Kristin Berardi: ‘The reason I make music is to hopefully move people’

” I always have to have an emotional connection to the song, otherwise I don’t feel I’ll be able to do a good job. I’ve never been good at pretending, so it has to be honest and real”.

Berardi/ Foran/Karlen: ‘Being Australian is a mixture of natural beauty and cultural diversity’

“In no way did any of us want to honour or glorify the concept of war, so we were quite burdened with the seriousness of the task at hand: honouring historical happenings and putting a voice to these concepts and people’s experiences from this time”.

Album Review: Free Running (Richard Maegraith Band) by John Clare

His sound is dark and it has a grain and an edge, except when he plays in a soft burble or croon. It can bark and crack with a brittle edge, yet all of it is done with tone, with timbre. His lines are full of invention, expressed in melody and in abstract shapes.