The Necks: Three
<p><span><span><span>- I feel like I should start this review with an apology. It’s kind of ridiculous that -</span><em>every time</em><span>- when I approach a new record by The Necks, I always do my head in with the meta conversation about what type of band is this, anyway? Are they jazz or an endless backing track? Are they experimental or just trucking infinite mindlessness? Are they some kind of live, traditionally orchestrated spin on techno? Would that relieve them of the unasked for intellectual burden placed upon them??
Various Artists: Seven Wonders - New Directions In Jazz And Soul
- Can you play a Rhodes and not sound jazzy? Perhaps that’s why a virulent strain of jazz has been steadily infecting the steadily evolving music -from Laneous to Jordan Rakei and a whole lot more- of (rhodes adoring) Australian neo-soul.
Kerbside Collection: Smoke Signals - Remixed
- Kerbside Collection, an instrumental jazz funk group from Brisbane have released their second album's worth of remixes. On Smoke Signals - Remixed a host of producers remodel Kerbside’s original material, a number of international, Australian and Brisbane musicians being featured.
Review: Star Wars: Return of the Jedi presented by Queensland Symphony Orchestra
Last Saturday, the 15th of February, audiences far and wide gathered to watch Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) in the Great Hall at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre. The best part about this performance is that audiences were able to watch as the Queensland Symphony Orchestra accompanied the score to the sixth episode of the original Star Wars trilogy. This was a Saturday well spent and there were two sessions available, one at 2:00pm and another at 7:30pm.
4ZZZ Top 20
1. Good Boy - Extended Heavy (Single)
2. Eliza & The Delusionals - Swimming Pool (Single)
3. Jaguar Jonze - Rabit Hole (Single)
4. Adele & The Chandeliers - Love You More (Single)
5. Martyr Privates - Ritual Hustler
6. Cable Ties - Self-Made Man (Single)
7. Sarah Mary Chadwick - Please Daddy
8. EGOISM - You You (Single)
9. Mitch, Please - Rubbish (Single)
10. Boomalli - The Promise (Album Of The Week)
11. Paul Kelly - Sleep Australia Sleep (Single)
12. The Double Happiness - Wild Bikini (Single)
Review: Emerald City presented by Queensland Theatre
A Boon for Queensland Theatre to Share Fifty Years of Australian Theatre with the Esteemed Playwright and Literary Legend, David Williamson
David Williamson’s iconic Emerald City from 1987 launched Queensland Theatre’s momentous 50th Season in 2020. In celebration for the opening night, the audience were treated to meeting on stage the most produced Australian playwright in history; who, coincidently is also celebrating his half-century in Australian theatre!
Lite Fails: The End Of The World Has Already Happened
<p><span><span>- “<em>I was safe but restless in Brisbane</em>”, said the man behind Lite Fails; time to create some ambient music, then! Composer, historian and archival explorer <strong>Henry Reese </strong>has been quite an agile explorer of Australia’s early, recorded audio heritage. His work to date, as far as I’m aware, has been more of a historical excavation, rather than composition: digging up both the written records and the forgotten shellac that contains the earliest echoes of an audible Australia.
Steve Spacek
The third album on Black Focus continues the South London
tradition, but this time in the form of one of the originators: a
triple OG, Steve Spacek.
Spacek recently released a solo record through Alexander
Nut’s imprint Eglo, dBridge's Exit Records as Blackpocket,
following on from his work with Ninja Tune under the Beat
Spacek moniker, and collaboration with Mark Pritchard as
Africa HiTech on Warp. He's also made formative work with
legendary artists J Dilla, Raphael Saddiq, Q Tip, Common
and made early drum'n'bass tunes with his brother dBridge.
It’s an incredible career resume and an honour to be
releasing this new work.
'HOUSES' sees Spacek return to his Detroit influences, with
house music at the heart of this record as its foundation but as with all Spacek's releases, it transcends
genre and focuses more on swing, melody and feeling.
There's elements of soul, jazz & r&b interlaced within the DNA of his electronic music, alongside his
signature falsetto vocals.
The entire project was produced using iPhone and iPad apps, an approach Steve champions and feels
liberated by using technology to join the past with the present.
Prophet: Don't Forget It
<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>- If it was possible for engineers and scientists to harness pure amounts of stoked-ness and in turn convert it into a useful energy source, my output in the lead up to Prophetʼs new record, well it would have easily filled up Elonʼs battery in South Australia many times over. 2018ʼs <em>Wanna Be Your Man</em> had me buzzing more than a four-year-old on an afternoonʼs worth of red cordial. </span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
14th February 2020
Anna Cordell: Nobody Knows Us (Rice Is Nice)^
Nobody Knows Us by Anna CordellStar Slushy: Spikes / Spires (Eternal Soundcheck)*