I was relaxed in arriving at the Orange Winter Jazz festival this year. My first concert was the last few mid-afternoon tunes of Bungarribee. It's a project of Gary Daley of The catholics fame. He's collected a quartet of odd combination to play a style of chamber music influenced by jazz and classical and more. How's this for a format: piano/accordion, various winds, cello and drums. The names are notable: Gary with Paul Cutlan, Oliver miller and Chloe Kim. I came in to music soft, meditative and unexpected and bass clarinet solo. Then to finish they started with free piano-based introduction leading to a gentle and pretty 4/4 with wind melody. This was in Holy Trinity, a cathedral with considerably live sound, pretty obvious for this performance. Wish I'd heard more. Then off to Chloe Kim playing a solo outing in the Uniting Church which I remember as my favourite acoustic from last year. Chloe had played a concert of 100hours solo drums over 10 days at MONA. She subsequently selected 28 themes and improvised as a CD. This was her first live performance of those selected themes, 1 minute allocated to each. I doubt I've ever attended a solo drums concert but this entranced especially with the themes listed, like Cymbal peak or Dance! or Push and pull or Garbage truck. It was Garbage truck that first got me. Chloe had seard a garbage truck outside during her 100 hours and took the constant pulse as an improvisatorial prompt. You could hear that truck. Not all the themes were so clear but they were intriguing and honest and presented with connection. Stunningly good.
Bungarribee comprises Gary Daley (piano, accordion), Paul Cutlan (flutes, saxes, clarinets), Oliver Miller (cello, electronics) and Chloe Kim (drums, percussion). Chloe Kim (drums, percussion) played a solo gig at the Uniting Church.
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