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McGann ‘Solar’ RF093 Audio samples: Blues for Pablo Too Salaam2 CD Live Set There are plenty of thrilling solar flairs in this complete live performance, recorded with energy and ecstatic crowd reactions intact. Who is the sergeant major who shouts "Yes! Yes sir!" through the second set? He is often at The Sound Lounge. On this special double CD you are too. When superb tenor saxophonist Roger Manins made one of his return trips from New Zealand to Sydney, his second home, he was asked if he wanted to play as guest with the great Bernie McGann Quartet. ‘Bernie is my hero’, he replied. And both saxophonists are right up there throughout this performance. Their solos are tough, fiery and inventive and their overlapping lines are like heated conversations. And so is the superb rhythm team of bassist Lloyd Swanton and drummer John Pochée up there. Free, interactive, erupting in all the right places, pulsing and driving at all times: a curious pairing of personalities who have given us some of the most exciting music of the past twenty years. This is also some of the very best of trumpeter Warwick Alder on record. His flying runs, high torrid repetitions and surprise skips and jabs are deployed with a feverish edge. There are some great McGann tunes and everything you could want from a live jazz performance: the McGann originals -- Birthday Blues, Spirit Song, D. Day, Blues for Pablo Too and Salaam – and a Ballad Medley -- Lover Man (Oh, where can you be?) Jimmy Davis, Roger ‘Ram’ Ramirez, Jimmy Sherman, Where are you? Jimmy McHugh, My Old Flame Arthur Johnston, Sam Coslow. |
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Alister Spence Trio ‘fit’ RF085 Audio samples: radium caught in lightTHE NEW CD/DVD FROM THE MEMBERS OF THE ALISTER SPENCE TRIO This is the fourth release for this internationally acclaimed group, and again they delve deeper into their captivating and highly original musical world. fit launches a new project that blends (or ‘fits’) texture, soundscape, free improvisation and editing, while still offering strong melody and seemingly effortless interplay, hallmark elements for these collaborators. The companion DVD features the work of film artist Louise Curham set to the band’s music. She is at the forefront of Australian moving image art, highly regarded in the experimental film world for work using ‘obsolete media’. Her hand--worked Super 8 films reinvent the home movie medium of years past, through colour, texture and abstracted image. fit will be launched at The Sound Lounge at the Seymour Centre on 29 August 2009, with Louise Curham as special guest on Super 8 projections. ‘The cutting edge of modern Australia defined’ Sydney Morning Herald 2008 ‘Ingenious themes…Spence is certainly a talent deserving wider recognition’ The Wire, UK, 2008 ‘Spence has that priceless gift of always leaving you wanting more’ Jazzwise Magazine, UK, 2006 |
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Roil ‘Meaning’ RF099 Roil is a collaboration between pianist Chris Abrahams (The Necks), bassist Mike Majkowski (Splinter Orchestra), and drummer James Waples (Three Omegas).
Formed in 2007, the Sydney--based trio has been developing its own approach to jazz improvisation. 'Meaning' is its first release and was recorded in one uninterrupted session on 2 April 2008. There is a controlled elegance to Roil's music -- not that this precludes the energetic. The music has an eddying quality that moves between group utterance and multi--stranded counterpoint, a weaving of textures that coagulate to form unified phrases before dispersing once more into the churning invention. "A beautifully weighted trio, full of delicacy, mesmerizing accumulations of details and engulfing power" John Clare 'Meaning' will be launched at The Sound Lounge, Seymour Centre 8.30pm August 1. |
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Remco Keijzer tenor saxophone Lucian McGuiness trombone Matt McMahon rhodes/piano Mike Majkowski double bass James Hauptmann drums |
The Keijzer McGuiness Quintet 'The Seed Habit' RF079 Audio samples: Pigis Apple S Ballade de ConservatoirDutchman Remco Keijzer and Australian Lucian McGuiness normally reside hemispheres apart, but they brave long haul flights and carry-on restrictions to join musical forces whenever possible. In 2009 they launch the album The Seed Habit on Rufus Records (thru Universal). The disc is the product of three years collaboration in Australia and The Netherlands, and was recorded in Sydney in 2008. Jazz is transitory. It twists, turns, strikes and moves on – just like the Keijzer McGuiness Quintet, and the music on their infectiously toe-tapping début release. A tenor and trombone combination like Keijzer & McGuiness is hard to beat - a sleek, humanistic sound curls up inside your ear and expands your mind. Among the best young players in their hometowns, Keijzer-McGuiness gigs soar melodically, with gutsy engagement between personnel; a spectrum of youthful energy, soul, breadth and vigour. This album delivers the key contribution of the jazz tradition: great playing to make your toe tap and your head bounce. Better still, it doesn't fall into the trap of over-seriousness. Sounds like fun. Remco Keijzer (tenor saxophone) Lucian McGuiness (trombone) Matt McMahon (rhodes/piano) Mike Majkowski (double bass) James Hauptmann (drums) ‘This quintet comprises four high-standard Sydney musicians and talented Amsterdam-based tenor saxophonist Remco Keijzer. The group completed a national tour promoting the CD in March, funded by the Sound Travellers project. The tracks are all original by front-line members Keijzer and trombonist Lucian McGuiness, who collaborated over three years to write the songs. The compositions are varied, accessibly contemporary rather than avant-garde, and are driven by a great rhythm section of pianist Matt McMahon, drummer James Hauptmann and bassist Mike Majkowski. The tenor and trombone work very well together, and Keijzer blows some fine solos, especially on Small Pictures, where he accelerates into the high register to build climactic excitement nearly to breaking point. Pigis has trombone and tenor moving slowly in unison against a driving solid four, almost -- but not quite – a marching beat. Impressive counterpoint develops between the two horns, while at times the trombone also holds pedal notes behind the tenor’s fast phrasing as the beat strides on. McGuiness’s trombone speaks up in a storming solo on Get Out and McMahon’s Fender Rhodes is supportive throughout, demonstrating his finely developed solo abilities on GC for CP.’ |
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