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Ellen Kirkwood is a trumpeter, composer, bandleader and educator from Marrickville, Sydney. She studied Jazz at the Sydney Conservatorium under many Australian Jazz greats including Mike Nock, Warwick Alder, Judy Bailey, Matt McMahon and Dale Barlow. In 2012 she won the Jann Rutherford Memorial Award for young women in Jazz. She was a finalist in the 2017 Freedman Jazz Fellowships and her 1 hour suite [A]part was a finalist for Jazz Work of the Year in the 2018 APRA Art Music Awards. In 2016 Ellen received a grant from the Australia Council for the Arts for a composition mentorship with stellar composer/pianist Barney McAll, during which she penned [A]part - a groundbreaking 1 hour suite for 16 piece Sirens Big Band plus featured soloists Andrea Keller, Sandy Evans and Gian Slater

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Distant Birds, Vol. 01 & 02

By Chris Abrahams and Dave Symes

Label: Earshift Music
Released: 2026
Track listing: Drill; Sea Grass; Spirit Level; Driver.

Article: Album Review

Chris Abrahams and Dave Symes: Distant Birds, Vol. 01 & 02

Read "Distant Birds, Vol. 01 & 02" reviewed by Neil Duggan

by Neil Duggan
May 2, 2026

Distant Birds, Vol. 01 & 02 is the result of a collaboration between keyboard player Chris Abrahams and bassist Dave Symes. Consisting of four long-form tracks that amount to a double vinyl or single CD, the album is a heady mix of keyboard textures and lithe bass lines with extended improvisations. The band's groove-driven soundscape is ...

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Fellow Prisoners of the Splendour and Travail of the Earth - Part 2

By Zeitgeber

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: Echolocate - seeing with sound; Echolocate - squeezing your surroundings with phantasmal hands; Innenwelt (reprise) - the seismic sense; Zugunruhe - unrest; Zugunruhe - taking flight.

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Discordia

By Jeremy Rose

Label: Earshift Music
Released: 2024
Track listing: Vera Discordia (part 1); Vera Discordia (part 2); Floating Just Beyond Reach; Loudspeaker; The Illusion of Perfection; Just for Laughs; Bring Back the Nineties; Unverified Persona; Echo Chamber.

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[A]part

By Ellen Kirkwood

Label: Earshift Music
Released: 2018
Track listing: #1 - [A]part 1 - The Internet: wonder and malignance #2 - [A]part 2 - On the refugee crisis #3 - [A]part 3 - Greed and climate change #4 - [A]part 4 - The present: reflections and reactions

Article: Album Review

Joanna Weinberg: Pandora's Bag

Read "Pandora's Bag" reviewed by Geannine Reid

by Geannine Reid
July 25, 2017

Joanna Weinberg is an Australian songwriter, piano and accordion player, actress and film star. She has been nominated for an Australian critics circle award; the composer and writer of Every Single Saturday (the soccer parent musical); she is also the composer and writer of the musical, Lifeforce, which won the pick of the Fringe at the ...