Sam Gill's Coursed Waters SENSEMAKER album launch

Sam Gill's Coursed Waters launch their energetic new album 'Sensemaker', released on the prolific Australian jazz label Earshift Music.

COURSED WATERS

Sam Gill - alto & soprano saxophone
Novak Manojlovic - piano
Jacques Emery - double bass
James McLean - drums

Coursed Waters features four of Australia's most creative improvising musicians, led by saxophonist & composer Sam Gill and featuring Melbourne-based drummer James McLean alongside Sydney’s Novak Manojlovic on piano and Jacques Emery on bass.

On their new album, Sensemaker, the quartet navigates compositions that explore the concept of sensemaking: how we understand and engage with the world around us, how we ascribe meaning to our life experiences, and how we co-create the world with those around us. Through free-flowing improvisation and intense melodic counterpoints, the album portrays a range of emotional and rhythmic worlds, featuring multi-layered rhythmic cycles, shimmering harmonies and sprawling melodic arcs, reflecting the high-energy and creativity that has defined Coursed Waters since its formation in 2016.

Individually, the members of Coursed Waters are among the most decorated within the Australian jazz scene, with two members receiving the Freedman Jazz Fellowship and two being finalists. The band's first album, Many Altered Returns (Earshift Music), received critical acclaim and garnered a nomination for the 2018 APRA AMCOS/AMC Art Music Award for Annual Excellence: Experimental Music.

“One of the most interesting features of Many Altered Returns is the cohabitation of composition and improvisation. The two worlds can sometimes be at odds with one another, but, here, they complete each other and work in a sort of supernatural synergy.” – canthisevenbecalledmusic.com

Doors 7:30pm
Show 8:00pm
Tickets: $15 Student / $25 General Admission
BYO drinks / snacks