Modney: Ascending Primes
The primes of Ascending Primes, the new album by violinist/composer Modney, formerly known as Josh Modney, are prime numbers. As natural numbers evenly divisible only by themselves and by one, prime numbers can be...
Luca Perciballi and Ivan Valentini’s “Letting Things Follow Their Lead”
Room Music
A freely improvised performance doesn’t exist as a work until it’s finished in real time; in a way it’s analogous to a narrative that has no definite meaning until it reaches that point...
Helen Bledsoe & Alexey Lapin: Ghost Icebreaker
There is a kind of symbolism hidden in the music of Bledsoe / Lapin, that it does not reflect a simple emulation of arctic sounds. Although the two musicians do not communicate any introspective...
Karl Berger & Ivo Perelman: Reverie
"Reverie" is composed of six songs that are musical pills of wisdom, that demonstrate an immense knowledge of the expression: these improvisations reflect Berger's pianistic entretien but constitute a real test for the Brazilian...
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...
Phillip Greenlief & Kris Tiner – See You This Time
American, West Coast tenor sax player-composer-educator Phillip Greenlief and trumpeter-composer-educator-Epigraph label owner Kris Tiner have explored the post-jazz continuum and connections between improvisational music traditions and systemic practices, blending jazz roots with multiple streams...
Alex Zethson / Nikos Veliotis – CRYO
CRYO is the first album by the duo of Greek experimental cellist Nikos Veliotis and Swedish pianist Alex Zethson. Veliotis is a classically trained pianist, who devoted himself to experimental music more than thirty...
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)...
Piano, Korg Wavestate and voice: on the current music of Thollem
our eyes possess, just wanting it, an inexhaustible capacity for enjoyment. In the morning, when I go to work, I am surrounded by numerous other workers who rush towards me, still sleepy, cold...
Núria Andorrà: on the interdisciplinary nature of free improvisation
Many times the best music comes across through an observation of the creative idea, something that puts in communication the essence of an idea or a musical development early established in the mind of...
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Festival Archipel 2025
Inutile ribadire come l'Archipel, uno dei principali festival di musica in Svizzera che si tiene a Ginevra, abbia modificato le sue vesti nel tempo....
