Isotropes (hellosQuare) This band could not be better named, because even just in stereo the music surrounds you. Sounds of seeming substance loom out of a swirling mist of smaller sounds, but then dissolve, so all is ephemeral and ghostly. Just like life. Sensaround consists of Alister Spence (Fender Rhodes,…
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Concert Hall, April 12 One could have reasonably assumed that Mavis Staples and Angelique Kidjo were joint headline acts. Staples, after all, has been a pivotal figure in r’n’b, gospel music and even the civil rights movement. So why was she given the support-act treatment? Why the bottom-drawer production values…
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…