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MELBOURNE

by Leigh Barker

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Liner Notes:

IT"S HIGHLY recommended to listen to this album with the tracks in order! It segues like a real set in a club.

These two albums come at the end of a very long period of gestation, starting in May 2018 in Melbourne Australia, and finishing at the very end of 2020, which as every single person on the planet earth knows has been marked by a historic pandemic. I was already procrastinating about releasing the 'Melbourne' session, and had been putting very little effort in to booking shows under my own name in Europe (Thanks to Gordon Webster, Duved Dunayevsky, Tatiana Eva Marie and everyone else for keeping me on the road...) However, a 4 week tour of Australia was booked for November and December 2020 (hah!) and I knew this was the moment to release a new album and CD, to take on the road with the 'Australian Band'. As I sit here writing these notes on Sunday December 27th 2020, it is still more or less impossible to enter Australia from Europe, even if all the events and venues were able to put on our shows as envisaged (which they're not!...)

The Paris session was miraculously put together in November 2019 between touring dates, we got together all in one room together for 2 days, around one single microphone – the french-made Melodium 42B. This was not for any particular reasons of purity or authenticity, just because Simon Oriot convinced me to give it a shot, and 'that way there is no mixing to do' as he put it...

The Melbourne session on the other hand was edited and mixed all over the planet. I remember selecting takes, editing, making several attempts at mixing and gradually pulling together the shape of the album in places such as Saint Cyr-la-Rosiere and Champagne-sur-Seine in France, Hildesheim in Germany, the suburbs of Paris, on tour in Stockholm, Budapest, London and Cambridge – and during two separate visits to Australia in 2019 and 2020, in a supermarket parking lot in Moruya, NSW or in the car on the Clyde Mountain between Mossy Point (...if you know, you know...) and the capital Canberra where Hi Hat Studios is located. I also remember making several attempts with several engineers, sometimes remotely, sometimes in person, with an infected cancerous leg wound, on holiday, in airports.... and of course in the end drawn out over several months in total isolation due to a global pandemic....

This year has asked too many questions of musicians, from the very practical to the most existential. In the end we are all driven by the compulsion to CREATE, something, anything, and its almost always better when you can share it with other people....

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released January 11, 2021

Leigh Barker – Double Bass
Heather Stewart – Violin and voice
Donald Stewart – Trombone
Ben Harrison – Trumpet / Cornet
Jason Downes – Clarinet and Alto Saxophone
John Scurry – Guitar and Banjo
Matt Boden – Piano
Sam Young - Drums
SPECIAL GUEST: Brennan Hamilton-Smith on clarinet track 4 and 9


WOLVERINE BLUES arranged by Andy Schumm 2013 all rights reserved
THE PEARLS arranged by Adrian Delmer 2018 all rights reserved
All other arrangements and concepts by Leigh Barker 2020 all rights reserved


MELBOURNE recorded live at the 'Jazz Lab' in Brunswick Victoria May 2018 by staff and students of the RMIT recording technology department. Mixed by Leigh Barker and Greg Stott at 'HiHat Studios' in Canberra in 2019 and 2020 and mastered by Simon Oriot in Nort-sur-Erdre November 2020.


ARTWORKS by Megan Grant megangrantart.com -
'Rosie's Chair Near The Window' (Melbourne disc) 'Twilight Campsite' (Paris disc)
DESIGN and layout by Pixels at Dawn

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Barking Mad Music is a boutique production company based in Melbourne Australia and Paris France, enabling a worldwide reach presenting the finest consumable content in Jazz Blues and Swing. ... more

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