Category: Album Reviews

November 24, 2023 / Album Reviews - Archive

Zashto? Mara! Music 9/10 Australians have long had a love/hate attitude to migrants. While we enjoy the cornucopia of foods, racism is a rash festering just below the skin, waiting to be inflamed by the dog-whistlers. Zashto? – “why?” in Bulgarian – is a song cycle that asks why the…

October 21, 2023 / Album Reviews - Archive

The Iridescent Spree 7/10 Wearing his virtuosity on his sleeve, the young Kurt Elling liked to prove what an innovative singer he was at almost every turn, using radical vocal textures and dramatic changes of pitch and dynamics when just delivering a song, let alone when improvising. The mature Elling,…

August 18, 2023 / Album Reviews - Archive

Project Infinity: Live at Phoenix Central Park 9/10 Listen closely, and you can hear the sound of the room where this music was made. Even through the thickets of electronics and expert post-production, you can still sense the space that made the different sounds sing as one: Chippendale’s Phoenix Central…