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.
Leigh Giles vibraphone, percussion, octabans
Natasha Moszenin keyboards
Peter Overall keyboards
Stephen Strahle keyboards
Brendan Fitzgerald keyboards
David Montgomery timbales
... 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.
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
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.
Audio previews
Track Listing
- Feral Robert Lloyd
- Bold New Buildings Robert Lloyd
- Nullarbor Robert Lloyd
Performers
- Robert Lloyd · keyboard, percussion, octabans
- Leigh Giles · vibraphone, percussion, octabans · all except track 2
- Natasha Moszenin · all except track 3
- Peter Overall · track 1
- Stephen Strahle · track 2
- Brendan Fitzgerald · track 2
- David Montgomery · timbales · track 3
Where to listen
Nullarbor is available for streaming through Apple Music. It can also be purchased through the iTunes Music Store.
Nullarbor is available as a CD. It can be purchased online through Buywell Music or the Australian Music Centre which both offer online ordering.
Product details
- Catalogue number
- MD 3171
- List price
- $25.00 AUD
- Thanks to
- RealTime
- Release date
- 1995
- Musical work
copyright - © 1995 Move Records
- Sound recording
copyright - ℗ 1995 Move Records
- Categories
- Australian, Classical, Keyboard
- Barcode
- EAN 9314574317121
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