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Australian Prog Artist Ben Craven To Release New Single Through Innovative Music Delivery System TuneLeak
Brisbane, Australia – Much to the excitement of prog music aficionados across the planet, Australian cinematic progressive- rock singer-songwriter Ben Craven is releasing his new single through an innovative new music delivery system he's developed called TuneLeak. Ben Craven's new single titled “Critical Mass Part 2” is now available through TuneLeak. Ben explains, “This project is ...
Marialy Pacheco: Introducing
by Ian Patterson
The album title is something of a misnomer as Introducing is Marialy Pacheco's seventh release as leader since Benediciones (Weltwunder Records, 2005). The Melbourne-based Cuban's stock has certainly risen since that introduction, notably as a result of becoming the first female winner of the Montreux Jazz Festival Solo Piano Competition in 2012. A noted classical pianist ...
Topology And Trichotomy: Healthy
by Bruce Lindsay
Collaboration is a jazz staple, just one of the many ways musicians seek to breathe a freshness into their performance or composition. Mostly, such collaborations take place between individuals. Healthy takes collaboration one stage further, joining together two Australian outfits--jazz piano trio Trichotomy and contemporary classical quintet Topology--on a collection of original compositions plus a take ...
Vocalist Tom Barton Transcends Jazz To Unique Sonic Worlds
Genre-crossing contemporary jazz vocalist/composer Tom Barton has released crowdfunded studio album, Aspirations Aspirations was recorded in early 2014 after over $9,000 was raised by fans on crowdfunding platform Pozible. The album transcends its acoustic jazz instrumentation to worlds of electronically-augmented sonic atmospheres. Tom sings original prose and wordless music pondering the self and the natural world, ...
Quentin Angus: Perception
by Dan McClenaghan
Quentin Angus, a multi-award-winning Australian guitarist, follows up his 2011 debut recording, Retrieval Structure, with the ambitious Perception. Born in 1987, he still clocks in as a “young" artist, but his music is strikingly mature. An apt comparison is the monumentally talented guitarist Pat Metheny, with a broad vision and a penchant for grand statements and ...
Birchall & Woolhouse: The Scenery of Life Unfolding
by Dan McClenaghan
Piano trio albums--piano, bass and drums--may be the more common means of artistic expression in jazz, but piano/bass duet sets come long fairly often, too. Bassist Charlie Haden is a master of the approach, proof of which can be found on his teamings with pianists Keith Jarrett and Hank Jones on, respectively, Jasmine (ECM Records, 2011) ...
Rosie Henshaw: Rosie and the Bees
by Roger Farbey
Vocal jazz but with more than a dash of rock must be one of the hardest niche markets to break into. So it is with Rosie and the Bees, whose eponymously titled debut album makes a very brave stab at the scene. This Australian trio, Rosie--of which more later--Banel Martinez on guitar and Byron Mark on ...
Lisa Young Rehearsing With Gondwana Choirs: "Tha Thin Tha"
For the 2014 Gondwana Choirs National Choral School in Sydney, Melbourne composer Lisa Young was commissioned as Composer in Residence to write a massed choir piece for all the Gondwana choirs to perform. The piece incorporates 'konnakol' the South Indian rhythmic vocal language, which is a sophisticated style of vocal percussion. It was premiered as the ...
Stem Artist Lisa Young Commissioned For The Australian Voices
Following the success of Other Plans (Lisa Young's 2009 commission work for The Australian Voices), The Australian Voices Choir has commissioned a new work from Young for 2014. Young is working on a choral arrangement (soprano, alto, tenor and bass) of 'Misra Chappu', incorporating the melody of this work from newly released “The Eternal Pulse" album ...
Stem Artist Lisa Young - Artist In Residence - Commissioned To Write A Massed Choir Piece For Gondwana Voices
Gondwana Choirs commissioned Stem's Artist Lisa Young to write a massed choir piece for their national choral school. Lisa Young is Gondwana Voices 'Composer In Residence'. This piece was premiered at: Gondwana Choirs National Choral School Concerts, The Concourse, Chatswood, Australia on Saturday January 18th, 2014 during the “saturday concerts" The Saturday concerts were the culmination ...
