
Chloe & Jason Roweth – Light Another Fire
Record Review by Ian Dearden
Chloe & Jason Roweth’s extraordinary and sprawling album, “Light Another Fire”, has been the soundtrack to my commute to and from work last week and this week!! This double CD album checks in at 130…

Jane Germain & Ian Simpson – Home on the Hill
Review by Ian Dearden
If too much banjo is not nearly enough for you, then today’s “Commute to Work” album is for you. Actually, I have to confess – this album has been my commute to and from work soundtrack on a number of occasions…

Liz Frencham – Love & Other Crimes
Savouring a new Liz Frencham album is like devouring a box of artisan chocolates. One part of you wants to make each chocolate last a week – the other part of you just wants to scoff the entire box in a single sitting. And so it is with this album – one part of me wants to play each one of the tracks on repeat so I can savour and devour each tiny detail for a week. The other part of me just can’t wait to hear each new track, to dive into the narrative and musical arc of this gorgeous masterpiece, and hear it as one stunning, panoramic whole that entirely captures and envelopes me.

Lizzie Flynn – You And The Open Sky
Record Review by Ian Dearden
You And The Open Sky, the third solo album by Brisbane songstress Lizzie Flynn, is jam packed full of songs that creep quietly into your heart, and then just stay there!! Privileging quality over quantity, the…

Glenn Cardier – Trad & Now Interview
Interview by Ian Dearden for Trad & Now, Vol. 11 No. 9
When I mentioned to a friend of similar vintage to me that I was about to interview Glenn Cardier, the friends reaction was instantaneous "He's dead, isn't he?". Well I'm here…

Rebecca Wright & Donald McKay – Over Burns and Braes
My 'commute to work' soundtrack over the past couple of days - this stunningly gorgeous album by Rebecca Wright & Donald McKay called 'Over Burns and Braes'.
The recording quality is superb (recorded, mixed & mastered by Pix Vane…

Glenn Cardier – Audio Technology Interview
Interview by Ian Dearden for Audio Technology magazine Issue #91 (December 2012)
Glenn Cardier is a working class lad from Brisbane, who after appearing in Hoadley's Battle of the Sounds, and on Channel 9's New Faces, entered into a national…