The Australian Producer Expands His Psychedelic Fusion World With Logan Kane In Tow
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Dan Webb’s
Dan Webb music thrives on instability: rhythms shift, textures accumulate, and familiar forms rarely remain intact for long. “Things Rise And Fall,” featuring Los Angeles bassist Logan Kane, brings that restlessness into unusually sharp focus, moving through jazz, rock, and electronic colour with a sense of constant recalibration. Beneath its intricate construction is something more intimate — the feeling of trying to understand change while still caught inside it.
That instinct has shaped Webb’s work since his emergence from Australia’s progressive rock and electro-jazz circles. Rather than treating those traditions as fixed categories, he uses them as points of departure, and Things Rise And Fall
pushes that approach toward a more cinematic scale. Kane’s elastic bass work gives the track a strong centre of gravity, while Clive Deamer’s drumming keeps the arrangement in motion. Stevie Blacke’s strings and Nate Werth’s percussion broaden the frame further, adding detail without crowding Webb’s underlying architecture.
The song’s movement also reflects the ideas behind it. Webb has been drawing on Taoist thought, particularly its attention to balance, impermanence, surrender, and return. Things Rise And Fall
carries those principles without turning them into an intellectual exercise. Its title becomes less a declaration than an observation: ascent and decline belong to the same cycle, and neither state lasts. The arrangement follows that logic, allowing tension to gather and dissolve without insisting on a neat resolution.
Things Rise And Fall
is the second single from Lion Dance, Webb’s forthcoming fifth album, out November 13. Written following his relocation from Melbourne to Singapore, the record draws on the disorientation and discovery of learning a new place while gradually becoming part of it. The single carries something of that perspective in its shifting textures — movement observed from within rather than at a safe distance.
For all the technical detail surrounding the track, Webb keeps its centre human. The music can be intricate without becoming clinical, leaving space for uncertainty, curiosity, and the quieter unease that accompanies reinvention. Fusion, in this context, is less a genre label than a practical language: a way of holding contrasting ideas together without forcing them to resolve.
Things Rise And Fall
captures Webb at a point where movement itself has become part of the subject. Change is not simply something happening around the music; it shapes the way the song thinks, expands, retreats, and begins again. Lion Dance grows from that same understanding, with Webb treating instability not as something to overcome, but as material to work with.
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