Blue Mountains Theatre, February 8 8.5/10 In fact there was an intermission, slicing the four hours in half. Otherwise it was one woman’s voice, piano and ukulele, leading us through the secret doors of her life: the ones behind which hide the memories most people try to forget. And this…
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Old 505 Theatre, February 6 8/10 Finding it on a map demands heavy use of the zoom function. The remote Italian island of Lampedusa actually lurks about half way between Malta and Tunisia – so nowhere near Sicily, let alone the main boot. But that’s where trumpeter/composer Nick Garbett recently…
THE SISYPHEANS (ABC) 9/10 Like Sisyphus, drummer Jim White and multi-instrumentalist Georgios Xylouris are engaged on a journey without end. The rock they bear is the limitless investigation and expansion of a musical tradition rooted in Crete. With The Sisypheans they unravel that ancient tradition still further, the multi-tracking of…