NOT MY LOVER (Wave) 7/10 This is album is in part Chris Cody’s reflections on Paris, the city in which he lived for many years before returning to Sydney. Most overtly he reworks Erik Satie’s Gnossienne No. 3, Serge Gainsbourg’s gorgeous La Javanaise and Cole Porter’s I Love Paris. But…
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WORLD MUSIC (http://josephtawadros.com) 9/10 Does knowing that one person plays 52 instruments on an album skew the way one hears the music? It shouldn’t, but it can. Oud maestro Joseph Tawadros here plays a plethora of strings, woodwinds, brass, keyboards and percussion, while his brother James incorporates a further 11…
LIVE AT FOUNDRY 616 (www.stevefitzmaurice.com.au) 7/10 Tribute bands usually cause me adverse health reactions, like running screaming from the room or sitting endlessly asking “Why?” Somehow Mingus Amongst Us leaves me hale and hearty. Perhaps it is that baritone saxophonist Steve Fitzmaurice’s primary concern with the project seems to be…