ON-LY

On-Ly is the solo and collaborative moniker of pianist and producer Joshua Smeltink. Spanning genres, On-Ly’s house and hip-hop history is ever-present and imbued with the hard-hitting post-bop jazz-rock of the 60’s / 70’s, harking back to bands such as Weather Report and Miles Davis Group (70s).

WONDERLUST

  • All tracks composed and arranged by Joshua Smeltink.

    On-Ly (Joshua Smeltink) - Fender Rhodes (track 6), Bechstein Model-A 1912, Keys, Synthesiser, Trumpet.

    Daniel Waddingham - Electric Guitar.

    Ash de Neef - Electric Bass.

    Phil Stroud - Congas/Percussion.

    Bryce Zelno - Drums.

    Engineer: Joshua Smeltink.

    Co-Engineer: Phil Stroud.

    Produced by Joshua Smeltink.

    Mixed by Joshua Smeltink.

    Recorded at Casa Del Canning over two dates in April and November 2022 in Melbourne, Australia.

    Cover Art: Adam Parata.

    Album Design: Luke Ebert.

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YURODIVY

  • “The provenant concept of Yurodivy is: through madness, one paints the madness of the world. Russia became the looking-glass for lessons not for the historical content but for how that content was preserved - against all odds - by citizens; vanguards of history immersed in-madness creating art both as reprieve and as dissenting corroboration of a repressed citizen. Shostakovich's stories - his music - resonate with folks in a certain way; folks of this time and folks of that time. Anna Ahkmatova, Vladimir Mayakovsky and Nikolai Gogol - their words create a shroud for which to protect oneself. Our ancestors of Earth have things they can teach us about that time - our time.

    The intellectualism and cryptology of Russian musical and artistic expression is an endless journey into some of our planet's greatest minds and Yurodivy is about honouring them, their memories and their struggles but most of all their unbelievable zeal in preserving their expression in parallel with their experience at a time when heresy toward their conditions of fascism - to tell the truth - meant death”.

  • All tracks recorded, produced and mixed by On-Ly at his various home studios from February 2018 to September 2020. KORG Mono/Poly and Roland Space Echo access courtesy of Carl Lindeburg at Itchy Groovy Studios.

    On-Ly (Joshua Smeltink): Yamaha DX7, Roland RD300SX, KORG Mono/Poly, Roland Space Echo, Elektron Analog Heat, Drums, Djembe, Percussion.

    Carl Lindeberg: SH-101 on Yurodstvo

    Cover Art & Lettering: Reg Mombassa

    Design: Luke Ebert

    Track listing:

    1. Complicit

    2. Yurodstvo

    3. A State Of Suffering

    4. Czar Scars

    5. Narodnik

    6. Visceral

    7. (Not) Knowing

    8. Nose

    9. Dostojanstvo

    10. MORYTY

    11. Bureaucratic Collectivism

    12. Deviation

    13. Meditation

    Released July 2nd, 2021.

BROTH

  • On-Ly (Joshua Smeltink): DX7, Roland RD300SX, Drums, Various Percussion, Trumpet.

    ANDREW STASIAK: Drums, Various Percussion on Track 3.

    SAM INGLES: Drums, Various Percussion on Track 6.

    Mastered: JACK PREST

    Produced & Mixed: On-Ly

    Artwork: ADAM KINNINMONT

    Track listing:

    1. Noku

    2. What’s The Weather?

    3. Cante Hondo

    4. Smo’

    5. Action

    6. Around Here

    7. Corner House

    8. Fungtronics

    9. Get It

    10. Interspace Lude

    11. Double Edge

    Released March 6th, 2020.