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TAME IMPALA

Biography

Early Career

The origins of the band can be found in the Perth music scene. Parker played in a number of bands, one being the Dee Dee Dums, a rock duo that consisted of Parker (guitar) and Luke Epstein (drums). Tame Impala emerged in 2007 as a Kevin Parker home-recording project in this period and he posted a number of tracks on Myspace. This brought interest from a number of labels and eventually, he signed a worldwide deal with the independent Modular Recordings in July 2008. To transfer these recordings to a live-stage, Parker enlisted the help of Dominic Simper (bass) and Jay Watson (drums) and began playing at some local gigs.

Tame Impala EP

The signing was soon followed by the release on their self-titled debut EP in September 2008. Due to Parker's original artwork there was some confusion with the EP title and many believed it to be called "Antares Mira Sun". The artwork is an interpretation of a slide he saw in an astronomy lecture, which demonstrated the difference in size between the stars Antares, Mira and the Sun.

The cover art is meant to be a painting; an interpretation of a diagram, so those labels are just there to make the diagram make sense. But lo and behold, there were reviews coming out saying "And Tame Impala's new EP 'Antares, Mira, Sun".

—Kevin Parker

Tame Impala attained the number 1 position on the Australian Independent Record Labels (AIR) Chart and number 10 on the ARIA Physical Singles Chart, with three songs, "Desire Be, Desire Go", "Half Full Glass of Wine" and "Skeleton Tiger" receiving national radio airplay on the Triple J radio station.

Tours in 2008 included supports for You Am I, The Black Keys, Yeasayer and MGMT, as well as performances at Southbound Festival, Meredith Music Festival and Falls Festival, as well as national headline tours in support of their EP. Tours in 2009 included a sold-out six-date "Skeleton Tiger" national headline tour and a five-date UK tour (including Nevereverland UK), as well as performances at V Festival and Groovin The Moo, and a stadium tour with The Living End and Gyroscope.

Tame Impala appeared on Triple J's Hottest 100 list in 2008—their first appearance on the list— with "Half Full Glass of Wine" at number 75. The song is also on the Hottest 100 compilation album. 

Band members

Live

• Kevin Parker – vocals, guitar and kazoo (2007–present)
• Jay "Gumby" Watson – drums and backing vocals (2007–11), synth, backing vocals and occasional additional guitar (2012–present)
• Dominic Simper – bass (2007–10), guitar and synth (2010–present)
• Cam Avery – bass and backing vocals (2013–present)
• Julien "Frenchie" Barbagallo – drums and backing vocals (2012–present)

Studio

• Kevin Parker – vocals, guitar, bass, drums, keys (plays all instruments on almost all recordings)
• Jay Watson – drums, keys, guitar
• Dominic Simper – percussion, bass, guitar, effects

Past members

• Nick Allbrook – guitar and keys (2009–2010), bass (2010–2013)

