Una Bourne - Una BourneAustralia seems to have produced more than it's fair share of pianists in the early days of recording, with Percy Grainger, William Murdoch and Eileen Joyce all being mainstays of the 78rpm catalogue. To their ranks we should add Una Bourne, signed to the most prestigious label of all HMV, and a stalwart of the acoustic period of recording. Bourne had early success as a prodigy and travelled to Europe to study, but it was being asked to tour with

Wild & Wicked includes live recordings from Los Angeles's Roxy in 1976 and rare studio recordings from an unreleased soundtrack to an unreleased film

It had seemed so cute and innocent

As musical trends come and go

Roy Eldridge

Sharp and destructive yet cerebral and clever

bridging a harsh gap between dense realism and feverish fantasy which leads to a stunning and transcendent final act

It was only in Hamburg

Big Baby Scumbag next to underground perennials like Teebs

in either one or two takes

this composer from the Abruzzi region could almost be likened to a sort of musical Hieronymus Bosch

with it's combination of Mediterranean influences and Russian and Germanic traditions

Remember those cartoon character-based undergarments that kids used to wear