Ephemera
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"Ephemera is always outward-reaching conceptually...The quartet can achieve a surprisingly orchestral sweep...music of peculiar depth and mystery that somehow evades the laws of gravity." SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
"Terrific, rich, pulsating and reverberant... sophisticated and compelling....vivid and colourful." LIMELIGHT MAGAZINE
"Hypnotic, transformative" DOWNTOWN MUSIC MAGAZINE, NEW YORK
"Terrific, rich, pulsating and reverberant... sophisticated and compelling....vivid and colourful." LIMELIGHT MAGAZINE
"Hypnotic, transformative" DOWNTOWN MUSIC MAGAZINE, NEW YORK
Date: Saturday, November 1, 2025
Time:
Doors: 7:30 pm
Music: 8:00 pm
Address: 277-279 Broadway, Glebe
Keyna Wilkins - piano/flute
Jodie Michael - drumset
Elsen Price - double bass
Will Gilbert - trumpet
Merging the sound worlds of jazz and contemporary classical, and set to real space sounds and projections, it is a unique sonic experience. NASA recordings of electromagnetic waves from planets and stars is the backdrop soundtrack and has been complied by astronomer Professor Paul Francis often with projections of space probe footage. Each member brings their own unique voice to the ensemble drawing from a multitude of musical backgrounds who combine to create a distinctive sound world that organically react to stellar concepts. Universe and Universality.
The ensemble is led by Keyna Wilkins (piano/flute/compositions) with Elsen Price (double bass/loop pedal), Will Gilbert (trumpet) with new addition of Jodie Michael (drumset) and includes freely improvised pieces. Jodie Michael and Elsen Price have both been featured ABC Jazz Artists 2025 and 2019. Will Gilbert is a national jazz trumpeter and Keyna Wilkins is a pioneering international composer-musician. Formed in 2015, this ensemble have performed internationally and around Australia including 6 concerts in Japan, being featured at MONA Evenings Series, Extended Play Festival of New Music at City Recital Hall and Sydney International Womens' Jazz Festival, at Foundry 616, Red Rattler, Woodburn Creatives and Melbourne's Uptown Jazz Cafe and many more.
www.ephemeraensemble.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_fhNjUm8Zw
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