The Lounge, Chatswood Concourse, March 21 8.5/10 Ruthie Foster wasn’t just born to sing, she was probably already singing in the womb. Music pours from her mouth like water from a tap, and when she turns the tap on full, she makes an astounding sound: a huge, church-bred cry that…
Category: Concert Reviews
Concert Hall, March 3 8/10 The lights go down, and Luis Guerreiro’s dazzling Portuguese guitar splinters the silence. Mariza first appears as a silhouette: only her platinum hair and sparkly gown catching the dim light. Then she unleashes the phenomenon that’s her contralto voice; a voice that may have darkened…
Blue Mountains Theatre, February 15 9/10 Thirty-eight years on, the wonder only increases that The Necks’ simple formula results in music without limits. It’s not just a formula for long-form improvisations with evolving cells of repeated information, it’s a formula of musical personalities, and pianist Chris Abrahams, bassist Lloyd Swanton…