it had decided to withdraw and, at least for now, let me be…”

Regurgitator will disturb the fleeting moments to explore the beating heart… and the darkness within debut album Tu-Plang as it drives a stake into the 25 years since it emerged from the jungles of Bangkok. A musical coup de maître traversing the twisted tributaries of this release and what escaped prior.

Featuring visuals by Ken Weston
With special guests to be announced soon

Open Season is supported through Tourism and Events Queensland, the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, and both the Live Music Australia Fund and the Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) – initiatives of the Australian Government.