UNBROKEN BY STEVE CRUMP - NEW ALBUM OUT NOW!

Publicly recognised as “Hobart composer, pianist and environmentalist” (Cygnet Folk Festival Earth Celebration program, 12 Jan. 2020, p.4), Steve Crump has released his 3rd CD, “Unbroken”. Recorded on a vintage concert grand at “Mixmasters” studio in the Adelaide Hills with Mick Wordley the sound magician and Heath Cullen producing and double-tracking guitar, clap sticks, harmonium and piano over Steve’s playing. The title track was used as the soundtrack for a video for the Restore Pedder Campaign launched at Sidespace Gallery in Hobart at the end of 2019.

The theme running through “Unbroken” is of shadows as a way of acknowledging people who have shaped four of these songs. Respectfully, “Bapa” offers gentle shadows of acoustic guitar as if Gurrumul is playing too (which he is in Steve’s heart); the clap sticks given to Steve by Balang (Tom E Lewis) sound echoing shadows over “Barrumungu” that includes a section written for Tom; the harmonium on “Winter Night” hints at Bob Brown playing his pump organ in his house at Liffey, as in Bob’s poem that triggered this piece; and, the joyful shadow of the improvised duets Steve has with his 7 year old grandchild playfully appear in the high treble of “Heaven’s Rain”.

Steve’s CDs are stocked by leading independent outlets: Redeye Records Sydney, Basement Discs and Rocksteady Records Melbourne, Fullers Bookshop Hobart, The Avenue Records (formerly Mojo) Launceston and from this website.