21st-Century Australian Guitar Music

Guitarist Hamish Strathdee's close collaboration with the Australian composers featured on this recording reflects his deep commitment to bringing new music to life through direct artistic partnership. The serious intent of Harry Sdraulig's Sonata is infused with exuberant playfulness and moments of quiet reflection, standing in vivid contrast to the virtuosic brilliance of Elizabeth Younan's Fantasia No. X and the calmly intense evocation of Australia's Carnarvon Gorge in Paul Ballam‑Cross's This Wide Quietness.

The strange, restless dances of Connor D'Netto's Tarantism unfold as a set of sharply characterised miniatures, while the gentle softness of Olivia Bettina Davies' In Flow offers a moment of poised stillness before the bluegrass‑, jazz‑ and rock‑inflected sound world of Holly Harrison's Bee's Knees.