John Shand Posts

February 25, 2018 / Uncategorized

Lennox Theatre, February 4 9/10   Of late the Necks’ three members have routinely charted three parallel courses in their long improvisations, with points of intersection or convergence being optional. Here they responded to one another harmonically and rhythmically for most of both journeys, and the totality of the interaction…

February 24, 2018 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Sound Lounge, February 3 7/10 Divide artists into the knowing and the innocent, and the late Allan Browne would muck in with the latter. Despite the sophistication he brought to his drumming, poetry and band-leading, his was inherently naive art, made with child-like glee. Paul Grabowsky described him as “the…

February 22, 2018 / Album Reviews - Archive

GREY SKY (Orenda) 8/10 This morning a dreamed I was awake, only to awaken later and realise I’d been asleep. This music is the soundtrack to such disorientation. It delights in blurring lines between the conscious and subconscious; in gently bearing us off on oneiric journeys past half-heard sounds towards…