Max-Mo
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Max-Mo is a unique impro jazz/ funk/poetry and spoken word collective based in Adelaide, South Australia. The group was formed in March 2009 by founding musicians Steve Matters (composer, keyboards, programmer, bassist, guitarist, trombonist), Andy Mills (drums & percussion), Derek Pascoe (tenor sax) and performers Mike Ladd
, Amelia Walker and Rob Walker
(not related) – all published and successful individual poets. The original line-up was joined by Alison Thorsteinsen (vocal impro) in July 2011. The group premiered at Poetry Australia’s salt on the tongue National Conference in Goolwa, South Australia April 24, 2009, regularly plays in various Adelaide venues and has been broadcast on ABC Radio National’s poeticA programme, Triple R's Aural Text program Radio Adelaide and ABC local radio.
Max-Mo is an abbreviation of ‘maximum momentum’.
Mike Ladd (poet)
Mike Ladd is an Australian poet and radio presenter.Mike Ladd was born in Berkeley, California while his Australian parents were living and working in America, but he returned to Australia when he was one year old, and grew up in the Adelaide Hills...
, Amelia Walker and Rob Walker
Rob Walker (poet)
Rob Walker new article content ...Rob Walker is a contemporary Australian poet and writer. His poetry has been published widely in magazines, journals, anthologies and online since the mid 1990s. His work has been translated into Arabic , Spanish and Dutch , text-published in English in France ...
(not related) – all published and successful individual poets. The original line-up was joined by Alison Thorsteinsen (vocal impro) in July 2011. The group premiered at Poetry Australia’s salt on the tongue National Conference in Goolwa, South Australia April 24, 2009, regularly plays in various Adelaide venues and has been broadcast on ABC Radio National’s poeticA programme, Triple R's Aural Text program Radio Adelaide and ABC local radio.
Max-Mo is an abbreviation of ‘maximum momentum’.