Category: Australia
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Cutting edge electronics and outernational pioneering from Aussie Laurence Pike – his 4th album is a majestic modern classical feat

The Undreamt-of Centre is the fourth solo album by prolific Australian drummer/composer/producer Laurence Pike – and is a reimagining of the Requiem Mass. For nearly 20 years, Pike has operated at the cutting edge of the electronic and jazz music worlds, releasing albums to critical acclaim and touring the world with his bands PVT (formerly…
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Stunning debut album by Finn Rees – ‘Dawn Is A Melody’ for Mr Bongo is among the very best of jazz albums this year – and is more world class music from Oz

Listen to the wonder of this album – Dawn Is A Melody by Finn Rees – a contender for best (jazz album) of the year, and one that means artists are delivering once again during a year (so far!) of supreme jazz music. There’s been a particular movement of supreme sounds from Antipodean parts, with…
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Poetical License’s melancholia and post-punk – the wares of Scottish-born Mark Airlie and New Zealand’s Keri Ansley – on Left Ear Records

It’s a great day whenever a Left Ear Records promo drops in the World Treasures inbox. This time, label boss Chris Bonato brings Poetical License to the light – a brief project uniting Scottish born and Aotearean (New Zealand) musician, Mark Airlie and keyboardist and vocalist, Keri Ansley, after the duo met in New Plymouth.…