Category: Concert Reviews – Archive

March 31, 2021 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Blue Mountains Theatre, March 12 7/10 When it does catch fire, it blazes up in a sudden inferno. The two saxophones coil and snake around each other in a mad scramble of melody over tearaway rhythms punctuated by bucking syncopations and juddering stop-times. And then out the front there’s Sarah…

March 10, 2021 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Mary’s Underground, February 28 8/10 In another bid to reach beyond the musical horizon, Matt Keegan composed Vienna Dreaming as a tribute to his great grandfather, Heini Portnoj, an Austrian Jew forced to abandon his musical career in Vienna to escape the rising tide of Nazism. Three years after releasing…

February 27, 2021 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Venue 505, February 12 7.5/10 This was music into which you could sink as if it were a soft leather armchair, while the musical diary conjured images before your eyes. Pianist/composer Novak Manojlovic was enshrining in sound nine memories of places and people, and in the process taking us deep…