Mooroolbark (Deluxe Edition) Barney McAll

• 1 Nectar Spur 07:20
• 2 February 05:55
• 3 Coast Road 05:02
• 4 Jendhi 09:39
• 5 Non-Compliance 10:28
• 6 Poverty 05:15
• 7 Transformations 09:16
• 8 Apple Tree (Live) 07:58
• 9 Mooroolbark 1974 00:47
• 10 Apple Tree 05:53
• 11 Sparkler (Live) 05:37
• Total Runtime 01:13:10

Info for Mooroolbark (Deluxe Edition)

“Mooroolbark” is the name given to my home town by the Wurundjeri people (“moorool” meaning great water and “bik” meaning place). They lived in the area, which is about 37 km east of Melbourne, for around 50,000 years before I arrived. The very last part of a 50,000 year time lapse would be sad to watch because so much environmental and spiritual damage would occur towards the very end. However, I decided to call this album Mooroolbark because, for many reasons Mooroolbark is why I play music.

Barney McAll’s new album is both a homecoming and the story of a remarkable journey – a sonic reflection upon the distance in miles and in music he has travelled since leaving Mooroolbark, Victoria in 1989. Recorded shortly after McAll’s return to his home country after 17 years collaborating with New York’s finest, this album sees the composer-pianist joined by a superb band of Australian musicians and the legendary French percussionist Mino Cinélu.

Mooroolbark is an evocative series of tales gathered over years of travel and research, and the works exhibit diverse colours and influences ranging from gospel to Afro Caribbean styles. But anchoring the music is a distinctive compositional approach that is all McAll’s own.

Barney McAll, piano (all tracks), vocals (track 1)
Julien Wilson, tenor saxophone (tracks 2–7), alto clarinet (track 7)
Stephen Magnusson, guitars (tracks 1–7)
Jonathan Zwartz, bass (tracks 1–8)
Simon Barker, drums & percussion (tracks 1–7)
Mino Cinélu, percussion (tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 7)
Hamish Stuart, drums (track 8)
Shannon Barnett, trombone (tracks 6, 7)

Barney McAll
is widely acknowledged as one of Australia’s most creative and influential musicians. He studied in Melbourne with pianists Paul Grabowsky, Tony Gould and Mike Nock, before moving in 1997 to New York to join saxophonist Gary Bartz’s band. He has worked as musical director for multi-award-winning vocalist Sia, as well as jazz legends such as Dewey Redman, Kurt Rosenwinkel and Fred Wesley. He leads numerous ensembles including Sylent Running and ASIO (Australian Symbiotic Improvisers Orbit), and has also written scores for a multitude of award-winning films including Liberia: An Uncivil War and Motherland Afghanistan. Barney was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2007, and was awarded a Fellowship from the Australia Council for the Arts in 2007–08. In 2014 he returned to Australia to take up the Peggy Glanville-Hicks composer

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