Sophie Agnel plays in two trios

French classically-trained pianist Sophie Agnel escaped jazz for its too-strict treatment of harmony and timbre and now she is one of the most fascinating free improvisers. She plays the piano in the most unconventional...

Clara Levy: Outre-Nuit

Clara Levy is a French, Brussels-based violinist-improviser who focuses on developing solo projects addressing different topics at the core of contemporary music practice, experimental music and free improvisation. She plays in European contemporary music...

Zeena Parkins: two new works on Relative Pitch

Zeena Parkins is a harpist-mult-instrumentalist-composer-improviser-eductor who pioneered contemporary harp practices by employing extended techniques, object preparations, and electronic processing that re-defined the instrument’s capacities. Dam Against the Spring Tide offers two cycles of compositions...

Martin Tétreault: Vraiment plus de Snipettes!!!

Canadian, Québec-based Martin Tétreault is a sound artist, turntablist, DJ and improviser who came to music from the visual arts milieu. His work shifted from highly imaginative puzzles of musical citations to exploration of...

Georg Graewe & Sonic Fiction Orchestra in concert, Bochum 2022

German master pianist-composer-bandleader Georg Graewe feels at home when composing music for chamber outfits, orchestras, operas, or scores for films, theater productions, radio drama and video. Graewe is also a master improviser, known for...

Experimental sound art with poetic, political references: Fear of the Object

Fear of the Object is an experimental audio-visual project of Norwegian video artist and video synth player Kjell Bjørgeengen, known for his work John Tilbury and Keith Rowe, and American, Mexico City-based percussionist and...

Introducing Japanese saxophonist Ryoko Ono

Two new free-improv works of Ryoko Ono - a duo with Satoko Fujii and a solo album -: 1) Ryoko Ono / Satoko Fujii - Hakuro (Self-Released, 2023) 2) Ryoko Ono - The Days (Relative Pitch,...

Two free improvising trio with Marta Warelis

Two trios of free improvisation with the pianist Marta Warelis: 1) Abdou - Gouband - Warelis - Hammer, Roll and Leaf (Relative Pitch, 2024); 2) Marta Warelis / Florian Stoffner / Rudi Fischerlehner - Spontaneous Live Series...

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...

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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...

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