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...
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...
Stefano Leonardi & Antonio Bertoni: Fuoco Sacro
Fuoco Sacro (Sacred Fire) is the second duo album of Italian flutist Stefano Leonardi and cellist (and double bass player) Antonio Bertoni, following Viandes (Astral Spirits, 2021. The duo project was based on Leonardi's...
Gayageum and doublebass: in conversation with Sylvain Monchocé
In free improvisation creative acts are the result of a series of implications that concern the personal sphere of each musician. Free improvisation is a communicative state based on previous skills, intuitions and openness...
Giuliano d’Angiolini – )))(((
Italian, Paris-based experimental composer, musicologist, and ethnomusicologist Giuliano d'Angiolini is interested in what he calls "impersonal" music, sound phenomena at its deepest suchness, rejecting any kind of narrative, drama, intention, moral judgment, or formal...
Carlos “Zingaro”/João Madeira/Sofia Borges: Trizmaris
Portuguese double bass player, composer, and improviser João Madeira is known for his long-time work with the free-improvising ensembles of violist Ernesto Rodrigues (the head of the Creative Sources label). But since Madeira founded...
Tom Johnson rip
American composer Tom Johnson (1939-2024), whose body of work included instrumental and vocal pieces employing pared-down musical material, died in Paris on the last day of 2024, at age 85.
Johnson grew up in the...
Anna Clementi & Thomas Stern – DOPPELMOPPEL – Poems by Kurt Schwitters
German revolutionary artist Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) is known today for his periodical editions of Merz paintings and his Dadaist sound poetry. His famous poetic work, Ursonate (Original sonata), was performed by Dutch vocal artist...
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...
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...
Notizie
RIP Sofia Gubaidulina
Con un corposo comunicato la Boosey & Hawkes ci avverte della scomparsa della compositrice Sofia Gubaidulina (leggilo qui). La notizia fa molto dispiacere. La...
