CONVERGING PATHS - SHADES OF There (Ft-003)
Phil Treloar and Hamish Stuart
Kimnara records is proud to have Converging Paths - Shades of There (released on Phil Treloar's label Feeing To Thought) available from this website. Converging Paths - Shades Of There is an extraordinary collection of improvisations by two of Australia's most creative musicians.
Reviews......
Interaction is as important as melody, rhythm, texture, dynamics, emotion, or imgaination in making any music. Even solo performers interact with instrument, room, audience, and the piece. Such engagement helps beckon the listener.
Duetting as Converging Paths, Phil Treloar and Hamish Stuart generate a feast of interaction across all facets of their intimate music-making, as the paths of the former's marimba and the latter's drum-kit and percussion converge.
Each can be intensely reactive to the other, or they can rove along largely parallel courses that meet at an imaginary horizon.
Treloar generates the warmest marimba sound I've heard, each note arriving plump and round, with a finely tapered decay, and his enchanting improvisations bubble up as naturally as spring water. Stuart, meanwhile, long considered among the grooviest drummers in the land, here displays a splendour of textural invention to rival the great free drummers, and the fluency of his improvising ensures the two instruments are equal voices throughout.
Outstanding.
review: John Shand - Sydney Morning Herald