The Peoples' Republic is thrilled to welcome back our favourite brilliant improvising quartet for a very special fully acoustic show to preview their first studio release, making the album available for the first time before its official release in September...
BELIEVE
Clayton Thomas (bass)
Peter Farrar (saxophone)
Novak Manojlovic (piano)
Laurence Pike (drums)
Launch "Spirits of the Dead Are Watching"
SATURDAY August 9th at 7.30 p.m. [doors at 7]
For the past three years, Sydney-based quartet BELIEVE has committed to a musical process of learning, exploring, experimenting and growing in public. No other local group has been so committed to playing live. The release of Spirits of the Dead Are Watching gives us a chance to hear what happens when they head into the studio...
With this debut album being released internationally in September, they're excited to have this local release a month early and offer friends at the Red House the first chance to pick up the album on CD or LP.
As a special price, an entry donation of $40 gets you a concert and a CD and $60 gets you an LP, signed by the band, and two sets of never before heard music (because it's never been played!)
'A band making the music of our times' - Mike Nock
BELIEVE are...
Peter Farrar on saxophone and percussion...
a graduate of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music with a degree in Jazz Performance, known for his combination of dazzling technique and sublime tone and one of Australia’s most respected young saxophonists.
Peter has performed with leading Australian and international artists including Mike Nock, Dale Gorfinkel, Jim Denley, Amanda Stewart, Wadada Leo Smith and Cor Fuhler... “Peter Farrar on alto nearly stole the show with his solo... He has a tone reminiscent of Ornette Coleman...” Peter Wockner, Jazz and Beyond
Novak Manojlovic on piano...
he currently leads HEKKA, Grown Ocean, Colourfields and PLACES PEOPLE, and also works with Microfiche, Earshift Orchestra, Wallace, Sam Gill’s Coursed Waters, Soft Attack and more.
In 2019 Novak was awarded the Freedman Jazz Fellowship.
Laurence Pike on drums...
has been operating across the electronic, rock and jazz music worlds for the better part of two decades with dozens of critically acclaimed releases to his name as part of forward-thinking groups such as PVT, Triosk and Szun Waves, as well as collaborations with legendary jazz pianist Mike Nock, Bill Callahan, Burnt Friedman, Sarah Blasko and avant-rock band Liars... "He creates a hyper-aware universe of constant, new, undefinable sound that only he could make." - The Quietus
and Clayton Thomas on double bass...
one of Australia's most celebrated musicians, founder of the NOWnow Festival, Splinter and Splitter Orchestras, a collaborator with Axel Doerner, Jon Rose, Phil Minton, Chris Abrahams, Will Guthrie and the list goes on.
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