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Blademasters - King's Knight / Live By The Blade (Dune Castle Records)

🌍 PR / Radio campaign x Blademasters' new 7".
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Blademasters is a new collaborative project between Lachlan Stuckey (Surprise Chef) and Patrick Ryan (Cantrips), released via Ryan's Melbourne-based Dune Castle Records.



Drawing on the spirit of David Axelrod's bold cinematic jazz works of the 1960s and 1970s (Songs Of Experience, Pride and The Electric Prunes' Release Of An Oath), the debut Blademasters release King’s Knight / Live By The Blade features Stuckey and Ryan performing delicate acousticguitar arrangements in unison, set against dramatic movements by a rhythm section comprising Hudson Whitlock (Karate Boogaloo, The Pro-Teens, Frollen Music Library), Jethro Curtin (SurpriseChef) and Tom Pettit (Let Your Hair Down).

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Recorded live in the Dune Castle Throne Room by Henry Jenkins, the songs evoke a cinematic intensity, capturing a charged stillness between action and resolve.
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"King’s Knight" sets its intention early, with intertwined acoustic guitars and vibraphone establishing a calm but expectant foundation. As the piece unfolds, drums enter with a deliberate, weighty pulse, before bass and piano gradually widen the frame. The track moves patiently between restraint and release, favouring subtle rhythmic shifts and textural development over overt melodic statement.
“Live By The Blade” develops the foundation established in King’s Knight, leaning further into melodic repetition and gradual transformation. The pacing remains unhurried but exploratory, with the two acoustic guitars holding a steady, interlocking pattern that creates space for piano and vibraphone to move freely. As the track unfolds, bass and drums settle into a pulsing rhythmic backbone, grounding the piece while subtle harmonic shifts continue overhead. The closing passage introduces a more urgent energy, with the guitars increasing in intensity and momentum, pushing the composition toward a darker, more animated resolve.

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Stuckey says "Patrick and I had long wanted to write music together. We're both guitarists, sowriting for two guitars was central. We discussed Axelrod's Pride, which uses acoustic guitar alongside dramatic rhythm section arrangements in a really cool way. We wanted to reinterpret those sensibilities in our own voice”.

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Blademasters - King's Knight / Live By The Blade

Blademasters - King's Knight / Live By The Blade (Dune Castle Records)

🌍 PR / Radio campaign x Blademasters' new 7".
‍
Blademasters is a new collaborative project between Lachlan Stuckey (Surprise Chef) and Patrick Ryan (Cantrips), released via Ryan's Melbourne-based Dune Castle Records.



Drawing on the spirit of David Axelrod's bold cinematic jazz works of the 1960s and 1970s (Songs Of Experience, Pride and The Electric Prunes' Release Of An Oath), the debut Blademasters release King’s Knight / Live By The Blade features Stuckey and Ryan performing delicate acousticguitar arrangements in unison, set against dramatic movements by a rhythm section comprising Hudson Whitlock (Karate Boogaloo, The Pro-Teens, Frollen Music Library), Jethro Curtin (SurpriseChef) and Tom Pettit (Let Your Hair Down).

‍
‍
Recorded live in the Dune Castle Throne Room by Henry Jenkins, the songs evoke a cinematic intensity, capturing a charged stillness between action and resolve.
‍

‍
"King’s Knight" sets its intention early, with intertwined acoustic guitars and vibraphone establishing a calm but expectant foundation. As the piece unfolds, drums enter with a deliberate, weighty pulse, before bass and piano gradually widen the frame. The track moves patiently between restraint and release, favouring subtle rhythmic shifts and textural development over overt melodic statement.
“Live By The Blade” develops the foundation established in King’s Knight, leaning further into melodic repetition and gradual transformation. The pacing remains unhurried but exploratory, with the two acoustic guitars holding a steady, interlocking pattern that creates space for piano and vibraphone to move freely. As the track unfolds, bass and drums settle into a pulsing rhythmic backbone, grounding the piece while subtle harmonic shifts continue overhead. The closing passage introduces a more urgent energy, with the guitars increasing in intensity and momentum, pushing the composition toward a darker, more animated resolve.

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Stuckey says "Patrick and I had long wanted to write music together. We're both guitarists, sowriting for two guitars was central. We discussed Axelrod's Pride, which uses acoustic guitar alongside dramatic rhythm section arrangements in a really cool way. We wanted to reinterpret those sensibilities in our own voice”.

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Blademasters - King's Knight / Live By The Blade (Dune Castle Records)

🌍 PR / Radio campaign x Blademasters' new 7".
‍
Blademasters is a new collaborative project between Lachlan Stuckey (Surprise Chef) and Patrick Ryan (Cantrips), released via Ryan's Melbourne-based Dune Castle Records.



Drawing on the spirit of David Axelrod's bold cinematic jazz works of the 1960s and 1970s (Songs Of Experience, Pride and The Electric Prunes' Release Of An Oath), the debut Blademasters release King’s Knight / Live By The Blade features Stuckey and Ryan performing delicate acousticguitar arrangements in unison, set against dramatic movements by a rhythm section comprising Hudson Whitlock (Karate Boogaloo, The Pro-Teens, Frollen Music Library), Jethro Curtin (SurpriseChef) and Tom Pettit (Let Your Hair Down).

‍
‍
Recorded live in the Dune Castle Throne Room by Henry Jenkins, the songs evoke a cinematic intensity, capturing a charged stillness between action and resolve.
‍

‍
"King’s Knight" sets its intention early, with intertwined acoustic guitars and vibraphone establishing a calm but expectant foundation. As the piece unfolds, drums enter with a deliberate, weighty pulse, before bass and piano gradually widen the frame. The track moves patiently between restraint and release, favouring subtle rhythmic shifts and textural development over overt melodic statement.
“Live By The Blade” develops the foundation established in King’s Knight, leaning further into melodic repetition and gradual transformation. The pacing remains unhurried but exploratory, with the two acoustic guitars holding a steady, interlocking pattern that creates space for piano and vibraphone to move freely. As the track unfolds, bass and drums settle into a pulsing rhythmic backbone, grounding the piece while subtle harmonic shifts continue overhead. The closing passage introduces a more urgent energy, with the guitars increasing in intensity and momentum, pushing the composition toward a darker, more animated resolve.

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Stuckey says "Patrick and I had long wanted to write music together. We're both guitarists, sowriting for two guitars was central. We discussed Axelrod's Pride, which uses acoustic guitar alongside dramatic rhythm section arrangements in a really cool way. We wanted to reinterpret those sensibilities in our own voice”.

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