Fast track to August 2006. I visit my mum and friends in Australia, one of my dearest being Ross, an old mate from my uni days. I ask him to come over and as he is and always has been a prolific songwriter and great musician, I ask him to bring his guitar and sing ...
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Fast forward to about two to three years later, my parents finally taught me how to manipulate their record player and play records on it. As you may gather from their jobs, they weren’t intellectual people who listened to Bach or Beethoven or anything even slightly highbrow. But I at the time was more than ...
One of my favorite, if not my absolute favorite, solo pieces by Du is a composition called “Volvitur in rota“, which loosely translated means “the turning wheel”. Now, Du will correct me if I am wrong, but from what I gathered, the piece is inspired by an old woodcut illustrating a man caught between two ...