John Shand | Music & Other Spheres Posts

August 4, 2017 / Album Reviews - Archive

ROCKPOOLMIRROR (Tall Poppies) 9/10 What a brilliant source of inspiration! Each of this album’s 12 works is a response to a photograph taken by Belinda Webster in Shoalhaven Gorge. The images, often of rock formations with anthropomorphic echoes, can be equally beautiful and disquieting. Enter composer Sandy Evans and a…

August 2, 2017 / Album Reviews - Archive

COMES A TIME (Treasure House Music) 7/10 Does where a musician lives affect the music that he or she makes? The evidence comes down pretty thoroughly in the affirmative: compare the ponderousness of Russian opera with the flightiness of French, or the intensity of New York jazz in the 1950s…

July 29, 2017 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Wentworth Falls School of Arts, July 13 8/10 It is six years since Lulo Reinhardt was last here – much too long when it comes to one of the most gifted musicians alive. That he deserves inclusion in such rarefied company is not due to his phenomenal virtuosity on an…