Press
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Performance Reviews
- Earth, Wind and Song Cycles Performing in Concert
- The Age (Jessica Nicholas), 22 March 2007
- Bridging the Gap Between Contemporary Music and Ancient Indigenous Music.
- ABC Darwin 18 August 2008
- A Work Of Rare Integrity
- (Dr Aaron Corn),
- Very Old Meets Very New in Quest for Mutual Understanding
- www.resonatemagazine.com.au (Kelly Curran), 25 September 2008
- Crossing Musical Boundaries
- Rhythms Magazine (Tony Hillier), Thursday, February 26, 2009
- Renaissance on the Roper
- The Australian (Nicolas Rothwell), 30 April 2009
- Crossing Roper Bar - An Introduction
Crossing Roper Bar
- Flawed Gem
- The Age (Jessica Nicholas), 29 January 2001
- Earthiness and Sensuality
- The Australian (Kevin Jones), 2 February 2001
City of Women
- Diverse
- The Age (Jessica Nicholas) January 2003
Hard Core
- Hypnotic Rhythms
- Adelaide GT May 2000
- Ideas Never Become Tangled
- Weekend Australian (Lynden Barber), June 2000
- West Meets the Subcontinent
- Sydney Morning Herald (John Clare), 6 May 2000
- The Exception to the Rule
- The Age Green Guide (Leon Gettler), May 2000
- A Brilliant Collaboration
- Australian Financial Review (Shane Nichols), June 2000
- Unique and Beautiful
- Capital Q May 2000
- For Sophisticated Listeners
- Canberra Times (Michael Porter), June 2000
- All That Jazz
- The Indian Express, Bombay 31 October 1996
- New Music From An Older Tradition
- The Indian Express, New Delhi October 1996
- Out of This World Music
- Adelaide Advertiser (Stephen Whittington), March 1998
- A Triumphal Hurrah
- The Telegraph, Calcutta (Prosanto Dutt), October 1996
- Melody is the Mother; Rhythm is the Father
- The Age (Jessica Nicholas), 13 October 2003
- When East Meets West!
- Hyderabad Times (Usha Raman), 25 January 2007
- Into The Fire: Synthesising East With West
- The Hindu (Ranee Kumar), 26 January 2007
- Experiment that worked
- The Hindu (Lalithaa Krishnan), 13 June 2008
- Oceanic Wave of Fused Rhythms
- The Hindu (Usha Raman), 6 June 2008
- Music Connecting People
- Newsindiapress.com Express Features 24 June 2008
- Where Genres Meet
- The Hindu, Chennai (Divya Kumar), 2 June 2008
- Moved by Rhythm Patterns
- The Hindu (V. Balasubramanian), 1 May 2009
- Into the Fire - An Introduction and Brief History
- A Quick Word From Paul Re. Into the Fire
- (Paul Grabowsky), 2003
Into The Fire
- Kura Tungar
- The Age ( Jessica Nicholas), 19 October 2004
Kura Tungar: River Songs and Stories
- A Dazzling Achievement
- The Independant Weekly (David Sly), 12 June 2006
- Kelly Delivers a Cabaret Revelation
- Sunday Mail (John Merriman), 11 June 2006
- Risky Mix of Religion
- The Australian (John McBeath), 12 June 2006
Meet Me in the Middle of the Air
- Jazz's Great Passion
- The Sydney Morning Herald (John Clare), 26 July 1997
- Power of the Passion - From Very Different Corners
- The Australian (Jeremy Vincent), 31 March 1997
- Passionate Entry to a New Home
- Sydney Morning Herald (John Shand), 2005
Passion
- Music That Goes Right Into my Bones
- Sydney Morning Herald, SIMA website (John Clare), 15 April 2006
- The Ebb and Flow - Songs from the River of Life
- The Sydney Morning Herald (Daniel Ziffer), 14 March 2006
- Ruby's New Ground
- The Koorie Mail 15 March 2006
- Swirling Sea of Sonic Passion
- Beat Magazine (David Dawson), 8 March 2006
- A Unique Collaboration has Created an Authentic Form of Australian Blues and Jazz
- Limelight (Fred Pawle), April 2006
- Daughter of the River
- The Australian (Iain Shedden), 1 June 2004
- What an Amazing, Memorable Night Out!
