{"id":1033,"date":"2026-04-22T13:03:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T03:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/castlemainejazzfestival.com.au\/?page_id=1033"},"modified":"2026-04-23T16:32:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T06:32:42","slug":"mad-vantage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/castlemainejazzfestival.com.au\/?page_id=1033","title":{"rendered":"Mad Vantage"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1033\" class=\"elementor elementor-1033\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7a72553f elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"7a72553f\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 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She has curated a sound which cements her as a powerful force; bursting into the heavy scene unapologetically with the use of synthesizers, distortion and electronic sounds.<br \/>Drawing comparisons to Animals as Leaders, Plini, Hiromi and Tigran Hamasyan, SOLUNE\u2019s sound is decidedly her own &#8211; exploiting odd-meters and double-kick pedals whilst crafting grooves so unavoidably danceable. Mad Vantage has already received the 2025 APRA Professional Development Award, been named the 2025 MIJF Take Note Leader (with a packed out Night Cat performance October 2025), won the 2021 MWIJF Recording Prize, been featured in The Age, Wall Of Sound, Heavy Blog Is Heavy, Everything Is Noise, and supported acclaimed acts such as Anika Nilles, Brekky Boy, Grievous Bodily Calm and Your Girl Pho. Mad Vantage have just released their debut album, \u2018MINUTIAE.\u2019 on Art As Catharsis Records &#8211; not to be missed!<br \/><br \/>\u201c&#8230;incredibly refined, expertly performed and highly resolved art. It is exciting, virtuous music that invites you into its orbit. It takes a lot of effort to make something appear effortless.&#8221; \u2013 Tim Nikolsky, Dingo Jazz Journal (2025)<br \/><br \/>\u201c&#8230; it\u2019s exciting. The tricksy time signatures illustrate a pitch of dexterity that pop\/rock tends, as a rule, to find surplus to requirement.\u201d &#8211; Michael Dwyer, The Age (2024)<br \/><br \/>\u201c[Mad Vantage] understand that technicality doesn\u2019t need to come at the expense of groove. 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