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ANNOUNCEMENT⬇️

It’s official!!

Zela Margossian Quintet will be the supporting act for the one and only Tigran Hamasyan in Sydney!!

Tigran will be promoting his latest album, Manifeste, with his stellar quartet:

@tigranhamasyan
@marc_karapetian
@armandrumzz
@redfadoli

We are absolutely thrilled for this rare and amazing opportunity and would like to thank the organisers for planning this event and for supporting us!! Special thanks to @joanne_2037 ❤️🙏🏻

The show will take place at the Seymour Centre @seymoursydney on the 24th of October!

#zelamargossianquintet #seymourcentresydney #tigranhamasyan #manifeste

ANNOUNCEMENT⬇️

It’s official!!

Zela Margossian Quintet will be the supporting act for the one and only Tigran Hamasyan in Sydney!!

Tigran will be promoting his latest album, Manifeste, with his stellar quartet:

@tigranhamasyan
@marc_karapetian
@armandrumzz
@redfadoli

We are absolutely thrilled for this rare and amazing opportunity and would like to thank the organisers for planning this event and for supporting us!! Special thanks to @joanne_2037 ❤️🙏🏻

The show will take place at the Seymour Centre @seymoursydney on the 24th of October!

#zelamargossianquintet #seymourcentresydney #tigranhamasyan #manifeste

Very excited to announce a run of gigs coming up at the end of May and through June.

For the first time in several years, I’ll be sharing the stage again with two of my oldest friends and musical collaborators @joshspolc and @alih666 at @heapsnormal Health Club.

We’ll be playing:
31st May
14th June
21st June
28th June
3–5pm, Sunday afternoons

If you’ve ever followed what I do musically, whether through Little Archer or my work as a pianist and improviser, this is a chance to hear a mix of original compositions alongside music that has shaped me deeply as a musician.

We’ll be playing quite a few of my original compositions as well as reimagining music from Ghibli films and composers like Joe Hisaishi, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Nobuo Uematsu, filtered through a jazz trio lens, with heavy inspiration from 90s and 2000s Japanese VGM textures and a lot of spontaneous improvisation.

Really looking forward to sharing this one. Please share around as I hope to catch up and grab a healthy beer with some familiar, and hopefully new, faces there.

snaps by the legend @moon.district Aka @dezvision

#sydneylivemusic #ghibli #heapsnormal #sydneyjazz #Japanesemusic #jazztrio #vgm

Gone shuckin' at Mooney Mooney w the fam

Gone shuckin' at Mooney Mooney w the fam

Gone shuckin' at Mooney Mooney w the fam

Gone shuckin' at Mooney Mooney w the fam

Gone shuckin' at Mooney Mooney w the fam

Gone shuckin' at Mooney Mooney w the fam

Gone shuckin' at Mooney Mooney w the fam

Gone shuckin' at Mooney Mooney w the fam

THURS APRIL 2 from 7pm CICCHI//HISLOP ORGAN TRIO WITH TOM ODELL 💙🎸🎹🥁
CICCHI//HISLOP ORGAN TRIO comes together for their maiden voyage at Butchers Brew where they will dip into the timeless standards of tin pan alley & beyond in the classic Hammond organ-electric guitar-drumset format. Co-led by Adrianna Cicchitelli & Alexander Inman-Hislop they are joined by special guest Tom Odell on organ.
⭐ ADRIANNA (aka CICCHI) is a Darug/ Sydney-based session jazz guitarist, composer & lecturer at the Australian Institute of Music. She has performed across some of Australia’s biggest shows & festivals including: Woodford Folk Festival 2025/26, Vivid 2025, Kiama Jazz & Blues Festival 2025, Bellingen Jazz Festival 2025 & The Sydney Women’s International Jazz Festival 2023, & is a regular session performer in some of Sydney’s most iconic venues including Restaurant Hubert & Marble Bar. In 2025, Adrianna completed a graduate certificate in music research focusing on jazz composition & aesthetic frameworks towards New York post-bop improvisation in the 21st century.
⭐ ALEXANDER INMAN-HISLOP is a multi-ARIA nominated drummer & composer. In 2021 he was nominated for the prestigious Freedman Fellowship Award for Jazz Artists & was shortlisted in the 2018 Wangaratta National Jazz Awards. Alongside his performing career, he holds a position at the University of Sydney’s Conservatorium of Music as a Casual Lecturer in Jazz & Drumset Performance.
⭐ TOM ODELL is a pianist/ composer based in Sydney, Australia. Working across a variety of projects both as a leader & sideman, he has performed at many of Sydney’s leading jazz venues/festivals, including appearances at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music Jazz Festival, SIMA’s International Women’s Jazz Festival & the Manly Jazz Festival. In 2024, with support from the George Henderson Traveling Scholarship, he attended the Siena International Jazz Workshop in Italy. He has also appeared as a member of the Australian Youth Jazz Orchestra (2025) & is the recipient of the inaugural Jacob Neale Jazz Award (2025)
🎫 LIMITED TIX! $23 Prebook/ $25 Door 🍻🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🍾
Doors from 6pm
https://www.stickytickets.com.au/4VL5BQ

