Category: Album Reviews

August 4, 2017 / Album Reviews - Archive

ROCKPOOLMIRROR (Tall Poppies) 9/10 What a brilliant source of inspiration! Each of this album’s 12 works is a response to a photograph taken by Belinda Webster in Shoalhaven Gorge. The images, often of rock formations with anthropomorphic echoes, can be equally beautiful and disquieting. Enter composer Sandy Evans and a…

August 2, 2017 / Album Reviews - Archive

COMES A TIME (Treasure House Music) 7/10 Does where a musician lives affect the music that he or she makes? The evidence comes down pretty thoroughly in the affirmative: compare the ponderousness of Russian opera with the flightiness of French, or the intensity of New York jazz in the 1950s…

July 24, 2017 / Album Reviews - Archive

OF OTHER NARRTIVES VOLUME 6: and So…too (feeling-to-thought) 9.5/10 The final volume in Phil Treloar’s mammoth retrospective of a significant part of his life’s work, Of Other Narratives – Tracings in the Ground of Collective Autonomy, is almost like a snapshot of the series as a whole. The music occurs…