And This One's Introduced By... Arun Roberts introduces the songs from 3 EPs by Dirt Hand

Wednesday, 5 October 2022 - 11:00pm to Thursday, 6 October 2022 - 12:30am
This One's Introduced By... 3CR

I'd wandered into Shotkickers, the venue in High St in Melbourne's inner suburb of Thornbury to see the excellent  Skyscraper Stan & The Commission Flats.

The band on stage was Dirt Hand the first band playing before the main act and after I grabbed a beer and watched them play I realised that here was something special and  Skyscraper Stan had chosen a great band to play with them.

The giant of a singer Arun with  baritone vocals sported a bushy beard and moved  his body on stage like a dancer, channeling the music and the band seemed to be improvising much of the time.

Dirt Hand is a collaborative music platform curated by Arun Roberts. Initially, Arun just wanted to get away from the metronome. He took that desire and turned it into an arrangement and performance aesthetic that would become the Dirt Hand EP. Then he encountered the canons of Steve Reich so he drew up several sets of his own such canons and locked them in a studio with 4 of his songs and a 9-piece jazz band. The result was packaged as a record bearing the name “The Thorn Variations” but in truth that name more accurately describes a process than it does a work. As a process “The Thorn Variations” has been successfully performed by various ensemble types and has been described as “an inspired and fully textured tentative tightrope for Roberts’ deep growling storytelling” and “one of those golden bullets of ratification for the extraordinary”.

Keep an eye out for Dirt Hand and check them out if you can, Arun Roberts from Dirt Hand  is here with Dr Gonzo to introduce his music on And This One's Introduced By... 

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