Mark Halliwell

MARK HALLIWELL is a talented guitarist from Warrnambool has produced a number of solo CDs and has played in several bands including the Chosen Few, jazz nights at the Hotel Warrnambool and more recently with Kayla Dwyer. In 2012  he put together a  prog rock studio-based project called Illuuminus which was two years in the making. An earlier solo album was called Trips of the trade which included such tracks as the Smoke song and Maranoia.

WARRNAMBOOL musicians Heidi Gass and Mark Halliwell departed from the usual EP or album approach with their 2017 recording project and decided to release a single every three months or so. MARK  is a talented guitarist from Warrnambool has produced a number of solo CDs and has played in several bands including the Chosen Few, jazz nights at the Hotel Warrnambool and with Kayla Dwyer. In 2012  he put together a  prog rock studio-based project called Illuuminus which was two years in the making. Heidi is a local musician and music teacher. The two have collaborated regularly over the past 12 years but it has usually been as guests on each other’s projects. This new recording project was about being equal partners on each song.

Warrnambool Standard July 21st 2011: THE latest project from progrock guitarist Mark Halliwell is taking shape in the US. The Warrnambool musician — whose projects have included Aural Sculpture and The Chosen Few, as well as solo albums — has put together a studio-based project called Illuuminus. Halliwell has been recording the Illuuminus album over the past two years, with drums recorded in Melbourne and the rest of the record put together in his own studio Zala Music Studio in Warrnambool. Now the recordings are in the hands of American mixer Ron Saint Germain, who has begun mixing the 15-track album. Saint Germain mixed such classic ’90s albums as Soundgarden’s Badmotorfinger, Tool’s Undertow and Sonic Youth’s Goo. Halliwell said the album will also be mastered in the US. The guitarist is hoping to bring the recording project out of the studio and onto the live stage once the album is completed. The album features south-west musicians Steven Garner (vocals), Darren Ely (guitars) and Heidi Gass (keys/vocals) as well as Melbourne dummer Daniel Luttick.