Past Event
cleverhorse launch 50:fifty
12th Feb 2016
Presenter: cleverhorse
Website: https://www.facebook.com/cleverhorse
Event Duration: 150 minutes
Led by composer/guitarist Robbie Melville, the band cites influences from ambient to avant-garde, funk to folk, jazz to jam band and world music.
With their second album, cleverhorse present seven of Melville’s compositions and six improvised studio experiments. Half of the album features stylised, well-structured compositions that are interspersed with shorter improvised pieces. The group developed these improvisations as diversionary musical challenges intended to help maintain their energy, spark and creativity throughout the recording process.
The result is a body of work that contrasts the melodic and cinematic with the frenetic and quirky, on an album that shuns conventions of jazz and improvised music.
In addition to Robbie Melville on guitar, the band comprises Monty Mackenzie on alto saxophone, Gideon Brazil on tenor saxophone, Luke Hodgson on electric bass and Dan Macdonald on drums.
DOORS OPEN @ 8.00PM ~ SET ONE @ 8.30PM
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