Strap in, Andrew Fraser, the multi-instrumentalist and producer behind cosmic solo project Bodalla, is set to release a wild, soul-searching double album that promises to launch you straight into a technicolour vortex.
Titled Teleportation Music and Acoustic B-sides & Jams, the twin releases are an expansive deep-dive into neo-psychedelic rock, surf-soaked grooves, raw acoustic textures, and jazz-infused experimentalism. Think ‘60s and ‘70s trippiness filtered through the lens of a bedroom producer on a mission to explore the psyche, and you’re halfway there.
Bodalla double album
- Release date: 3 June
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“Teleportation Music is a fucking trip,” Fraser says. “I know I’ve made something obscure, yet throughout it bends to points of relative normality, where people will resonate comfortably. Then the next bend will spin them into another merry-go-round of colours.”
Written, recorded, and produced over the last three years in bedrooms across Coorabell, Fitzroy, and Brunswick Heads, the project is a sprawling and personal voyage. While Teleportation Music is the sonic adventure, its companion album Acoustic B-sides & Jams offers a rawer, stripped-back counterpoint, a lo-fi introspective diary that Fraser says was just as important to make.
“It’s raw and consists of remedies to the war of the mind. The vulnerability of the jam section scares the fuck out of me, and hence is vital to share.”
This isn’t just music you listen to, it’s music you feel, travel with, and maybe even get a little lost in. From swirling soundscapes to intimate acoustic moments, both albums are portals, according to Fraser, “to the deepest part of your own world.”
Whether you’re in it for the mind-melting riffs, the surfy jazz grooves, or the gentle unravelling of the b-sides, Bodalla’s double album is a full-spectrum trip worth taking.
