Andrew Byrne: CDs


		BROADWAY BOOGIE (MOVE RECORDS) Broadway Boogie is the latest addition to the Michael Kieran Harvey Collection. CD includes Byrne's Six Dances, as well as music by Andrew Ford, John McCaughey, Nigel Westlake, Mark Pollard, and Michael Kieran Harvey. In his introduction to the CD in its liner notes, Michael Kieran Harvey writes the following: "This assemblage of recent Australian piano music has been selected for its allusions - sometimes extremely tenuous - to New York. A major international centre of ideas and creativity, this city maintains a galvanizing effect on Australian intellectual life in a way that, say, Washington never could..." To order in the Aus
		IN THESE GREAT TIMES (mp3) combines hard-edged post minimal instrumental pieces with vocal tracks suggesting warped German cabaret songs. Added to the mix are electronic soundscapes. Together they form a CD that blurs the boundaries between experimental new music, world music and rock'n'roll. For this project Byrne is joined by the sound designer Steve Adam who contributes two pieces and adds an electronic element to the gritty amplified sound of the ByrneBand. The title "In these great times" is taken from an ironic text written in the 1930s by the Austrian writer/critic Karl Kraus. To order in the US To order in the Aus
		THRENODY Michael Kieran Harvey, piano New works for piano including Byrne's Within Stanzas Works by Michael Kieran Harvey, Carl Vine, Stuart Campbell, John McCaughey, Andrew Byrne, Keith Humble, and James Anderson Astra Records ASTRA CD-1 To order in the US To order in Aus