Laszlo Umbreit, Sirah Foighel Brutmann & Eitan Efrat – Là
Là refers to Là-bas, the 2006 film by Belgian-Jewish director Chantal Akerman (1950-2015), in which Akerman expressed her ambivalent relations with the Israeli state, especially its settler-colonial narrative. Phonetically, Là (meaning ‘there’ in French)...
Two Argentinian cellists: Violeta García and Cecilia Quinteros
Two experimental Argentinian cellists from Buenos Aires - Violeta García and Cecilia Quinteros - keep exploring and expanding the sonic palettes of their instrument.
Violeta García is a composer and curator now based in Bern,...
Meinrad Kneer / Albert van Veenendaal – The Munderkingen Sessions, Part 2
German, Berlin-based double bass player-composer Meinead Kneer and Dutch, Amsterdam-based pianist-composer-arranger-producer Albert van Veenendaal have played together for almost 25 years and collaborated in many musical endeavors. They founded the Evil Rabbit label, dedicated...
Drank (Ingrid Schmoliner / Alexander Kranabetter – Breath in Definition
Austrian pianist Ingrid Schmoliner (who is also a vocalist and educator, known for her duo with master drummer Hamid Drake, and the sound-sculpting trio GRIFF with the Berlin-based percussionist Emilio Gordoa and bassist Adam...
Lea Bertucci + Olivia Block – I Know the Number of the Sand and...
Lea Bertucci is a New York-based experimental musician whose works revolve around electronic and spatial extensions of woodwind instruments and vocal artistry, as well as bridges performance, installation, and multichannel activations of site-responsiveness and...
Fridolin Blumer – Anklam
Swiss, Zürich-based double bass player Fridolin Blumer works in the fields of modern jazz, free improvisation, and contemporary music. He says that his music is inspired by everyday life and seeks illiterate or musical...
The Hemphill Stringtet – Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill
Next week will be the 30th yahrzeit of one of the greatest jazz musicians of the 20th century, sax player-composer Julius Hemphill (1938-1995), co-founder of the multidisciplinary arts collective Black Artists’ Group, founder of...
Paulownia
Paulownia is an experimental, all-female zither trio formed at New England Conservatory in Boston in 2021, and featuring Korean Yoona Kim playing the traditional Korean ajaeng, Chinese Anwei Wang playing the traditional guzheng and...
Studio Dan – Walking Through a Brave New World – 8 Improvisations
The Viennese music collective Studio Dan has investigated the intersection of new jazz and contemporary avant-garde for the last two decades with commissioned works from radically different aesthetic fields. Walking Through a Brave New...
Joke Lanz & Petr Vrba – Mutants in Siberia
Czech experimental trumpeter-electronics player Petr Vrba (the founder of Prague Improvisation Orchestra with American double bass player George Cremaschi, the dramaturgist for Alternativa festival in Prague and Radio DJ at Radio 1) and Swiss,...
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Festival Archipel 2025
Inutile ribadire come l'Archipel, uno dei principali festival di musica in Svizzera che si tiene a Ginevra, abbia modificato le sue vesti nel tempo....
