Author Archives: David Reaston

Song Fwaa Album Launch

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DATE Friday 8th August 2014  TIME 8:30pm  VENUE The Sound Lounge TICKETS$20/$15/$10  Book Online or 9351 7940


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Those who heard Song Fwaa, heard edge, originality and musical humour so cunning that no weasel could better it.  John Fenton, Creative Jazz Club (NZ)

Song Fwaa are launching their second album Sons Of No Guns, For We Are Anomalous, following on the hooves of their debut release, Ligeti’s Goat, described by various reviewers as passionate, explosive, tranquil, sublime, abstract, eclectic, fiercely cohesive. Their second album sounds a unit burnished by intensive composing, performing, touring and recording. Obsessive ostinatos, quirky melodies, delicious silences, and flurries of freedom provide the vehicle for three unique virtuosic improvisors. David Reaston is an original with a wide palette, an experimenter with timbre and tuning and a fascinating compositional mind. Jamie Cameron plays with perverse grooves and hits a lovely melody. Martin Kay combines the interstitial with visceral directness and has a fondness for epic compositional form, even in miniature. Gambol on an evening of joyous and original sound!

Martin Kay (alto sax) David Reaston (guitar) Jamie Cameron (drums)

 

Max Sharam/ Cyndi Lauper Tour

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I will be accompanying singer Max Sharam who is supporting Cyndi Lauper on her “She’s So Unusual” Australian tour.  The dates are:  Thu 29 August:  Palais Theatre, Melbourne.  Fri 30 August:  Palais Theatre, Melbourne.  Sat 31 August:  Royal Theatre, Canberra.  Mon 2 September:  Wrest Point Entertainment Centre, Hobart.  Wed 4 September:  Festival Theatre, Adelaide.  Fri 6 September:  Enmore Theatre, Sydney.  Sat 7 September:  Enmore Theatre, Sydney.  Tues 10 September:  Jupiters Theatre, Gold Coast.  Wed 11 September:  QPAC Concert Hall, Brisbane.  Thu 12 September:  QPAC Concert Hall, Brisbane.  Sat 14 September:  WIN Entertainment Centre, Wollongong

For more details go to: http://lennardpromotions.com.au

Song Fwaa in June ’13

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After a great tour of New Zealand (read a review from our Auckland gig here) we are off to Queensland to play at the Brisbane Jazz Club on the 15th.  Following that, we are playing in Sydney at Bohemian Grove on the 16th and then recording our second album the following week.  For more details about Song Fwaa, visit the website.

New digital release: Entomology

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August 2012 – Digital album release of “Entomology” by Martin Kay and David Reaston.

In 2011 Martin Kay and David Reaston spent one hour in the studio, spontaneously laying down four tracks, recording the result of many years’ informal rehearsing and jamming.  Billow presents a gentle melodicism, relaxing and unthreatening, with close attention to each tone. The word conjures a picture of branches swaying softly in a late afternoon sun. Entomology has a harder edge, the soft melodicism replaced by urgent darting movements. Break Away (Explorations) is a rendition of David Reaston’s graphic score, producing some otherworldy and nasty sounds with flurrying technique. Monarch Butterfly revives the peaceful atmosphere, with its delicate and graceful sound world. 
 
Direct Link: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/martinkaydavidreaston

Ligeti’s Goat on tour

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Song Fwaa are taking “Ligeti’s Goat” on tour in March 2012.

17.03.12 – Brisbane Jazz Club, Brisbane QLD

20.03.12 – Brisbane Consevatorium (workshop and concert), Brisbane QLD

27.03.12 – Jazz Loft, Canberra ACT

 

check gig page and www.songfwaa.com for details