Mick Harvey – Waves Of Anzac/The Journey

Mick Harvey is an Australian musician, singer-songwriter, composer, arranger and record producer. A multi-instrumentalist, he is best known for his long-term collaborations with Nick Cave, with whom he formed The Boys Next Door, The Birthday Party and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. He has also collaborated extensively with PJ Harvey, Rowland S Howard and Anita Lane. His solo releases began in 1995 but he has been scoring film and television since 1988. Waves Of Anzac/The Journey is his first soundtrack release in over 10 years. The album features two recent soundtracks to films with powerful subject matters. The first, Waves of ANZAC looks at Sam Neill’s personal family history interwoven with the history of the First World War and the ANZACs through to the modern era while the second, The Journey, is a four-part composition released in support of #KidsOffNauru, a campaign working for the child refugees and people seeking asylum who find themselves in offshore detention.

Label: Mute Records
Cat. # STUMM448