Musical style

Parker's music is heavily influenced by late 1960s and early 1970s psychedelic rock, which is achieved through various production methods. Some favoured and often-used effects by Parker include phasing, delay, reverb and fuzz.
Parker's decision to make the music for Tame Impala in the studio by himself is a result of Parker liking "the kind of music that is the result of one person constructing an awesome symphony of sound. You can layer your own voice 700 times for half a second if you want, and I just love that kind of music". However, Parker has to translate his music to a live setting with the band, and the band doesn't play the songs until they have been recorded. "The only jamming that’s done as a band is done a long time after the song is recorded for the sake of the live environment. It’s good for us, because we can take a song that’s been recorded and do what we want to it: slow it down, speed it up, make it 10 seconds or 10 minutes long. It gives us a lot of freedom."
Experimentation with different effects pedals has led to Parker creating new and unique sounds. "If you make an effort to not put the pedals in the order you're meant to, then you'll end up with something new sounding. We don't have any things that we got from another planet or anything, it's the same things everyone else has used." "People have a distortion pedal and then a reverb pedal. A reverb is meant to make it sound like it's in a cathedral or something. If you put it the other way around, it won't sound like a guitar being played in a church, it'll sound like a church being stuffed inside a shoebox and then exploded. You can do different things just by treating things differently."
Parker also has a strong sense of melody in his music, having composed "excessively melodic music from about the age of 12 to 15". As a result of Parker's love of melody, he also has revealed that he has a "fetish for extremely sugary pop music" from artists like Britney Spears and Kylie Minogue.
In addition to a love of melody, Parker also loves "fucked-up explosive cosmic music" in the vein of The Flaming Lips, whom Parker collaborated with on the track "Children of the Moon" in 2012, for the release The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends.
Combining these two things, Shoegaze legends My Bloody Valentine have influenced Parker's music with their contrasting combination of loud guitars and ethereal melodies. Parker has "always been in love with the wall of sound as employed by My Bloody Valentine" and he tries to capture that "melancholy dreamy feel".Parker tries to incorporate this balance into his own music. "If I was singing, I wouldn't be able to match the tone of the instruments, which is really crunchy. The instruments are quite sonically brutal, but the voice is really soft, and I think that kind of resonates with people. It's kind of like My Bloody Valentine, where it's really brutal sounding, but kind of beautiful at the same time". Tame Impala live drummer Jay Waston has described Parker's music as containing "shoegazey guitar sound, but not played in a shoegazey manner"
Electronic music is another influence. Parker has used rock instrumentation in an electronic manner, saying "The way we do music, it's organic, but it's meant to be quite repetitive and hypnotic, almost in a kind of electronic nature. Using our playing as though it was a living sample".A heavy feature on Innerspeaker is a pitch-shifted guitar tone that many mistook for a synth. Parker mentioned this by saying "I had a few obsessions when recording Innerspeaker. One was to make the guitars sound like synths and drums sound like drum samples and pretty much anything except guitars and drums. I'm obsessed with confusing people as to the origin of a sound."
Parker was inspired to take up various creative endeavors at a young age, "I used to draw a lot when I was very young, and I used to get the most immense feeling of satisfaction from finishing a picture and looking back at it, even though I wasn’t actually that good. When I started playing music I got the same feeling from making a song, even if it was just a few noises or drum patterns put together. Music always affected me greatly as a listener anyway, usually from listening to music in my dad’s car or listening to him play guitar."
Parker's process for making music is "I’ll have a sudden, spontaneous vision of a song, have all the parts mapped out in mind, and do my best to record it as quick as I can. I’ll find my eight-track and do a quick demo of just the riff, or a verse or a chorus. The song will go for like 30 seconds. I’ll have a whole bunch of them [demos] and then I’ll just choose which ones to make into full songs". For Parker, the music comes before the lyrics, "I usually write the lyrics after the melody and it’s timing have been decided. But the words have to be meaningful. I try to synchronise certain words with the best parts of the melody, but it can be really difficult and does my head in. I like to keep the meaning pretty open and ambiguous so that it’s not just me that gets something out of the lyrics. I usually write lyrics from a persona rather than tell a specific story."  Parker also said "Usually I am sufficiently motivated to think of new songs everyday, but I usually forget them. I seem to get an emotional kick out of sensing feelings of general desperation or hopelessness, whether it’s me or someone near me or someone in a movie or anything. It’s really difficult to sit down and force yourself to write a song, and that forced nature usually comes out in the song so I just have to wait until they come to me.”
Lo-fi music is also a favourite of Parker's, and he incorporated it heavily in the early days of Tame Impala, heard prominently on the Tame Impala EP. With the release of Innerspeaker, Parker went for a different approach to a lo-fi sound, aiming more for a more cosmic and sonic wall of sound, helped by mixer Dave Fridmann. Parker explained "It sounds more cohesive, like an organism. It has a different emotion to it, it brings out a different feeling when it’s absolutely blaring at you. I love that sound."
Parker has also stated that Supertramp, one of his favourite bands, are a major influence on the musical style of Tame Impala. Despite their difference in sound, he feels he is always somewhat "channeling Supertramp".

Awards

·         WAMI AWARDS

·         ARIA AWARDS

·         J AWARDS

·         GRAMMY AWARDS

·         ROLLING STONE AWARDS

·         APRA AWARDS

·         EG MUSIC AWARDS

Currents (2015–present)

It is believed that Parker started recording the follow-up album to Lonerism at the beginning of 2014, due to various Instagram posts that showed recording taking place at Wave House in Western Australia, where the debut album Innerspeaker was recorded. Prior to this, Parker had been touring with Tame Impala and working on other musical projects, including his disco-funk band, AAA Aardvark Getdown Services. Parker said in May 2013:

Right now, doing another album doesn’t excite me. There’s something narrow-minded about thinking an album is the only way you can put out music, especially in the world we’re in at the moment. Anything is possible. There’s so many people doing interesting things with the internet and technology, there could be so many ways of making music and listening to it. It’s 2013 and you can make music anywhere ... There are so many possibilities, my brain is overloading on them all. I just need to wait, think about things a bit more. Then I’ll know what to do next.

In May 2014, Parker spoke of his growing inclination toward the recording of another album in a triple J radio interview, explaining that: "I'm getting more and more sucked into the world of making an album. It's weird how it happens naturally, it's almost feels like a seasonal thing. I've started to think about tracklistings and all the things that come with an album." Describing the sound of the new album, Parker said "I'm gonna try to make it a bit more minimal this time; only use what's needed ... instead of a supreme pizza, where you just throw everything on".Watson added: "[It’s] probably gonna be less rock again and more electronic again, even more than the last one".

