Stephanie Pan & Ensemble Klang. The Art of Doing Nothing: a feminist manifesto
Stephanie Pan is a classically trained vocalist, composer, interdisciplinary artist, performer, and curator currently based in The Hague. She focuses on the notion of pure communication and searches for forms of contact with the...
Two different tributes to the great Anthony Braxton
Great, innovative American composer-reed player-improviser-bandleader educator Anthony Braxton will celebrate his 80th birthday on June 4, 2025, but, obviously, there is no lack of reasons to pay tribute to this pioneering musician who has...
Marina Džukljev in trio and solo piano
Serbian, Novi-Sad-based pianist-organist-educator Marina Džukljev is a classically-trained musician who performed free improvised, classical and contemporary music. She has collaborated with like-minded, innovative European improvisers, and sound and multimedia artists such as dieb13, Michael...
Intelligent Dissonances in Improvisation: Han-earl Park
It is not obvious to ask whether it is possible to give a form to improvisation based on an underlying topic. Is it possible to transform topics from everyday life, art or politics into...
In the realm of trombones
Three album reviews about the trombone:
1) Dan Blacksberg - The Psychic/Body Sound System (Relative Pitch, 2024)
2) RAGE Trombones - Breaking Ships (Tripticks Tapes, 2024)
3) Sliders - Sliders (Hora, 2024)
American trombonist-eductor Dan Blacksberg is a...
Isabelle Duthoit & Ocnos Arkestra – Chillar todo el día
Isabelle Duthoit is a French clarinetist-vocal artist, known for her work with like-minded genre-defying improvisers like trumpeter Franz Hautzinger (her partner), double bass master Joelle Leandre and pianist Marilyn Crispell. The Spanish Seville-based Ocnos...
Peter Herbert & Wolfgang Mitterer: Quiets Riots
Viennese double bass-composer-educator Peter Herbert and pianist-electronics player-composer Wolfgang Mitterer are old friends but an odd musical couple. Herbert is a much-in-demand bass player, mostly for jazz outfits (but he also played with Paul...
Sophie Agnel plays in two trios
French classically-trained pianist Sophie Agnel escaped jazz for its too-strict treatment of harmony and timbre and now she is one of the most fascinating free improvisers. She plays the piano in the most unconventional...
Clara Levy: Outre-Nuit
Clara Levy is a French, Brussels-based violinist-improviser who focuses on developing solo projects addressing different topics at the core of contemporary music practice, experimental music and free improvisation. She plays in European contemporary music...
Zeena Parkins: two new works on Relative Pitch
Zeena Parkins is a harpist-mult-instrumentalist-composer-improviser-eductor who pioneered contemporary harp practices by employing extended techniques, object preparations, and electronic processing that re-defined the instrument’s capacities. Dam Against the Spring Tide offers two cycles of compositions...