Sons Of No Guns For We Are Anomalous
by Song Fwaa

Review from the Sydney Morning Herald

Song Fwaa
SONS OF NO GUNS FOR WE ARE ANOMALOUS (Fwaa)
★★★★

Musicians are said to "play" music because ultimately it is a game, albeit sometimes a very high-stakes one. Song Fwaa's Martin Kay (alto saxophone), David Reaston (eight-string guitar) and Jamie Cameron (drums) are gamesters of the highest order. Even when their music is so delicately poignant that it threatens to shred your heart, or is as mesmerising as an incantation (Twice Bitten Once Shy), it is still underpinned by an essential playfulness. At other times the game becomes the focus via compositions containing rhythmic puzzles that they solve with panache and via a mischievous edge of anarchy in the way they interact. Then suddenly you are aware that amid the fun and mayhem they have quietly raised the stakes: between the urgency of the alto, the keyboard-like guitar and the turbulent drums they have arrived at a language all their own, but one that is never foreign to the listener precisely because it is played with infectious abandon. JOHN SHAND

link: www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/album-reviews-lower-dens-the-prodigy-super-best-friends-song-fwaa-kris-morris-20150407-1md1ew.html

Review by Tim Rollinson
musictrust.com.au/sons-of-no-guns-for-we-are-anomalous/


Fugu: An expansive fish with dangerous tastes
Mess Consumption: Gorging on delicious tidbits
Pedestrians of Steel: A toe in the water, a prow in the road, a delightful game: humans with capes artfully shape swerves
Twice Bitten Once Shy: Looking for the plasma high, where to sink the teeth
B & B: Burn baby Berne
Tacet Suite #4: The sound of one eye crossing
Pataphysics: The science of imaginary solutions strikes again
Peculiar: The distaff trails entropic beauty
One Horse Town: And it has a woeful limp
Tacet Suite #5: What did Cage say to Brubeck?
Scotland Jop: 'Don't play this piece fast. It is never right to play ragtime
fast.' - Scott Joplin (c. 1867 - 1917)
Tudor Manner #1: 'In a minute there is time...'
Tacet Suite #23: A skimming stone punctures an arc
Tacet Suite #8: Superheroes mingle over a pint (at the hero bar)
Reverse Psychology/Cage the Jailer: Freedom said to me: intercept the idea bro, pin it with neurons
Tudor Manner #2: 'For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse' - T.S. Eliot (1915)
credits
released August 8, 2014

www.martinkaysound.com
www.davidreaston.com
www.reverbnation.com/jamiecameron

Thanks to 505, Bohemian Grove, Brisbane Jazz Club, SIMA, Joanne Kee, Roger Manins and CJC, Wellington School of Music, Christchurch Polytech, John Fenton, Tim Rollinson for the bacronym, Yamaha for the drums, family and friends.
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