John Shand Posts

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…

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…