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Sandy Evans: Rock Pool Mirror
by Barry O'Sullivan
Composed and led by saxophonist /composer Sandy Evans (OAM) this album of ambient landscapes is a musical response to photographer Belinda Webster's Shoalhaven Gorge series of photographic images which traverse the tranquility of rock formations reflected in still waters at dawn, to the darkness of chasms and rock formations in an area of unique and pristine natural Australian bushland. The music is a series of duets with Evans by numerous musical contributors interspersed with tracks featuring drummer/composer Alon ...
read moreAtmaSphere: Flying
by John Kelman
Like vibraphonist/percussionist Daryl Pratt's Sonic Fiction, which has enjoyed greater popularity in its home base of Australia, the group AtmaSphere, led by drummer/percussionists David Jones but also featuring Pratt along with bassist Adam Armstrong (also from Sonic Fiction) and “vocussionist Carmen Warrington, has received exposure at home, but is little-known elsewhere. And that's a shame because once again, as with the Sonic Fiction debut, Powerful Medicine, the Australian Tall Poppies label has ventured to give visibility to a group of ...
read moreSonic Fiction: Powerful Medicine
by John Kelman
Sometimes location is everything. Vibraphonist/percussionist Daryl Pratt was originally born in the States, but he relocated to Australia in the '80s, where he has enjoyed a full career as performer, composer, and educator. But while he's well-known in his part of the world, he's less so elsewhere. One wonders where he'd be today had he remained in the US. Certainly, based on his breadth of musical exploits--from contemporary classical to improvised music--and his many strengths, one would assume that he ...
read moreBruce Cale: Live at Adelaide Festival 1980
by Budd Kopman
Music that reaches the state of being timeless returns to the CD player over and over again. The Bruce Cale Quartet's Live at the Adelaide Festival is one of those very special releases. The music is 25 years old and sounds as fresh today as it must have sounded then. It also sounds much fresher and more vital than a lot of what is being put out today. The recording happened on the last night of the ...
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