Stefano Pastor & Charlotte Hug: Paragone d’archi
"Paragone d'archi" is a collaboration aimed at the rebalancing of power relations between violin and viola, namely the meaning attributed by the musical history of their relations, an archetype or pamphlet from the past:...
Ultima Armonia: Someone Killed the Swan; Laments On South-eastern Europe
"Someone killed the swan; Laments on South-eastern Europe" is addressed to an audience that goes beyond the borders of Serbia. But it's not important just for the fact that it was recorded in a...
Matthias Schubert/Simon Nabatov: Descriptions
If the goal of music is to provide an image or represent a feeling, nothing better than to try to make explicit these aspects through descriptive methods. In this way they will be able...
Uwe Oberg: Twice, at least
"Twice, At least" is a further test of Uwe Oberg's intelligent formula, who confirms the stylistic line of the German musician, a whirlwind of 70 years of jazz pianism: starting from Monk, he forges...
Pascal Niggenkemper: blòc
One of the fundamental principles animating much 21st century music, whether improvised or composed, is the creative integration of an expanded field of sound or sound-producing gestures into the basic fabric of the work....
Christoph Erb: his latest trio and a short conversation
It is said that the fruits of knowledge are gathered along the way. It's true! For Christoph Erb this sentence is relevant when we think that the Swiss musician spent a long time in...
V. Guyvoronsky with N. Ahsan & D. Kucherov: Around Silence
Vyacheslav Guyvoronsky is considered as the best and most representative jazz trumpeter in Russia: Vyacheslav already has a large group of works done with an eclecticism of substance: no doubt, the best feature of...
John Wolf Brennan/Tony Majdalani/Marco Jencarelli: Pilgrims
After all, John Wolf Brennan has accustomed us to meetings between East and West: those who remember his masterpieces recorded long ago have always perceived his proximity to some aspects of non-Western thought, so...
Spectral dilations and cybernetic constructions: Marisol Jiménez
In life as well as in a professional career, it is not easy to make the right choices. If we try to build a future, this does not necessarily happen immediately and therefore any...
Leonardi/Pastor/Blumer/Geisser: Conversations about Thomas Chapin
Stefano Leonardi, an Italian young flutist, is a spokesman for the Chapin's artistic rediscovery. He organized a quartet of Italian and Swiss musicians (Fridolin Blumer on bass, Heinz Geisser on drums and Stefano Pastor...