Bio
Forming in 2019, Cloud Sequence is Saar Amptmeijer from Utrecht the Netherlands, and Jez Conlon from Adelaide South Australia, whom both stay and work in Mpartnwe/Central Desert region in the Northern Territory. Both artists hail to music from a fine arts background, which is prominent in their artistic choices and preferences. Cloud Sequence is experimental, electronic pop, often imbued with textural field recordings. Their music is inspired and created on the vast desert lands of the Arrernte peoples whose sovereignty was never ceded .

Strange Whispers, Of WaterAnd Exit.
EP

"This record started as a collection of living room jams, field recordings from desert ruins and European lowlands, snippets from the live Cloud Sequence video, words and melodies written over different weeks, months, and years, all to melt together in a whisper. Strange Whispers Of Water And Exit has a desire to shape-shift whilst remaining one. A fluid form of solid sound built with synthesisers and song as electronic, experimental pop."

Heimwee/Verwee Single

“We were in an isolated period in June 2020. In Central Australia we watched the world from a distance. We live on an island, on an island, here,” they say about the making of Heimwee/Verwee.“Heimwee is often associated with homesickness”, they explain about the track’s Dutch-language title. “Verwee is a longing for travel and distant unknown places”.

“It’s a title of longing and total opposites - a longing for home and for adventure,” something sure to resonate with a world now facing isolation and restricted movement, for the foreseeable future.

Cycling through a series of languid movements, the result is a superbly moving, cavernous musical lament – a sonic ‘depth charge’ that spaciously ignites our innermost vulnerabilities around place, belonging and loss. It drones, it throbs. Dissolves. It is the sound of human frailty.

Heimwee/Verwee is a lush, moody internal conversation between two thoughtful performers who understand the interdependency between nature and humanity. Likewise, it explores the tenuous, illusory hold we have over certainty and the external world. In the blink of an eye eveything can vanish.

Words by Megan Spencer
https://themeganspencer.com/2020/08/cloud-sequence/

Rpt. Esc. EP

All songs on the Rpt. Esc. EP are born from long lasting live improvisations.
Inspired by a field recording, a synth bass, vast desert landscapes, sensitive queer politics, bilingual poetry and all other things.
Thereafter carefully layed-out and puzzled. Edited and Deleted.
Repeat. Escape. Tumbling in an endless process, snapshots taken and released as these 5 tracks.
Melancholic, dreamy, moody, electronic. Imaginative? Experimental

Released January 17, 2020

This music is inspired and created on the land of the Arrernte peoples. Who's sovereignty was never ceded.

Dedicated to the most fantastic Deedee Champagne and Duwartje, who both started and inspired this release from beginning to end.

Recorded, mixed and produced by Saar Amptmeijer and Jeremy Conlon at Left Of Elephant Sound Studio in Mparntwe (Alice Springs) Central Australia.

Tussen mens en meermin (Live home concert)

This is Cloud Sequence's debut Live Home Concert Film: 'Tussen mens en meermin (somewhere between human and mermaid)'

Filmed and recorded in the Cloud Sequence backyard in Mparntwe/Alice Springs in collaboration with Drip Focus Films.The film shows a Live musical performance of the electronic musical duo Cloud Sequence, and travels within the digital and live realm to create an atmosphere and mood where immateriality and materiality meet.

The imagery is inspired by Renee Magritte’s painting ‘the collective invention’. The work depicts a surreal creature, a reversed mermaid, that represents his mother that has drowned herself when he was a child. His reality becomes a surreal display for the viewer. The work is representative for loss and confusion. Is reality imitating surreality, or is does surrealism imitates reality? A concept and experience that is kneaded with in the music and images of the film. Somewhere between grieve and acceptance, somewhere between human and mermaid.

Concept, music and co direction by Cloud Sequence - Saar Amptmeijer and Jez Conlon.
Directed, edited and video production - Stuart Liddell
Animations, graphics, live VJ - Effy Marie Smith
Live recording and Mastering - Dave Crowe
Camera operator A - Steve Pearce Camera operator B - Will Thomson Video producer - Stuart Liddell
Nature photography - Steve Pearce Additional photography -
Will Thomson
Robotics Camera and light - Ben Pridmore and Ben Erin

Tracklist: 1. Roest
2. DnA
3. Poetic interlude/Star Stretched
4. Nasmaak

This film and music has been recorded, created and filmed on Arrernte land. Cloud Sequence and all collaborators acknowledge the Arrernte peoples and their elder past, present and emerging as the traditional owners of this land. Always was, always will be.