As I Was Saying

28 Apr 2015

Edi Donald and the Transients

Arts, News & Politics, Performing Arts, Sexuality, Visual Arts

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Edi Donald and the Transients

Edi Donald and the Transients are a six piece band from Alice Springs, which formed in late 2013 to bring the songs from Edi’s EP The Endless Shores of the Inland Sea to the stage. With a wild array of influences from a lashing of operatic theatricality to delicately woven electronic production, acoustic world roots, to gritty alternative influences, the music of Edi Donald and the Transients carries a trans-genre cinematic epic-ness.

Edi’s stunningly emotive voice and vivid lyricism are the backbone of the music they have produced. Their show at Midsumma was a gripping and detailed audio visual performance, showcasing layered and complex songs set against visual projections of the macro and micro of abstracted landscape and rust. The work approaches ideas of gender identity, isolation and inclusion, questions of privilege and social responsibility all reflected in the unfathomable enormity of the desert.

JOY’s Lana Woolf went along to see Edi Donald and the Transients and got Edi and Svetlana into the studio for a chat about how their work conveys ideas of gender, sexuality, race, identity and land.