Under the name Goldmund, Portland artist Keith Kenniff has been a pioneer of what you might call “naive piano” or maybe “piano for an empty room” - piano played softly and miked closely so that you hear the clunks…
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Jun 16 2022
Aug 31 2019
Aquiline Influences - The Talk Talk Family
Talk Talk was always in my very short list of Actually Good ’80s Synthpop Bands, but things got really interesting by their third album The Colour of Spring, wherein they begin to step out of the pop mainstream and dip…
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Feb 8 2016
Song of the Week No. 11 - Laura Mvula - Overcome
Okay - maybe Song of the Six Months Or So...
Coming home from a wonderful concert in Ballarat yesterday (Alessandra Garosi, Adam Simmons, David Jones), Laura Mvula came up on the player. "It's about time we heard something new from…Read more
Coming home from a wonderful concert in Ballarat yesterday (Alessandra Garosi, Adam Simmons, David Jones), Laura Mvula came up on the player. "It's about time we heard something new from…Read more
Aug 18 2015
Song of the Week No. 10 - Japanese Wallpaper - Arrival
We often have Koffee playing in the kitchen. It's an easy listening station, but they feature a great diversity of really fine sounds. I'm always discovering beautiful things.
I had heard of Japanese Wallpaper (aka Melbourne-based Gab Strum) through a…Read more
I had heard of Japanese Wallpaper (aka Melbourne-based Gab Strum) through a…Read more
Aug 5 2015
Song of the Week No. 9 - Tony Gould - Follow the Flowers
The current artist on inexplicably high rotation in my iTunes is the wonderful Tony Gould. One of those recent instances was in the car driving my mother to an appointment. "I don't like this kind of music", she observed, "I…Read more
Jul 20 2015
Song of the Week No. 8 - Bonobo on KEXP
They tell you Shuffle Mode is random, but I know better. Sometimes I get the same artist pop up so often that I know the Gods of Good taste are charging me with spreading the word to a world in…Read more
Jun 30 2015
Song of the Week No. 7 - Joni Mitchell - Let the Wind Carry Me
I heard on the radio that Joni Mitchell had had an aneurism and lost the ability to use her voice. It felt to me like her two great artistic loves - music and painting - had been at war and…Read more
Jun 12 2015
Song of the Week No. 6 - The Lark Ascending
My family and I spent the long weekend in Daylesford, something of a spiritual home for us. The house we rented was waiting for us with the heating on and ABC Classic FM on the radio. Classical music in the…Read more
Jun 1 2015
Song of the Week No. 5 - Kurt Elling - The Waking
A good concert is just about my favourite thing - the magic of a beautiful venue with my beautiful wife to witness beautiful music. As Nancy said, it is food for the soul. Especially when you're in the caring hands…Read more
May 27 2015
Song of the Week No. 4 - Laura Mvula - Can't Live with the World
Having encountered Laura Mvula in my travels four times in a week, I am clearly being directed by the gods to tell the world...
Laura’s Sing to the Moon arrived like a spring breeze in 2013… Read more
May 27 2015
Song of the Week No. 3 - Tom Waits - Take One Last Look
I don't usually watch talk shows, but I've always been a fan of Letterman, both for his dry wit and his support of great music. So I was pleased to surf across one of his very last shows and find…
May 27 2015
Song of the Week No. 2 - The Mummers - March of the Dawn
Although I've never met him, I consider Guy Garvey one of my favourite people. Listening to his music, or his affable manner on the radio, I feel in the company of a kind and loving person who knows me well…Read more