This powerhouse band combines four of the most inventive improvisers – and composers – in Sydney’s creative music scene. Drummer and composer Laurence Pike has internationally released five solo albums (as well as two duo albums with Mike Nock); bassist Clayton Thomas spent over a decade based in Berlin, recording with artists such as Ken Vandemark, Paul Lovens, and Alexander von Schlippenbach (as well as founding the Now Now festival of spontaneous music in Sydney); keyboardist Novak Manojlovic was the recipient of the 2019 Freedman Fellowship (Jazz) and is the Artistic Director of S.I.M.A., recording with groups such as microfiche, HEKKA, and Godtet; alto saxophonist Peter Farrar toured with Wadada Leo Smith and recorded with Mike Nock.
BELIEVE connects the spectrum of contemporary creative sound making with the fluid, anything is possible momentum of free jazz. When benchmarks are Albert Ayler and The Necks, and you intend to play for the universe, not the algorithm, the remarkable is possible. For the past three and half years this Sydney-based quartet has committed to a musical process of learning, exploring, experimenting and growing in public. No other local group has been so committed to playing live.
