Great perspectives for the electric guitar: Yaron Deutsch
Data la giovinezza del repertorio per chitarra elettrica nella musica classica, molti si sentono in dovere di fare già un primo punto della situazione: qualcuno ha raccolto tutti gli interventi in un libro, altri...
Franck Bedrossian: Twist, Edges, Epigram
Rightly Thomas Meyer in the internal notes raises the question of how alive the interest for music defined as "excess of sound" among the experts and he does it in the right place, that...
Louis-Michel Marion
When handled as a generator of sound, as French bassist Louis-Michel Marion does, the double bass reveals itself to be the versatile container of sonic multitudes that it is. That this is so is...
“To Play Is Both a Sign and a Symptom of Existence”: David Toop’s Into...
The usual caveats warning against generalizations aside, it’s safe to say that in the arts as in other fields of life, the second half of the twentieth century was an era of improvisation. Encouraged...
John Wolf Brennan/Tony Majdalani/Marco Jencarelli: Pilgrims
After all, John Wolf Brennan has accustomed us to meetings between East and West: those who remember his masterpieces recorded long ago have always perceived his proximity to some aspects of non-Western thought, so...
Evgeny Masloboev/Anastasia Masloboeva:Russian folksongs in the key of New Jazz/Your beautiful face makes me...
Irkutsk is a large city in southern Siberia, the cultural center of excellence for the region and the midpoint of the Trans-Siberian railway line, although in recent times it has come to the fore...
Contemporary flute and piano: a range of action and 10 pieces to survive
Bruno Mantovani stated that writing a score for an orchestral instrument in combination with a piano was one of the most difficult things to manage; it was a difficulty that arose in the sclerotization...
Håkon Thelin’s Folk Music for Double Bass
Any musical instrument represents a certain set of possibilities. Constrained by the instrument’s particular characteristics—both as a unique individual and as a member of a class of instruments—these possibilities offer a range of potential...
From the Borderland between Sound and Music
Uno dei tratti distintivi della musica colta del XX secolo è l'emergere del timbro come oggetto di interesse musicale a sé stante, del tutto indipendente dal tono, armonia o ritmo. Il "classico" di Robert...
Ivo Perelman: Living Jelly/The gift/The clairvoyant
Living Jelly
Perelman chooses to represent the stories of "Living Jelly" in a trio with Joe Morris on guitar and Gerald Cleaver on drums. This collection of poetic divagations of Lispector is very enigmatic...
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Musica in Prossimità 2024
Ritorna dal 29 novembre il festival di Musica in Prossimità a Pinerolo. Come sempre, dietro la rassegna c'è l'associazione Metamorfosi Notturne con la mano...
