VIDEOS

Has a T S Eliot poem ever sounded so sexy! In this clip, Naarah takes our performance into the realm of a Paris nightclub at 3am, picking up on the light jazz vibe of my playing. We had decided that the 2nd song in our set would be 100% improvised. A few days before, Naarah had picked up a few books and left them with me to choose a poem for lyrics to perform. I went for "Rhapsody on a Windy Night" simply because there were snow storms around us that weekend. This is what transpired.

This amazing performance from proud Gidja Kimberley woman and Taswegian, Naarah, started as an improvisation around my music and Pablo Neruda’s poem “Every Day You Play” from his collection “Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair”. Naarah created the vocal melody on the spot, never having heard my song before! Luckily we recorded what was happening, It was so good I notated it so we could perform it again a few nights later - to a full house - at Brookefield, Margate, just south of Hobart.

As reported in earlier “Breaking News” (see June 2018 below), Bob Brown, Australia’s most respected environmentalist, used Steve’s music “Tarkine Sunset (takayna)” as the soundtrack for his photo montage for the Bob Brown Foundation 2017 Christmas video message. In March 2018, happening upon a book of poems (In Balfour Street, NewPrint 2010) by Bob, Steve commented that maybe one day he would put some of Bob’s poems to music. Bob unhesitatingly replied, “Then start with “Winter Night at Liffey!”. Fortuitously, this was Steve’s favourite poem but his knees started shaking at the thought. After some false starts, Steve came up with music interpretations for four of the poems and in July Bob and Steve went to Reel to Reel studios in Margate, south of Hobart, and recorded them “live” in just a few takes.

On Wednesday 30th October (2019) the opening track for Steve’s soon-to-be released new album  “Unbroken” featured as the soundtrack for a music video to promote the restoration of Lake Pedder. The music video was launched as part of the opening reception of the Lake Pedder - Journey to Restoration Exhibition held at the Sidespace Gallery in Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart.

Announcing an exciting collaboration between Steve and Australia’s most respected environmentalist, Bob Brown as part of the Bob Brown Foundation campaign to “Save The Tarkine”.

Bob very generously used Steve's piano piece 'Tarkine Sunset' behind a montage of his photos of the Tarkine as his Christmas message for 2017 from the Bob Brown Foundation.