Sjöström, Floridis, Rodrigues, Casserley: Fields
Back in 2018, Finnish soprano and sopranino saxophonist Harri Sjöström recorded a series of improvisations with Lisbon’s Guilherme Rodrigues on cello. The music, released on the album The Treasures Are, was subtle and exhilarating...
Sonic balancing act: Camille Émaille
I don’t go to conservatories very often but there is a teaching that should be the basis of any training activity for musicians: after having found and activated their sound sources, musicians must feel...
Marlies Debacker & Salim(a) Javaid: Convolution
Pianist Marlies Debacker and saxophonist Salim(a) Javaid, both based in Cologne, have been long-time collaborators since meeting as students at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, where they both now teach. Debacker, originally...
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,...
François Wong & Davide Barbarino: Genius Loci
In Roman religion, the genius loci is the guardian of a place – like the Greek daimon, a low-level divinity, here given the task of presiding over a given site. More figuratively, the genius...
Électronique…? Pensate l’impensabile! Giuseppe Giuliano «visto da»… Pierre Yves Artaud e Yuri Kasparov
Ammetto di avere un debole per la musica di Giuseppe Giuliano. Su queste pagine, tramite recensioni e note critiche, ho già rivelato l’afflato moderno e l’intrigante raccordo della sua musica con le libertà e...
New harmonies from spectralism: Rozalie Hirs
Today it is legitimate to ask where the new developments of contemporary music lie and in particular what happens to its most recent subdivisions. For example, the qualities of spectralism have long been invoked,...
Bonanza of Doom
Here in the third decade of the 21st century, it almost seems irrelevant to think in terms of genre. Certainly a good number of musicians working in the more exploratory areas of their fields...
Biagio Coppa/Intrepid Trio: Cursed Location
The Intrepid Trio is a project of Milanese soprano and tenor saxophonist Biagio Coppa. Coppa’s roots are in the creative improvised music that evolved out of more mainstream jazz during and after the 1960s;...
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...