In Adelaide again for family matters and all very urgent but I managed one COMA outing. It's a satisfying night, musically exploratory, jazz or classical, in a very boho hotel with its own brewery. What's not to like? Two bands as usual; one set each. First up was Mudholia led by Mark Lurker, apparently a jazz odyssey about colonial Port Adelaide. A sextet led by bassist Thomas Byrne on PBass with drums, keys, tenor/sop, trumpet/flugel and fascinatingly a full time analog synth (Korg Minilogue) making a prog reference further confirmed with effected flugel, perhaps flange or delay or whatever. Keys were piano and I heard organ, mostly more accompaniment, but everyone soloed at some stage, but that Korg was everpresent with varied inviting analog tones and countermelodies and the like. The horns could lay down a lovely melody for the head and some impressive sax solos and that intriguing effected flugel suggested '70s Miles to my ears. And underneath it all, densely grooving funk from the PB and insistent, unrelenting drums, sometimes stern and stated, otherwise intriguing polymetric twists. Nice and warming welcomingly; proggy and funky and entertaining. But still wondering who Mark Lurker, the name associated with Mudholia, is. Perhaps the composer? He wasn't playing on the night.
Thomas Byrne (e-bass, synth bass) led a sextet with Triniti Canini (trumpet, flugelhorn), Zac Trelor (tenor, alto saxes), Ben Anderson (synth), Shea Gallagher (keys) and Regi Ashman (drums) playing Mark Lurker Mudholia for COMA (Creative Original Music Adelaide) at The Wheatsheaf Hotel (The Wheatie).
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