Zeena Parkins: two new works on Relative Pitch
Zeena Parkins is a harpist-mult-instrumentalist-composer-improviser-eductor who pioneered contemporary harp practices by employing extended techniques, object preparations, and electronic processing that re-defined the instrument’s capacities. Dam Against the Spring Tide offers two cycles of compositions...
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...
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....
Celebrating the legacy of Dennis González
American, Texan trumpeter-composer-visual artist-poet-eductor Dennis González (1954-2022) created a free jazz scene in Dallas, founded the local Association for Avant-Garde and Neo Impressionistic Music and his Daagnim records. González led many bands with like-minded...
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)...
Another three recordings for Perelman
"The art of duet volume one" is the first of a three-volume series of duets between Ivo Perelman and Matthew Shipp: it reminds us some essential aspects of the combination of sax-piano in jazz,...
New exciting musical relationships of the duo Perelman-Shipp
-A violent dose of anything - Perelman/Shipp/Maneri
Brasilia, the current capital of Brazil, is a place that has experienced unprecedented growth over the past three decades, thanks to a government project that wanted to build...
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:...
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...
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...
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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...
