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
Song Fwaa has a YouTube account.
http://www.youtube.com/user/songfwaa
The following review of Song Fwaa’s ‘Ligeti’s Goat’ album appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald last month:
From John Shand:
Not everyone can hear this music. First you must lift a certain Persian Rug (depicting grazing goats) to reveal a trapdoor. Opening this, you descend into an underground labyrinth in which every sound has an echo and every echo is a ghost of a note that may have been made by another instrument other than the one you think you heard. The eerie sonic world weaves composition and improvisation as thoroughly as it mingles and blurs the sounds of Martin Kay’s alto saxophone, David Reaston’s guitar, and Jamie Cameron’s drums. By turns dense, disquieting, playful, moving and hypnotic, it adds up to the finest recorded work by each member of this fiercely cohesive Sydney trio.
****
Sydney Morning Herald. 15/7/2011.
New Tracks Out! Digital Release. David Reaston: MMIV
Electronic/Experimental Music from 2004.
Available online at CD Baby
Song Fwaa (from the French sangfroid; literally cold blood, colloquially coolness under pressure).
Original, unusual and conversational music from three of Australia’s finest improvisors; Martin Kay on alto sax (Fantastic Terrific Munkle/Continuum Sax/SSO), David Reaston on guitar (leader of the 10 Guitar Project), and Jamie Cameron on drums (20th Century Dog/Amphibious/Adam Ponting). Melodies, sometimes pretty, sometimes catchy, and occasionally abstract and angular, collide with improvisations chattering and emoting, propelling the listener on an exciting express. A fascination for texture and unusual tunings and forms led to a consensus to improvise and compose as a chamber ensemble. Song Fwaa views music as an open vessel into which ideas are dropped and stewed. One is as likely to encounter a ragged ragtime or a post-bop scronk as much as a munted groove or a dodecaphonic row. Transcending the trio’s eclectic curiosity and its diverse stylistic range, Song Fwaa demonstrates a unity of purpose: creating passionate music that resonates in both mind and body.
Personal: Martin Kay (alto saxophone); David Reaston (guitar and pedals); Jamie Cameron (drums).
The Official Album Launch will be held in Sydney at the Venue 505 on Monday 18 April 2011 (8:30PM). For venue enquires please go to www.venue505.com.
Song Fwaa’s ‘Ligeti’s Goat’ album is available online at www.songfwaa.com or through www.cdbaby.com
Just letting you know that I am a finalist in the 2011 APRA Professional Development Awards. The winner will be officially announced at an event to be held in Sydney in March 2011…
http://www.apra-amcos.com.au/apraawards/professionaldevelopmentawards/finalists2011.aspx
WED 30th SEPTEMBER. 9:30PM
THE BASEMENT. 29 Reiby Place, Circular Quay
Guitarmageddon is here…again! The 10 GUITAR PROJECT returns to the Basement featuring some of Sydney’s finest jazz guitarists in Carl Dewhurst, Ben Hauptmann, Tim Rollinson, Aaron Flower, Jess Green, Julian Curwin, Sam Rollings, Arne Hanna, Jono Holmes, David Reaston, with Jamie Cameron (drums). The group will be playing the compositions of David Reaston, who founded the group in 2007.
‘What’s the collective noun for 10 electric guitarists? The unkind might suggest a 60-string racket, or even a catastrophe. Most people would be polarised into finding the idea either hellish or heavenly. The madman/prophet making it happen was David Reaston, who assembled the largest cast of notable Sydney guitarists seen in one place at one time, including Tim Rollinson (d.i.g) and Julian Curwin (Monsieur Camembert, the Tango Saloon).’ – John Shand, SMH, May 2008
http://www.myspace.com/10guitarproject
To get tickets click here:
http://www.moshtix.com.au/Event.aspx?id=29945&pLock=&vip=&skin=&ref=CAL
Make sure you listen to ABC Classic FM Jazztrack program this month. Mal Stanley will be playing tracks from ‘The 10 Guitar Project’ session we recorded for the show back in February 2009. Jazztrack happens every Saturday and Sunday 5 -7pm on ABC Classic FM nationwide.
Also, the Reaston/Kay Effect have some gigs coming up in July, most notably a gig presented by SIMA at the Sound Lounge, Seymour Centre on Friday July 31st. Hope to see you there.
The Reaston/Kay Effect’s 2008 self-titled album is available online through cdbaby.com, amazon.com, iTunes or by clicking the icon below.
