Kere Buchanan - Starting Over (2009)

Kere Buchanan is best known as a drummer’s drummer having played with a who’s who of great Australian artists including Tina Arena and Marcia Hines. Kere is also widely acknowledged as the leader of groups such as The Bodacious Cowboys and Kerosene. Perhaps less well known is the fact that Kere is also an enormously talented producer & arranger, writer and pianist.

His new album Starting Over is aptly named as he introduces his audience to a dynamic new phase of his career. His collaboration with the towering talents of people like Steve Clisby, Geoff Robertson, Glenn Bidmead, Michelle Martinez and Kimi, provides a sublime edge to the R&B, Jazz and Blues genre that such a vocal line-up would suggest.

The musicians on Starting Over have been meticulously hand picked by Buchanan from his endless industry wide associations, and the result, is a sound that is instrumentally "exact" to accompany the lyrical journey from start to finish right across the album highlighting the compositions of Buchanan, Clisby and Bidmead.

Join Kere Buchanan and a stunning line up of some sixteen brilliant artists as he launches Starting Over at The Basement in what promises to be an inspiring night of truly creative music.