Permanent Evolutions is a collection of songs and soundscapes from the band's body of work of last five years. The album features new remixes, rare unreleased tracks and film/tv music. Highlights include a remix of Permanent Revolutions by Sydney electronic producer extraordinaire Don Meers and a very rare All India Radio vocal track - the trip hop-ish For Angel, featuring the magnificent voice of folk singer Chloe Hall.
The album is a richly layered journey through the various incarnations of All India Radio since 2000, venturing from moody ambient drones and dark electronic atmospheres to lo-fi mid tempo beats with post-rock sensibilities. Scattered thoughout it all are eerie, electronically twisted streets sounds from India and Central America, Morricone-on-acid guitar twangs and general Twin Peak weirdness.
Press reviews
“This has been on the speakers non-stop since I received it, pausing only to switch to the previous releases, which I bought immediately after hearing Permanent Evolutions ... stellar stuff, endlessly mixable.” – DJ MadameFLY, www.BeatConscious.org USA
“**Wow! This Australian band of instrumentalists make some fine noise. In the vein of Godspeed You Black Emperor, Sigur Ros and stuff like that. Sprawling and epic…!” - Rob Levy, KDHX fm 88, USA
"...a tasty laid back audio experience and probably among the best albums we have reviewed this year. When the rest of the world with an ear for well produced chillout discovers Permanent Evolutions it will get the recognition it deserves and a place among ambient chillout classics. Permanent Evolutions is how downtempo chillout music is meant to be produced." - www.calmscape.com (Denmark)
"Combining drifting acoustic, slide and bass guitar, sweeping synth washes, and severely reverbed samples that are more often than not, accompanied by slow-rolling down tempo beats, All India Radio's "Permanent Evolutions" is the perfect soundtrack for those introspective moments in life when all you want to do is reconnect to that familiar inner something you haven't felt for a while." - www.properlychilled.com (USA)
"This latest offering from All India Radio is another masterpiece of intelligent, inspired and deeply satisfying work. It's simply impossible to find a weak spot in their output - this is something like the finest down-tempo sounds you're ever likely to experience on disc." - cdbaby buyer review
"Down tempo fans, check this CD out, from the opening track to the epic last track running to about 12 mins. Each track encapsulates you in AIR space.." - cdbaby buyer review
Perhaps it is my advancing age, but I have been drawn toward instrumental music lately. When I am writing at the computer I like something to fill the silence, but it can’t have someone else’s bad lyrics distracting me from my bad prose. All India Radio is just the thing. Their initials might spell AIR, but All India Radio are slower and spacier. It is hipster new age music, otherworldly and urgent, this muzak for Martians isn’t Jon Tesh, but it isn’t Black Flag either. - www.drastic-plastic.com (USA)
Permanent Evolutions is a sliding gliding world of lush spaced out ambient sound scapes, electronica and world beats, laid back downtempo vibes. Acoustic jazzy moments mingle with space aged dub effects. This is an album for dreamers and space cadets! At one point and quite out of the blue, a vocal number, (For Angel), pops out as a further level reached within this fantastic and diverse album. . Dj Excavator, Sense-Aetherica Radio (USA)
“For this reviewer at least, All India Radio was a well-kept antipodian secret that would have remained so were it not for an ad in a magazine known for its adventures in modern music. Now, with the release of Permanent Evolution, a look sideways - a handful of remixes along with some "unreleased tracks and film music". The remixes include a couple by respected Sydney producer Don Meers (whose "Permanent Revolutions" remix is an absolute tour-de-force, a taste of both Orient and Occident), and a rare vocal track, the Beth Ortonesque ballad "For Angel" featuring Australian folk singer Chloe Hall. The closer, "The Long goodbye", is just that, a seemingly eternal sauntering off into the distance with piano, acoustic guitar and strings bidding a reluctant adieu. It would be a disservice to merely label this music "ambient" or "lo-fi", even though such influences are in evidence. A great record in its own right which should lead listeners back to previous All India Radio efforts” - Stephen Fruitman, Sonomu (Sweden) 2006
All India Radio - Feature Artist Of The Week on Filtered Sunshine 02.07.2006 WPRK 91.5 FM, Florida
All India Radio ‘Permanent Evolutions’ came in at number 51 on California's KALX radio station TOP 100 best releases for 2005 & number 27: CIUT 89.5 MHz - Toronto Top 30
Permanent Revolutions is currently Album Of The Week on Poland's Radio Kozsalin with 6 tracks on rotation.
