Tunes from the Open Road

Recording trouble is not a new thing by any means. Things get in the way. For Koral Chandler, the much-loved Adelaide singer-songwriter who fronts Koral & the Goodbye Horses, it was a hit to her vocal chords. Upon further inspection, the doc found something nasty in her sinuses that required surgery. What followed was an intensive recovery and rehabilitation process.
Things are looking peachier these days, however. She has learnt to sing in a less damaging way, and along with her fellow music-makers she has released the six-track EP, Nocturnes. The album marks the first under Koral’s name and comes after years of toiling away in various bands. From the band: “Nocturnes is the soundtrack to long nights spent on the open road, travelling heavy with heartbreak as you leave everything behind … It’s the hypnotic sound of wheels on bitumen that dulls the nightmare and the beautiful bleak landscape which waits at every turn. It’s raw pain tempered by the lure of the horizon with its pale, distant promise of new beginnings.” Furthermore, it is an album that owes itself to the wide-ranging albums that have shaped her – from the chance gift of Jeff Buckley’s Grace, to her big brother’s stolen copy of Pantera’s Vulgar Display of Power. The Eastern, Ballarat – September 26.