ARTISTS
The Field

TRACKLISTING
Brand New Walking Blues
Liam's Blues
Back of the hand
Burning Stew
Daybreak
Big Moon
Is it Time to Go
Nude Guitar
Train
Walking Home with Jesus
News from Home

The Field's second album, News from Home, sees the group charting some new territory and creates a mood mixing joy, melancholy, tranquillity and funky grooves. Slide guitarist, Bruce Reid, leads fellow Catholics, Lloyd Swanton (also The Necks) and Hamish Stuart (also Jackie Orszaczky) along with guitarist Barney Coman to the crossroads where blues, jazz, country and Celtic music meet.

The sound is at times lean and stripped back as in Reid's compositions that open and close the set, the bluegrass goes to Mali, Brand New Walking Blues and the aching title track, News from Home. Between these two, the plot thickens and an impressive guest list present to help stir it up.

Stuart Hunter's tasteful Hammond organ and piano are essential elements throughout, and Jess Ciampa's percussion is impressive, especially his moaning cuica drum on Brand New Walking Blues. Drummer Toby Hall subtly propels Lloyd Swanton's lovely composition, Big Moon.Two of Australia's finest singers, Tina Harrod and Darren Percival contribute their considerable talents. Harrod's sometimes unearthly soulful wail is an album highlight on Back of the Hand, which she co-wrote with Reid, Swanton and the legendary Jackie Orszaczky. Percival's tone both is gritty and mellow and totally in the pocket on Hamish Stuart's caustic Walking Home with Jesus.'

Rufus Records are the key local jazz label in Australia boasting multiple ARIA award winning albums. Expect huge interest from the local jazz community.

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TRACKLISTING
Un Ange Passe
Waste of Words
Astrud Astronette
Stumble
Depression Royale
Eternity is...
Rise & Shine
Excursion En Mer
Love is Natural
Car Eats Town
Keep It Simple
Who The Pop Cares
Backstreets Of My Mind
Multicolored Destiniy
Make Heaven My Home
Message To The Cool
Close To Jazz
Garbo Goodbye

De-Phazz's fifth album introduces a new sound that is gripping, earthy, playful and unpredictable. Creased elegance might be the secret slogan since the cocktail glass was thrust aside, the stylish shirt turned sweaty and the sofa has been soiled. 'Un ange passe!' The once much loved lounge music fairy dances bare-foot down the asphalt road and disappears. Vigorous rhythms, earthy guitars and rusty blues harps force their way into the spotlight while sensitive choirs supply opulent backdrops. Solid songs characterize this album and the typical De-Phazz style of picture puzzle irony and tender cynicism unfolds in the lyrics.

Audiences at Meshell Ndegeocello's first European concerts - in summer 2004, with her new group, the Spirit Music Jamia, (the word means a school or a place of learning) - were at first a little surprised, and then completely won over by the power of the music played for them; now, with 'Dance Of The Infidel', those same listeners will rediscover the sound and spirit of the organic, contagious themes first revealed by those concerts.

'I've always dreamed about being in a group, being surrounded by musicians like in all those big bands I admired when I was a kid. When I play solo I'm often out front, and that's not the place I was really looking for.' Half-humble, half-shy, Meshell Ndegeocello has always insisted that being a leader didn't hold that much interest for her. So, as someone independent always ready to defend her own ideas, the singer-bassist put her ambitions into practice. Onstage, her core fans were surprised to see and hear her in a more discreet though equally important role on bass, steering the research of the ensemble or the free figures of the soloists beside her. Afro-beat rhythms, funk, improvisation, fusion: freed from the song-format of her previous adventures, Meshell and her Spirit Music Jamia give free rein to her desire for musical exploration, and the result, deeply investigated and intense, is once again equal to her expectations, the same demands that can be seen in her work since the beginning.

More recently, Meshell Ndegeocello has been involved in the film that portrayed the Motown label at the height of its fame ('Standing in the Shadows of Motown'), and also a documentary on the go-go music scene in her hometown Washington.

Her return with a powerful, bittersweet album translating a new adventure that is more of a collective effort - its transfer to the stage makes your mouth water - inscribes itself in the continuity of a career that has never been disappointing, a trajectory marked by a constant, intangible desire to defend her freedom to play music, and be moved by it, with sincerity.