La Sublime Porte (Alia Vox/Fuse) Reviewed March, 2012. Apparently our children think yoghurt grows on trees, so they are probably some distance from knowing that the product originally came from Turkey. The systematic debasement of Muslim culture – of the non-yoghurt variety – from within by extremists and without by…
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Opera Theatre, May 27, 2012 If butterflies could make music it would sound like this. It would have these moments of daintiness and explosions of riotous colour. Brooding thoughts would be underpinned by such fluttering beauty or sheer charm. Shara Worden arrived clutching so large a bunch of helium-filled balloons…
Trio ’79 (http://feeling-to-thought.com/) January, 2012. Count this among the momentous albums of Australian jazz. In 1979 Mark Simmonds (tenor saxophone), Bobby Gebert (piano) and Phil Treloar (drums) formed the Australian Art Ensemble, which only performed twice, but did record. The power that exploded in that three-hour session became legendary, thanks…