Spirits of the Dead Are Watching 8.5/10 At its most interactive and imaginative, spontaneously created music can be as organic as the wind in the trees or the roar of the waves. But to reach beyond the common self-consciousness of humans making “art” requires letting go of self, of ego…
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Zenith (Lamplight) 8/10 Some people hate pigeons, but in flight a flock can mesmerise with their abrupt turns, take-offs and landings, without ever banging wings. How clumsy we seem, by comparison. Well, not all. Saxophonists Sandy Evans and Andrew Robson, bassist Brett Hirst and drummer Hamish Stuart can curl and…
Ghosts between Streams (Earshift) 8.5/10 As the title might suggest, Tom Avgenicos’ Ghosts Between Streams suite is a dialogue. Most baldly, one side of that dialogue is an improvising quartet and the other a string quartet. More profoundly, one side constitutes a modern pastorale, evoking nature rather than rurality, and…