(Independent)

Mr Prolific’s minimal journey endures the test of time

If the average human being had even the most rudimentary ability to play guitar and write whimsical poetry like Benedict Moleta, photo albums would probably be of little use. Thankfully, we are vain as a human species and can’t play much good music off the bat. This makes Moleta a very unique kind of guy, a photographer of Perth suburbia, and ultimately an important contributor to the Western Australian music scene as he continues to involve other musicians with his work. He even runs his own homebaked songwriters’ club. Sure, his style doesn’t vary much – his softly spoken nuances are just like Belle & Sebastian’s Stuart Murdoch’s (minus the whole Scottish thing), and his thought-stream prose could easily by a by-product of the same cloud of joint smoke that birthed Joanna Newson’s Sawdust And Diamonds. I guess what I’m really trying to say is, will somebody nominate this guy Australian of the Year already?

ALICE REZENDE

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