- http://www.abc.net.au/message (Kezia George), 10 June 2004
- She's the Centre of Attention in Some Very Fine Company
- The Advertiser (Louise Nunn), 12 June 2004
- The Success of the Fusion
- dBmagazine Adelaide Issue 332 (David Grybowski), June 2004
- Magical River Music
- Real Time (Keith Gallasch), June 2004
- Joyous Celebration
- The Star (Ricky Lai), March 2008
- Everything About the Show was Just Right
- starmagfeedback@thestar.com (Martin Vengadesan), March 2008
Ruby's Story
- "Elegant, soothing, frantic, turbulent"
- Rhythms (Adrian Jackson), March 2003
- "Jazz and something else"
- Financial Review, March 29 2003
- A selection of responses
- The Theft of Sita
Theft of Sita
- Sound Fusion, or Just Plain Confusing?
- The Australian (Kevin Ball), 29 October 2001
- Plain Sailing in Shore's Heavy Weather
- The Age (Joel Crotty), October 2001
- Composers Notes
Shorelines
- Swinging in Bird's Paradise
- The Australian (Lynden Barber), 11 Jan 2002
- Excellent
- Real Time (Keith Gallasch), January 2002
- Soaring Tribute to Jazzman Bird
- The Australian (Hilary Shrubb), 18 January 2002
- A True Marriage of Sound and Vision Sees Bird Take Flight
- Sydney Morning Herald (John Shand), 18.01.02
- Jazz Opera Poet Jams With the Bird
- (Philip McCarthy), 9 January 2002
- Tribute to a Genius
- The Advertiser (Patrick McDonald), 10 June 2003
- Artistic Director's Notes
- Composer's Notes
Testimony: The Legend of Charlie Parker
- Paul's Big Splash
- Herald Sun (Xenia Hanusiak), January 2000
- Ensemble Glories in Diverse Sounds
- The Australian (Jeremy Vincent), 24 January 2000
- A Mixed Offering
- The Age (Joel Crotty), January 2000
Two Ducks Swimming
Reviews of AAO Recordings
- Earth, Wind and Song Cycles Performing in Concert
- The Age (Jessica Nicholas), 22 March 2007
- Bridging the Gap Between Contemporary Music and Ancient Indigenous Music.
- ABC Darwin 18 August 2008
- A Work Of Rare Integrity
- (Dr Aaron Corn),
- Very Old Meets Very New in Quest for Mutual Understanding
- www.resonatemagazine.com.au (Kelly Curran), 25 September 2008
- Crossing Musical Boundaries
- Rhythms Magazine (Tony Hillier), Thursday, February 26, 2009
- Renaissance on the Roper
- The Australian (Nicolas Rothwell), 30 April 2009
- Crossing Roper Bar - An Introduction
Crossing Roper Bar
- Hypnotic Rhythms
- Adelaide GT May 2000
- Ideas Never Become Tangled
- Weekend Australian (Lynden Barber), June 2000
- West Meets the Subcontinent
- Sydney Morning Herald (John Clare), 6 May 2000
- The Exception to the Rule
- The Age Green Guide (Leon Gettler), May 2000
- A Brilliant Collaboration
- Australian Financial Review (Shane Nichols), June 2000
- Unique and Beautiful
- Capital Q May 2000
- For Sophisticated Listeners
- Canberra Times (Michael Porter), June 2000
- All That Jazz
- The Indian Express, Bombay 31 October 1996
- New Music From An Older Tradition
- The Indian Express, New Delhi October 1996
- Out of This World Music
- Adelaide Advertiser (Stephen Whittington), March 1998
- A Triumphal Hurrah
- The Telegraph, Calcutta (Prosanto Dutt), October 1996
- Melody is the Mother; Rhythm is the Father
- The Age (Jessica Nicholas), 13 October 2003
- When East Meets West!
