In the realm of trombones
Three album reviews about the trombone:
1) Dan Blacksberg - The Psychic/Body Sound System (Relative Pitch, 2024)
2) RAGE Trombones - Breaking Ships (Tripticks Tapes, 2024)
3) Sliders - Sliders (Hora, 2024)
American trombonist-eductor Dan Blacksberg is a...
Clara Levy: Outre-Nuit
Clara Levy is a French, Brussels-based violinist-improviser who focuses on developing solo projects addressing different topics at the core of contemporary music practice, experimental music and free improvisation. She plays in European contemporary music...
Félicie Bazelaire – Otos
The strange phenomenon of the creative illness is something we sometimes find among artists. What is meant here isn’t the often-noted connection between psychological instability and artistic activity, but rather the creative response of...
Two different tributes to the great Anthony Braxton
Great, innovative American composer-reed player-improviser-bandleader educator Anthony Braxton will celebrate his 80th birthday on June 4, 2025, but, obviously, there is no lack of reasons to pay tribute to this pioneering musician who has...
Gonçalo Almeida – States of Restraints & Gut Liver
Gonçalo Almeida - States of Restraints (Clean Feed, 2024)
Misanthrope Trio - Gut Liver (Cylinder, 2024)
Two completely different sides of prolific Portuguese, Rotterdam-based bassist-composer-improviser Gonçalo Almeida. Almeda's creative musical output is spread over countless bands...
Introducing Japanese saxophonist Ryoko Ono
Two new free-improv works of Ryoko Ono - a duo with Satoko Fujii and a solo album -:
1) Ryoko Ono / Satoko Fujii - Hakuro (Self-Released, 2023)
2) Ryoko Ono - The Days (Relative Pitch,...
On Portuguese alto sax player Hugo Costa: two trios
Portuguese, Rotterdam-based alto sax player Hugo Costa favors the format of the trio, so when he heard that legendary American double bass player-composer-bandleader William Parker plans to visit Rotterdam, he invited the great master...
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...
Georg Graewe & Sonic Fiction Orchestra in concert, Bochum 2022
German master pianist-composer-bandleader Georg Graewe feels at home when composing music for chamber outfits, orchestras, operas, or scores for films, theater productions, radio drama and video. Graewe is also a master improviser, known for...
Isabelle Duthoit & Ocnos Arkestra – Chillar todo el día
Isabelle Duthoit is a French clarinetist-vocal artist, known for her work with like-minded genre-defying improvisers like trumpeter Franz Hautzinger (her partner), double bass master Joelle Leandre and pianist Marilyn Crispell. The Spanish Seville-based Ocnos...
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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....
