Charlemagne Palestine & Seppe Gebruers – Beyondddddd The Notessssss
New York's legendary minimalist composer (who considered himself a maximalist), pianist, and visual artist Charlemagne Palestine (b. 1947) began his musical career as a 16-year-old carillonneur in the church directly across from the famous...
Maya Attoun / Adaya Godlevsky / Lior Ashkenazy – 24/24
In April 2021, during the COVID-19 lockdowns, late Israeli multidisciplinary artist Maya Attoun (1974-2022) invited musicians-sound artists Adaya Godlevsky and Lior Ashkenazy to perform a live soundtrack for her exhibition, Solar Mountains & Broken...
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...
Jon Rose & Erik Griswold – Unnamed Road
Unnamed Road is the first musical project of two Australian innovators - England-born, Alice Springs-based violinist-composer-improviser-luthier Jon Rose and United states-born, Brisbane-based contemporary composer-pianist-electronics player Erik Griswold. Both Rose and Griswold are genre-defying, multi-media...
Sarah Belle Reid + Vinny Golia: Accidental Ornithology
“Ornithology” is still one of the most popular be-bop standards, almost eighty years after it was recorded by Bird, aka Charlie Parker (who changed the chord progression of another standard, “How High the Moon”)....
Carlo Mascolo & Thollem McDonas – Quattro frecce e buonanotte
American, globe-trotting, pianist-synth player-vocalist Thollem McDonas calls his improvisations that often turn into instant compositions “post-classical circus punk world jazz free music, for people and everyone else”. His irreverent, exploratory approach fits perfectly with...
Ilinx – Flipperen
Ilinx is the trio of Romanian, New York-based vocalist-guitarist Suzana Lașcu, Dutch pianist-synth player Reinier van Houdt, and sound artist-DJ-clarinetist-guzheng and electronics player Robert Kroos, all are genre-defying composers who work in the realm...
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...
Izumi Kimura / Barry Guy / Gerry Hemingway – Six Hands Open As One
The trio of young, Japanese-born, Irish-based pianist Izumi Kimura with British double bass player Barry Guy and American drummer Gerry Hemingway is by no means a typical piano trio. These musicians are idiosyncratic composers...
Christian Moser – Abrash
Swiss, Basel-based Christian Moser plays the Middle-Eastern lute, the oud, like no other. In his youth, he studied the violin but at 18 he discovered the oud, and after a few years of taking...