10 Guitar Project: Volume 2 is the second instalment of music written for an ensemble featuring ten electric guitars. Recorded in 2015 across two shows at Sydney’s Venue 505, the album captures the guitarmageddon of guitarists Zane Banks, Julian Curwin, David de Vries, Jess Green, Peter Koopman, Luke Liang, Carl Morgan, David Reaston, Tim Rollinson, Sam Rollings, Jeremy Sawkins, and Oliver Thorpe, anchored by Jamie Cameron on drums and cymbals. Released via MADE NOW MUSIC.

Song Fwaa
Contemporary, Jazz, New Music
Reviewed by Tim Rollinson, November 1st, 2014

Song Fwaa is the name of a Sydney based art jazz, new music trio consisting of Martin Kay (alto saxophone), David Reaston (acoustic nylon 8-string guitar with effects) and Jamie Cameron (drums and cymbals). In their second album, Sons Of No Guns For We Are Anomalous, they continue to explore experimental composition techniques and the resulting potential for improvisation which began with Ligeti’s Goat (2011).

There is much wordplay and surreal, darkly comic imagery in the song titles, an approach which is also evident in the music itself. Song Fwaa is a play on ‘sangfroid’ and is also an acronym of the album name. The titles and album notes cryptically namecheck inspirations such as saxophonist and downtown NYC band leader Tim Berne, Dave Brubeck, Scott Joplin and David Tudor (associate of John Cage)…

continue reading full review here: http://musictrust.com.au/2014/11/sons-of-no-guns-for-we-are-anomalous/

Weekend Australian Review: October 25 – 26, 2014

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

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.

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

Click on the following link to read a review by Eric Pozza from Song Fwaa’s gig in Canberra last Tuesday, 27-03-12

http://canberrajazz.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/calm-amongst-frenzy.html