On Damon Smith’s latest works
The reviews of 3 albums of prolific, American double bass player Damon Smith, connecting the Afro-American free jazz legacy to free improvisation:
1) K. Curtis Lyle / George R. Sams / Ra Kalam Bob Moses...
Amarela label: Arciniegas & Cusack, Frith & Segal
Elisa Arciniegas is a French-Colomabian violist-vocalist-composer-sound designer and a former disciple of Fred Frith at the Hochschüle für Musik in Basel. Peter Cusack is a British guitarist and sound artist who mainly works with...
Camila Nebbia: two new works
Prolific Argentinian, Berlin-based tenor sax player, visual artist and concert series curator Camila Nebbia seems - or sounds - as if she is everywhere, globe-trotting and constantly recording and initiating free improvised meetings with...
Margaux Oswald Collateral Damage – In Time, Hollow Oaks Become Chapels
French-Filipina, Copenhagen-based pianist Margaux Oswald leads her most ambitious project to date, the pan-European septet Collateral Damage (a term that has been used - or normalized - much too redundantly lately) with unconventional instrumentation,...
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...
Marius Neset & Leif Ove Andsnes – Who We Are
Renowned Norwegian sax player-composer Marius Neset and pianist-educator Leif Ove Andsnes grew up in small towns near Bergen. They chose different musical careers, focusing on stylistic models in their expressive idioms. The Oslo-based Neset...
Sylvaine Hélary & Orchestre Incandescent – Rare Birds
French flutist-vocalist-composer Sylvaine Hélary is a rare bird. She has played in Eve Risser's White Desert Orchestra, the Orchestre National de Jazz under the artistic director Frédéric Maurin. She will become the director of...
Yan Jun x 2: with Kai Fagaschinski and with Eric Wong
Two duos of Chinese, Beijing-based prolific, experimental vocal artist-poet-sound artist Yan Jun (颜峻) with like-minded comrades from the free music scene of Berlin. Yan Jun is an exceptional and subversive artist whose performances focus...
Miroslav Beinhauer – Adrián Demoč: Piano
Thanks to the elsewhere label I got to know the most beautiful and moving music of Slovak contemporary composer-educator Adrián Demoč as interpreted brilliantly by Czech pianist Miroslav Beinhauer. The elsewhere label focuses on...
Foussat/Lazro -Trente-Cinq Minutes & Vingt-Trois Seconds +Agnel/Kristoff K. Roll/Lazro -Quartet un peu Tendre-
French sax master Daunik Lazro was born in 1945 and throughout his rich and diverse career has become one of the greatest European free improvisers who always challenges himself, even when he plays with...
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Mike Ratledge
Chi ama il free jazz non può dimenticarsi di Mike Ratledge. Innamorato di Cecil Taylor, Ratledge ha traslato nel mondo del rock alcune qualità...
