I live with deep gratitude on Dja Dja Wurrung country.
I acknowledge and pay my respects to the Djaara people and recognise that this land - which I benefit from occupying - was stolen and sovereignty was never ceded. I pay respects to Elders past and present, and recognise the continuing connection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to land, waters and culture across Australia.
Singer, songwriter, composer and artist Jodi Phillis first made her mark on the Australian cultural landscape with alt-rock band The Clouds. Jodi’s striking commitment to broadening her own practice through varying musical styles, both in her own projects and in her stage and screen compositions makes her a formidable ‘music chameleon’.
In 2023 Jodi won Best original Song for the screen at the APRA Screen Music Awards with co-writer Damien Lane.
Having first picked up a paintbrush during the pandemic. Jodi has had two solo exhibitions of watercolour paintings at Van Yello in the Illawarra in 2021 and Damien Minton Presents in 2023.
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“Phillis is one of Australia’s vital singer songwriters”
- Brian Parker, Your Music Radar (2018)
“Phillis writes with such authority that we go with her vision wherever it may lead.”
- John Hardaker, Orange Press (2010)
“Phillis is an underrated national treasure”
- Kelsey Munro, Rolling Stone (2001)
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“Jodi’s latest solo album, We Need to Be Free. The songs are moody and magnificent, full of slow- burn existential drama that
are pitched closer to ‘Wichita Lineman’ than ‘Soul Eater’. This is best exemplified by ‘It’s Not Love’ (‘It’s not love that you live, it’s not life that you give’), ‘You Are Loved’, and the vivid ‘Silver Stars’, which reels through childhood memories like the opening to an Alice Pung novel. ‘Every time I see the rain fall on the front lawn in the afternoon,’ Jodi sings. ‘It reminds me of
the time my sister and I sat on the windowsill, with our legs hanging out, after the rain fell, and the sun came out, the sky was yellow, the air was earthy, and the grass was sparkling.’
It’s taut and tense and feels like danger in slow-motion.” Rhythms Magazine Review by Christopher Hollow, 2022
Image by Jo Forster
For the past 20 years Jodi has been composing for the screen and stage and has a Graduate certificate in Screen Music from The Australian Film Television and Radio School in Sydney.
Jodi won Best Original Song For the Screen at the 2023 APRA Screen Music Awards for ‘Rollercoaster’ written for the ABC’s ‘Soundtrack To Our Teenage Zombie Apocalypse’ with co-writer Damien Lane.
In 2021 Jodi won Best Original Song at the London Movie Awards for ‘Everything’s Gonna Be Fine’ from Whirld.
Please visit https://s.disco.ac/qynsdfrcjmuc to hear selected works from recent screen productions and albums, or browse below for a wide selection of work over the years.
Jodi is published by Lilli Pilli
For all enquiries please email jodiphillismusic@gmail.com
Jodi collaborated with Damien Lane to compose songs and underscore for the ABC Me series ‘Soundtrack to Our Teenage Zombie Apocolypse’ which first aired in August 2022. Jodi and Damien won Best Original Song For the Screen for ‘Rollercoaster’ at the 2023 APRA Screen Music Awards.
Jodi is the composer on a new web series dramedy called Whirld! The first episode has picked up a bunch of awards and the rest are still in production! ‘Everything’s Gonna Be Fine’ won Best Original Song at The London Movie Awards, September 2021. This is a proof of concept series, by 2Kats Productions with a view to take it to the next level. Watch the episodes as they are released here.
Melodie Music welcomes Jodi into their roster of composers. Click HERE to listen to Jodi’s library of ‘sunny nu-folk’ ‘indie-pop’ and ‘dream wave’ tracks.
Encounter – A Form Dance Projects, muti-disciplinary, site specific dance and orchestral performance. Original score by Jodi Phillis and Amanda Brown and performed by the Western Sydney Youth Orchestra. Directed and choreographed by Emma Saunders with text by writer Felicity Castagna. Encounter premiered at Sydney Festival in January 2020 and will travel to other territories throughout 2020 and beyond.
Seven Stories was spear headed by Jodi in collaboration with Ensemble Offspring and 6 other prominent Australian composers, including Amanda Brown, Caitlin Yeo, Bree van Reyk and Sally Whitwell. It debuted at City Recital Hall through Vivid in 2017. Check out Jodi's composition, Overcoming the Darkness.
Merrigong Theatre in Wollongong have chosen music from Jodi's album In Dreams I Live to promote their exciting 2017 line-up. You can view it here.
Mambo Documentary - Jodi and Tim Oxley collaborated to compose music for Art Irritates Life, the documentary about iconic Sydney based surf wear company, Mambo Graphics. The show went to air on ABC in November 2016 and was directed and produced by Paul Clarke at Bombora. You can watch it on Iview here.
Roger Loves Betty's song 'Forever' will be featured in the Wildbear Entertainment mini-series, 'Changed Forever'. It features David Field and Colin Friels and goes to air on Foxtel in November 2016.
Convict - Jodi composed the score for the feature film, starring George Basha, Richard Green and David Field, released in 2014.
Screenwise TVC - Jodi composed music for the tvc, produced by Mic Gruchy in March 2012.
AGLactew - Jodi composed music for an AGL Energy tvc in the ACT in October 2011.
Toybox - Jodi and Tim Oxley composed the theme song and five songs of the week for the channel 7 children's show, first aired in September 2010, produced by Beyond.
Winners and Losers - Jodi has had songs placed in the Channel 7 TV series, in 2012 and 2013.
New McDonald's Farm - Jodi and Tim Oxley wrote twenty two songs for all three series of the channel 9 children's show, produced by Beyond in 2004-2007.
St George Bank jingle in 2008.
Bill Grainger's Travelling Cooking Show - Jodi composed five pieces of music for the series in 2008.
Just Being Eve - Jodi composed the theme song and underscore for the teen animated pilot, produced by SLR in 2008.
Love is a Four Letter Word - A 2001 ABC production featuring Jodi as a live artist, performing Waiting, Wanting, Holding on the show.
The Combination - Tim Oxley and Jodi were the music supervisors. Tim was the music producer for the 2008 feature film, directed by David Field.
Rockwiz - Jodi was a featured guest on Australia's favourite music trivia show in 2004, SBS.
Garage Days - Jodi's song ‘For the First Time’ (In Dreams I Live) was in the Australian film Garage Days.
Black Rock - Jodi's song, Ghost of Love Returned (The Clouds) featured in the Australian film, Blackrock.
Stepfather of the Bride - Jodi and Trish Young's song, Beyond the Clouds (The Girls From the Clouds) was in the ABC tele-movie, Stepfather of the Bride, starring Garry McDonald.
Bossanova, The Sound That Seduced the World - Jodi composed underscore for the ABC documentary, produced by Greg Appel in 2005.
Lockie Leonard - Roger Loves Betty's Polkadots of Purpletown is featured in episode 4 of the second series, written by Tim Winton.
Taking up painting later in life, Jodi has had two solo exhibitions of watercolour paintings in the last three years. Most recently, ‘Shabby, Faded, Drab and Outdated’, a suite of nostalgic, kitsch and vintage interiors, hosted by Damien Minton at Sydney’s Sheffer Gallery. Here’s a link to the show
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