Sonic Fiction

Sonic Fiction: Powerful Medicine

by John Kelman
April 14, 2005

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 ...

Sonic Fiction: Changing with The Times

by Glenn Astarita
July 1, 1999

Sonic Fiction is a Sydney, Australia based unit and quoting from the press release “.... Changing With The Times reflects the band's meshing of new western art music, jazz and rock with geographical musical threads from Ghana, South India and Java."

A fair summarization indeed; although, to their credit, Sonic Fiction incorporates some of the finer elements of the jazz-fusion movement sans the at times, glossy pyrotechnic gyrations and predictable chop fests. Basically, Sonic Fiction's debut is extremely impressive and ...

Georg Graewe, Ernst Reijseger & Gerry Hemingway: Sonic Fiction on Hatology 638

Source: All About Jazz
April 10, 2007

Georg Graewe -piano, Ernst Reijseger -cello & Gerry Hemingway -percussion This trio's music is easier characterized than described, since the wealth of colors, moods, textures, and melodies is fluid enough to shift not only from piece to piece, but moment to moment. There is, for me, a European aesthetic at work here, a blend of modern and historic sources with the added bittersweet spice of folk elements from the soil. It's a delicate, demanding juggling act, drawing on past experiences ...
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