Press
Reviews of AAO Recordings
Ruby
- "A Unique Collaboration Has Created An Authentic Form Of Australian Blues And Jazz"
- Limelight, April 2006
- " Swirling sea of sonic passion"
- BEAT MAGAZINE, March 8, 2006.
- "Ruby's new ground"
- THE KOORI MAIL, March 15, 2006.
- The Ebb and flow-songs from the river of life
- The Sydney Morning Herald, March 14 2006
- "music that goes right into my bones"
- Sydney Morning Herald (John Clare), April 15 2006
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Sita
- "Jazz and something else"
- Financial Review, March 29 2003
- "Elegant, soothing, frantic, turbulent"
- Rhythms (Adrian Jackson), March 2003
Passion
- "Jazz's Great Passion"
- The Sydney Morning Herald (John Clare), 26.07.1999
Ringing the Bell Backwards
- "Ringing in the Changes"
- Herald Sun (Jessica Nicholas), 24 March 1995
- "Promise fulfilled with more to come"
- Sydney Morning Herald (John Shand), 8 May 1995
- "Grabowsky's Backwards Bell Ringing is a Triumph"
- The Age (Adrian Jackson), 27 April 1995
Crossing Roper Bar
- bridging the gap between contemporary music and ancient indigenous music.
- ABC Darwin
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- Earth, wind and song cycles performing in concert
- Australian Art Orchestra: Crossing Roper Bar
The Age, 22 march 2007 (Jessica Nicholas)
Ruby's Story
- Joyous celebration
- Review by MARTIN VENGADESAN
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- "Magical river music"
- Keith Gallasch, REALTIME, June 2004
- "The success of the fusion"
- David Grybowski (dBmagazine Adelaide Issue 332) June 2004
- "She's the centre of attention in some very fine company"
- Louise Nunn (The Advertiser) 12.06.04
- "What an amazing, memorable night out!"
- Kezia George http://www.abc.net.au/message Published Date: 10/06/2004
- "Daughter of the river"
- Iain Shedden (‘The Australian’) 01 June 2004
Kura Tungar
- "Just as Roach utters the final line of his lyric, one pelican takes flight and skims across the river's surface"
- The Age
Reviewer Jessica Nicholas
October 19, 2004
Hard Core
- "Diverse"
- The Age (Jessica Nicholas)
Testimony: The Legend of Charlie Parker
- "Tribute to a genius"
- The Advertiser (Patrick McDonald), 10.06.2003
- "Jazz opera poet jams with the Bird"
- Philip McCarthy, 9.01.02
- "A true marriage of sound and vision sees Bird take flight"
- Sydney Morning Herald (John Shand), 18.01.02
- "Soaring tribute to jazzman Bird"
- The Australian (Hilary Shrubb), 18.01.02
- "Excellent"
- RealTime, Keith Gallasch
- "Swinging in Bird's Paradise"
- The Australian (Lynden Barber), 11.01.02
Shorelines
- "Plain Sailing in Shore's Heavy Weather"
- The Age (Joel Crotty)
- "Sound Fusion, or just plain confusing?"
- The Australian (Kevin Ball), 29 October 2001
City of Women
- "Earthiness and sensuality"
- The Australian (Kevin Jones), 02.02.01
- "Flawed Gem"
- The Age (Jessica Nicholas), 29/1/01
Sita
- A selection of responses
- The Theft of Sita
January 22: Two Ducks Swimming
- "A Mixed Offering"
- The Age (Joel Crotty)
- "Ensemble Glories in Diverse Sounds"
- The Australian (Jeremy Vincent), Monday 24 January 2000
- "Paul's Big Splash "
- Herald Sun (Xenia Hanusiak)
Passion
- "Passionate entry to a New Home"
- Sydney Morning Herald (John Shand)
- "Power of the Passion - from very different corners"
- The Australian (Jeremy Vincent), 31.03.97
Into The Fire
- "Where genres meet"
- The Hindu, Chennai.
Monday, Jun 02, 2008, DIVYA KUMAR
- "music connecting people"
- Newsindiapress.com
Express Features
Jun 24, 2008
- This collaboration showed how the heartbeat of one classical form can become a core around which the melody of another classical tradition can flow
- The Hindu. Hyderabad
Friday, Jun 06, 2008
- Experiment that worked
- The Hindu, Friday, Jun 13, 2008
- When East Meets West!
- When East Meets West!A review of the performance that spelt fusion from the word go......
- Into The Fire: Synthesising East With West
- Synthesising East And West Jazz and Carnatic can make an enthralling combination...
- "Melody is the mother; rhythm is the father."
- The Age (Jessica Nicholas), 13.10.2003
- "A Triumphal Hurrah "
- The Telegraph, Calcutta (Prosanto Dutt), 10.1996
- "Out of This World Music"
- Adelaide Advertiser (Stephen Whittington), 03.1998
- "New Music From An Older Tradition"
- The Indian Express, New Delhi, 10.1996
- "All That Jazz"
- The Indian Express, Bombay, 31.10.1996
