A Review of Cascades from the Folk Rag by Mary Brettell:

When asked to review Cascades by Paris Dreaming (Ewan Mackenzie & Kay Sullivan), I just wanted to say … mmmm, I love it, I love it, I love it, I love it… but I guess you might want to know why. It’s just a feeling, really.

If you have ever seen Ewan and Kay live and loved them, as I do, you will not be disappointed in their latest CD of beautiful gypsy jazz style music, including several original tracks. The sound is entrancing. At times you can imagine yourself sitting in a French café sipping a glass of red and watching the passing trade. At other times you will close your eyes and hear the water trickling in the nearby creek, dancing over stones on the creek bed.

Ewan’s wonderful guitar work can not be surpassed and Kay’s passion for the music and mastery of the accordion is the perfect complement. This pair just blend. As I listen to it I can see Ewan’s rapt smile and Kay’s twinkling eyes in an otherwise serene expression (under that red cap).

The tracks reflect the settings in which they were rehearsed, including The Cascades of Borumba Deer Park, on the banks of Yabba Creek. Always with that Django Reinhardt influence shining through, the mood is relaxed, mellow, light-hearted, romantic, warm and always very, very tasty.

If you need a CD that will make you feel all of these things then this is just what the doctor ordered. 15 tracks of pure bliss.

A Review of Cascades from the December 2008 issue of Rhythms Magazine by Tony Hillier:

South East Queensland acoustic guitar whiz Ewan MacKenzie has been paying eloquent homage to Django Reinhardt for the past few years via a lead role in the well-known gypsy jazz group Mystery Pacific, as Artistic Director of the OzManouche Festival, and more recently in duet form with accordionist Kay Sullivan in Paris Dreaming.

The pair is well matched on Cascades, their sophomore album, Sullivan's wheezy box proving the perfect foil for her sidekick's fluid and impressively clean guitar work. It is a measure of the duo's composing skills that their eight originals are compatible with three Django tunes, which include one of the legendary jazzman's finest, 'Melodie au Crepuscule'.