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Album of the Week @ Eastside Radio from 10 Sept
This Sydney trio consists of Martin Kay’s alto saxophone, David Reaston’s guitar and Jamie Cameron’s drums. Song Fwaa have dedicated this album to avant garde classical composer Gyorky Ligeti who is best known for his pieces on the ‘2001 a Space Odyssey’ soundtrack.
Describing their instrumentation as “conversational, viewing music as an open vessel into which ideas are dropped and stewed,” Song Fwaa’s sound is as conceptual as it is original.
Throughout the album the trio create an esoteric world woven with dense and hypnotic melodies, colliding percussion and unpredictable improvisations. The music is intricately textured and deeply constructed and has a profound ability to play with your emotions, moving from melancholic auras to lighter spring like ambience. The influences from Ligeti are abundant.
Ligeti’s Goat is an abstract and eclectic LP that should not be taken lightly. Passionate and explosive, yet tranquil and sublime, Song Fwaa have taken jazz to a spaced and futuristic level where both mind and body are equally affected.
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From John Shand:Not everyone can hear this music. First you must lift a certain Persian Rug (depicting grazing goats) to reveal a trapdoor. Opening this, you descend into an underground labyrinth in which every sound has an echo and every echo is a ghost of a note that may have been made by another instrument other than the one you think you heard. The eerie sonic world weaves composition and improvisation as thoroughly as it mingles and blurs the sounds of Martin Kay's alto saxophone, David Reaston's guitar, and Jamie Cameron's drums. By turns dense, disquieting, playful, moving and hypnotic, it adds up to the finest recorded work by each member of this fiercely cohesive Sydney trio.****Sydney Morning Herald. 15/7/2011.---------------------------------------From John McBeath:John McBeath. The Australian, May 2011To label this album as experimental would be a vast understatement. Everything about this Sydney trio is esoteric: ‘Song Fwaa’ is a rough phonetic of the French ‘sang-froid,’ literally cold blood, but meaning self-possession or unflappability. Song Fwaa’s music is an extraordinary collection described as “conversational, viewing music as an open vessel into which ideas are dropped and stewed.” It’s a tribute to avant classical composer Gyorky Ligeti (1923 – 2006) whose body of advanced works is most known for excerpts on the soundtrack of 2001 A Space Odyssey. The trio of alto saxophonist Martin Kay, guitarist David Reaston, and drummer Jamie Cameron has adopted a Ligeti-style approach, sometimes using dense webs of texture suspended in space and time. The title track, “exploring the eating cycle of a goat,” opens with murky chords and percussive effects in an odd time signature with the alto floating tranquilly above, then slides into glissandos moving upward against a heavy, swinging drumkit as a controlled chaos emerges, to be grounded by a walking rhythmic passage with unpredictable jazz-like phrases from the alto. Motility begins with a classical style alto cadenza which dives into busy traffic mode where percussion provides heavy transport sounds as the piece moves in and out of rhythm. This investigative album won’t appeal to everyone but its diverse styles and eclecticism are skilfully and originally explored 
-----------------------------'You won’t want to listen to this if you’re tired, sick or hungover because you’re brain might explode.'Emma Salkild , 17/05/2011 Alternative Media Group.
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- Tuesday 27th March 2012
- Song Fwaa @ The Loft, Canberra.
Wednesday 21st March 2012- Song Fwaa @ Toowomba (workshop and concert).
Tuesday 20th March 2012- Song Fwaa @ Brisbane Conservatorium (workshop and concert)
Saturday 17 March 2012- Song Fwaa @ Brisbane Jazz Club
15 January 2012Check out our Fringe Page for more info- Song Fwaa @ Summer Jazzgroove Festival. Club 505.
6 September 2011- Song Fwaa with Baz + Pen Island @ Hermann's Bar, Sydney. Sydney Fringe Festival.
9 August 2011
- Song Fwaa @ NIMA. Grand Hotel Newcastle 7.30 PM
21 June 2011
- Song Fwaa plays Jazzgroove @ 505
ALBUM LAUNCH! We are releasing our new album Ligeti's Goat officially, in the temporal world, very soon.Monday 18th April 2011- Ligeti's Goat Album Launch
- 8PM Venue 505
- 280 Cleveland Street, Surry Hills Sydney $10.
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About us
SONG FWAA
‘The wrong band for the right people.’
Song Fwaa (from the French sangfroid; literally cold blood, colloquially coolness under pressure).
Original, unusual and conversational music from three of Australiaʼs finest improvisors; Martin Kay on alto sax (Fantastic Terrific Munkle/Continuum Sax/SSO), David Reaston on guitar (leader of the 10 Guitar Project), and Jamie Cameron on drums (20th Century Dog/Amphibious/Adam Ponting). Melodies, sometimes pretty, sometimes catchy, and occasionally abstract and angular, collide with improvisations chattering and emoting, propelling the listener on an exciting express. A fascination for texture and offbeat interactions led to a consensus to improvise and compose as a chamber ensemble. Song Fwaa views music as an open vessel into which ideas are dropped and stewed. One is as likely to encounter a ragged ragtime or a post-bop scronk as much as a munted groove or a dodecaphonic row. Transcending the trioʼs eclectic curiosity and its diverse stylistic range, Song Fwaa demonstrates a unity of purpose: creating passionate music that resonates in both mind and body.
‘Song Fwaa’s music is an extraordinary collection…The trio has adopted a Ligeti-style approach, sometimes using dense webs of texture suspended in space and time…eclecticism is skillfuly and originally explored.’ John McBeath, The Australian, 14/5/2011.
‘The eerie sonic world weaves composition and improvisation as thoroughly as it mingles and blurs the sounds…. By turns dense, disquieting, playful, moving and hypnotic, it adds up to the finest recorded work by each member of this fiercely cohesive Sydney trio.’ John Shand, The Sydney Morning Herald, 15/7/2011.
Song Fwaaʼs album ʻLigetiʼs Goatʼ is available online at www.songfwaa.com or through www.cdbaby.com
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LINKS
- Martin Kay:David Reaston:Jamie Cameron:Robertino Zambrano (Album Artwork and design):You can buy The Reaston/Kay Effect album HERE
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Contact
- For all enquiries contact martinkay@iinet.net.au
