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Nullarbor

Robert Lloyd's brightly coloured dances for keyboards and percussion are an exciting synthesis of shimmerring vibraphones and marimbas, melodic drumming and percussive pianos weaving together to create a genuine cross-cultural intercourse of American minimalist and Balinese gamelan music.

... hypnotic rhythms inspired by the vastness of the Australian desert ...

Lloyd's music finds its poetry in the combining, recombining, reconstructing and de-constructing of complex rhythms. 'Nullarbor' is a dance work inspired by the vastness of the Nullarbor desert. There is a strong relation between the topography of the Nullarbor and Lloyd's scores, with their seamless rhythms and a sense of endlessness and isolation.

Artist

Robert Lloyd

Robert Lloyd's reputation rests largely on kinetic, brightly coloured series of dance scores. In fact as far away as the United States Lloyd's name is probably better known among dance circles than musical ones. Perhaps that is not surprising, given the propellant energy of Lloyd's work.


Press quotes

“Brilliantly played”

Sydney Morning Herald

“Shimmering, driving score”

New York Times

“Robert Lloyd, has written an exciting percussion score that ranges from the very loud and textured to the finely modulated”

New York Times

Audio previews

Track Listing

  1. Feral Robert Lloyd
  2. Bold New Buildings Robert Lloyd
  3. Nullarbor Robert Lloyd

Performers

Where to buy

Nullarbor is available for download from the iTunes Music Store.
It's available for streaming through Apple Music.

Nullarbor is available as as CD. It can be purchased online through Buywell Music or the Australian Music Centre which both offer secure online ordering.

Move CDs can be ordered through music retailers across Australia including Readings.

Product details

List price
$25.00 AUD
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Release date
1995
Copyright
© 1995 Move Records
Phonogram
℗ 1995 Move Records
Categories
Australian, Classical, Keyboard
Catalogue number
MD 3171
Alternate catalogue number
MD3171
Barcode
EAN 9314574317121