CODA CHROMA
SUPPORTING AUGIE MARCH THIS AUGUST
Coda Chroma (aka Kate Lucas) is an award-winning songwriter from Ballarat, Victoria, and is described as “one of the most innovative and noteworthy musicians in Australia.” (Tone Deaf, 2021). Coda Chroma creates music that sways between cinematic folk and baroque pop, with otherworldly harmonies, honest and existential lyrics, suspended in deeply nuanced production.
Coda Chroma released her third album Dreamself in 2023, which features a collection of songs celebrating the liminal space between awake and asleep, where stories unfold through abstraction. Nominated for the 2023 Australian Music Prize, Dreamself also landed album of the week on broadcasters such as PBS, 2SER, Australian Independent Record Labels Association (AIR), featured in Bandcamp’s “New and Notable” and in the AMRAP Regional charts, received plays on KCRW, and tracks were featured on Channel 10’s The Project television show. In the second half of 2023 Coda Chroma toured Dreamself nationally, supported Augie March, and The Whitlams, performed at the Winter Sounds Festival with Mo’Ju, and was also nominated for Best Regional Act in the 2023 Music Victoria Awards.
“Coda Chroma’s sublime third studio album, Dreamself, is an interrogation of self, set in an existentialist dreamscape, articulated so beautifully with evolved songwriting from Kate Lucas and immersive sound production by Damien Charles” – Firas Massouh, Tone Deaf Magazine 2023 (full article)
The opening track and single “I’m Not Fighting It” is described by Maine FM presenter Glenn Williams as “A beautiful image, a mystery bound in neon, breaking free with new learning. The song a touch of late 60s psychedelic soundtracks. “I’m not fighting it” swirls like a liquid kaleidoscope. Mesmerised by dream states and waking, crossing over, blending to give our hero the power to solve the mystery. The mystery of story telling. There’s no mystery when it comes to Coda Chroma, one of our leading artists who constantly breaks through with fresh and fascinating songs. Don’t fight it, listen to it, this isn’t a defeated voice with looking at
your shoes lyrics, this is the power of realisation, the resting brain being given the opportunity to seek meaning. ”
In 2017 Coda Chroma invited us into her kaleidoscopic world with the release of her debut self titled album, which featured heavily on Double J and attracted a Music Victoria Awards nomination for Best Regional act. An instant underground classic full of well crafted but deceptively deep songs that shimmer with flecks of gold and grit. By turns woozy and confessional, dark and empathic, the musical terrain is vast.
After a string of national and international shows, Coda Chroma released her second album Inside The Still Life in 2019.
The album’s pop sensibility only partially disguises a more intense, brooding, and cheekily existential underbelly, Teaming up once again with producer Damien Charles to pull this beautifully diverse set of songs together and create a metaphysical listening experience. Damien earned a Music Victoria “Best Producer” award nomination for his work on Inside the Still Life.
“If Coda Chroma’s second studio album Inside The Still Life was a book, then it would no doubt be one of the most irresistible page-turners that you’ve ever had your hands on. There is such captivating songwriting on the album, it was seriously difficult for me to ever start listening to it without going all the way through to the end.” – Firas Massouh, Tone Deaf review (2021)
Coda Chroma will support Augie March in the spectacular Be_Hear/Now. Featured event, Saturday 10th August, at the Civic Hall Ballarat.
