Trevor Swadling - Turn of a Page: Acoustic Folk 1979-1987 (2018)

Trevor Swadling. Born 1955. Melbourne Australia. Rock/unrehearsed was completed in 1987 the 17 songs were recorded from live night sessions in Trev’s studio from 1981 through to 1987. In the mid-80s there was a vibrant Australian music scene on the northern beaches of Sydney the musicians who contributed to this album were all in bands that were playing around Sydney. At the start of each session they played Trev’s song a couple of times until they got the feel for it and then we hit the record button. The songs came out sounding live and vibrant, everyone gave it their best. This album is a credit to all the musicians who contributed to it. Jeff Mercer: Lead guitar. James Barton: Drums. Phil Saddleton: Drums. Sean Eustom: Drums. Rod Crundwell: Keyboards. Murry Cook: Bass, Keyboards. Sean Crawley: Bass. Garry Dryden: Lead guitar. Andrew Hoyle: Sax. Isabel & Sara Fogarty, Kathleen Swadling: Backing vocals. Trevor Swadling: Lead vocals, rhythm guitar, and harmonica. Review: “Good songs, great sound, 100% earnest: I love listening to this record," Muddy Candy.

After a long break from recording and playing live Trev returned back to Australia in 2000 from travelling and working in Chicago. In 2006 Trev and Kathleen got together with Tully Dingle a songwriter and musician who helped in arranging the music and worked out the harmonies for these songs. “When the World Was Young” was recorded between 2007 and 2009. “We rehearsed up a bunch of songs and started playing at folk festivals and music venues around Australia for the next four years, we called our little band “Selalu”, with Kathleen on Mandolin, Trev playing Guitar and Tully on the bass””. Later on they were joined by Tully’s brother Matt Dingle, he took over playing the bass freeing Tully up to play guitar. The 14 songs on When the World Was Young were all written over this time. Along the way they met some wonderful musicians who contributed to these recordings; Tony Pyrzakowski – Violin. Clay Song, Home Town, In My Mind. Cye Wood – Violin. Deep Down, Walk You Home, The Reason. Jeff Stanley – Electric lead guitar. The Reason. Mark Hansen – Keyboards. The Reason. Luke Dingle – Piano on Ride of Your Life.

Over this time Selalu performed at The National Folk Festival, Music At the Creek Festival, Macquarie Towns Music, Paddington Arts, The Loaded Dog, The Shack, Kangaroo Valley Folk Festival, Gundagai Folk Festival and other folk venues around Sydney.