Spaces Unfolding + Pierre Alexandre Tremblay – Shadow Figures
Spaces Unfolding is the acoustic, free improvising trio of flutist Neil Metcalfe, known for his work with Evan Parker, Paul Dunmall and the London Improvisers Orchestra, violinist Philipp Wachsmann (who established The Bead Label...
Bertrand Gauguet / Didier Lasserre – Mehr
French alto sax player-composer Bertrand Gauguet often plays solo improvised sets, composes electronic music and soundtracks for dance, cinema and radio, and makes field recordings for radio broadcasts, films and live performance devices. He...
Peter Evans – Extra
American trumpeter-composer Peter Evans teams with two close associates - the Berlin-based Swedish double bass player Petter Eldh (who played with Evans in the Amok Amor quartet) and American drummer Jim Black (who played...
Reid / Kitamura /Bynum /Morris – Geometry of Phenomena
Geometry of Phenomena is the the fourth album of the Geometry supergroup comprised of four idiosyncratic, experimental musicians-improvisers-bandleaders-eductors, all affiliated with legendary composer Anthony Braxton. Cellist Tomeka Reid participated in the recordings of Braxton’s...
Jon Rose / Mark Dresser – Band Width
Jon Rose is an Australian innovative violinist-composer-improviser-luthier-multimedia artist and inventor of the interactive violin bow who has worked with such boundaries-pushing musicians like Derek Bailey, Alvin Curran, Otomo Yoshihide, Ilan Volkov, Christian Marclay and...
Distrubio – Les Mauvaises Fréquentations
Distrubio is the experimental duo of French Musique concrète composer-sound artist-improviser Jérôme Noetinger, known for his unique usage of the reel-to-reel tape recorder Revox B77 as an instrument, and Viennese, Mexican-born composer-sound artist Angélica...
On Damon Smith’s latest works
The reviews of 3 albums of prolific, American double bass player Damon Smith, connecting the Afro-American free jazz legacy to free improvisation:
1) K. Curtis Lyle / George R. Sams / Ra Kalam Bob Moses...
Amarela label: Arciniegas & Cusack, Frith & Segal
Elisa Arciniegas is a French-Colomabian violist-vocalist-composer-sound designer and a former disciple of Fred Frith at the Hochschüle für Musik in Basel. Peter Cusack is a British guitarist and sound artist who mainly works with...
Camila Nebbia: two new works
Prolific Argentinian, Berlin-based tenor sax player, visual artist and concert series curator Camila Nebbia seems - or sounds - as if she is everywhere, globe-trotting and constantly recording and initiating free improvised meetings with...
Margaux Oswald Collateral Damage – In Time, Hollow Oaks Become Chapels
French-Filipina, Copenhagen-based pianist Margaux Oswald leads her most ambitious project to date, the pan-European septet Collateral Damage (a term that has been used - or normalized - much too redundantly lately) with unconventional instrumentation,...