Peter Evans – Extra
American trumpeter-composer Peter Evans teams with two close associates - the Berlin-based Swedish double bass player Petter Eldh (who played with Evans in the Amok Amor quartet) and American drummer Jim Black (who played...
Camilo Mendez: Distant Fragments
Un'ispirazione musicale che prende vita dall'osservazione del mondo, sia arte che scienza, è ancora oggettivamente evento auspicabile per la buona riuscita della composizione. Il compositore colombiano Camilo Mendez (1981) ha le idee chiare al...
Reid / Kitamura /Bynum /Morris – Geometry of Phenomena
Geometry of Phenomena is the the fourth album of the Geometry supergroup comprised of four idiosyncratic, experimental musicians-improvisers-bandleaders-eductors, all affiliated with legendary composer Anthony Braxton. Cellist Tomeka Reid participated in the recordings of Braxton’s...
Jon Rose / Mark Dresser – Band Width
Jon Rose is an Australian innovative violinist-composer-improviser-luthier-multimedia artist and inventor of the interactive violin bow who has worked with such boundaries-pushing musicians like Derek Bailey, Alvin Curran, Otomo Yoshihide, Ilan Volkov, Christian Marclay and...
Distrubio – Les Mauvaises Fréquentations
Distrubio is the experimental duo of French Musique concrète composer-sound artist-improviser Jérôme Noetinger, known for his unique usage of the reel-to-reel tape recorder Revox B77 as an instrument, and Viennese, Mexican-born composer-sound artist Angélica...
On Damon Smith’s latest works
The reviews of 3 albums of prolific, American double bass player Damon Smith, connecting the Afro-American free jazz legacy to free improvisation:
1) K. Curtis Lyle / George R. Sams / Ra Kalam Bob Moses...
Camila Nebbia: two new works
Prolific Argentinian, Berlin-based tenor sax player, visual artist and concert series curator Camila Nebbia seems - or sounds - as if she is everywhere, globe-trotting and constantly recording and initiating free improvised meetings with...
Maqam Melodies: l’ampia prospettiva sulla microtonalità di Thoegersen
Maqam Melodies, Pitches, Patterns, and Developments of Music in the Middle East and Other Microtonal Writings è il titolo del nuovo libro del professore e compositore americano Peter Alexander Thoegersen, appena pubblicato da Jenny...
Jordina Millà & Barry Guy – Live in Munich
La sempre attenta etichetta discografica Ecm Records, guidata dal patron Manfred Eicher, ci offre la possibilità di ascoltare l'incontro tra la pianista catalana Jordina Millà e lo storico contrabbassista Barry Guy. Il musicista inglese...
Silvia Corda – When the crickets sing
Se Luciano Berio nelle sue Sequenze -solo queste composizioni sono sufficienti per annoverarlo tra i grandi compositori del Novecento- analizza ed espande le possibilità di alcuni strumenti, lo stessa operazione pare porsi in essere...