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    I Read the Old Dream Slowly
    Collusion Music Australia Music by Australian composers Green, Hawkins, Davidson, Ball, Brophy, Sabin and Twist. Collusion, also known as Collusion Music Australia continues in the development of creative and unique performance practise of chamber music in Australia since it's inception in 2002. For 10 years the ensemble has consistently performed 20th and 21st century art music with or without visual collaboration. Their resident choreographer is Gareth Belling, whom directed/choreographed Collusion's full length Ballet 'Transient Beauty' for the Restrung Festival in 2012. Susan Hawkins, resident composer for Collusion was the musical director and composer. Reviewer Mat Foley stated, 'In your face, it is. In your mind, it gets.' In Collusion's vast and impressive repertoire, music from Messiaen to Hindemith, Takemitsu to Australia's Andrew Schultz, Nigel Sabin, and Nigel Westlake engage large audiences. 2013 sees Collusion invited to perform at the World Clarinet Fest' in Assisi Italy, The Queensland Music Festival, The Australia Saxophone and Clarinet Convention Sydney, and will take up a position as an Ensemble in Residence at Griffith University's Queensland Conservatorium of Music in Collusion's home city Brisbane, Australia. The ensemble has also riveted audiences at the Judith Wright Centre for Contemporary Arts, The Brisbane Powerhouse, Chapel on Chapel Melbourne, Fireworks Art Gallery, The Queensland Art Gallery and at the University of Queensland and Southern Queensland, and the North Queensland Centre for Music. Venue themed performances, collaborations with performance and visual artists at nightclubs, showrooms, professional ballet studios, school classrooms, churches, online, on a river bank, as well as at Concert Halls, have visually and aurally inspired audiences (including up to 20,000 school children per year from 2008) to digest many different styles of art music composition. Of their 2007 CD release 'In Depth' (MOVE) Tony Way of The Green Guide commented, "Collusion demonstrates a great empathy with the living tradition of chamber music in this country, and their enterprise in making this disc is to be applauded." "The instrumental playing and recorded sound are excellent"- John Barns, 3MBS FM Libretto "The ensemble performance throughout is impeccable as is the sound quality"- Laura Mathison, 4MBS Program Guide. Collusion has performed at festivals such as Soul Food, Restrung, Crosssbows, Bangalow, Tyalgum, Evocations, International Messiaen Conference, and has toured for Musica Viva Countrywide and Education programs. Benjamin Greaves (violinist): is the director and a founding member of Collusion Music Australia. A freelance musician, his speciality and training is chamber music, however he is also a freelance orchestral musician. He has performed for the Camerata of St John's Chamber Orchestra as principal 2nd violin and guest leader, the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, the Queensland Ballet, X, Brisbane, Adelaide International Cabaret, and Queensland Festivals amongst others. He has broadcast solo for ABC Classic FM. He has collaborated with contemporary artists like Jazz Trio Elixir, Circa Australia, Human Nature, and even played in professional music theatre productions such as South Pacific for Opera Australia. He studied with Carmel Kaine and Mary Nemet, and has performed in masterclasses for Lord Yehudi Menuhin, Maxim Vengerov, Oleh Krysa and the Takacs String Quartet. Benjamin's continual attention to professional development as both a performer and pedagog has been supported in the past by Arts Queensland attending masterclasses of Rodney Friend. Brieley Cutting (pianist): was accepted into the Queensland Conservatorium at age 13 and graduated at 18 with first class honours and a performance of Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No.1 with the Queensland Conservatorium Orchestra, winning all major performance awards. Following this, Brieley studied at the Australian National Academy of Music, the Queensland Conservatorium with Natasha Vlassenko, and at the Royal College of Music in London where she graduated with Distinction. Brieley has performed as soloist with the Melbourne, Adelaide, and Queensland Symphony Orchestras, and received 2nd prize in the Kerikeri International Piano Competition 2010, and was keyboard winner of the Symphony Australia Young Performer's Awards in 2006. Brieley has been recipient of prestigious awards from the Tait Memorial Trust, Australian Music Foundation, and the David Paul Landa Scholarship. Currently pianist with Collusion, she is also