DANGEROUS SONG BLUE (https://dangeroussong.bandcamp.com/) 8/10 This is different. Usually to be heard playing wind instruments of his own devising, here Linsey Pollak plays the sounds of endangered or extinct aquatic creatures via a digital wind instrument, the sampled sounds now controlled via his breath, lips and fingering. He uses looping…
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SPINNING FORTH (Move) 8.5/10 Only two pieces on this enthralling album are genuinely “baroque”, but the Marais Project’s central instrument, Jennifer Eriksson’s viola da gamba, is a machine for imbuing all it touches with that stately grace of the music of 300 years ago. Sumptuously recorded, its bass notes are…
POST MATINEE (Liosharecords) 7.5/10 Like revenge, art is sometimes a dish best served, if not cold, then certainly well stewed. Guitarist John Scurry, long a force in Australian mainstream jazz (and painting!), has waited a mere five decades to make his debut album as leader. The upshot is 17 original…