Snap Scene

Snap Scene: Martinez Akustica, State Theatre, Sydney 11th April 2022

A family guitar trio led by one of the world’s finest classical Latin-American avant-garde guitarists, Chilean-born Victor Martinez Parada, Martinez Akustica deliver jazz with flair and passion. Reuniting with sons Andro and Dauno after a ten-year absence, the interplay between the trio – on six-string acoustic and electric guitar and bass and using their instruments as percussion and vocal beat box – is both endearing and awe-inspiring.

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Snap Scene

Snap Scene: The Fauves, Kingston Arts Centre, 8th April 2022

Explorers who didn’t find anything, the Fauves have ranged the Australian landscape for 31 years, searching fruitlessly for an inland sea where a weary middle-aged man might erect a deckchair and take the healing waters. They have released albums that have slipped down the backs of couches, been lost in the wash and left on the back seats of taxis. Long have journalists issued pro-forma three-star reviews before repairing to the second-hand music store to greedily hock their complimentary album, only to emerge indignant with less money than they spent on the parking meter.

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