Bleach* Festival

No Love by Bleach* Festival

Traditional song with arrangements by the ensemble Featuring lyrics and lead vocals by Jarulah Slabb. CREDITS Brian Ritchie (Acoustic bass, Cajon, Conch, Shakuhachi Flute, ensemble percussion) Kyle Slabb (Lead guitar, vocals, ensemble percussion) Colin Usher (vocals, ensemble percussion) Darren Compton (Dancer) Fred Leone (Percussion, Didgeridoo, Vocals) Greg Sheehan (Lead Percussionist) Josh Slabb (Boomerangs, Vocals, Ukulele, Dancer) Jarulah Slabb (Vocals, Ensemble percussion, Dancer) Kaleb Slabb (Electric bass) Leah Flanagan (Vocals, Ukulele, ensemble percussion) Sam Pankhurst (Double Bass) Veronique Serret (Electric violin)

Louise Bezzina Podcast by Bleach* Festival

Lawrence English is composer, artist and curator based in Australia. Working across an array of aesthetic investigations, English’s work explores the politics of perception and prompts questions of field, perception and memory. English utilises a variety of approaches including visceral live performance and installation to create works that ask participants to consider their relationship to place and embodiment. Over the past decade, English’s sonic investigations have traversed a divergent path within which musical languages and environmental sources are granted equal value. His work calls into question the established relationships of sound, harmony, distortion and structure and is sculpted, colliding overwhelmingly intricacy with roaring waves of low vibration. The music is evocative and invites the listener to explore their own narratives and impressions shaped by their subjective histories and experiences. His recent albums Cruel Optimism and Wilderness Of Mirrors revel in ‘extreme dynamics and densities’ and resolve into an ‘overriding aesthetic of harmonic distortion’.

A one hour broadcast with ABC Gold Coast's Matt Webber. Listen to a special preview and interview with the artists behind The Spirit of Churaki - Kyle Slabb(Lead Artistic Collaborator and Cultural Advisor), Brian Ritchie (Musical Director), Rhoda Roberts (Dramaturg and Rehearsal Director) and Louise Bezzina (Artistic Director, Bleach*) talk to Matt about this local story and the development of the music performance that will be seen live as part of Bleach* at Festival 2018 (the arts and cultural program of the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games (GC2018) on 12 April 2018.

With ancestral ties crossing Gudjingburra, Bundjalung and Yugambeh, Kyle Slabb credits Indigenous cultural frameworks and intelligences as being at the heart of many successful initiatives and business. As a director of Banaam, Kyle and his team love to have culturally conversant conversations, using language art, music or installation.