The Headland, January 16 6/10 With Paul Capsis and iOTA singing, and a subtitle like “A song cycle of desire and ecstasy, murder and mayhem”, it seemed worth risking an outdoor show in the fickle La Nina summer. Then you learn that the 14 songs constituting Rapture are from a…
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York Theatre, January 13 8.5/10 Disruption! The title – already sounding like an explosive triplet – refers to the fire, plague, despots, social upheaval and climate change buffeting 2020, but it could also refer to the drums’ disruptive power, musically. What other instrument boasts such dynamic range and rhythmic impetus,…
Foundry 616, December 17 8/10 One moment the wave-like, arpeggiated piano melodies are the stuff of dreams – or ambient minimalism, for the more pragmatic. The next moment the rhythm-section gate-crashes the reverie so violently that what’s being played seems not just a different piece, but a different idiom. As…