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...
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...
Polymath Elliott Sharp explores the world of mandolins
American, New York-based polymath Elliott Sharp is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, producer and author, the bandleader of the Orchestra Carbon, Tectonics and Terraplane with compositional strategies that borrow themes from fractal geometry, chaos theory and...
Jason Kahn x 2: with Alice Hui-Sheng Chang and with Katsura Yamauchi
I Smile When the Sound Is Singing Through the Space (Editions, 2024) brings together Taiwanese experimental vocal artist, sound improviser and art therapist Alice Hui-Sheng with prolific American, Zürich-based experimental vocalist, sound artist, electronics...
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...
Bertrand Gauguet / Didier Lasserre – Mehr
French alto sax player-composer Bertrand Gauguet often plays solo improvised sets, composes electronic music and soundtracks for dance, cinema and radio, and makes field recordings for radio broadcasts, films and live performance devices. He...
Peter Evans – Extra
American trumpeter-composer Peter Evans teams with two close associates - the Berlin-based Swedish double bass player Petter Eldh (who played with Evans in the Amok Amor quartet) and American drummer Jim Black (who played...
Reid / Kitamura /Bynum /Morris – Geometry of Phenomena
Geometry of Phenomena is the the fourth album of the Geometry supergroup comprised of four idiosyncratic, experimental musicians-improvisers-bandleaders-eductors, all affiliated with legendary composer Anthony Braxton. Cellist Tomeka Reid participated in the recordings of Braxton’s...
Jon Rose / Mark Dresser – Band Width
Jon Rose is an Australian innovative violinist-composer-improviser-luthier-multimedia artist and inventor of the interactive violin bow who has worked with such boundaries-pushing musicians like Derek Bailey, Alvin Curran, Otomo Yoshihide, Ilan Volkov, Christian Marclay and...
Distrubio – Les Mauvaises Fréquentations
Distrubio is the experimental duo of French Musique concrète composer-sound artist-improviser Jérôme Noetinger, known for his unique usage of the reel-to-reel tape recorder Revox B77 as an instrument, and Viennese, Mexican-born composer-sound artist Angélica...
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ECLAT Festival
Nel pieno di una campagna elettorale estremamente rischiosa per la Germania democratica inizia l'ECLAT festival a Stoccarda. L'edizione del 2025 vede numerosi partecipanti in...
