*You can support as with a tax-deductible donation (over $2) via our friends at our auspicing charity, The Bowerbird Collective, by going to https://bowerbirdcollective.org/support/.  If you choose to support us via a donation to The Bowerbird Collective (a DGR1 charity listed with the ACNC), please email [email protected] to confirm the amount of your donation and your intention for those funds to support Where Water Meets. You will receive a tax receipt from The Bowerbird Collective and money be put into the Pozible campaign*

Where Water Meets is Tasmanian chamber folk duo Yyan Ng and Emily Sheppard. We've been making and playing music together in caves, treehouses and mountaintops for almost a decade.  

It's been 5 years since we released our debut album through pozible, cancelled our national tour and streamed live to people listening in from all over the world in their living rooms at the start of the pandemic. We've since performed on big festival stages, in cosy living rooms, on boats and at an Eel festival tent next to Lake Bolac in regional Australia. 

We write our music slowly, lovingly and most importantly collaboratively in moments savoured between long drives, greenrooms, and back and forth in facebook messages. We play our emerging works to audiences and refine them for months or years before recording them at the studio.  

In this way, we have been recording on and off in a beautiful old church by the river in Austin Ferry over past 5 years, deepening our relationship with Al Future (our sound engineer that did all production on our first album). We feel we have built on the soundworld we created and pushed the boundaries of acoustic songwriting and playing further on this album. 

Our second album features more unconventional tunings and harmonies (both on guitar and violin), constantly changing time signatures and wonky grooves, telling a story of what it means to us to be living amongst Lutruwita/Tasmania's wild places.  

We're going much bigger with this album! There’s a double viola string quintet, a banjo string sextet, solos on eel instruments and percussion from Réunion Island. Joining us we have our talented friends from Van Diemen’s Fiddles (Julia Fredersdorff and Rachel Meyers), the Bowerbird Collective (Anthony Albrecht and Simone Slattery), double bass player Isaac Gee, cellist Georgia Shine, Emily-Rose on Piano, Joe Hilel on banjo, and our favourite viral violist Katie Yap. 

We’re coming into the final stages of recording, mixing and mastering and we need your help to pay all of our wonderful artists and get the album out in the world! Pre-order an album, or sign-up for one of our other rewards.

You can support as with a tax-deductible donation (over $2) via our friends at our auspicing charity, The Bowerbird Collective, by going to https://bowerbirdcollective.org/support/.  If you choose to support us via a donation to The Bowerbird Collective (a DGR1 charity listed with the ACNC), please email [email protected] to confirm the amount of your donation and your intention for those funds to support Where Water Meets. You will receive a tax receipt from The Bowerbird Collective.

It will then be put in as a Pozible campaign pledge.

What you are supporting:

Special guest artist fees: $2,800

Recording/mixing/mastering fees for Al Future: $10,000

Album printing: $1200

Album design + photography: $1000

Emily and Yyan's composition, arrangement, studio fees: In-kind