Camelot, November 14 The last time I had this much fun at a gig predates my active memory. Monsieur Camembert helped kick-start the local Gypsy music craze in 1999, and is now the idiom’s benchmark. The personnel has evolved to the point where it is impossible to imagine a more…
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Switzerland 1974 (Cuneiform) Time telescoped in the late-’60s/early-’70s. Year by year artists ranging from Miles Davis to Frank Zappa to David Bowie reinvented themselves, and Soft Machine was no different. Virtually no consecutive Softs albums ever had identical personnel, and with new members came new material. By 1974, when this…
Paragon, Katoomba, November 13 Like a perfect match between food and wine, there was an idyllic partnership between the elegant tango-based music of Alturas met the equally graceful art-deco decor of the Paragon, designed by Henry White, who was also responsible for the State and Capitol Theatres in Sydney. And…