Most artists that perform at WOMADelaide travel a long way to get there. As Cuba’s young jazz sensation Daymé Arocena told the crowd during one of her festival sets, it was a 36 hour journey for her and her band. Despite those gruelling travel distances performing artists are inevitably seen on WOMADelaide stages smiling and speaking genuinely of… Continue reading WOMADelaide 2018 – Worth The Distance
Category: Australia
Australian Music Artists
Kingfisha – Offering Reggae Up Differently
After years in the making Brisbane band Kingfisha has finally released the second album Offered It Up. On it they deliver the sounds of reggae and dub differently to any Australian act associated with those genres, both past and present. That means none of its songs are formulaic or repetitive. And that Kingfisha aren’t trying to… Continue reading Kingfisha – Offering Reggae Up Differently
Bluesfest 2016 – Embracing Contemporary Hip Hop, Soul & Jazz Of The Highest Order
Blessed be lovers of innovative contemporary hip hop, R&B, funk and jazz music for the gift of consecutive live performances by Kendrick Lamar, D’Angelo, Kamasi Washington and Hiatus Kaiyote on the one stage at Byron Bay Bluesfest 2016. If you’re one of those music lovers you’ll know that every single one of the many musicians and… Continue reading Bluesfest 2016 – Embracing Contemporary Hip Hop, Soul & Jazz Of The Highest Order
The Putbacks – “Kung Fu Pyramids” Sweet Vinyl-Style
HopeStreet Recordings unfailingly gives its music releases a description that stimulates the imagination; that invites you to press play and enter into a kooky adventure. I’d usually call copying and pasting the exact contents of a press release to be a lazy Beaver’s game. But what the label says about “Kung Fu Pyramids” and it’s… Continue reading The Putbacks – “Kung Fu Pyramids” Sweet Vinyl-Style
The Cactus Channel and Chet Faker – Kill The Doubt
The Cactus Channel‘s unique variety of instrumental funk-soul music wouldn’t get value-add with just any ol’ artist’s singing and songwriting talents in the mix. Many contemporary vocalists (I’d say most) would probably be a misfit for the music; do it an injustice. But with their new single “Kill The Doubt” and it’s B-side “Sleeping Alone”, it is Chet Faker who the group’s… Continue reading The Cactus Channel and Chet Faker – Kill The Doubt
Hiatus Kaiyote Dropping You Into It
Just like I thought as few words as possible should be said about the new Hiatus Kaiyote album Choose Your Weapon in order to do the music and its makers justice, I think the less words said about Hiatus Kaiyote’s live show at Brisbane’s Woolly Mammoth, the better. To experience is the goal. Early in their set during ‘Shaolin Monk… Continue reading Hiatus Kaiyote Dropping You Into It
Ngaiire Live & Revamped
During her show at Howler in Melbourne last week, Sydney-based soulstress Ngaiire talked of a time not so long ago when she questioned the value in continuing on her musical path. Thankfully Ngaiire found a way over that hump and is set this month to release her new single Once – with the full album Blastoma due out in… Continue reading Ngaiire Live & Revamped
Hiatus Kaiyote – Choose Your Weapon
The less words said about Haitus Kaiyote’s new album Choose Your Weapon, the better really. And I say that with the greatest of respect for Hiatus Kaiyote, their music and their artistry. Listening, hearing and experiencing this one-of-a-kind music is what needs to happen instead. If I must use words I’ll start with the short… Continue reading Hiatus Kaiyote – Choose Your Weapon
WOMADelaide 2015: Nourishment Forever-After
Oh WOMADelaide, how I long to be back in your nourishing arms. You came again and gave the people four days and nights of awesomely-diverse arts, culture and music from around the world under sunshine and shady trees in Adelaide’s Botanic Park. You created the space for a vibrant community of friendly, conscious, arts-loving people… Continue reading WOMADelaide 2015: Nourishment Forever-After
The Cactus Channel – Wooden Boy
Fancy the feeling of being inside an awesome spy-action film? If so then Wooden Boy, the second album from Melbourne’s 10-piece instrumental soul group The Cactus Channel, is one you’ll want in your music collection. Can I describe the music on Wooden Boy to you? Sure I can, but I won’t. Because I can’t do… Continue reading The Cactus Channel – Wooden Boy