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Believe (Farrar / Manojlovic / Thomas / Pike): Spirits Of The Dead Are Watching (Relative Pitch)

"BELIEVE's debut album 'Spirits of the Dead are Watching' is a potent statement from four of Australia's most experienced and dedicated improvisers. A powerhouse unit of rare intimacy, flexibility and passion, BELIEVE connects the spect...
 

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Peter Farrar-alto saxophone, percussion

Novak Manojlovic-piano, percussion

Clayton Thomas-double bass, percussion

Laurence Pike-drums, percussion


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UPC: 5904224874636

Label: Relative Pitch
Catalog ID: RPR1239
Squidco Product Code: 36750

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2025
Country: USA
Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold
Recorded at Golden Retriever studios, in Sydney, Australia, on July 17th and 18th, 2023, by Simon Berckelman.

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"BELIEVE's debut album 'Spirits of the Dead are Watching' is a potent statement from four of Australia's most experienced and dedicated improvisers. A powerhouse unit of rare intimacy, flexibility and passion, BELIEVE connects the spectrum of contemporary creative sound making with the fluid, anything is possible momentum of free jazz."-Relative Pitch


Artist Biographies

Peter Farrar is a Sydney-based saxophonist known for his work in improvisational and experimental music. He has been involved with several avant-garde ensembles and is recognized for his innovative approach to the saxophone.

-Squidco 9/15/2025

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"Sydney-based pianist, Novak Manojlovic first began playing piano at age eight. He went on to study at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music from 2012-2016 where he honed his craft as an improviser and composer, studying under pianists Mike Nock and Matt McMahon (Freedman Jazz Fellow 2005). Novak has led his own diverse projects and collaborated extensively in the pop music scene, acting as a musical director, arranger and touring musician for Ngaiire, Sampa the Great, Wallace and Martha Marlow. Novak has been quickly gaining recognition for his expressive approach, and since finishing his studies has been composing and performing with his subversive piano trio 'HEKKA', electro-acoustic outfit Colourfields and his large ensemble Grown Ocean throughout Australia."

-Music Trust E-Zine (https://musictrust.com.au/loudmouth/2019-freedman-jazz-fellow-freedman-classical-finalists/)
9/15/2025

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"Double Bassist Clayton Thomas was born 1976, in Hobart, Australia. Inspired by the sound, velocity and social movements of jazz, Clayton has dedicated his musical life to finding a personal truth that links his own cultural life as a white Australian, with the radical, far reaching pursuits found within the creative music. What he can't find as a bass player, he searches for in the organisation of unreasonably large ensembles.

Clayton Thomas relocated in Sydney, Australia, in 2014. Clayton is currently not a regular member of the Splitter Orchester, but he was part of the 2014 concert @ MaerzMusik and he'll also take part in the 2015 concerts in Berlin and Huddersfield."

-Splitter Orchester Website (http://www.berlinsplitter.org/index.php?article_id=104)
9/15/2025

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Track Listing:



1. Believer 10:03

2. Spirits Of The Dead Are Watching 07:25

3. Already Not Yet 24:30

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