Filippo Abrate e la Musica Sacra Contemporanea
Nel ruolo che un musicista può avere nella società odierna gioca molto la volontà di disallinearsi e di trovare metodi alternativi a quelli standard della comunità. Sono soprattutto i giovani a chiedersi quali siano...
Carlos “Zingaro”/João Madeira/Sofia Borges: Trizmaris
Portuguese double bass player, composer, and improviser João Madeira is known for his long-time work with the free-improvising ensembles of violist Ernesto Rodrigues (the head of the Creative Sources label). But since Madeira founded...
Symbolist: The Age of Bronze
The Berlin-based experimental trio Symbolist features American percussionist-composer Stephen Flinn, who has worked with Steve Beresford, Cecil Taylor, Lol Coxhill, Wolfgang Fuchs, Denman Maroney, and Axel Dörner, and is known for his work with...
Nate Wooley – Henry House
Henry House is an unexpected offering in the fascinating discography of American trumpeter-composer-improviser Nate Wooley. It is Wooley’s first long-form composition that doesn’t feature his trumpet playing, and the first to be constructed around...
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...
Barre Phillips
Giunge notizia della scomparsa di Barre Phillips, di cui conoscevamo ultimamente le pessime condizioni di salute. Perdiamo un'icona del contrabbasso. Il suo nome è transitato parecchie volte su queste pagine, preso in esame nel...
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...
Paralleli, azzardi, rivelazioni
Qualche riflessione sulle recenti novità discografiche di Setola di Maiale.
Da circa 40 anni è stato possibile affrontare in musica temi dal senso recondito: narrazioni dell'alienazione, isolazionismo, forme utopiche o al contrario distopiche, sono tutti...
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SoundOut Festival a Canberra
La 16° edizione del SoundOut festival a Canberra, rassegna internazionale di free jazz/free improvisation e musica sperimentale organizzata da Richard Johnson, si terrà tra...
