Promaja (album launch) / Voice Imitator (album launch) / Phantasm

Promaja (Pronounced Pro-My-Uh) are a Naarm/Melbourne/Australian based post-punk outfit featuring members of Pleasure Symbols, Bcharre بشرّي, Armour, Zipper et al. Bravo Brava is Promaja's debut album. The record is 33 minutes of slouching towards the hubris of modernity. The resulting eight tracks both propel and engulf, showcasing a sound that’s angular and urgent. Marked by acerbic vocals, guitars that oscillate between cascading turns and sharp abrasive stabs, while underpinned by sinewy bass and propulsive drums, firmly echoing Bravo Brava’s lyrical intersections of the battles of modern existence. The songs on Bravo Brava inhabit a universe of blindly reaching for integrity in a sprawling landscape of societal dogma. A remarkable resilience weaves its way through the record, hungry for a need to connect, a need to build community through storytelling of shared experiences. Promaja is a balkan superstition, a cold air, a silent killer. But how can nature be evil? Bravo Brava is out early 2025 digitally and via Symphony of Destruction (FR) 

Voice Imitator is the collaborative project of Per Bystrom, Justin Fuller, Mark Groves, and Leon O’Regan. All four have been active as part of numerous, cross-genre ventures in the Australian underground for many years. Bystrom has offered a rhythmic heart for Exhaustion and Leather Towel, whilst further expanding on metrical ideas in Compound, his solo electronic undertaking. Zond, TOL, Grane and various solo outings have all showcased Fuller’s severely manipulated, hallucinogenic guitar and unsettling electronics. O’Regan has provided lithe, turbulent and imaginative bass guitar for The Bunyip Moon, and antagonistic industrial electronics as Dire Ears. Groves, as vocalist, has previously oscillated between the idiosyncratic combination of drily delivered text, close-miked voice and concrète sound for Red Wine and Sugar and solo project Absurd Cosmos Late Nite, as well as functioning as front person for noise rock and heavy electronic acts True Radical Miracle and Dead Boomers. Of How Hits is the second Voice Imitator album for 12XU, following 2020’s Plaza. https://voiceimitator12xu.bandcamp.com/album/of-how-hits