- Hyderabad Times (Usha Raman), 25 January 2007
- Into The Fire: Synthesising East With West
- The Hindu (Ranee Kumar), 26 January 2007
- Experiment that worked
- The Hindu (Lalithaa Krishnan), 13 June 2008
- Oceanic Wave of Fused Rhythms
- The Hindu (Usha Raman), 6 June 2008
- Music Connecting People
- Newsindiapress.com Express Features 24 June 2008
- Where Genres Meet
- The Hindu, Chennai (Divya Kumar), 2 June 2008
- Moved by Rhythm Patterns
- The Hindu (V. Balasubramanian), 1 May 2009
- Into the Fire - An Introduction and Brief History
- A Quick Word From Paul Re. Into the Fire
- (Paul Grabowsky), 2003
Into The Fire
- A Dazzling Achievement
- The Independant Weekly (David Sly), 12 June 2006
- Kelly Delivers a Cabaret Revelation
- Sunday Mail (John Merriman), 11 June 2006
- Risky Mix of Religion
- The Australian (John McBeath), 12 June 2006
Meet Me in the Middle of the Air
- Jazz's Great Passion
- The Sydney Morning Herald (John Clare), 26 July 1997
- Power of the Passion - From Very Different Corners
- The Australian (Jeremy Vincent), 31 March 1997
- Passionate Entry to a New Home
- Sydney Morning Herald (John Shand), 2005
Passion
- Grabowsky's Backwards Bell Ringing is a Triumph
- The Age (Adrian Jackson), 27 April 1995
- Promise Fulfilled With More to Come
- Sydney Morning Herald ((John Shand), 8 May 1995
- Ringing in the Changes
- Herald Sun (Jessica Nicholas), 24 March 1995
- Strange Meeting
- Jazzcontinuum.com (Graham Collier), 7 April 2009
- Ringing the Bell Backwards - An Introduction
- (Adrian Jackson),
Ringing The Bell Backwards
- Music That Goes Right Into my Bones
- Sydney Morning Herald, SIMA website (John Clare), 15 April 2006
- The Ebb and Flow - Songs from the River of Life
- The Sydney Morning Herald (Daniel Ziffer), 14 March 2006
- Ruby's New Ground
- The Koorie Mail 15 March 2006
- Swirling Sea of Sonic Passion
- Beat Magazine (David Dawson), 8 March 2006
- A Unique Collaboration has Created an Authentic Form of Australian Blues and Jazz
- Limelight (Fred Pawle), April 2006
- Daughter of the River
- The Australian (Iain Shedden), 1 June 2004
- What an Amazing, Memorable Night Out!
- http://www.abc.net.au/message (Kezia George), 10 June 2004
- She's the Centre of Attention in Some Very Fine Company
- The Advertiser (Louise Nunn), 12 June 2004
- The Success of the Fusion
- dBmagazine Adelaide Issue 332 (David Grybowski), June 2004
- Magical River Music
- Real Time (Keith Gallasch), June 2004
- Joyous Celebration
- The Star (Ricky Lai), March 2008
- Everything About the Show was Just Right
- starmagfeedback@thestar.com (Martin Vengadesan), March 2008
Ruby's Story
- "Elegant, soothing, frantic, turbulent"
- Rhythms (Adrian Jackson), March 2003
- "Jazz and something else"
- Financial Review, March 29 2003
- A selection of responses
- The Theft of Sita
Theft of Sita
- Swinging in Bird's Paradise
- The Australian (Lynden Barber), 11 Jan 2002
- Excellent
- Real Time (Keith Gallasch), January 2002
- Soaring Tribute to Jazzman Bird
- The Australian (Hilary Shrubb), 18 January 2002
- A True Marriage of Sound and Vision Sees Bird Take Flight
- Sydney Morning Herald (John Shand), 18.01.02
- Jazz Opera Poet Jams With the Bird
- (Philip McCarthy), 9 January 2002
- Tribute to a Genius
- The Advertiser (Patrick McDonald), 10 June 2003
- Artistic Director's Notes
- Composer's Notes
Testimony: The Legend of Charlie Parker
- Phil Slater Describes the Project
Soak / The Hollow Air
Features
- Paul Grabowsky Interview - The Music Show
- The Music Show, 12 July 2003
- Five Questions for Paul Grabowsky
- Rhythms Magazine (Adrian Jackson), March 2003
- Moving to Another Phase
- JazzChord (Martin Jackson), August 2000
