John Shand | Music & Other Spheres Posts

April 24, 2015 / Off The Cuff

Buried in the dark pasts of Bruce Cale (strings), John Shand (drums, percussion) and Phil Treloar (marimba, percussion) is some common history. In the same early 1980s period that Phil played drums in the Bruce Cale Quartet (a mighty band completed by Roger Frampton and Dale Barlow), John sought out…

April 24, 2015 / Album Reviews - Archive

Suspicion (Romero/Newmarket) The cover sets up expectations of the western variant of film noir and the music delivers. On this fourth Tango Saloon album Julian Curwin’s tongue lolls in and out of his composer’s cheek, so any line between pastiche and staggeringly imaginative music fades as fast as smoke from…

April 22, 2015 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Concert Hall, April 9 When Rodrigo and Gabriela first played in Sydney some eight years ago it was at the now defunct @Newtown, and the audience consisted of Triple J listeners. The intriguing aspect of the Mexicans’ success is that as their popularity has grown (to fill the Enmore Theatre…