Tony Dupé
is a producer/engineer, arranger, composer and multi instrumentalist. He has produced around 100 albums for Australian and overseas artists, including Holly Throsby, Sui Zhen, Jack Ladder, Grand Salvo, Melodie Nelson, and Sophie Hutchings. He has also released two albums of his own music under the name Saddleback on local label Preservation. You can read our review of Night Maps here.

Claire Deak
is a multi-instrumentalist and composer predominantly working in screen composition where she has scored animation, documentary, and television, including the 2017 series Other Peoples Problems and The Casting Game. She has also guested on albums by The Bon Scott’s, Lucy Roleff and Shanyio, playing everything from mandolin to organ.

Working from their base in Melbourne, their new album The Old Capital is released on impressive US label Lost Tribe Sound (William Ryan Fritch). It’s a gorgeous considered work of quiet contemplation and stillness where the two come together and really sound as one. It really is something special. We took the opportunity to ask both artists about some of the music that moves them.