Quentin Rollet & Jérôme Lorichon – Planisphère
French, Paris-based sax player and analog synth and phone apps player Quentin Rollet (and producer and founder of the legendary Rectangle Records, together with guitarist Noël Akchoté, and of Bisou Records) and modular synth...
Simon Rummel | On Water Orchestra – Der Zauberlehrling
German, Cologne-based composer Simon Rummel was educated as a singer in a boy’s choir. He later studied jazz piano with British pianist John Taylor, composition with German composer-violinist Johannes Fritsch, and visual art and...
Verhoeven/Lopes/Serries: Invincible Time
Invincible Time brings together three wilful free improvisers into the beautiful resonance of the Oude Klooster chapel in Brecht, Belgium. Partners in life and music - Belgian pianist Martina Verhoeven, who plays on the...
Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg at Creative Sources R. + a concert with John Russell
Belgian vocal artist (and music reviewer) Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg has developed, as an autodidact, a unique form of vocal improvisation and extended vocal techniques, with almost three octaves, falsettos, harmonics, deep throat singing, yodels,...
Joëlle Léandre / Lotte Anker / Kresten Osgood Trio – Worlds
During the 2023 edition of the Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Danish drummer Kresten Osgood curated the I/O series and invited a few of the first generation of female free improviers, including British vocal artist Maggie...
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...
Acre – Praxis
Acre is the Italian, Rome-based trio of drummer Ermanno Baron, guitarist Ginomaria Boschi (who plays on prepared guitar, electric guitar and m’bira) and live electronics player Marco Bonini, that combines the immediacy and the...
Sidsel Endresen | Jan Bang | Erik Honoré – Punkt Live Remixes Vol. 2
Norwegian Jan Bang and Erik Honoré are pioneering figures in live remixing, producers and the founders of the Punkt festival, a three-day festival of the Live Remix taking place in Kristiansand, Norway, since 2005,...
Judith Hamann – Aunes
Aunes is the new solo album of the Australian, Berlin-based experimental cellist-composer-improviser Judith Hamann, featuring six suggestive and intimate collage-like songs that mark her most personal work to date. She envelopes her cello, with...
Alberto Novello & Rob Mazurek – Sun Eaters
Italian, Trieste-based modular synth and light wizard Alberto Novello (a.k.a. JesterN) repurposes found or decontextualised analog devices to investigate the connections between light and sound in the form of contemplative installations and performances, in...