Album Notes

As a four track EP, Machiniso's jazz based first-release has been followed up with a stripped back quartet playing live in the studio. The strong vocals from songwriter Anne-Lise Larsen complement the panoramic sounds emitting from Dave Smith's vibraphone. Captured to hard disk by Jeff Lee of Zen Studios, St Peters, Australia, it is crisp, punchy and soaked in the fine electric bass playing from the string master himself, Scott Leishman.

It is rare to find music like this from Sydney, let alone the rest of Australia. Indeed, as jazz becomes increasingly marginalised through out the world, the cinematic moodiness and snappy grooves on this album make it a tribute to the black humour of storytelling in song form.