Press

2017

2016
  • Echoes of the Garden Palace – Event
2015
  • The Sydney Morning Herald – Album review by John Shand – ★★★★ “gamesters of the highest order”
  • ‘5 Mutant Creatures with Song Fwaa’ – scenestr.
  • Veronique Serret: A Stolen Satellite and other works – Event
  • Sizzle @ Spectrum NOW festival – Event
2014
  • The Australian – Album review by John McBeath – ★★★★ ‘The music often combines aspects of free jazz — mostly rhythmic, albeit often in odd tempos — with contemporary classical ideas, reminiscent of Steve Reich and Philip Glass. Exemplifying these ideas are four tracks entitled Tacet Suite…’
  • Jazz and Beyond – Album review by Peter Wockner – ★★★1/2 ‘fountain of spontaneity…intuitive interplay’
  • The Music Trust – Album review by Tim Rollinson – ‘Reaston, who is interested in latin and African guitar styles as well as use of serialism and indeterminacy brings an individual and fresh sound.’
  • Sydney Improvised Music Association – Song Fwaa – Album Launch
2013
2012
  • Canberra Jazz Blog – Gig review by Eric Pozza – ‘great technique and a very different sensibility and some very complex and intricate compositions’
2011
  • The Sydney Morning Herald – Album review by John Shand – ★★★★’dense, disquieting, playful, moving and hypnotic’
  • The Australian – Album review by John McBeath – ★★★1/2 ‘dense webs of texture suspended in space and time’
  • Eastside FM 89.7 (Sydney) – Album of the week – ‘esoteric world woven with dense and hypnotic melodies, colliding percussion and unpredictable improvisations’
  • Alt Media – Album review by Emma Slakild – ★★1/2 ‘experimental and kooky’
2010
  • The Sydney Morning Herald – Album review by John Shand – ★★★1/2 ‘shrewd arranging and an impeccably collegial spirit…A perfect act for festivals.’
  • Limelight Magazine – Album review by Peter Wockner – ★★★1/2 ‘The orchestration of the leader David Reaston encompasses moments of metal chaos, lucid telepathy and fluid swing’
2009
  • Alternative Media Group – Album review by Aidan Roberts – ★★★1/2 ‘Reaston’s buzzing and atonal guitar playing is a signature sound’
2008
  • The Sydney Morning Herald – Gig review by John Shand – ‘What’s the collective noun for 10 electric guitarists? The unkind might suggest a 60-string racket, or even a catastrophe. Most people would be polarised into finding the idea either hellish or heavenly. The madman/prophet making it happen was David Reaston, who assembled the largest cast of notable Sydney guitarists seen in one place at one time… His compositions and arrangements embraced many options, ranging from a smattering of collective free improvisation to stonking unisons and onto the predictable employment of bass riffs, chords and solos…’
2005
  • Cadence Magazine (U.S.A) – Album review – ‘Reaston proves a dazzling technician—keeping time with percussive thwacks of palm on bridge, comping, and ripping off lead lines all at once. He’s a serious groover, and his energy is prodigious.’