Symbolist: The Age of Bronze
The Berlin-based experimental trio Symbolist features American percussionist-composer Stephen Flinn, who has worked with Steve Beresford, Cecil Taylor, Lol Coxhill, Wolfgang Fuchs, Denman Maroney, and Axel Dörner, and is known for his work with...
Experimental sound art with poetic, political references: Fear of the Object
Fear of the Object is an experimental audio-visual project of Norwegian video artist and video synth player Kjell Bjørgeengen, known for his work John Tilbury and Keith Rowe, and American, Mexico City-based percussionist and...
Kaufmann, Gratkowski & de Joode: Canberra
The trio of pianist Achim Kaufmann, clarinetist/saxophonist Frank Gratkowski, and double bassist Wilbert de Joode has been together for over twenty years now. First formed in Amsterdam in 2002, the group has toured extensively...
After All, Saxophone is a Metal Instrument: Ulrich Krieger’s “Acoustic Electronics”
By most accounts, one of the most perplexing rock albums ever released was Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music. Was it a taunting prank directed at Reed’s fans, the grudging fulfillment of a contractual obligation...
Bernhard Lang: Works for Piano and a short conversation
Linked to the philosophical expectation of "difference / repetition" of the French avant-gardes, Bernhard Lang's first intervention on the piano is in 2003 with the DW12 'Cellular Automata', about 30 minutes in which you...
Spaces Unfolding + Pierre Alexandre Tremblay – Shadow Figures
Spaces Unfolding is the acoustic, free improvising trio of flutist Neil Metcalfe, known for his work with Evan Parker, Paul Dunmall and the London Improvisers Orchestra, violinist Philipp Wachsmann (who established The Bead Label...
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...
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...
Marco Momi: Almost Nowhere
The debut of the composer Marco Momi on Kairos could not be more satisfying: in contemporary music there are still secluded analytical spaces, placed in a corner by an audiance not prepared to immediately...