Elana Stone teams up with two of the most distinctive voices in Australian creative music: Stephen Magnusson, guitar, and Julien Wilson, saxophones.
Elana describes the project:

“I first heard the Julien Wilson Trio at the Jazz Now! Festival in Sydney in 2004. It was one of those defining moments that made me remember why music is so important. At first I was struck by the delicious combination of the instruments: Jules’s tenor sax, Magussan’s nylon string guitar and Steven Grant’s accordian but it also occured to me that Mags, Julien and Steve were playing and communicating on an extremely high spiritual level

These incredible musicians are so accomplished technically that they were just singing through their instruments. I thought this was occurring as a result of many years of playing together knowing one another. I was later to discover that this was their first gig as a trio.

The guys obviously felt quite strongly about that first gig too because they have since formed a permanent group, travelled the world and made recordings using the same line up.

I was recently given the opportunity to make a recording for the ABC and I asked Stephen and Julien if they would be interested in playing on it. We spent two days in the studio and recorded an album of melancholic sea shanties. It will be called ‘She Went Mad and Drank Sea Water’, which will
be released later this year.”

Elana Stone