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Dan Papirany Release A New Album Titled "2015"
Pianist Dan Papirany's new album entitled 2015 was recorded in Queensland Australia. It features Papirany on piano playing mostly standards and one original tune. The music has a mix of swing and Latin. 2015 was recorded over several days in the beginning of April 2015 and is now available via digital downloads through cdbaby.com. Dan's approach ...
Marcos Eduardo Villalta: Sir Kep's Mummy Tummy
by Stephen Hornby
We live in a world in which anyone who has a laptop has access to an almost infinite array of sonic possibilities and can draw inspiration from any corner of the earth or pocket in time. This kind of freedom can be creatively paralysing for some while others may respond by narrowing their gaze. Marcos Eduardo ...
Roil: Raft of the Meadows
by John Sharpe
Established in 2007, Roil comprises three Australians from the Sydney jazz scene, sharing pianist Chris Abrahams with that other better known Antipodean combo The Necks. Like that last outfit Roil manifests as an egalitarian concern, continuing in the lineage trailblazed by Bill Evans in the 1960s via Howard Riley's trio with Barry Guy a decade later. ...
Exhaustion / Kris Wanders: Exhaustion / Kris Wanders
by Mark Corroto
The marriage of punk rock to free jazz is a natural fit. Both art forms are DIY; punk a rejection of corporate rock-n-roll of the 1970s and free jazz, the stasis of jazz, some fifty years post-birth. Today, we find Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore playing with The Thing, Borbetomagus, The Ex and Ken Vandermark, John Zorn's ...
Josh Kyle / Sam Keevers: Songs Of Friends
by Bruce Lindsay
It's a simple concept. Josh Kyle's voice, Sam Keevers' piano and a selection of Songs Of Friends. It's a beautifully executed concept though: voice, instrument and compositions blend together in a worthy tribute from the young Australian vocalist. Kyle's friends are all Australian jazz musicians and writers. He's taken their tunes, added his own ...
New Ross Prior Album Brimming With Energy And Superb Musicianship
There is meaning in the title, a humorous reference to Australian artist Ross Prior’s rock & roll background. Prior’s roots are actually not in jazz but in the progressive and experimental sounds of the group Lysergic and then later in the death metal of Black Mask. It’s quite a transition from hard rock to the hard ...
Ross Prior: From Thrash Metal To Jazz
Q: When did you decide to enter the music field? A: Hmm, would you like the short or long answer? Not long after I played my first band, I guess I realized how happy and free it made me feel. I'd never experienced anything like it before so I was instantly drawn to it. Q: How ...
Matthew Sheens: Untranslatable
by Ian Patterson
With his impressive debut Every Eight Seconds (Self Produced, 2012) garnering universally positive reviews, Australian-born, New York-based pianist Matthew Sheens returns with an even meatier, juicier follow-up. Every Eight Seconds introduced an original composer, one whose melodic and rhythmic ideas championed narrative over virtuosity. There's perhaps more of Sheens the Downbeat poll-winning pianist this time out ...
Tom Barton: Aspirations
by Dan Bilawsky
Australian vocalist Tom Barton aspires to blur the lines between genres on this debut. Electronic and acoustic thoughts merge and co-exist beautifully, improvisational elements are born around concrete expressions, and in the middle of it all sits Barton, putting his poetry in motion with beautifully clear-headed vocals. While the gist of many an ...
C.W. Stoneking: Gon’ Boogaloo
by Enrico Bettinello
Non c'è niente da fare. Per quanto ormai da tempo abbiamo imparato che la cosiddetta “autenticità" in musica è pur sempre una costruzione culturale (o commerciale, le due cose si intrecciano spesso), ci sono artisti che per essenzialità, scelte sonore e produttive, immediatezza, riescono a “arrivare" senza troppe curve dritti al cuore di chi ascolta.
