Jazz Articles about Hilary Geddes

About Hilary Geddes

Album Review

Max Alduca is an Australian in-demand bassist who regularly tours nationally and internationally. On this debut album as a leader, he draws inspiration from a personal journey through music, reflecting themes of interconnectedness, trust and hope while paying homage to his teachers and collaborators. It is a culmination of his experiences touring Scandinavia with a Danish band and living in Stockholm for some time. After returning from intensive study in New York City in 2022, he began weaving elements of ...

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Jeremy Rose & Earshift Orchestra: Discordia

Read "Discordia" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
January 8, 2025

Il bandleader australiano Jeremy Rose è un compositore attento alla realtà sociale contemporanea e intende esprimere in musica le sue critiche. Il precedente Disruption! The Voice of Drums nasceva dalla riflessione sulle turbolenze politiche e ambientali degli ultimi anni, portando solidarietà alle comunità insulari della Micronesia minacciate dai mutamenti climatici. In questo Discordia torna a guidare la sua Earshift Orchestra in un percorso ambizioso, con la pretesa di svelare i pericoli della disinformazione nell'era tecnologica attuale.

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Jeremy Rose & the Earshift Orchestra: Disruption! The Voice of Drums

Read "Disruption! The Voice of Drums" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
March 20, 2023

Il sassofonista e compositore australiano Jeremy Rose documenta un ambizioso progetto in undici movimenti, che esalta la forza ancestrale delle percussioni etniche in un contesto orchestrale d'avanguardia. Presentato in anteprima al festival di Sydney del 2021, Disuption! The Voice of Drums, è un punto significativo della sua carriera e nasce dalla riflessione sulle turbolenze politico/ambientali degli ultimi anni, ampliandosi alla solidarietà con le comunità insulari della Micronesia che stanno affrontando gravi cambiamenti climatici. Accanto al leader, i ...

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Jeremy Rose and the Earshift Orchestra: Disruption! The Voice of Drums

Read "Disruption! The Voice of Drums" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
November 19, 2022

Australian saxophonist and composer Jeremy Rose has created a unique body of work since he arrived on the music scene in 2008 with his collaborative quartet, The Vampires. He has forged an innovative path over the course of several local and international projects and multiple recordings. His twentieth, Disruption! The Voice of Drums is a poignant, moving, and soulful set of eleven interlinked movements originally commissioned for the 2021 Sydney festival. It features Rose with his octet, the Earshift Orchestra, ...