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Thrown
CD, 2004
Streaming
2xCD, 2003
Double album.
"Beautiful sonorous objects"
–The Wire (UK)
Glow
CD, 2001
Chris Abrahams solo piano.
"...the notes seem to float into existence with the gracefulness of falling leaves"
–Sydney Morning Herald
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Lloyd Swanton's long-running project. Powerful jazz blowing on dance rhythms from the Caribbean, Africa, Latin America and elsewhere, all framed by very catchy melodies. Slide guitar, percussion to the fore.
"...Their perky brand of freewheeling world music that cares little for origins and has the distinct capacity to make you dance."
-Toronto Star (Canada)
Featuring various combinations of: Lloyd Swanton - acoustic, electric bass; Dave Brewer - electric, acoustic guitar; Sandy Evans - saxophones, flute; James Greening - trombone, pocket trumpet; Fabian Hevia, Sammila Sithole - percussion; Michel Rose - pedal steel guitar, Dobro, mandolin; Bruce Reid - National steel, lap steel guitar; Hamish Stuart, Toby Hall, Tony Buck - drums; Chris Abrahams - Hammond organ; Jonathan Pease - guitar; Waldo Fabian - bass guitar, percussion.
Inter Vivos - live in concert
2xCD, 2009
Village
CD, 2007
"Firmly in the good-time groove…a glorious thing"
–Limelight
Gondola
CD, 2006
"A change of direction and their finest album to date"
–Sydney Morning Herald
"The sound is big and the effects gorgeous. A beautiful release."
–The Wire (UK)
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Choice
CD, 2000
Special-priced compilation of 11 tracks from The catholics' first four albums.
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Barefoot
CD, 1999
Nominated for ARIA Award Best Jazz Album
"...a dream team of Sydney musicians... ambitious diversity... a remarkably relaxed and seamless flow of ideas. Their knack is being able to put a jazz spin on grooves from around the globe—South Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America—in a sunny, light-spirited way that belies the killer status of the players. This is jazz in a straw hat and Hawaiian shirt...sensuous and joyous music...a (barefoot) walk in the park."
–Australian Financial Review
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Life on Earth
CD, 1997
Nominated for ARIA Award Best Jazz Album
"...another charming gem. This tightly-focused group... takes multiple influences and stirs them with a swizzle stick to produce a signature sound which somehow makes perfect sense... an endlessly adventurous (and highly danceable) effort... already on this critic's short list for the best of '98!"
–Jazz Times
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Simple
CD, 1994
Listed in Jazz Times Critics' Picks of '95.
Nominated for Deutsche Schallplattenkritik Award
"At once charming, haunting and joyful, Simple is one of the most inventive albums to come along in a very long time... a thoroughly captivating and highly recommended collection. Find it"
–Jazz Times
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The catholics
CD, 1992
Nominated for ARIA Award Best Jazz Album
"The richness, diversity and accessibility of The catholics suffuses every track. It is their virtuosity, imagination and the inventiveness of Lloyd Swanton's writing.... which makes this music so successful.... no written description can do justice to this music... search out a copy of this superb album"
–Rolling Stone
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Music of the Little Red Spiders
CD, 1997
Tony Buck (percussion, samples, programming); Andy (Ex) (electric & acoustic guitar); Joe Williamson (acoustic bass); Stevie Wishart (hurdy-gurdy, violin).
Covering a wide range of dynamics and textures, Music of the Little Red Spiders moves from whisper quiet, abstract soundscapes into slowly metamorphosing, driving and robust walls of noise. A seductive journey into diverse aural extremes, combining drones, trance and texture. "A response to a need to be centred, organic, sensual..."
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astroPERIL
CD, 1996
Tony Buck (drums, samples, machines), Kai Wolf (guitar), Alex Nowitz (Bass & Voice).
The Peril story continues in Europe with this line-up, mixing the signature solid hardcore and cross-genre cut-ups with more splintery improvisations. A strong, colourful and varied recording....
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Multiverse
CD
Here Peril is Tony Buck (drums, samples, machines), Otomo Yoshihide (turntables, guitar), Sheridan (Guitar) and Thierry Fosmale (Bass).
"Strong ordered chaos at its best, where real and cooked sounds disappear into one another: the difficult art of colour profusion without brown sludge, and a model of maximum information and mutation that continually surprises and stimulates. A prodigious work and highly recommended..."
–Chris Cutler / Recommended Reviews
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Solo Live
CD, 1994
"Tony Buck takes his STEIM interactive Drum/Perc/Sampler system through its paces, not that listening you'd know where the hell the sound was coming from most of the time. An interesting set of pieces by one of the more interesting drummers around on that noise/electronic/rock fringe, and the only one I can think of to use triggered samples in a way that really works..."
–Chris Cutler / Recommended Reviews
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