Love Cry - Ecstatic Ballads for Broken Hearts
Originally programmed for CJC, we’re pleased to present this great music alongside the Audio Foundation.
A new musical project by Singapore based Australian saxophone titan Tim O'Dwyer featuring the extraordinary drummer Darren Moore (Singapore/Aus) alongside a slew of local fire breathers.
Love Cry is an ongoing performance project in which we reinterpret sentimental Asian ballads—particularly Thai Luk Thung—through the ecstatic and explosive vocabulary of free jazz, inspired by the work of Albert Ayler. Rather than fusing genres, the project seeks to confront and transfigure them. We approach these songs not with irony but with intensity—treating their sentimentality as a site of power, memory, and transformation. Each performance is a risk: a negotiation between melody and rupture, memory and fire.
Tim O’Dwyer is a world-renowned saxophonist, composer, soundpainter and interdisciplinary collaborator. He is as adept at traditional to freer forms of jazz and improvised music as he is realising the most complex contemporary classical notated scores.
Born in Scotland, raised in Australia and based in Singapore, Darren Moore is a drummer and electronic musician and whose approach to music balances fire and energy with subtlety and timing. He considers creative improvisation as central to his artistic practice whether he is making music on the drums or analogue modular synthesisers. He works predominantly in the fields of jazz, rock, experimental and improvised music styles and has performed throughout Australia, South-East Asia, Japan and Europe.
The pair are joined by locals Jeff Henderson, Tashi Stewart, Sean Martin-Buss & Eamon Edmundson-Wells, with an opening set by new duo DAFT HORNS.
FEATURING
Tim O'Dwyer - saxophones
Darren Moore - drums
Jeff Henderson - saxophones
Tashi Stewart - electric guitar
Sean Martin-Buss - electric guitar
Eamon Edmundson-Wells - double bass
DAFT HORNS:
Ivan Mrsic & Sean Martin-Buss - French Horns & drum machines
$15 General Admission
Cash & EFTPOS door sales
unless sold out prior
Doors: 7.45pm
Performance: 8pm
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