The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) has released the first batch of ARIA Award nominations for 2015, which sees acts like Tame Impala, Courtney Barnett and Hermitude receiving early nods.
The Fine Arts and Artisans Award categories have been finalised, which has seen Tame Impala frontman Kevin Park nominated for both Engineer and Producer of the Year Awards for his work on his bands latest release ‘Currents’. Also nominated for Producer of the Year are Hermitude’s Luke Dubber and Angus Stuart who have earned nods for work on their album ‘Dark Night Sweet Night’.
In the Best Cover Art category, singer/songwriter Courtney Barnett has been recognised for the artwork on her debut album ‘Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit’, which she drew herself.
In something of a surprise, rockers King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have earned an ARIA nomination in the Best Jazz Album category for their four track album ‘Quarters!’, which was recorded on an off day at Daptone Studios in Brooklyn in early last November and released in May.
Other early 2015 ARIA nominations have gone to engineers, producers and artists who worked on albums by Daniel Johns, Gang Of Youths, The Waifs and Flight Facilities.
The 2015 ARIA Fine Arts and Artisan Award winners will be announced at the ARIA Awards Nomination Event on Wednesday, 7 October before the 2015 ARIA Awards on Thursday, 26 November. Nominations for the other ARIA categories are yet to be announced.
2015 ARIA Awards – Artisan Award Nominations
Engineer of the Year
Virginia Read for Australian Brandenburg Orchestra – Brandenburg Celebrates (ABC Classics / Universal Music Australia)
Adrian Breakspear and Peter Holz for Gang of Youths – Radioface (Verge / Sony Music Entertainment Australia)
Mitch Kenny for Hermitude – Dark Night Sweet Light (Elefant Traks / Inertia Music)
Kevin Parker for Tame Impala – Currents (Modular / Universal Music Australia)
Nick Didia for The Waifs – Beautiful You (Jarrah Records / MGM)
Producer Of The Year
Damn Moroda for Daniel Johns – Talk (Eleven / EMI)
Luke Dubber and Angus Stuart for Hermitude – Dark Night Sweet Light (Elefant Traks / Inertia Music)
Garth Porter for Lee Kernaghan – Spirit Of The Anzacs (ABC Music / Universal Music Australia)
Kevin Parker for Tame Impala – Currents (Modular / Universal Music Australia)
Nick Didia for The Waifs – Beautiful You (Jarrah Records / MGM)
Best Cover Art
Courtney Barnett for Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit (Milk! Records / Remote Control)
Daniel Johns, Aref and Peter Salmon-Lomas for Daniel Johns – Talk (Eleven / EMI)
Timothy Lovett for Flight Facilities – Down To Earth (Future Classic)
Bjenny Montero for Pond – Man It Feels Like Space Again (EMI)
Nathan Johnson for Gang of Youths – The Positions (Verge / Sony Music Entertainment Australia)
2015 ARIA Awards – Fine Arts Award Nominations
Best Classical Album
Amy Dickson – Island Songs (ABC Classics / Universal Music Australia)
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra – Brandenburg Celebrates (ABC Classics / Universal Music Australia)
Grigoryan Brothers – This Time (Which Way Music)
Sally Whitwell – I Was Flying (ABC Classics / Universal Music Australia)
Tamara-Anna Cislowska – Peter Sculthorpe: Complete Works for Solo Piano (ABC Classics / Universal Music Australia)
Best Jazz Album
Allan Browne Quintet – Ithaca Bound (Jazzhead / MGM Distribution)
Barney McAll – Mooroolbark (ABC Jazz / Universal Music Australia)
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Quarters! (Flightless / Remote Control)
Paul Grabowsky – Solo (ABC Jazz / Universal Music Australia)
Sarah McKenzie – We Could Be Lovers (ABC Music / Universal Music Australia)
Best Original Soundtrack / Cast / Show Album
Ed Kuepper – Last Cab To Darwin – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Sony Music Entertainment Australia)
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra / Nigel Westlake – Paper Planes – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (ABC Music / Universal Music Australia)
Opera Australia – Bliss (Brett Dean / Amanda Holden / Peter Carey) (ABC Classics / Universal Music Australia)
Various Artists – Beat The Drum – Celebrating 40 Years of triple j (ABC Music / Universal Music Australia)
Various Artists – The Water Diviner – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Universal Music Australia)
Best World Music Album
Baby et Lulu – Album Deux (Independent / MGM)
Christine Anu – Island Christmas (Social Family Records / Universal Music Australia / The Orchard)
Genevieve Lacey / James Crabb – Heard This and Thought of You (ABC Classics / Universal Music Australia)
Joseph Tawadros-Truth Seekers, Lovers and Warriors (ABC Music / Universal Music Australia)
Gurrumul – The Gospel Album (Skinnyfish Music / MGM)
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