Modney: Ascending Primes
The primes of Ascending Primes, the new album by violinist/composer Modney, formerly known as Josh Modney, are prime numbers. As natural numbers evenly divisible only by themselves and by one, prime numbers can be...
Tetuzi Akiyama Trio: Memory is a Poet, Spinning Stories
Si conclude con Memory is a Poet, Spinning Stories il trittico di registrazioni live edite da Meena con protagonista il chitarrista Tetuzi Akiyama (1964). Al fianco di Akiyama troviamo il sassofonista contralto Masahide Tokunaga...
Sylvaine Hélary & Orchestre Incandescent – Rare Birds
French flutist-vocalist-composer Sylvaine Hélary is a rare bird. She has played in Eve Risser's White Desert Orchestra, the Orchestre National de Jazz under the artistic director Frédéric Maurin. She will become the director of...
Kaufmann, Gratkowski & de Joode: Canberra
The trio of pianist Achim Kaufmann, clarinetist/saxophonist Frank Gratkowski, and double bassist Wilbert de Joode has been together for over twenty years now. First formed in Amsterdam in 2002, the group has toured extensively...
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...
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...
Marius Neset & Leif Ove Andsnes – Who We Are
Renowned Norwegian sax player-composer Marius Neset and pianist-educator Leif Ove Andsnes grew up in small towns near Bergen. They chose different musical careers, focusing on stylistic models in their expressive idioms. The Oslo-based Neset...
Michelle Lou: Near Distant
In una delle tante connessioni al tempo che caratterizzarono il temperamento filosofico e musicale di Morton Feldman ve n'è una che ha avuto modo di dimostrarsi profetica. Feldman si accorse che ogni categorizzazione del...
Henrik Olsson/Aviva Endean: Split Series – Vol. 2
Chi ha dimestichezza con le realtà di Oslo o di Copenhagen, ad esempio, non rimarrà certo sorpreso dalla Split Series targata FRIM. La divisione di un concerto in più set da mezz’ora è infatti...
Giuseppe Doronzo, Andy Moor, and Frank Rosaly: Futuro Ancestrale
Futuro Ancestrale: ancestral future, a vision of a future with its roots sunk deep in the past. With this title of their debut album as a trio, baritone saxophonist Giuseppe Doronzo, guitarist Andy Moor,...
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Zakir Hussain
A chi non è in grado di cogliere le sfumature importanti della tabla opporrei di approfondire sull'antefatto e la lecture di Zakir Hussein ad...
