STUDIO AND LABEL
Restless Music is set in a charming old Queenslander on a 32 acre property, “Folkstone”, overlooking Storm King Dam in Queensland 's Granite Belt, home to internationally known Australian folksingers, PENNY DAVIES & ROGER ILOTT.
Now in its 30th year, Restless Music has recorded around 200 albums. The label is well-known for its Australian focus, featuring many Australian songwriters and poets, and is Australia 's 2nd largest folk music label.
Restless Music recordings such as PENNY DAVIES & ROGER ILOTT 's “When The Cooper's Coming Down”, “Where The Cane Fires Burn”, "Hey Rain!" , "Beside A Railway Line" , "The Monkeys Sing Soprano" , “Ridin' On The Fruit Train” and "Night Fire" , have appeared on the chart topping ABC "Australia All Over" series of albums. Their recordings of bush poets have won many major national awards, including the Australian Bush Laureate Album of the Year in 2011 ( Jack Drake – Australian Bush Classics ), 2009 ( Gary Fogarty – The Tartan Saddlecloth ), 2006 ( Carol Heuchan – A Pocketful of Poetry ), 2005 ( Ray Essery - The Mullumbimby Bloke On The Road ) and 2004 ( Milton Taylor & Carmel Dunn - Down Memory Lane) .
As a producer, ROGER ILOTT is renowned for his ability to create a clean, clear, and intimate sound. Roger is one of the most recorded musicians in Australian folk music, playing a variety of acoustic and electric guitars, as well as banjo, mandolin, pedal steel and keyboards.
Restless Music is a fully professional 8 track studio, utilising digital and analogue equipment to create the best sound in acoustic music. The studio houses a Mackie 1604–VLZ Pro 16 channel mixer, Tascam DA-38 DTRS digital 8 track recorder, Tascam CD-RW700 digital mastering unit and a Tascam 32 analogue 2 track recorder, plus dbx 163, Presonus Blue Max, and dbx 266XL compressors, DOD and Yamaha stereo reverbs, Effectron JR1050 Delay unit, and Tascam CD-160 CD player. Monitoring is through Yamaha HS80 powered monitors, and Sony, Sennheiser, Fostex, Roland and AKG headphones. Microphones include a RODE NT2 Condenser, a classic 1970's Shure SM7, Sennheiser MD421, Shure SM58's and AKG D1200.
Some of the artists we've recorded at Restless Music:
• Penny Davies & Roger Ilott, Gordon Bok & Carol Rohl (USA), Gary Shearston, John Broomhall, Dave de Hugard, The Fagan Family, John Dengate, Skewiff, Spangled Drongoes, Bill Scott, Lee Williams, Denis Kevans, Julie McGonigal, Margaret Walters, Wayne Gillespie, Harry Robertson, Vincent P. Brophy, Gill Rees, Alan Scott, Chris Kempster, Peter Kearney, Jill Stevens, Jim Gregory, Mark Davidson, Murrumbidgee Whalers, Phil Hungerford (Dr. Phil), Rusty Dusty Bros, Celtic Cowboys, John Warner, Sarah & David Hume (Beviaqua), Bob Townshend, Marissa Giannake, the Lingerers, 24 Kg Cod;
• & Bush poets : Jack Drake, Milton Taylor, Ray Essery, Gary Fogarty, Carol Heuchan, Melanie Hall & Susan Carcary, Marco Gliori, John Major, Carmel Randle, Keith Hollinshead, Carmel Dunn, Bernie Keleher.
Restless Music is a Publisher Member of Australasian Performing Rights Association (APRA) and Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners' Society (AMCOS). Penny and Roger are Full Writer Members of APRA, and members of AMCOS.
P.O. Box 438, Stanthorpe, Qld., 4380, Australia .
Phone (07) 46 837 184 International 617 46 837 184
email: restless_music@yahoo,.com.au