The Sydney International Women’s Jazz Festival returns in November
This November marks the 5th Sydney International Women’s Jazz Festival, under the auspices of the…
Author Tony Mitchell
Tony Mitchell
Tony Mitchell is an honoraray research associate at the University of Technology, Sydney. He has edited a number of books: on global hip hop (Global Noise, 2001), on Australian Popular Music (Sounds of Then, Sounds of Now, 2008), and New Zealand Music (Home Land and Sea, 2011). He is currently co-editing a book about Icelandic music.
Gwenno: ‘My Mother Tongue.’ by Tony Mitchell
Gwenno (full name Gwenno Mererid Saunders) is an extraordinary exponent of electro pop who won…
Girl Power, Estonian folk metal, Finnish Tango, Frank Zappa, an English Hank Williams, and Terence Davies – The 29th Love and Anarchy International Film Festival, Helsinki September 20, 2016
This year’s Love and Anarchy film festival saw mostly sunny days in Helsinki, although the…
Fado, Road to Instanbul, The World is Mine and Rosalie Blum: Espoo Film Festival part 2 – Finland 26-29 August, 2016
About a week has elapsed since this film festival, but I didn’t get the chance…
Winterbottom, Demon, the swing revival, B-Movie & The Bride – Espoo Film Festival, Finland 19-28 August 2016
This is my fourth summer in Finland, mainly based in and around Helsinki, and I’m…
Flow Festival – Helsinki Finland 14/8/16 by Tony Mitchell
This August was the 13th edition of Helsinki’s Flow Festival, which has grown from strength…
Mick Harvey and Serge Gainsbourg – Delirium Tremens: A profile.
For someone who’s always stood in the shadows, first of Nick Cave and now of…
Sydney Film Festival 2016: Herzog’s Geeks, Swedish Communes, Romanian Cinema’s and Ballard’s High Rise
The 63rd Sydney Film Festival, Nasheen Moodley’s 6th as curator, was its biggest yet, if…
Miles Davis vs Chet Baker: ‘Miles Ahead’ and ‘Born To Be Blue’ at the Sydney Film Festival
As both of these films are showing simultaneously in Sydney – Miles Ahead on general…
Sonita – Sydney Film Festival
Directed by Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami Germany, Switzerland, Iranian 2015 A stand-out in the extensive documentary…
Chris Abrahams: “A bit like a novel or film.” A discussion about Keyboards and Synthesisers with Tony Mitchell
Chris Abrahams’ new solo release, Fluid to the Influence, his fourth for Lawrence English’s Brisbane-based…
Empirical – Connection (Cuneiform)
The cover of London-based mixed-race jazz quartet Empirical’s fifth album, their first on renowned US…
Curse ov Dialect: “True hip hop has always pushed musical boundaries.” Interview by Tony Mitchell
Surrealist multi-ethnic Melbourne hip hop group Curse ov Dialect (MCs Raceless, Vulk Makedonski and Aturungi,…
Absence: A survey of music from Iran by Tony Mitchell
The Tehran underground music scene – which means everybody who hasn’t got a government permit…
Messiaen: From The Canyons to The Stars – Sydney Opera House 12th March 2016 By Tony Mitchell
French composer Olivier Messaien’s From the Canyons to the Stars, a 90 minute work in…