BELIEVE

BELIEVE’s debut album ‘Spirits of the Dead are Watching’ is a potent statement from four of Australia’s most experienced and dedicated improvisers. A powerhouse unit of rare intimacy, flexibility and passion, BELIEVE connects the spectrum of contemporary creative sound making with the fluid, anything is possible momentum of free jazz.
The album contains three spontaneous compositions, and I know no more sophisticated activity of which humans are capable than freely improvising at this level. Idiomatically, the music can be heard as free jazz of the sort that’s been around for 65 years, but when played on this plane it transcends definitions, and seems like you’ve opened a window, and Nature has poured these sounds into your ears, triggering responses from imagination, gut and heart. I wish I lived in the house with that window.
John Shand SMH 26th Sept 2025