Ex-Auckland copywriter Jono Aidney returns to release album ‘Volcanic Hazards of Auckland’
Ex-Auckland advertising copywriter, Jono Aidney, returns from his new Melbourne home to present a 13-track album, Volcanic Hazards of Auckland.
The album will play in its entirety from 7-9pm on Friday, 6 March in a special listening party held at Yes Collective on Auckland’s K’rd.
Rather than use traditional music media, high-quality digital downloads of the album come packaged with various artworks and objects created by emerging Auckland artists. These limited edition and one-off pieces will be exhibited for sale at the event with prices running from almost nothing to wildly expensive.
Artists include Holly Davies, Eleanor Barker, Catherine Walker and Kate Bedford, as well as Aidney’s own graphic prints and other curiosities. The Volcanic Hazards of Auckland exhibition will also feature excerpts from an upcoming novel of the same name.
Aidney has been releasing music under the pseudonym Quail State for many years but this will be his debut full-length album. The genre is possibly best described as nostalgia-steeped alternative rock.
From 2006-2012, Aidney worked in Auckland as an advertising creative. He won a few awards while at Sugar for his BNZ Literary Awards Live Writing Projection, before relocating to Leo Burnett Melbourne. For the past year he has been freelancing on interesting projects while working on his album and novel (and undergoing some rather unpleasant surgery).