The Basement, October 25 How many members of a group should be alive and present for the use of the band’s name to be valid? The Mills Brothers, for instance, performed here with one Brother and three rope-ins. Seriously. As it turns 50 Canned Heat has two almost original members…
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The Necks: Vertigo (Fish of Milk) Sandy Evans: Kapture (Rufus) Gary Daley: Sanctuary (garydaley.com.au) Allan Browne Quintet: Ithaca Bound (Jazzhead) We all remember doing it: falling for a song and buying the relevant album only to discover the rest of it was dross. Then along came the brave new world…
Camelot, October 27 Sound and colour, the arts’ great abstractions, are inextricably linked. Even the terminology overlaps, including tone, chromaticism, brightness, darkness and composition. As Jim Moginie (of Midnight Oil fame) told us in prefacing this album launch, Schoenberg wanted to be an artist and Kandinsky a musician. Countless musicians…