Picture Box Orchestra [Australia]

1. Describe your music Twitter style, 140 characters or less.
Eclectic, genre defying, story-based, global fusion.

2. First album you purchased?
Kind of Blue by Miles Davis

The finest Jazz album ever composed – Ed

3. First gig you went to?
Herbie Hancock at the Norwood Town Hall

No wonder you’re a brilliant musician. – Ed

4. Favourite song?
Baltimore by Randy Newman (The Nina Simone version)

5. A compelling reason to come see your gig?
I’ll be performing several new tracks at WOMAD and my long term collaborator Faheem Mazhar has come over, all the way from Pakistan to perform with us. Because this is a cross cultural project any live performance of our repertoire with the original repertoire is extremely rare.

6. Your best track?
Red, because it was the first piece I wrote for the Picture Box Orchestra.

7. Your single biggest musical influence?
My Father.

8. If you weren’t a musician, what would you be?
An explorer.

9. If you could collaborate with any artist in the world, who would it be?
Rohinton Mistry.

10. Who are you looking forward to seeing at WOMAD?
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, Tinariwen and Baaba Maal.