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November 15, 2017 / Album Reviews - Archive

My Name Is Nobody album

MY NAME IS NOBODY (mynameisnobody.com.au) 9/10 There’s a sense of space here: vast vistas that can replenish the soul with their sprawling beauty, or unsettle it because of that very same expansiveness. Most of us, after all, cling with our fingernails to this continent’s seaboard, our backs to a desert…

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November 12, 2017 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Far Cry – The Music of Eric Dolphy

Foundry 616, October 26 9/10 He could write melodies as exultant as a leap in the air, and first lit up the world 60 years ago, his radical conception already fully formed. This was a complete reimagining of what an alto saxophone, a bass clarinet or a flute could be;…

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November 11, 2017 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Jef Neve

Foundry 616, October 21 8/10 Dialogues between serenity and agitation have long been a mainstay of the western canon. Having those two extremes in play simultaneously is rather harder to achieve and therefore much rarer. This is the wonder of Jef Neve’s compositions for piano, bass, drums and strings, largely…

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