On Christopher Trapani: ‘Horizontal Drift’ and a conversation
Really Coming Down, composition for electric guitar and live electronics from 2007, caused a rather important change in the artistic life of Christopher Trapani (1980), for several reasons. It is the first piece in...
About angles, modules and geometric shapes: a focus on Anna Webber
It could be objected that an angular art is not the result of the intuition of modern times, but that it was already installed in the minds of many very ancient men, as a...
Pierluigi Billone: Sgorgo Y . N . oO
A good analysis of the new cycle of Pierluigi Billone's compositions for electric guitar and effects, can be well comprehended by the words of guitarist Yaron Deutsch. In the inner booklet of the CD,...
On Making The Rationale for a Space Telescope
The Rationale for a Space Telescope, the latest release from If, Bwana, includes four tracks featuring my electronically processed contrabass.
If, Bwana is Al Margolis’s electroacoustic music project, which has been active since 1984. Starting...
Placebo Domingo – First Crash
Placebo Domingo is the wild, otherworldly alter-ego of the German, Cologne-based Philip Zoubek Trio, an electronic variant of the piano jazz trio. The prolific pianist Zoubek, the bandleader and the composer, leaves the piano...
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,...
Sylvaine Hélary & Orchestre Incandescent – Rare Birds
French flutist-vocalist-composer Sylvaine Hélary is a rare bird. She has played in Eve Risser's White Desert Orchestra, the Orchestre National de Jazz under the artistic director Frédéric Maurin. She will become the director of...
Brûlez les meubles – Folio #5
Canadian, Québecesque, Rimouski-based electric bassist-composer (and the bandleader of the ensemble GGRIL luthier, and singer-songwriter) Éric Normand quotes on his website the famous saying of Greek poet Sophocles: “For those who are afraid, everything...
Ramanan/Jackson/Thompson: Zubeneschamali
"Zubeneschamali," a title inspired by the brightest stars in the firmament, it would be a special adventure of cosmic observation, certainly an exploration not in line with musical convention, where the real musical references...
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Peter Ablinger RIP
E' incommensurabile il contributo che Peter Ablinger (1959-2025) ha dato alla musica. Tutto ha un enorme valore nella sua vita e nel suo percorso...
