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Jeremy Rose & the Earshift Orchestra: Disruption! The Voice of Drums
by Angelo Leonardi
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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by Hrayr Attarian
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, ...
read moreZela Margossian Quintet: The Road
by Barry O'Sullivan
The Road is the extremely dexterous pianist Zela Margossian's much anticipated second album. It follows her critically acclaimed and ARIA (Australian Recording Industry Association) nominated debut album, Transition (Art As Catharsis, 2018), and once again delivers rich instrumental textures, a distinct compositional voice, and the narrative and thematic depth that Margossian is now known for. The Beirut-born pianist draws upon her Armenian heritage and classical music training to create a variety of moods, by blending folk-inspired and jazz-influenced ...
read moreSam Gill's Scattered: Perspectival
by Troy Dostert
Sydney-based saxophonist Sam Gill maintains a prodigious range of projects, ranging from the heady post-bop intricacies of his Coursed Waters quartet to Mind on Fire, an exploratory duo with his brother, vibraphonist Brad Gill. What animates Gill's music is a search for ways of bringing freedom to compositional forms, and finding surprising detours that defy expectations. This modus operandi is amply present on Perspectival, a subdued chamber jazz recording that merges rigor with indeterminacy, performed with consummate skill by Scattered, ...
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