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September 5, 2016 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Sound Lounge, August 6 9/10 Excitement can be faked, but this was the real thing. You felt the packed room of disparate souls knitting together in a shared response to exhilarating music. The Julien Wilson Quartet won much acclaim for swimming in the most central channel of the wide river…

September 2, 2016 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Clarendon Guest House, September 1 7/10 Harry Manx strips music back to its most basic building blocks, and then adds embellishments as deftly as the most Spartan of poets adds a simile. On one level little changes across a song, a set, a year or his career, but then his…

September 1, 2016 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Yellow House, Sydney 7/10 It was hard to know where to look, what with a stark naked composer disporting himself, a significant artist sketching him on a wall, and a string quartet sawing away. To cap it off, Clementine Robertson was lying on a plinth the height of an upright…