Izumi Kimura / Barry Guy / Gerry Hemingway – Six Hands Open As One
The trio of young, Japanese-born, Irish-based pianist Izumi Kimura with British double bass player Barry Guy and American drummer Gerry Hemingway is by no means a typical piano trio. These musicians are idiosyncratic composers...
Christian Moser – Abrash
Swiss, Basel-based Christian Moser plays the Middle-Eastern lute, the oud, like no other. In his youth, he studied the violin but at 18 he discovered the oud, and after a few years of taking...
Bruno Duplant – de ce paysage au loin nous ne percevons que des sons
de ce paysage au loin nous ne percevons que des sons (From this landscape, in the distance, we only perceive sounds) is the poetic title of the new sound work by French composer, sound...
Jacob Kirkegaard: two haunting sound works
"The work of Danish composer, sound artist, and field recordist Jacob Kirkegaard explores ways to reflect on complex, unnoticed, or unapproachable conditions and environments His works have treated themes such as radioactivity in...
Mark Kirschenmann – Tonics: 7 Melodies for Trumpet with Bamboo Mouthpipe
America, Ann Arbor-based trumpeter Mark Kirschenmann is known for his pioneering live electric trumpet performances and as a scholar who explores the confluence of composition and improvisation at the University of Michigan. He has...
Draumr – Excursions
Draumr means dream in Faroese and it is the name of the electro-acoustic duo of Swedish composer-sound artist-concert pianist Eva Sidén and Danish electronics composer-sound artist-recording engineer-producer Christian Rønn. The duo's title captures faithfully...
Alexandra Grimal / Giovanni Di Domenico – Shakkei
Shakkei (借景) means borrowed scenery Japanese and is the Japanese (and also the Chinese) principle of "incorporating background landscape into the composition of a garden". Shakkei is also the title of the fourth duo...
Øyvind Torvund – A Walk into the Future
Norwegian experimental composer Øyvind Torvund began his musical career as a rock and free improvising guitarist. He is known for his matching acoustic and electronic instruments in multimedia settings, and his eccentric manner of...
Stefano Leonardi & Antonio Bertoni: Fuoco Sacro
Fuoco Sacro (Sacred Fire) is the second duo album of Italian flutist Stefano Leonardi and cellist (and double bass player) Antonio Bertoni, following Viandes (Astral Spirits, 2021. The duo project was based on Leonardi's...
Gayageum and doublebass: in conversation with Sylvain Monchocé
In free improvisation creative acts are the result of a series of implications that concern the personal sphere of each musician. Free improvisation is a communicative state based on previous skills, intuitions and openness...