INCOGNITO: LIVE REVIEW NOVEMBER 2017

INCOGNITO THE BASEMENT, SYDNEY THURSDAY 2 NOVEMBER, 2017 (late show) Reviewed by PARIS POMPOR Photos by RIZWAN OMAR (Cyan Pepper) I’ll admit, before heading to The Basement tonight, that I was struggling to remember the names of the Incognito tunes I liked. Not because there weren’t any, but because like many of the groups who broke out to varying degrees […]

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Emma Stephenson Freedman Jazz Fellowship Winner

Freedman Jazz 2017 brought together the talents of three multi-talented musicians with their bands at the Sydney Opera House on Monday 30 October. The winner of the Freedman Jazz Fellowship 2017 was announced on the night. Intense competition for the $20,000 cash prize resulted in amazing performances from 15-member big band to quartet. A spirit […]

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Cine Latina Film Festival

CINE LATINO, Australia’s largest festival of Latin American cinema is returning for its second year with screenings at Palace Cinemas from 14 November 2017. The program of 26 titles represent the best films from Central and South America including new works from the Dominican Republic, Colombia, Peru, Brazil and Uruguay. Opening the festival is Mexican director Roberto Sneider’s YOU’RE […]

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Funkadelic Detroiters Reviewed

FUNKADELIC REWORKED BY DETROITERS VARIOUS ARTISTS | WESTBOUND Reviewed by PARIS POMPOR Early in 2014, Kenny Dixon Jr released a self-titled, protractedly brilliant umpteenth album under his Moodymann moniker containing an eleven and half minute centrepiece entitled ‘Sloppy Cosmic’. Fast forward three years and the producer is joined by another fifteen or so fellow-Detroiters to […]

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Russian Resurrection Film Festival Coming To Sydney

The program for Russian Resurrection Film Festival 2017 is shaping up to be bigger and better than ever with a fantastic line up of new films confirmed for this year. The largest and most respected festival of Russian film outside of Russia will be screening  across Australia and New Zealand throughout October and November. “We […]

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PRIVATE LIFE DRAMAS: BLOODLIGHT & BAMI REVIEW

Reviewed by PARIS POMPOR  Over ten years in the making, SOPHIE FIENNES delivers a vivid, bewitching and satisfying portrait of one of pop music’s most striking, flamboyant and enduring characters: Mx GRACE JONES. Much of English director Sophie Fiennes’ ‘Bloodlight And Bami’ documentary (she is also credited as editor) centres around a family reunion in […]

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