Colbourne Avenue, September 8 9/10 Would-be authors attending creative writing classes are exhorted to write about what they know. Writing about what they hold dearest would be better advice, and the same for composers. Rick Robertson certainly did that when he created Mutiny Music, a programmatic depiction of the Bounty…
Category: Concert Reviews
Foundry 616, September 3 7.5/10 Few players can sit on one chord and lend the music such momentum as Lloyd Swanton does. This makes the Necks’ bassist invaluable in Mara!, because the band’s favoured music, primarily drawing on that of Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece, tends to place more emphasis on…
Sound Lounge, August 20 9/10 Were a Peter Dutton of the arts considering establishing a musical border force, I think the horse has already bolted. Jen Shyu’s performance utterly clouded any boundaries between east and west, composition and improvisation, music and theatre. An American of East Timorese and Taiwanese decent,…