Carlo Mascolo & Thollem McDonas – Quattro frecce e buonanotte
American, globe-trotting, pianist-synth player-vocalist Thollem McDonas calls his improvisations that often turn into instant compositions “post-classical circus punk world jazz free music, for people and everyone else”. His irreverent, exploratory approach fits perfectly with...
Susan Alcorn Lobato
L'improvvisa scomparsa di Susan Alcorn Lobato (1953-2025) priva il mondo dell'improvvisazione di una dei suoi più intelligenti adepti. Alcorn, infatti, è stata la prima chitarrista alla pedal steel guitar a proporre un adeguamento quasi...
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 il 31 gennaio e il 2 febbraio, un weekend di...
Ilinx – Flipperen
Ilinx is the trio of Romanian, New York-based vocalist-guitarist Suzana Lașcu, Dutch pianist-synth player Reinier van Houdt, and sound artist-DJ-clarinetist-guzheng and electronics player Robert Kroos, all are genre-defying composers who work in the realm...
Maya Bennardo, Etienne Nillesen & Kristofer Svensson – For Violin, Snare & Kacapi
For Violin, Snare & Kacapi è l’ultima pubblicazione dell’etichetta svedese kuyin, in uscita il prossimo 21 febbraio. Il disco fotografa la nascita di un trio composto da Maya Bennardo, Etienne Nillesen e Kristofer Svensson....
Martina Verhoeven & Dirk Serries between Brecht and Café OTO
Belgian pianist-photographer (and bassist and mindfulness trailer) Martina Verhoeven began her career as a free improviser only seven years ago, most of the time joining the projects of her partner, prolific Belgian guitarist Dirk...
Izumi Kimura / Barry Guy / Gerry Hemingway – Six Hands Open As One
The trio of young, Japanese-born, Irish-based pianist Izumi Kimura with British double bass player Barry Guy and American drummer Gerry Hemingway is by no means a typical piano trio. These musicians are idiosyncratic composers...
Christian Moser – Abrash
Swiss, Basel-based Christian Moser plays the Middle-Eastern lute, the oud, like no other. In his youth, he studied the violin but at 18 he discovered the oud, and after a few years of taking...
Mark Kirschenmann – Tonics: 7 Melodies for Trumpet with Bamboo Mouthpipe
America, Ann Arbor-based trumpeter Mark Kirschenmann is known for his pioneering live electric trumpet performances and as a scholar who explores the confluence of composition and improvisation at the University of Michigan. He has...
Alexandra Grimal / Giovanni Di Domenico – Shakkei
Shakkei (借景) means borrowed scenery Japanese and is the Japanese (and also the Chinese) principle of "incorporating background landscape into the composition of a garden". Shakkei is also the title of the fourth duo...
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OpusOne Academy
Una bella iniziativa viene dalla Francia e dall'ensemble L'Itinéraire: con OpusOne, accademia d'iniziazione alla composizione, si dà l'occasione a compositori in erba di cominciare...
