Tony Buck
Tony Buck's percussion, samples and voice push free improvisation into continuous exploration: styles and sonorities stretch and return while the ensemble never releases its grip on tension.
With pianist Roger Dean and saxophonist Sandy Evans he builds hour-long dialogues and multi-track landscapes where drums articulate against electronics, piano and saxophone. The playing can settle into jazz phrasing or open into pure sonority; what holds is the risk, the inward focus, and the sense of three distinct temperaments locking without compromise. Founding work with The Necks has long sharpened that patience for slow-burn form and collective pulse.
Performing as austraLYSIS
austraLYSIS works across acoustic free improvisation and live computer interaction, pitting saxophones, piano and percussion against electronics in music that holds tension, risks emotion and never settles into one style.
The Next Room
An unusual two-CD set of free improvisation: each disc holds one continuous hour-long piece. Tony Buck, Roger Dean and Sandy Evans are sharply different musical personalities, yet the long-form dialogues hold together.
Composer
Moving the Landscapes
austraLYSIS appears in Australia in several guises, united by pianist, bassist and composer Roger Dean. All involve improvisation; this recording presents the acoustic face of the group.