Thieke and Fagaschinski: The International Nothing
What has the twenty-first century taught us so far? I have repeatedly spoken of a century of idiocy but, if we go into the details, we could also say that the strangeness that is...
Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø and His Dystopian Dancing
A relevant aesthetic problem of modern music is that of the modification of timbre, and authoritative interventions have questioned its value with never decisive arguments. Jean-Jacques Nattiez, for example, was skeptical about creating works...
Anto Pett/Christoph Baumann: Northwind Boogy
The winning feature of this first pearl of 2013 is the resolute character of music that organizes puzzles of sounds in a form extraordinarily personal in which we can affirm to be in front...
Philippe Petit – Emperor Tomato Ketchup
The Japanese experimental short film Emperor Tomato Ketchup (トマトケチャップ皇帝, Tomato Kechappu Kōtei, 1971. When it was first released it was in a 27-minute version but the director’s cut that was 75-minute and its wa...
Anne-Liis Poll/Anto Pett/Vlady Bystrov: The enchanted 3
"The enchanted 3" shows the powerful exercises to control the directionality of improvisation, where the interaction among the musicians is an essential condition for their full expression. It is all based on research, through...
Potage du jour: Go South!
"Go south!" draws the potential of Franziska Baumann's voice, without distinctions, following a path entirely fortuitous: piano and sax (Christoph Baumann and Jurg Solothurnmann) provide an excellent and fantasious coverage of free jazz, useful...
Frank Gratkowski sextet: Skein
Skein's theme represents, through music, the chemical process that accompanies the movement of molecules, starting from the awareness of having to dig into a skein looking for reactions; the group accomplishes a detailed fragmentation...
Reid / Kitamura /Bynum /Morris – Geometry of Phenomena
Geometry of Phenomena is the the fourth album of the Geometry supergroup comprised of four idiosyncratic, experimental musicians-improvisers-bandleaders-eductors, all affiliated with legendary composer Anthony Braxton. Cellist Tomeka Reid participated in the recordings of Braxton’s...
Afro Garage: Eighteen Ways to Miss Egypt
“Eighteen Ways to Miss Egypt" highlights the center of gravity of improvisation. It deals with a varied, oblique and ironic, ethnic and insightful situation, with a good degree of oddness—a different way of organizing...
Zooom Trio: What’s for dessert
Zooom trio renews the feelings of the language of Davis's Bitches Brew, but changes two essential parameters: there is more space for freedom of the rhythm section and the climate of improvisation is immersed...
Notizie
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...
