Album review: Network of Lines – (Tilman Robinson) by John Hardaker

Network of Lines is a work of ethereal and pure loveliness – albeit one with a red-blooded heart.

Wave Rider CD cover

Album review: Wave Rider (Andrea Keller Quartet) by John Hardaker

In his liner notes (notes worth the price of admission in themselves), NYC based pianist Barney McAll – no slouch in the ‘daring’ department himself – says, ‘(Keller) has been blending memories, sonic pictures, Bartók, Shorter and an immaculate classical technique to ensure her trajectory could never disappoint. Andrea is a serious inventor.’

CD Review: Big Creatures and Little Creatures (Murphy’s Law)

Fast, barely moving, through thick ensemble textures and spare, you can hear the strings of Tamara Murphy’s double bass vibrating. This is very good recording, but it is also very strong playing, striding right on through.

Album Release: Allotrope – Peter Knight

Electroacoustic adventures created using the trumpet, flugelhorn, laptop electronics, amplifier and pedals. Allotrope is a new solo project from multidisciplinary Melbourne composer and trumpeter Peter Knight, released digitally

Friday Video: Andrea Keller Quartet with Bernie McGann @ Uptown

With both Bernie McGann and Andrea Keller playing tonight at separate gigs, as part of the Melbourne International Jazz Festival, this seemed like a good video to share on a Friday!

Creature feature – Tamara Murphy on the Young Elder

“I guess I consider myself an ‘intuitive’ composer in that everything I’ve written so far seems to have been written in a slightly different way. I don’t have one method – one approach of sitting down and writing in a particular way.”