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Barney McAll - Far off Cartwheel Star

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The Orangery Gallery 320 Onslow Road, Shenton Park, WA, 6008 Get directions

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The Orangery Gallery

About

Barney McAll is a Melbourne-born pianist, composer, producer and writer whose work bridges spiritual jazz, improvisation, electronic experimentation and contemporary composition. A GRAMMY-nominated, ARIA Award-winning artist, he has released nearly 30 albums and performed on over 100 recordings, collaborating with Gary Bartz, Dewey Redman, Billy Harper, Maceo Parker, Roy Ayers, Sia and Daniel Merriweather. His music draws from jazz lineage, soul, hip-hop, Cuban traditions and avant-garde exploration, creating a distinctive voice that resists easy categorisation.

After studying at the Victorian College of the Arts, McAll spent two decades in New York, where he co-founded the influential Groove Collective and developed his singular approach to composition and improvisation. His acclaimed catalogue includes the spiritual jazz works Mother of Dreams and Secrets and Precious Energy, the electronic explorations of his TQX project, and the ARIA-winning Mooroolbark.

For this show Barney launches his new recording “Far off Cartwheel Star” recorded here in Perth last year.

The record and this performance feature Ben Vanderwal on Drums and Zach Grafton on Acoustic bass.

This is a uniquely intimate album, recorded live in a classical auditorium and inspired by contemporary ECM releases. Some pieces were discussed beforehand, others were simply improvised in the moment, with the musicians responding to the natural resonance of their instrument within the acoustics of the space.