Australian Percussion
Michael Askill
1991: Celestial Harmonies 13085-2
On occasion I visit my parents, in Walla Walla; during a remarkable number of these visits I have had tastes of music of terrific quality which I’ve then spent ages hunting for. Usually these are due to their local NPR station, thanks to which I’ve added maybe a dozen albums to my collection after stopping midway through the living room upon hearing a little of the music and remaining motionless until the track was over so I could write down the artist/recording info and find a copy for myself when I got back to Seattle.
This was one of those albums, and the track was Ross Edwards’s “Marimba Dances.” I also love Nigel Westlake’s “Omphalo Centric Lecture” and “Fabian Theory,” and Martin Wesley-Smith’s “White Knight and Beaver” is growing on me with repeated listenings.
Comments © 2005 Mark Ellis Walker, except as noted, and no claim is made to the images and quoted lyrics.