Category: Concert Reviews – Archive

December 19, 2015 / Concert Reviews - Archive

People’s Republic of Australasia, December 6 Rather than sit on fences – especially barbed-wire ones – Jon Rose plays them. This invitation-only performance twisted together Rose’s twin obsessions as an improviser: fences and violins. He actually played violin throughout, but in the second half it was against recordings derived from…

December 17, 2015 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Camelot Lounge, December 3 Before singing Non, je ne regrette rien Miriam Waks told us she was in Paris at the time of the recent mass murders, and offered the song as her response. This simple, understated and heartfelt declaration of intent was a prelude to a truly stunning rendition.…

December 11, 2015 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Factory Theatre, December 2 Mongolian culture is so intertwined with horses that their key traditional instrument, the bowed, two-string morin khuur (or horsehead fiddle), is decorated with a carved horse’s head at the top of the neck. The equine influence inhabits the music made, too, most obviously in the rhythms,…