AIM (michaeljordandrums.com) 9/10 Michael Jordan has dug his own musical garden, and now the flowers are blooming. His conceptions as both composer and drummer are uniquely intertwined, his pieces exploring the melodic potential of a large kit of Roto-toms tuned to specific notes. But let’s put the rigour underpinning the…
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WHATEVER IT’S WORTH (Pacific Theatre Encore) 8/10 Here’s a one-album encapsulation of the explosive energy that charged Sydney’s music scene in the late 1960s. The musicians’ idiomatic mobility – flowing freely between rock, jazz, blues and R&B – infused their playing, fuelling a dynamism further ramped up by the thousands…
THREE (Fish of Milk) 8.5/10 Close your eyes and it entangles you, like being snagged in forest creepers and briars; like peering deeply into Pollock’s Blue Poles, and feeling a whisper of vertigo as its fathomless depth takes hold. Called Bloom, the piece is the first of three 20-minute, multi-layered…