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...
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...
Cinque nuove pubblicazioni di Sawyer Editions per ‘Cinque Mappe del Mondo Sperimentale’
“When I think about our group now, and especially the large set of friends of this music, I wonder if some of the most fragile seeds planted in the mid-century, by Cage and the...
Viegas, Corda, Orru+Zingaro e Espvall: The House Of Memory
Insinuare un discorso musicale sulla "memoria" nella libera improvvisazione è come lavorare alle scatole cinesi. Dalla scienza e dalla filosofia abbiamo ricevuto parecchi indizi su cosa vuol dire fare memoria e sappiamo che il...
Gertrude – Nuageux
The Italian reed and brass quintet was formed in 2021 to bridge contemporary, written, and improvised music. Its musicians - clarinetist Clarissa Durizzotto, flutist Paolo Pascolo, trumpeter Gabriele Cancelli, trombonist and French horn player...
Sidsel Endresen | Jan Bang | Erik Honoré – Punkt Live Remixes Vol. 2
Norwegian Jan Bang and Erik Honoré are pioneering figures in live remixing, producers and the founders of the Punkt festival, a three-day festival of the Live Remix taking place in Kristiansand, Norway, since 2005,...
Michael McNeill – Barcode Poetry
American, Buffalo, New York-based pianist-composer-educator Michael McNeill’s projects range from reinterpretations of music by Thelonious Monk, the free improvising trio with veteran double bass player Ken Filiano and drummer Phil Haynes, and his Baltimore-based...
Studio Dan – Walking Through a Brave New World – 8 Improvisations
The Viennese music collective Studio Dan has investigated the intersection of new jazz and contemporary avant-garde for the last two decades with commissioned works from radically different aesthetic fields. Walking Through a Brave New...
Ensemble Nikel: Radio Works
Ensemble Nikel is the quartet of American, Switzerland-based percussionist Brian Archinal, Israeli electric guitarist Yaron Deutsch (who teaches at the Hochschule für Musik in Basel), Swiss pianist and keyboard player Antoine Françoise and German...
Marco Colonna and Giulia Cianca: Undici pianeti
The contemporary world often seems to be nothing short of a permanent atopia – a place in which one is perpetually out of place, a locus of transience in which one is forever a...