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Jan 15 2007

New Noise for the New Year

Classical Music? I'm working on a couple of pieces with lyrics obligingly supplied by Lucretius and Ovid, from de Rerum Natura and Metamorphoses respectively. Lucretius speculates on the nature of sound in a passage which I reckon will work…
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Dec 23 2006

National Folk Fellowship recipient announced

From the National Library of Australia's e-newsletter Ian Blake, a highly regarded Australian folk composer/performer and 2005 ACT Creative Arts Fellow, is this year's recipient of the National Folk Fellowship, organised by the National Library of Australia and…

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Dec 17 2006

It's that time again

...at a shopping mall near YOU... (well, Woden Plaza actually) ...the mince pies and tinned plum duff have hit the shelves as the mercury soars in the Widely Browned-Off Land. Time to cower in the coolth of the Mall…
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Dec 13 2006

New CD from Moonshinefunk

This Canberra band is releasing its eponymous first LP shortly, recorded here in swinging Latham. It's jolly good: experience their MySpaciousness.

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Dec 8 2006

This month's Proverb of Hell

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

(Blake, c.1790)

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Nov 16 2006

Come, friends, who plough the sea

"Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would   permit us to be pirates." - Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi


Had my first taste of piracy (as a…
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Oct 16 2006

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.clarity4.com"> Clarity Clarinet Quartet</a> plays 'Starling' on October 20th

At the Alliance Française, Canberra From the programme notes: Starling is a new quartet for clarinets (first performance at the Adelaide Fringe in March this year) Don't pay too much attention to the title: originally the music was…

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Oct 13 2006

Increased ukelele activity detected in Melbourne

There's a lot of it about: I was doing some playing for the new Mike and Diane Jackson ukelele project (mostly reeds and bass from me) and was introduced to the M.U.K (Melbourne Ukelele Kollective): a hotbed of nylon-strung surreality…

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Jun 11 2006

<i>Masque</i> - a new piece for The Haydn Bande

On June 24th, The Haydn Bande, conducted by Geoffrey Lancaster, will be playing Masque, my new work for small string orchestra. It's turned out to have a distinct aroma of JPP - that's a favourite Finnish band. Plus a…

Apr 10 2006

<i> Cantara</i> - the new CD from Jenny Gall

-is launched at the National Folk Festival this Easter weekend. It's available from indie-cds.com, CD Baby and iTunes

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Mar 12 2006

The Nexus Project presents café music and tangos by Astor Piazolla

The players Ian Blake - soprano sax Nicole Canham - clarinet Mark Norton - guitar Zoey Pepper - bassoon ...at the Alliance Francaise, 66 McCaughey Street Turner. phone 6247 5027 7.30 pm Saturday 1st April $20/15
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Nov 26 2005

More about the music of <i>Luminous</i>

As Mark Moss pointed out in his SingOut! review, the background information on the CD is a bit sparse, so here are some track-by-track details: Helen and Ian are joined on this recording by percussionist Peter Kennard, cellist Julian Thompson,…
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    1. 1
      from Verklärter Bungalow 0:43
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    2. 2
      from Masque 1:39
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    3. 3
      Kern 5:41
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    4. 4
      Sofðu unga ástin mín 7:39
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    5. 5
      from The River Daughter 1:26
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    6. 6
      from Starling 11:38
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    7. 7
      Green Bushes 6:56
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    8. 8
      La Rivyer Tanier 5:02
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    9. 9
      Ema Haual/Hällilaual 6:16
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    10. 10
      Le Chat à Jeanette 5:18
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    11. 11
      ..the burning Thames I have to cross... 8:50
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    12. 12
      Bergomasca Bonza 1:39
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      3am magpie solo 0:16
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    14. 14
      High Plains, Drifting 4:11
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      from 'One of Us' 11:24
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      from The Umbagong Grooves 2:40
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      generations 4:51
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      Hares and Plantations 2:05
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      King in a Tenement Castle 3:04
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      The Old Joe Set 4:03
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