BELIEVE (Sydney/NSW) ‘Nature’s God’ Album Launch

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Sydney quartet BELIEVE return to Melbourne to launch ‘Nature’s God’ – the second volume of a two-album release in collaboration with New York’s Relative Pitch and Melbourne’s Ramble Records. As John Shand of The Sydney Morning Herald recently wrote about the band -“I know of no more sophisticated activity of which humans are capable than freely improvising at this level.” This powerhouse band combines four of the most inventive improvisers – and composers – in Sydney’s creative music scene. Drummer and composer Laurence Pike has internationally released five solo albums (as well as two duo albums with Mike Nock); bassist Clayton Thomas spent over a decade based in Berlin, recording with artists such as Ken Vandemark, Paul Lovens, and Alexander von Schlippenbach (as well as founding the Now Now festival of spontaneous music in Sydney); keyboardist Novak Manojlovic was the recipient of the 2019 Freedman Fellowship (Jazz) and is the Artistic Director of S.I.M.A., recording with groups such as microfiche, HEKKA, and Godtet; alto saxophonist Peter Farrar toured with Wadada Leo Smith and r