This is the title track from the CD - SHIFT. Released by FMR records.

This musical collaboration originated with four improvising musicians meeting in a New York recording studio in the Lower East Village - to play - without a pre-composed composition; just belief, expertise and creativity. The cornerstone of the composition is the bringing together of musicians that come from a jazz sensibility but improvising music that is very much music of the 21 century; more specifically the improvising musician and machine. The machine, operated by George Lewis, creates its own ‘voice’ through ‘in the moment’ improvisations that enhance and multiply or as George promulgates 'shapeshifts'. Improvisations include experimentation, taking positions, trust, choice, agency, creativity, determinacy and indeterminacy. Further, this project is about innovation through the agency of human and mechanical interaction; the understanding of how the musician interacts with the machine is an area of interest that is relevant to twenty-first century as it allows the creation of greater possibilities, greater opportunities and ultimately freedom to express.

Shift

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Jake Amy is one of Australia’s most in-demand keyboardists and has performed with an ever-expanding array of exciting Australian and international artists such as Grammy nominated artist Ambrose Akinmusire, ARIA Music Award winner Kaiit, gold-selling artist Wafia and South Sudan’s “King of Music” Gordon Koang. Originally born and raised in the regional town of Wonthaggi, Jake has gone on to tour extensively around the world, perform in stadiums to over 30,000 people and on television, most recently appearing on the broadcasted State Memorial Service for Dame Olivia Newton-John AC DBE alongside Bumpy. Jake has also appeared on ABC’s television music quiz show ‘Spicks and Specks’ and Channel 10’s breakfast show ‘Studio 10’. 

 

Jake has supported internationally renowned artists such as Thundercat, Cory Henry, Sampa The Great, Hiatus Kaiyote, Paul Kelly, Joy Crookes, Chaka Khan, Nile Rodgers and Odette.

Shift

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