Bernard Zuel
Music Writer and Critic at Freelance
Music writer/critic; lecturer Sydney Uni; “cloth-eared poltroon” at SMH/Guardian/Rhythms/bernardzuel.net; media trainer; brown type. @bernardzuel.bsky.social
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Bernard Zuel3 hours ago3 min readPHOEBE RINGSAseurai (Carpark Records)IF THIS RECORD WAS ANY lighter it wouldn’t just float away, it would disappear before your eyes like breath. Aseurai is sung with weightlessness, played sometimes with barely a touch, and mostly brings the rhythm of a tapped pencil (its rubber end) on a leather pad.
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Last week’s death of Brian Wilson (and let’s not forget a few days earlier, the death of the equally consequential Sly Stone) brought forth many memories of his return to the stage and first visit to Australia after decades of internal and external turmoil. Those 2002 shows, featuring Pet Sounds in full, were ecstatic celebrations as Wind Back Wednesday has already revisited.
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Bernard Zuel3 hours ago2 min readTANGERINE DREAMCity Recital Hall, Sydney, June 11LOOKE LIKE SOME OF US picked the wrong week to be non-dope smokers.
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Bernard Zuel3 hours ago6 min readTHE FAR TOO EARLY WINTER DARK – it’s just gone 5pm for goodness’ sake, and we’re in Sydney not Manchester - doesn’t hide the weary eyes, weary voice, and weary speculative looks over his shoulder in case one of his kids comes into shot. Bryan Estepa is flagging from “report season”, his day job as a schoolteacher allowing little room for downtime as he was gearing up for the release last week of his new album. “It’s just doing my head in,” he sighs.
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Get in when @tamineilson is at the wheel & who knows where you'll end up. Ask her kids who spent 5 months in a mobile home crossing Canada playing gigs "so that they can really know where they come from ... understand how I grew up & how it felt". https://t.co/A0Xk0L6SOP
Like this, then it got me thinking the cross-cultural song-in-waiting is Brokeback Candy Mountain. Someone make it happen, please!
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Gave up a while back, but is there anyone inside Walkley Awards who cares to understand arts journalism & arts criticism are not the same thing? Merging 2 awards into 1 probably sounded efficient to people who only read their own books & saw no point in the awards anyway.