NOMINATION: Work of the Year - Jazz
For an original Jazz work of any instrumentation, including improvisatory composition.
A work is defined as a single complete musical composition, or expression. This includes music with movements or sub-works (i.e. song cycles), installations, and real-time compositions (improvised music).
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FLOOD is a nostalgic soundscape, celebrating the complexity of seemingly simple melodies, and the beauty, decay, and fragility in a single note. As a counterpoint to the destabilising amount of discourse and targeted messaging in daily life, Holly Moore focuses on the raw sounds of the saxophone, capturing a feeling of reminiscence and rebirth. Moores compositions on FLOOD speak to themes of love, loss, and displacement, as a reflection of new changes and stages of life. Through a series of ballads and anthems, FLOOD is an open, honest, and generous expression of Moores lived experience as an Australian improviser and musician, while also being a lateral extension of a current language of expression that is representative of a new generation in Melbourne Jazz.