Postcards from Papua
Philip Swan and Spike Mason first met at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in 1994, where they were studying drums and saxophone (respectively). They played together numerous times over the next ten years, including a gig at the original Free-For-All in Glebe, Sydney, where Philip remembers feeling both exhilarated and very uncomfortable. 20 years on, he’s ready to give FFA another try. Philip spent 2009-2019 in West Papua assisting an indigenous community with mother-tongue language-based community development and Bible translation. This performance will take the form of musical ‘postcards’ from Papua, as Philip and Spike improvise their way through scenes and experiences of life lived in different places.