Category: Concert Reviews – Archive

September 18, 2014 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Campbelltown Arts Centre, September 14  Mujing expresses the idea of two trees that grow in close proximity entwining and merging into one visual entity, while maintaining separate root systems. So several sections of this hour-long improvisation conceived by Simon Barker (drums, percussion) grew out of duets, while the title was…

August 31, 2014 / Concert Reviews - Archive

State Theatre, August 25  Where instrumentalists have a device to hide behind, singers are naked. Fearing this, most of them wrap themselves in artifice and histrionics, or seek to impress with hellish shrieking and vowels mangled into unintelligibility. A precious few surmount the fear and relish a nakedness wherein lies…

August 1, 2014 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Concert Hall, June 10 Chick Corea and Gary Burton have been playing together for 43 years. Other jazz musicians may have clocked up similar feats of collaborative longevity in group contexts, but no one holds a candle to them in a duo, the most intimate of improvising relationships. This rapport…