Category: Album Reviews – Archive

June 27, 2016 / Album Reviews - Archive

LIVE (Alister Spence Music) 8/10 Whenever the drama, invention, energy and repetition-based voodoo of this band suddenly drops away to Toby Hall’s glockenspiel I am instantly transported back to a world where teddy bears and tip-trucks were as big as I was, and reality was a dull place peopled by…

June 15, 2016 / Album Reviews - Archive

RATJA YALIYALI (CAAMA Music) 8/10 We Johnny-come-lately settlers seem to have built a wall around indigenous culture, not to protect it, but to isolate it. We can squat here for a lifetime, flitting overseas for “culture hits” and never engaging with what is in our backyards, let alone beginning to…

June 11, 2016 / Album Reviews - Archive

The 3 Out: MOVE (Be! Jazz/Birdland) 8.5/10 Judy Bailey: YOU & THE NIGHT & THE MUSIC (B. Free/Birdland) 8/10 The Charlie Munro Quartet: EASTERN HORIZONS (B. Free/Birdland) 9.5/10 The venue still exists. It lurks just around the corner from the up-ramp to Kings Cross. You creep down steep stairs into…