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...
Amarela label: Arciniegas & Cusack, Frith & Segal
Elisa Arciniegas is a French-Colomabian violist-vocalist-composer-sound designer and a former disciple of Fred Frith at the Hochschüle für Musik in Basel. Peter Cusack is a British guitarist and sound artist who mainly works with...
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...
Margaux Oswald Collateral Damage – In Time, Hollow Oaks Become Chapels
French-Filipina, Copenhagen-based pianist Margaux Oswald leads her most ambitious project to date, the pan-European septet Collateral Damage (a term that has been used - or normalized - much too redundantly lately) with unconventional instrumentation,...
Gonçalo Almeida – States of Restraints & Gut Liver
Gonçalo Almeida - States of Restraints (Clean Feed, 2024)
Misanthrope Trio - Gut Liver (Cylinder, 2024)
Two completely different sides of prolific Portuguese, Rotterdam-based bassist-composer-improviser Gonçalo Almeida. Almeda's creative musical output is spread over countless bands...
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...
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...
Yan Jun x 2: with Kai Fagaschinski and with Eric Wong
Two duos of Chinese, Beijing-based prolific, experimental vocal artist-poet-sound artist Yan Jun (颜峻) with like-minded comrades from the free music scene of Berlin. Yan Jun is an exceptional and subversive artist whose performances focus...