“Repentance”, ZMQ’s 3rd single off their album, Remedy, is set to be released on March 27! It’s a charged piece, full of shifting emotions but cathartic nonetheless.

Pre-save link can be found in link in bio.

A huge thanks to:
All members of ZMQ, @freeenergydevicestudios Richie B (recording and mixing engineer), @mlynch.mastering (mastering engineer), @rudi.music (videographer), @amelia_hill_engineering (assistant engineer), @ropeadope (our record label) and last but not least, @creative.australia for their financial support for this album project.

Recorded at @rancomststudios

Late last year we had @jetrioau book in a session with our very own @blaincunneen multitasking engineering at playing guitar!

If you're looking to record your music, get in contact with us to book a session at Rancom St Studios via email
📧: rancomststudios@gmail.com

hm yes I see your point but at the end of the day it's still my armrest mate can you find your own please?

@ademyilmaz_z 🤝🤝🤝

Happy New Year everyone!

We all have very different feelings about what the new year represents or how much is truly left behind in the year past but I'm very much looking forward to cracking on for 2026. Whatever your feelings may be I hope you are rewarded for your hard work in whatever shape that may take.

Business as usual here. There will be plenty of music to post about, however there will also be a new venture or two. I am laying the groundwork for some exciting new things that I'll be road testing for the next 12-24 months. Something, something writing or something, something professional development. I'm building a body of work that incorporates the research gained during my PhD candidature from the cognitive, psychological and sports sciences into a musician's practise-hygiene package of sorts. I won't give away too much here but I'll tease out bits here and there as they develop.

Until then here's me playing along with Dillinger Escape Plan's 'Panasonic Youth'. Improvising is great but there is something wholly unqiue satisfaction gained from nailing a drum part top to tail as one does with play-alongs.

Did I nail it? Nope. I'll get it next time.

Lots of love,
Alex

xoxoxo

happy new year everyon xoxoxo

Oh what a feeling... Hyundai? New-ish wheels, yay!

Done and dusted, as of this past Monday I have no more concerts for 2025. Couldn't think of a better way to send off the year with one of my longest running groups, @jetrioau , reunited after a near 3-year hiatus.

I'll keep it brief with a massive and heartfelt thankyou to everyone I have created music with this year ❤️

Here's the last bit of music I'll post for the year so you can all get a break from my social media self-congratulations. It is the end of jetrio's song "Concrete" where Blain takes an utterly face-melting bass solo.

Happy holidays everyone. Lots of love.

xoxo

Also coming up this coming Monday are local legends jetrio!

Sean Valenzuela - piano
Blain Cunneen - guitar
Alexander Inman-Hislop - drums

jetrio is a Sydney-based three-piece that produces music that lands somewhere between meditative jazz, minimalist composition, and ambient improv - imagine if The Necks, Philip Glass, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Bill Frisell got stuck in a room with nothing but time and someone hit ‘record’.

Sean Valenzuela on piano, Blain Cunneen on guitar, and Alexander Inman-Hislop on drums build atmospheres by zooming in on details until they take on new meaning. Melodic cells repeat, evolve, and loop back on themselves until something much bigger emerges. It’s hypnotic, but it’s never static. It’s detailed, carefully constructed, and guided by a collective vision that extends well beyond performance alone.