Over at the SIMA website, Sydney wordsmith John Clare has been keeping up an irregular but valuable blog. This month is a tribute to the Sydney based Rufus record label, which has been responsible for the distribution of some of this city’s most important jazz groups, like Bernie McGann, The Catholics and Wanderlust. John has set aside considerable space to reviewing the most recent releases, Trio Apoplectic’s Sofia, McGann’s Solar, Alister Spence’s Fit and our CD, the Keijzer McGuiness Quintet’s The Seed Habit. He also lets on that Warwick Alder will have Cd out with Rufus in the near future which I’m sure everyone who has heard Warwick awaits eagerly. (What’s it like? What repertoire will he play? Who else is on it?…etc )
About our thing John said:
“Track by track the deceptive themes grow on you. There is much happening within that unified aura, which itself has a cumulative and finally very powerful effect. Clever compositional devices are used. The feeling is sometimes created that a piece is being repeated, whereas there is much variety and new material, while the only repetition is the return to the beginning. Some pieces give the feeling of a subtle gradations within a monotonal dark spectrum – like a Seurat Conte crayon drawing.”
read the whole post here.
