Michael Thomsett

Originally privately pressed in tiny numbers in Canberra in the mid- 70s, Yaraandoo & Hara have become sought after examples of the best in progressive jazz/rock. "Taking in impressionistic hazy instrumental jazz … muscular fusion moves, solo Mellotron pieces as heavenly as anything Beethoven or Handel ever concocted, extremely loose-limbed ethno-fusion soundscapes of the Don Cherry/Pharoah Sanders variety, film soundtracks … and electronic experimentalism … hair-raising, soul-searching beauty with an overall dreamy, hazy quality that perhaps could only be written by an Australian fully conversant with the Dreamtime cultural feel for the myths and legends of the Outback." (from Julian Cope's "Head Heritage.")