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Following his 2018 release Gardens, Melbourne based artist Spacecadet Lullabies (Matt Lewin) returns with a new album, The Map Maker. After the passing of Lewin’s father, the difficult process of sorting through his possessions uncovered a mysterious vintage portable reel to reel tape that was hidden in a black plastic bag in a laundry cupboard. On the tape were 28 compositions for voice and piano by his grandfather, an enigmatic man who had died before Lewin was born and whose music had never been heard. Like many artists in 2020, the global pandemic opened up a bitter sweet opportunity for Lewin to examine his musical identity and refocus his artistic output. In the face of losing his mother to cancer while being separated by Australian interstate border restrictions, he turned to conversing musically with his grandfather for solace. Lewin shares his thoughts on the process of creating the Map Maker: “The Map Maker was created entirely from slivers of recordings made by my