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...

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...

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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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