Mic Conway Reality is an illusion

Reality is An Illusion

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“Well balanced blend of originals and covers … continues to charm.”  Tony Hillier ABC radio

Albert Einstein once said, “reality is an illusion”, albeit a very persistent one. In these days of grim reality, Mic Conway’s National Junk Band have released a new recording that may give relief from hard times. “Reality Is An Illusion” is a fun CD full of extraordinary musicianship, quirky songs, social comment and surprises. Mostly original songs with a few unlikely classics including Lennon/McCartney’s “Because”, all played in the inimitable Junk Band style.

Planned obsolescence, vaudeville, carnival, Australiana and insects are just some of the song subjects. Mic’s brother and harmonica legend Jim Conway and keyboard player Don Hopkins are featured guests on the recording.

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It is a strange musical truism that male vocalists who perform as a “crooner” (an antique term previously associated with the likes of Bing Crosby and Perry Como) never lose their voices. Thus Mic Conway, some 50 years after his first gigs with the Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band, sounds fresh and vibrant as he did all those decades ago. Ably supported by the four-piece National Junk Band (well-names, as they play everything from gazoo to glockenspiel, musical saw, sousaphone, jug to nose flute, and washboard to garbage bin), and with guests including his peerless harmonica-playing brother, Jim Conway, Mic serves up a delicious potpourri of musical sentimentality and nonsense. This includes such delicacies as beautiful jug-band version of the Beatles’ Because, a delightful reading of the 1929 standard Spread a Little Happiness, and a wry broadside about Sydney, Sydney Steak and Kidney, which describes the city as “a shark in the harbour if life”. Deeply rooted in the belief that in times of plague and depression music can lift the spirits, this is a joyful reminder that “even when the darkest clouds are in the sky” a jug band really can “spread a little happiness”.
BRUCE ELDER (SMH, The Age 13/11/2020)

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Reality Is An Illusion

by Mic Conway’s National Junk Band

1. EVERYTHING NEW IS OLD AGAIN
Reversing the classic saying, ‘everything old is new again’, to satirise planned obsolescence, nostalgia is now “modern retro”
2. REALITY IS AN ILLUSION
A fun way to help us see Einstein’s big picture in a grim world
3. BECAUSE
Lennon-McCartney’s classic pun filled song is given the junk band treatment
4. POSITIVOLI
With an actual old recorded beginning by “Manny” Aarons- “the Wizard of the Wurlitzer”, (Mic and Jim’s grandfather), the song is a fun tribute to their vaudeville relatives.
5. SYDNEY STEAK AND KIDNEY
A tongue in cheek tribute to Australia’s biggest city, both beautiful and shonky.
6. PLEASE DON’T TALK ABOUT ME
A timeless swing standard given the junk band treatment and featuring the great Jim Conway on harmonica
7. NEVER SWAT AFLY
Very silly song featuring some extraordinary musicianship
8. AUSSIE BUSH DANCE
Starting as an innocent children’s song through to bush music,tango and thrash music – all in the same song! This draws attention to the often forgotten animals killed in bushfires
9. SPREAD A LITTLE HAPPINESS
Written in 1929 for the musical “Mr Cinders” and later recorded by Sting; this is a beautiful song from the last Depression just in time for the next!
10. CARNIVAL
An energetic uptempo, Latin flavoured song extolling the pleasures of the tawdry fun park carnivals
11. MONEY FROM NOTHING
An original swing song about the illusion and emptiness of the modern economy
12. INCURABLE ROMANTIC
Crooning romantic song about the folly of being in love with love.
13. WHY MUST THE SHOW GO ON?
Quirky reality check to those who think change isn’t necessary.

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