austraLYSIS (Roger Dean, Sandy Evans and Phil Slater) celebrates the completion of its new album Dualling!
The recording expands the concept of the ‘duet’ with duos of musician & environment, musician & musician, musician & pre-formed object (sonic, visual, textual), and musician with external process.
Dualling! is roughly the 30th dedicated release in austraLYSIS’ long career, mostly on the Tall Poppies label, others on Mosaic and Soma.
austraLYSIS has evolved from an ensemble founded in the UK in 1970 that performed fixed compositions (from Xenakis to new complexity and minimalism) alongside freely improvised music and jazz, through early electro-acoustic tape music, to its current incarnation as a group operating internationally in sonic multimedia creation and presentation, including text and image, composition and improvisation.
The group has performed in 30 countries,
and tonight’s musicians are its core.
Roger Dean (piano, electronics, composer/improviser), has a performing, creating and recording track record ranging from work with the London Sinfonietta, London Jazz Composers Orchestra, Graham Collier music, Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, to Sydney Alpha Ensemble, Watt, and the Australian Chamber Orchestra. Dean was a co-winner (as musical contributor) of the international Robert Coover prize for electronic literature.
Sandy Evans (saxophones) has played with and written for some of the most important groups in Australian jazz since the early 1980s and has toured extensively in Australia, Europe, Canada and Asia. She leads the Sandy Evans Trio and Sextet, and co-leads the internationally acclaimed Clarion Fracture Zone. She is a member of MARA!, Waratah, The Catholics, the Australian Art Orchestra and Ten Part Invention. She collaborates with Sydney-based Indian musicians Sarangan Sriranganathan and Bobby Singh and recently released the CD 'Kapture', a tribute to South African freedom fighter Ahmed Kathrada. She has been awarded an Australia Council Fellowship, a Churchill Fellowship, an OAM, Bell Award For Australian Jazz Musician of The Year 2003, a Young Australian Creative Fellowship, APRA Award for Jazz Composition of the Year and three ARIA Awards.
Phil Slater (trumpet) is the leader or co-leader of the Phil Slater Quintet, Band of Five Names, Doarum, and The Sun Songbook. He has performed and recorded with the Australian Art Orchestra, Archie Roach, Ruby Hunter, Missy Higgins, Andrea Keller, Paul Grabowsky, Lou Reed, Bernie McGann, Genevieve Lacey, Katie Noonan and Vince Jones, among many others. Phil has composed, recorded, and performed for the Sydney Theatre Company, Belvoir St Theatre, Legs on the Wall, Bangarra, and Sydney Dance Company. Phil has received the National Jazz Award and the Bell Award for Australian Jazz Musician of the Year among many other accolades.
Tonight is one of the first Sydney performances by austraLYSIS since the peak of COVID, and it will also be performing in the UK later in the year.
Read more about austraLYSIS and listen at their website here
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