Christian Moser – Abrash
Swiss, Basel-based Christian Moser plays the Middle-Eastern lute, the oud, like no other. In his youth, he studied the violin but at 18 he discovered the oud, and after a few years of taking...
Contemporary flute and piano: a range of action and 10 pieces to survive
Bruno Mantovani stated that writing a score for an orchestral instrument in combination with a piano was one of the most difficult things to manage; it was a difficulty that arose in the sclerotization...
Introducing the Brooklyn-based sax player Stephen Gauci’s Gaucimusic label
American tenor sax player-clarinetist Stephen Gauci created a small scene around himself. He runs the Bushwick Improvised Music Series in Brooklyn, where he has presented over 600 concerts featuring many of New York’s most...
Sarah Belle Reid + Vinny Golia: Accidental Ornithology
“Ornithology” is still one of the most popular be-bop standards, almost eighty years after it was recorded by Bird, aka Charlie Parker (who changed the chord progression of another standard, “How High the Moon”)....
Øyvind Torvund – A Walk into the Future
Norwegian experimental composer Øyvind Torvund began his musical career as a rock and free improvising guitarist. He is known for his matching acoustic and electronic instruments in multimedia settings, and his eccentric manner of...
Veronika Mayer + Gobi Drab – live recording session #1
The Viennese experimental duo of electronics player Veronica Mayer and recorder player-vocal artist Gobi Drab explores the elusive sonic territory between free improvisation and new music. live recording session #1 is the first album...
Nate Wooley – Henry House
Henry House is an unexpected offering in the fascinating discography of American trumpeter-composer-improviser Nate Wooley. It is Wooley’s first long-form composition that doesn’t feature his trumpet playing, and the first to be constructed around...
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)...
Alexandra Grimal / Giovanni Di Domenico – Shakkei
Shakkei (借景) means borrowed scenery Japanese and is the Japanese (and also the Chinese) principle of "incorporating background landscape into the composition of a garden". Shakkei is also the title of the fourth duo...
A focus on current times: Sergej Maingardt
I think that the Cologne Hochschule für Musik und Tanz began to regain a leading role of academic electronics with the arrival of Michael Beil in 2007. Beil's teachings were oriented towards an interdisciplinarity...
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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....
