Ivo Perelman: messe, cristalli, polarità e supernove
Ultima quaterna di pubblicazioni dell'anno del nostro amato sassofonista Ivo Perelman.
Partiamo con Messa Di Voce, un quartetto registrato nel gennaio del 2018 al Park West studios, formato da Joe Morris al contrabbasso, Ramon Lopez...
Endings: l’ultima pubblicazione Full Spectrum
one last journey across the horizon line, reaching toward the Infinite Future
Il 175esimo disco Full Spectrum certifica la fine delle pubblicazioni per l’etichetta statunitense. È sempre un dispiacere, per tutti gli appassionati dei nuovi...
Massimiliano Viel: Cluster
Il nome di Massimiliano Viel ricorre spesso sulle pagine di Percorsi Musicali. Ultimamente lo abbiamo incensato per i suoi libri ma la sua musica è il suo vero punto di forza. Viel ha competenze...
In the realm of trombones
Three album reviews about the trombone:
1) Dan Blacksberg - The Psychic/Body Sound System (Relative Pitch, 2024)
2) RAGE Trombones - Breaking Ships (Tripticks Tapes, 2024)
3) Sliders - Sliders (Hora, 2024)
American trombonist-eductor Dan Blacksberg is a...
Il Quartetto Maurice sul Fragmente – Stille, an Diotima di Nono
Scrivevo in un saggio di qualche tempo che:
"...la terza fase del cammino musicale di Luigi Nono si inaugura con la pubblicazione del suo quartetto d'archi nel 1980. Fragmente-Stille, an Diotima è il primo passo...
Isabelle Duthoit & Ocnos Arkestra – Chillar todo el día
Isabelle Duthoit is a French clarinetist-vocal artist, known for her work with like-minded genre-defying improvisers like trumpeter Franz Hautzinger (her partner), double bass master Joelle Leandre and pianist Marilyn Crispell. The Spanish Seville-based Ocnos...
Peter Herbert & Wolfgang Mitterer: Quiets Riots
Viennese double bass-composer-educator Peter Herbert and pianist-electronics player-composer Wolfgang Mitterer are old friends but an odd musical couple. Herbert is a much-in-demand bass player, mostly for jazz outfits (but he also played with Paul...
Sophie Agnel plays in two trios
French classically-trained pianist Sophie Agnel escaped jazz for its too-strict treatment of harmony and timbre and now she is one of the most fascinating free improvisers. She plays the piano in the most unconventional...
Clara Levy: Outre-Nuit
Clara Levy is a French, Brussels-based violinist-improviser who focuses on developing solo projects addressing different topics at the core of contemporary music practice, experimental music and free improvisation. She plays in European contemporary music...
Zeena Parkins: two new works on Relative Pitch
Zeena Parkins is a harpist-mult-instrumentalist-composer-improviser-eductor who pioneered contemporary harp practices by employing extended techniques, object preparations, and electronic processing that re-defined the instrument’s capacities. Dam Against the Spring Tide offers two cycles of compositions...