As organisms adapt to changing ecological pressures, evolutionary processes compel strange mutations and variations that facilitate their survival. In 1859, Alfred Russel Wallace noticed a remarkable faunal boundary demarcated by a small 35km strait between Indonesian Islands. To the West were tigers, orangutans, and hoofed mammals, while the East harboured the platypus, kangaroo, koala and other marsupials.
An ocean barrier and 50 million years divided them.
Auckland-based Dunedin band Ha The Unclear have today shared a refreshing new track called Wallace Line, and announced they are hitting the road this April with 4 New Zealand shows to celebrate the single’s release!
Tickets to all shows on the Wallace Line Tour are available HERE from Birdsnest Entertainment.
While the information age has shrunk the gulf between long-distance lovers to the size of a tiny strait, physical absence is still leaving darlings drowned and adrift on the ocean swells…
Wallace Line unravels the story of a disintegrating long-distance relationship over a percussive musical backdrop and Cathro’s endearing storytelling, which has become a much-loved centrepiece of Ha The Unclear’s music over the years.
The track was produced and engineered by Tom Healy at Paquin Studios, Mt Eden (Tiny Ruins, Popstrangers) and mastered by Jared Hirshland (Anderson .Paak, Tokyo Police Club).
Listen to ‘Wallace Line’ below:
HA THE UNCLEAR – WALLACE LINE TOUR
FRIDAY 6 APRIL – SPACE ACADEMY, CHRISTCHURCH
SATURDAY 7 APRIL – THE COOK, DUNEDIN
FRIDAY 13 APRIL – WHAMMY BAR, AUCKLAND
SATURDAY 14 APRIL – CAROLINE, WELLINGTON
TICKETS ON SALE NOW FROM BIRDSNEST ENTERTAINMENT:
https://shop.birdsnest.studio/product-category/tickets/
Ha the Unclear is made up of Michael Cathro (guitar/vocal), Ben Sargeant (drums), Theo Francis (guitar), and Paul Cathro (bass).
Their off-kilter, guitar-driven pop songs have seen them tour with Australian luminary Courtney Barnett, and support The Shins, The Dandy Warhols and Jeffrey Lewis.
At the 2016 NZ Music Awards, the Dunedin fourpiece received a Tui nomination for Best Music Video for their Simon Oliver directed clip for Secret Lives of Furniture.
Their frenetic live show has pulled sell-out crowds from all over the country, who come to see the mind-bending stories and dance to songs like Growing Mould (a song about breaking up via an apartment intercom) and Kosmonavt (a song about astronauts trapped in orbit) or Big City (a song about a weird bus ride with an anti-social pack of strangers).
A major highlight for any Ha The Unclear show has always been Cathro’s slap-you-in-the-face lyrics and mind-bending stories. The band compacts these thought nuggets into energetic, skewed pop songs.
