SHIFTING SANDS (ABC) 8/10 The music’s flamenco core never wavers. Damian Wright’s glorious guitar playing is the spine, if you will, while his compositions allow other instruments to sing their own songs, like willowy limbs able to dance independently because of the spine’s solidity. Wright’s compositions could have been presented…
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SLIP SLIDING (FMR) 8/10 You can keep distilling your art to an essence, or you can expand it towards the vanishing point of infinity. High-calibre, late-career work may result either way. Rob Burke is the latter camp, and his recent output is both more gripping and more satisfying than his…
DARK ENERGY (FMR) 8/10 To an astrophysicist it’s our universe’s little-understood but dominant energy form, to a fantasist it’s black magic, and to others it might mean a maniac in the White House. Regardless of which sense of “dark energy” trumpeter Paul Williamson intended, his title track certainly pulses with…