It’s been 12 years since the Australian instrumental trio’s last album. Since then, their violinist has become Cave’s right-hand man and set up a home for abused monkeys. Now they’re back with a feverishly beautiful new album
‘Cynicism doesn’t get you anywhere’: Warren Ellis on Dirty Three’s return, Nick Cave – and opening a primate sanctuaryou might think that the primary factor needed to make a band work is, you know, actually being able to get together to make music. Not for Dirty Three. It is 12 years since the Australian instrumental trio last released an album, 2012’s Toward the Low Sun, but it isn’t for lack of trying that their reunion has taken so long.
But working on other projects “loosened us up”, says Ellis, and gave them fresh energy for some Australian shows in 2019. The pandemic interrupted a brief stint in the studio. Other bands might have given up, especially given that Dirty Three now looked more like moonlighting than their now-dominant side projects, but, says Ellis, “when we come together, there’s nothing like it. It’s so concentrated. It’s a very different thing to the Bad Seeds.
It’s there, too, when Ellis talks about the death of his father in December, at the age of 90. He had facial cancer. “The greatest gift my father gave me was he fired our imaginations as kids,” says Ellis, who grew up with two brothers in Ballarat, near Melbourne. “He had a love of literature and the arts and music, and he never taught us how to kick a football, but the stuff that was important to him he wanted to transmit back to us.
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