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...

Miroslav Beinhauer – Adrián Demoč: Piano

Thanks to the elsewhere label I got to know the most beautiful and moving music of Slovak contemporary composer-educator Adrián Demoč as interpreted brilliantly by Czech pianist Miroslav Beinhauer. The elsewhere label focuses on...

Foussat/Lazro -Trente-Cinq Minutes & Vingt-Trois Seconds +Agnel/Kristoff K. Roll/Lazro -Quartet un peu Tendre-

French sax master Daunik Lazro was born in 1945 and throughout his rich and diverse career has become one of the greatest European free improvisers who always challenges himself, even when he plays with...

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...

Félicie Bazelaire – Otos

The strange phenomenon of the creative illness is something we sometimes find among artists. What is meant here isn’t the often-noted connection between psychological instability and artistic activity, but rather the creative response of...

Mimmo, Mevel, Waziniak: Constellative Trio

The Constellative Trio is the improvising trio of French musicians Gaël Mevel and Thierry Waziniak, along with the Italian soprano saxophonist Gianni Mimmo. Although this self-titled album is their debut release as the Constellative...

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...

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...

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Il Music Unlimited festival a Wels

Prende il via domani uno dei principali e storici festival europei di improvvisazione. A Wels, città austriaca situata nella zona bavarese del paese, per...