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...
Maja Osojnik – Doorways
Slovenia-born, Vienna-based Maja Osojnik is an experimental composer, vocalist, electro-acoustic improviser, sound artist, producer, DJ and the founder of the Mamaka Records label. Her work encompasses early music, contemporary music, alternative rock, experimental jazz,...
Georges Lentz: from “String Quartet(s)”
Con molta lungimiranza la Kairos ha accolto la pubblicazione di un CD che contiene 70 minuti della musica che il compositore Georges Lentz ha usato per l'installazione della Cobar Sound Chapel in un outback...
Marco Fusi sulle Six Seasons di Lei Liang
Prendemmo consapevolezza delle Six Seasons del compositore Lei Liang già qualche anno fa quando Liang ci parlò del progetto con un'intervista e poi, in maniera esplicita, quando arrivò la registrazione del Mivos Quartet nel giugno...
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...
WATT – Arbres, For 4 clarinets, Olim e Coral
Decima pubblicazione per l’etichetta francese Montagne Noire in uscita il prossimo Febbraio. WATT è un quartetto di clarinetti composto da Jean Dousteyssier, Antonin-Tri Hoang, Jean-Brice Godet, Julien Pontvianne. Il gruppo, che deve il...
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...
Marina Džukljev in trio and solo piano
Serbian, Novi-Sad-based pianist-organist-educator Marina Džukljev is a classically-trained musician who performed free improvised, classical and contemporary music. She has collaborated with like-minded, innovative European improvisers, and sound and multimedia artists such as dieb13, Michael...