On 6 January 2015, Spinning Top Music announced that a new Tame Impala album will be released in 2015. During the same month, it was announced that the band would perform at the Boston Calling Music Festival in May 2015.

On 11 March 2015, a new song entitled "Let It Happen" was released as a free download.

On 5 April 2015, Tame Impala announced and released the album cover for Currents in a Facebook post. A few hours later the band released the first official single from the upcoming album on Facebook called "'Cause I'm A Man".Later that month, on 22 April 2015, Tame Impala officially released Let it Happen as the second single from the album. One week later, Kevin Parker held an AMA on reddit, where he provoked fans to ask him to release a new song, then responding with Disciples, which became the third single for the upcoming album Currents. On May 7, 2015 the band announced that the album would be released in July 17, 2015 and released the fourth single from the album, "Eventually".

Review Biografi musik dan Album Baru 2015 (“CURRENTS”).

Dengan mengawali karir sebagai pemusik sejak kecil Parker sudah memiliki bakat bermain musik. Ia pun mengawali karirnya dengan membentuk sebuah band bersama teman-temannya bernama Tame Impala beraliran psychedelic rock dan electronic musik. Dan parker membuat projek rekaman dan mempostingnya di Myspace pada tahun 2007. Rilis nya EP Album pada bulan September 2008 membawa pengaruh besar bagi band nya. Dengan artwork yang begitu menarik sehingga banyak para remaja di Australia penasaran dengan band pendatang baru ini. Dari EP Album tersebut Tame Impala memperoleh penghargaan dan melaksanakan tour pada tahun 2008 dengan band-band You Am I, The Black Keys, Yeasayer dan MGMT.

Pada pertengahan tahun bulan Mei Tame Impala meliris single pertama yaitu Sundown Syndrome yang direkam di Toerag Studios, London, UK.  Sundown Syndrome" menjadi bagian dari soundtrack film Nominasi Oscar berjudul “The Kids are All Right dan "Half Full Glass of Wine" menjadi soundtrack pada channel TV Terpopuler HBO pada acara televise Entourage  di akhir episode nya. Tame Impala  mengikuti event Australian/New Zealand pada festival acara Big Day Out festival in early 2010, dibarengi dengan performa musik dari band seperti Muse, The Mars Volta, Kasabian dan Rise Against

Beberapa Album yang telah membawa penghargaan Album terbaik terpopuler dan Breaktrough Artist pada album Innerspeaker. Berikutnya pada album Lonerism mendapati penghargaan kategori Best Alternative Music Album pada Desember 2013. Dan beberapa review lagu terbanyak di unduh/download ialah lagu Elephant, Feels Like We Only Go Backwards. Dan beberapa list lagu yang menurut saya bagus untuk didengar adalah: Elephant, Feels Like We Only Go Backwards, Mind Mischief, Lucidity, Alter Ego, dan Endors Toi.

Pada awal Januari 2015 memberitahukan kepada para penggemar musiknya bahwa akan merilis album baru, sementara itu pada bulan yang sama parker menginformasikan tentang live konsernya pada festival Boston Calling Music pada bulan Mei 2015. Parker pun merilis lagu baru yang dapat langsung di dengar dan diunduh yaitu berjudul Let It Happen. Pertengahan tahun pada bulan April 2015 band tersebut merilis Gambar Cover Album untuk album Currents pada Situs Facebook Tame Impala. Bersamaan dengan single pertamanya yang berjudul Cause I’m a Man dan Let It Happen  menjadi single keduanya. Seminggu kemudian parker mencetuskan pada publik bahwa telah dirilis Disciples yang menjadi single ke tiga nya pada album mendatangnya yaitu Currents.

Dan diakhir band tersebut merilis single ke empatnya berjudul Eventually yang menjadi lagu terfavorit bagi saya dan publik pada album tersebut. Dengan jenis aliran atau genre musik yang merubah jenis musiknya menjadi totalitas album ini menjadi perubahaan emosional dari kehidupan yang dipandang garis besar oleh Parker. Genre musik Tame Impala pada album-album sebelumnya yang membawa pengaruh musik Psychedelic Rock, menjadi aliran musik berjenis Pop – Electronic khususnya pada album Currents ini. Dan menurut saya album ini akan menjadi album terbaik dan lagu terpopuler yang akan mendapatkan penghargaan dimasa mendatang. Lagu yang menurut saya terdengar bagus ialah: Cause I’m A Man, Disciples, Let It Happen.

Sumber: wikipedia.org/tame-impala

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