The Necks: Vertigo (Fish of Milk) Sandy Evans: Kapture (Rufus) Gary Daley: Sanctuary (garydaley.com.au) Allan Browne Quintet: Ithaca Bound (Jazzhead) We all remember doing it: falling for a song and buying the relevant album only to discover the rest of it was dross. Then along came the brave new world…
Category: Album Reviews
Lounge Suite Tango (Armchair) Despite the shared suffix can any two instruments be more dissimilar than the sousaphone and vibraphone? The former suggests some lumbering earth god and the latter is all flitting notes and air. That both happily cohabit in the Umbrellas says much about this little orchestra and…
Crème de la Crème (Silvox) This album may surprise the many admirers that Belgian singer Micheline Van Hautem has attracted across her numerous Australian tours. Best known as a superlative interpreter of Brel, Van Hautem here ranges across quite startlingly diverse material: try Wild Is The Wind and Moon River…