John Shand | Music & Other Spheres Posts

November 20, 2016 / Off The Cuff

Who’d have thought that the election of Donald Trump could jeopardise an Australian play going on in Washington DC? Let me tell you the story… Guilt is a play of mine that explores the overlays and collisions between sexual and spiritual rapture: how one might fuel the other, and how…

November 19, 2016 / Album Reviews - Archive

BURNING GHOSTS (Orenda) 9/10 Daniel Rosenboom has the sort of explosive imagination that triggers creative breakthroughs. Nothing is off limits, and he delights in making high art and anarchy kiss and tumble into bed together. The LA trumpeter has released two new albums simultaneously. The first, Book of Storms, the…

November 18, 2016 / Album Reviews - Archive

NAKED MUSIC (Moscodisc) 8/10 Eleanor McEvoy calls it Naked Music, most obviously because the band is gone, replaced by her sinewy acoustic guitar with its mix of gentleness and insistence, or occasionally by electric guitar or electric piano. The deeper nakedness lies in her singing and her lyrics. Heartfelt, raw…