Mark Hannaford piano, Sam Anning double bass and Allan Browne drums playing ‘Darn that dream’ at Bennetts Lane jazz Club

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Fran Swinn’s composition – Inform – for Jazz quartet and acrobat, featuring Eugene Ball – trumpet, Fran Swinn – guitar, Tamara Murphy – double bass, Ben Hendry – drums and Rockie Stone – acrobatics/aerials. Inform is a collection of short pieces written with the rhythm and form of the various circus apparatus in mind and performed with a focus on interaction and improvisation, thus creating an ensemble of five. This clip is of the final chair stack with drummer Ben Hendry assisting. Sound recording by Myles Mumford. Video by Leo Dale.

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Lamine Sonko singing about the Senegalese traditional wrestling game. The names in the song are the big wrestling champions in Senegal. Pape Moussa Sonko (Lamine’s brother) is mentioned in the song, he is a wrestler and also a very famous dancer.

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Fiona Roake made the trip across the Tasman from New Zealand to Australia in the mid 90s to study theatre. In this song she combines her lifelong love of music and spoken word to capture the feeling of losing your motherland when you call a new place home.

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Life is a masquerade my dear, would you like to come to the ball?

Mikelangelo has spent many years touring the globe with his acclaimed Kabaret Noir ensemble The Black Sea Gentlemen and with Olivier award winning contemporary circus/vaudeville show La Clique. He now lives in Melbourne, where he continues to work solo and with the Black Sea Gentlemen. He also fronts Surf ‘n’ Western rock ’n’ roll band Mikelangelo and the Tin Star, and performs his love songs and lullabies with sultry songbird Saint Clare and underground legend JP Shilo.

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Mikelangelo and the Black Sea gentlemen
Mikelangelo’s grooming blog
Mikelangelo and Saint Clare
The Tinstar

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Marios Cafe marked 25 years of serving the arts community last night with an all star band in front of a large crowd at the Fitzroy Town Hall. I’ve posted this short clip of Paul Williamson blowing all the cobwebs away. Have a look at his very popular sax lesson for Digital Pill here

Thanks to the two Marios for an incredible gig and all of their support for live music over many many years. You can visit their new website here

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David Bridie sings The Centre Cannot Hold from the Fiasco album by My Friend the Chocolate Cake.

David says of this song -
From the W B yeats poem..”things fall apart, the centre cannot hold”..a war reflection..pretty simple tune, just blocked piano and droning strings … listened to Robert Wyatt’s “stalingrad” off “nothing can stop us” and then saw a doco set in Kabul in the winter time during the current war .. the parallel struck me…. there’s lighter songs on the album, this aint one of them:)

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Kate and Adam and Ariel Valent, together known as Invention in Time, perform Fast Giraffe from their latest CD Falling by Design. Played on marimba (wooden) and vibraphone (metal) this piece is one of the duo’s more jazzy, up-beat original compositions.

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Julia Messenger sings Telepathy in her studio in Melbourne accompanied on piano by Mark Fitzgibbon. This is an acoustic version of the song that appears on her album “Productions & Collaborations”. Downtempo and Jazzy. She connects telepathically with her lover to find out he’s with someone else – but she doesn’t care.

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Valanga Khoza at home singing and playing the Kalimba (thumb piano)

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