Artistic Director of the Commercial Road Chamber Music Series, Brisbane and a doctoral student at Griffith University. Danielle Bentley (cellist): is a founding member of Collusion. As a freelance musician, she has performed in countless concerts and recording sessions around Australia with acclaimed classical, jazz and popular music ensembles and artists. These include: the Paris Opera Ballet, Opera Queensland, Opera Australia, Australian Ballet, Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Camerata of St John's, Olivia Newton-John, Pete Murray, Harry Connick Jnr, Kanye West, Missy Higgins, Xavier Rudd, Kate Miller-Heidke, Pavarotti, Nigel Kennedy, Jon English, Il Divo, Jerry Lewis, Sarah Blasko, Hugh Jackman, Amici Forever, Kate Ceberano, Marcia Hines, Rolf Harris, Aled Jones, Tommy Lee - to name a few. Danielle is an academic, writer, poet and curator. She curates Restrung New Chamber Festival, which was the topic of her PhD exploring contemporary string practice and festival programming. Danielle is also the Festival Manager for Queensland Conservatorium's Crossbows small ensembles festival. Diana Tolmie (clarinettist): Woodwind specialist Diana Tolmie has had a wonderful time for the past 25 years with her career performing in a multitude of musical genres instigated by a Churchill Fellowship and a Queen Elizabeth Trust Award.&nbsp,Consistent session work has included the Queensland Symphony, Tasmanian Symphony, Malaysian Philharmonic and Orchestra Victoria. With over 30 professional musicals under her belt allowing her national and international travel, she is unafraid to cross genres being as comfortable in Clint Allen's Frank Zappa Big Band as she is with the Doch Gypsy Orchestra and is employed for many contemporary and mainstream live, television and recording events. As lecturer of the saxophone, clarinet and bass clarinet at the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University she also convenes the professional industry preparation strand My Life As A Musician and is founder and conductor of the Queensland Conservatorium Saxophone Orchestra which tours internationally. Currently an Australian Music Examinations Board examiner, Diana has also acted as an AMEB consultant and editor with 3 publications in her bibliography in addition to editing the Australian Clarinet and Saxophone Magazine.&nbsp,.
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    Body Melt
    Vinegar Syndrome specializes in the masterful restoration and distribution of cult, horror, and erotic films from the 1960s-90s.Residents of the placid suburban cul-de-sac of Pebbles Court have started receiving unexpected samples of a new and experimental vitamin, manufactured by a strange health spa named Vimuville. However, shortly after adding the mysterious green powder to their diets, users begin to experience strange and increasingly macabre visions, and worse, their bodies start to mutate, ooze, and eventually melt! As visits from the coroner to the sleepy street become a nearly daily experience, Detective Sam Phillips becomes increasingly suspicious of the goings on at Vimuville, but will he be able to uncover its diabolical motives before the whole of Australia is subjected to BODY MELT?Writer/director/composer Philip Brophy's notorious slime-filled cult classic BODY MELT remains one of the last great Ozploitation films. Packed with gross-out gore effects, biting black comedy, and a throbbing techno-esque score, Vinegar Syndrome proudly presents BODY MELT on Blu-ray for the first time in North America, and in an all new 2k restoration sourced from the original 16mm negative, exclusive to this release.FEATURES::1. Newly scanned & restored in 2k from its 16mm original camera negative (exclusive to our release)2. Commentary track with writer/director/composer Philip Brophy, writer/producer Rod Bishop and producer Daniel Scharf3. Commentary track with Philip Brophy, focused on the sound design and film score4. "Melting Away: The Deconstruction of Body Melt" - 2018 featurette with Philip Brophy and Rod Bishop5. "Body Building: The Making of Body Melt" - 2018 interview with Daniel Scharf6. "Adrenal Glands" - 2018 interview with actor Neil Foley7. "Making Bodies Melt: The Making of Body Melt"8. "Behind-the-Scenes Featurette"9. Extensive behind-the-scenes stills and prop gallery10. Complete storyboard gallery11. Original theatrical trailer12. English SDH subtitles
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    Joe McMahon Trio
    The Joe McMahon Trio is a classic Jazz guitar trio featuring Mike Mele on guitar, Dave Brophy on drums and McMahon on bass. Check it out.
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