A thrilling night of incredible music for you! A Freedman Jazz Fellowship-winning project and the launch of a critically acclaimed and stunning album. First up will be Ghost Frequency, followed by Delay 45.

DELAY 45

“A bold new chapter in Australian jazz.” – Sydney Morning Herald

Delay 45 is a jazz and improvisation quartet with a penchant for bold, expressive works. Their fluid approach between composition and improvisation places musical conversation and connection at the centrepiece of performance.

Led by 2022 Freedman Fellowship winning trumpeter/composer Tom Avgenicos and featuring close collaborators Roshan Kumarage (piano), Dave Quinn (bass) and Ashley Stoneham (drums), they have built a reputation as one of the most outstanding ensembles to emerge in recent years. They have toured internationally and nationally and have performed at Australia’s most prestigious concert venues including The Sydney Opera House, Melbourne Recital Centre and Museum of Old and New Art (MONA).

They have released two critically acclaimed albums, with their latest release “Flux” cited as “a giant step forward” – (Rhythms Magazine). They have also ventured in multidisciplinary practice with a short film release “Flux: Short Film”.

Tom Avgenicos – Trumpet; Roshan Kumarage – Piano; Dave Quinn – Bass; Ashley Stoneham - Drums

GHOST FREQUENCY (album launch)

“…this thoroughly intriguing and unprecedented album is a major achievement.”★★★★★

Eric Myers - The Weekend Australian

Cameron Undy, who plays solo guitar for this project, says:

"The Ghost Frequency project is born from my fascination with ancient rhythms of the African diaspora. The idea that these rhythms evolved over thousands of years through human dance, ceremony and ritual is such a powerful one. That the vast majority of this evolution has gone unrecorded and never to be heard again, yet enriches such a wide variety of contemporary music is somewhat mind-blowing!

These rhythms are like ghostly artefacts, that when I ‘pick them up’ and ‘play’ them I can never be totally certain that I am ‘seeing’ them for what they are/were. And yet these distant relics of eons past fill me with inspiration and imagining, of an everlasting connection with ancient civilisations. Like looking at the light from a star that burnt out millions of years ago they are as real and present as a footprint in the sand, yet the sources of each are intangible in the present.

If you go looking for specific African rhythms in my music you may struggle because what I am playing are reflections, shadows and stellations of these ‘ghosts’. Rhythms I have created using natural sequence and generative, rule based principles of analog transformation. They are geometric distortions of the original archetypes, allowing me to enter ‘other places’ in my mind and body previously unknown. I am very grateful to African ritual culture and to Western scientific thinking for the paths made available to me to reach this ‘place’."

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Suggested donation for entry: $10-$20. Cash preferred.
Doors at 7, music from 7:30.
Address: BrandX Tempe Jets Music and Arts Space, Holbeach Ave, Tempe