RITUAL DIAMONDS 8/10 Imagine gazing out at a placid, turquoise-coloured lagoon, then diving in, only to discover it’s seething with sea-snakes. This music is a bit like that. The surface is all high-gloss melodies that often carry a certain beguiling tranquillity, and if you play it too softly or are…
Category: Album Reviews
ACROBATS 8/10 What’s this? John Farnham’s You’re the Voice?! Now there’s a song I never thought could be teased into a freer, jazzy treatment. Nonetheless, here it is on Jo Lawry’s Acrobats album, the singer proving there few barriers to her daring. She and her collaborators strip it of all…
THE OUTSIDER 8/10 Like traffic, music can be free-flowing, bustling, impatient or static. Pianist/composer Chris Cody begins his tribute to the great French writer Albert Camus with the frenetic Procession, inspired by an African funeral parade that Cody witnessed. The rhythm initially churns beneath the stabbing melody before skittering through…