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WELCOME TO THE NOW NOW
Thanks for all who made our 9th festival so happening in the Blue Mountains!
We would especially like to thank Christian Malejka and Kathy O’hara for doing all the sound at the festival, and stage managing. They did an awesome job and their work was invaluable!
We hope to keep you up to date on all the exploratory music goings on around Sydney. We put on regular gigs and try and list anything that we find interesting. We also run the 20 + Splinter Orchestra.
Go to our contacts page and join our mailing list to be informed weekly of goings on.
Thanks for your interest, and hope to see you at a gig soon!
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Gems from the Vault
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MP3 available here - recordings from our archive.
Second in the series is an excerpt from Cat Hope’s solo from the 2005 NOW now festival, capturing the special acoustics of Space 3
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NOW now regulars Clare Cooper and Chris Abrahams as GERM STUDIES, have a new double CD available of Splitrec
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Jim Denley and Kim Myhr also have a new CD out on either/OAR.
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+ Espadrille album launch 'first wave'
espadrille is - John Encarnacao (radio, guitar & electronics), Brendan Smyly (tenor saxophone, voice & electronics), Joshua Isaac (drums & noises).
+ Cleptocleptics (Tom Smith)
+ Guard compartment (Monika Brooks and John Hunter)
thursday 11th march
7:30pm
475 king newtown
5 dollar donation
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1/4_inch returns in 2010 after a longer than expected hiatus.
To kick off the years fun and games they are proud to announce a very special performance by:
::PIMMON
Robert Curgenven
and
Joshua Craig::
Date: Saturday, 13 March 2010
Time: 7:30pm - 10:30pm
Location: Headlands Hotel Austinmer (N.S.W)
Cost: $10
www.1-4inch.com
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"…bright piano, rich bass and bass drum packing a mighty punch" – John Shand
ROIL is a collaboration between pianist Chris Abrahams, bassist Mike Majkowski and drummer James Waples. Formed in 2007, this Sydney-based trio has been developing their own approach to jazz improvisation. There is a controlled elegance to Roil’s music – not that this precludes the energetic. The music has an eddying quality that moves between group utterance and multi-stranded counterpoint, a weaving of textures that coagulate to form unified phrases before dispersing once more into the churning invention.
This SIMA performance will be part of their first Australian tour, celebrating the release of their debut album Meaning.
"Recorded with great clarity, this essay in sound challenges preconceptions…" – Roger Mitchell
"A beautifully weighted trio, full of delicacy, mesmerizing accumulations of detail and engulfing power"
– John Clare
8:30pm - 11pm
tickets: $18/$15/$12 (Full/Concession/Member)
The Sound Lounge is located inside the Seymour Centre - cnr of City Rd & Cleveland St, Sydney.
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For the past 40 years British guitarist Mike Cooper has been an international musical explorer tracing a path completely his own performing and recording solo and in a number of inspired groupings. His roots lie in acoustic country blues as one of the handful of pioneering players of the Sixties Acoustic British Blues Boom playing with and alongside blues legends such as Son House, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Bukka White and others.
He is also a film and video maker / graphic artist /music journalist and collector of Hawaiian shirts and this year, as well as performing a set of songs and instrumentals he will also perform live to a short film about French painter Paul Gauguin by Italian documentary film maker Folco Quilici and read excerpts from Noa Noa, Gauguins Tahitian journals.
Bronte Bowling Club - 16 Wallace Street Waverley
$10 cover charge
9:30pm start
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MIKE COOPER (UK) & CHRIS ABRAHAMS (SYD)
For the past 40 years British guitarist Mike Cooper has traced a path completely his own and is a difficult artist to classify. Cooper has arguably stretched the possibilities of the guitar – leaping fearlessly from pure blues to folk, with free jazz and improvisation, in turn arriving at the avant-garde in the late 70s and 80s. 1994 marked his first visit to Australia (he now lives in Rome) and he has been back every year since performing a variety of musical collaborations. Tonight he will be in duo with Australia’s most adventurous improvising keyboard player Chris Abrahams.
mike cooper - guitar, electronics
chris abrahams - piano, dx7
venue - 505
address - cnr cleveland & perry streets, surry hills.
time - 8:30pm
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an afternoon concert (3 sets):
+ Raven
+ Crabsmasher
+ Infinite Decimels
4pm start
475 king st newtown
donations please
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