Giacinto Scelsi Revisited
Music cannot exist without sound, but sound can certainly exist without music. Therefore it would seem that sound is more important. We can start from here (Giacinto Scelsi).
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Mirela Ivičević: Scarlet Songs
When speaking of her fundamental approach to composing, Mirela Ivičević, a Croatian native currently based in Vienna, has described herself as focusing on using as basic materials “bits and pieces of reality abducted from...
Giuseppe Doronzo, Andy Moor, and Frank Rosaly: Futuro Ancestrale
Futuro Ancestrale: ancestral future, a vision of a future with its roots sunk deep in the past. With this title of their debut album as a trio, baritone saxophonist Giuseppe Doronzo, guitarist Andy Moor,...
New harmonies from spectralism: Rozalie Hirs
Today it is legitimate to ask where the new developments of contemporary music lie and in particular what happens to its most recent subdivisions. For example, the qualities of spectralism have long been invoked,...
François Carrier: the Japan suite CD and an interview
Su Percorsi Musicali non si può dire certo che siano mancate le segnalazioni della musica del sassofonista alto canadese François Carrier. Da quando sono entrato in contatto in lui (parecchi anni fa), ho recensito...
Hèctor Parra and the orchestra
When in 2006 the composer Hèctor Parra Esteve composed Lumières Abyssales-Chroma and Karst-Chroma II, involving the Orchester National d'Ile de France and the Orchester Philharmonique de Liège, the idea of how to highlight the...
Hannes Kerschbaumer: schraffur
Many people today complain that much of the music that is labeled as contemporary has always the same characteristics. Such a statement would need to be revised, especially considering the fact that we are...
Uwe Oberg: Twice, at least
"Twice, At least" is a further test of Uwe Oberg's intelligent formula, who confirms the stylistic line of the German musician, a whirlwind of 70 years of jazz pianism: starting from Monk, he forges...
Potage du jour: Go South!
"Go south!" draws the potential of Franziska Baumann's voice, without distinctions, following a path entirely fortuitous: piano and sax (Christoph Baumann and Jurg Solothurnmann) provide an excellent and fantasious coverage of free jazz, useful...