Annandale Creative Arts Centre, December 7 7.5/10 When you look at a painting you not only see the whole, but let your eyes wander across fragments and details, right down to individual brush-strokes. Listening to music can be like that, and with both these bands it was fascinating to pull…
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Marsala: Camelot, December 31. If you want sonic fireworks on New Year’s Eve rather than those humdrum ones in the sky, the place to go is Camelot Lounge and the band to hear is Marsala. This is multicultural Australia transformed into plain old fun. No band attracts a diversity of…
WE ARE ALL (Edition/Planet) 8/10 Following an underwhelming big-band collaboration, We Are All sets Phronesis back on course in the quest to miniaturise and yet intensify a piano/bass/drums trio’s interaction. It’s not just that bassist Jasper Hoiby, pianist Ivo Neame and drummer Anton Eger are dazzlingly original instrumentalists, it’s that…