RATJA YALIYALI (CAAMA Music) 8/10 We Johnny-come-lately settlers seem to have built a wall around indigenous culture, not to protect it, but to isolate it. We can squat here for a lifetime, flitting overseas for “culture hits” and never engaging with what is in our backyards, let alone beginning to…
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The 3 Out: MOVE (Be! Jazz/Birdland) 8.5/10 Judy Bailey: YOU & THE NIGHT & THE MUSIC (B. Free/Birdland) 8/10 The Charlie Munro Quartet: EASTERN HORIZONS (B. Free/Birdland) 9.5/10 The venue still exists. It lurks just around the corner from the up-ramp to Kings Cross. You creep down steep stairs into…
UNSEEN SCENES (Studio Songs) 7.5/10 Respective Scene has the bass and drums initially lurching in off-kilter lockstep through a light mist of electronics. But as first the piano and then the tenor saxophone join the lockstep unravels and engrossing exchanges build over the simple root material. It is among the…