Free improvised on the experimental side from the Barcelona scene
I deal with two improvisers from the Barcelona scene: Àlex Reviriego and Tom Chant.
Catalan, Barcelona-based experimental double bass player-electronics player-label owner Àlex Reviriego is known for his role in the free improvising trios Phicus...
Maja Osojnik – Doorways
Slovenia-born, Vienna-based Maja Osojnik is an experimental composer, vocalist, electro-acoustic improviser, sound artist, producer, DJ and the founder of the Mamaka Records label. Her work encompasses early music, contemporary music, alternative rock, experimental jazz,...
Introducing the Brooklyn-based sax player Stephen Gauci’s Gaucimusic label
American tenor sax player-clarinetist Stephen Gauci created a small scene around himself. He runs the Bushwick Improvised Music Series in Brooklyn, where he has presented over 600 concerts featuring many of New York’s most...
Stephanie Pan & Ensemble Klang. The Art of Doing Nothing: a feminist manifesto
Stephanie Pan is a classically trained vocalist, composer, interdisciplinary artist, performer, and curator currently based in The Hague. She focuses on the notion of pure communication and searches for forms of contact with the...
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...
Marina Džukljev in trio and solo piano
Serbian, Novi-Sad-based pianist-organist-educator Marina Džukljev is a classically-trained musician who performed free improvised, classical and contemporary music. She has collaborated with like-minded, innovative European improvisers, and sound and multimedia artists such as dieb13, Michael...
Intelligent Dissonances in Improvisation: Han-earl Park
It is not obvious to ask whether it is possible to give a form to improvisation based on an underlying topic. Is it possible to transform topics from everyday life, art or politics into...
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...
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...
Peter Herbert & Wolfgang Mitterer: Quiets Riots
Viennese double bass-composer-educator Peter Herbert and pianist-electronics player-composer Wolfgang Mitterer are old friends but an odd musical couple. Herbert is a much-in-demand bass player, mostly for jazz outfits (but he also played with Paul...
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...
