Jon Duncan is a singer-songwriter and poet from Sandy Bay, Tasmania.

Jon has put out five albums through Half A Cow, the most recent is Fledglings, which will be released on 12th August 2022.

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Interview with Jon (March 2021)

“Everything was impromptu. I like to just pick up an instrument sometimes and press record and see what happens. All these pieces happened this way. There is the odd bung note here and there but it definitely has a mood, a vibe and the rawness and the immediacy of playing and recording matters more to me than perfection. I hope that comes through in the soul of this music. Even my lyric songs I generally write and record straight up like this.” – Jon Duncan

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He began recording with a Tascam 4-track cassette machine in 1992 and ever thereafter lamented the demise of analogue, only to rejoice with the silent majority at the Lazarus-style vinyl resurgence.

He has played live around Tasmania for more than twenty years and released his first LP, Where Your Treasure Is, in 2001 and his first volume of poetry, Songs of Solitude, in 2014 – a wrecking-ball memoir of time spent in a psychiatric hospital.

Jon also writes and plays in two duos: Silence Is Autumn and Two Little Woodpeckers. Both of these bands have recorded LPs and are ongoing. Check them out on YouTube.

Spare, soulful, intimate, real and raw as it gets. Music to break your heart even as it puts you back together.