Acre – Praxis
Acre is the Italian, Rome-based trio of drummer Ermanno Baron, guitarist Ginomaria Boschi (who plays on prepared guitar, electric guitar and m’bira) and live electronics player Marco Bonini, that combines the immediacy and the...
Louis-Michel Marion
When handled as a generator of sound, as French bassist Louis-Michel Marion does, the double bass reveals itself to be the versatile container of sonic multitudes that it is. That this is so is...
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...
Luca Tilli / Sebi Tramontana / Steve Beresford – Flying Slippers
Multi-instrumentalist-composer-producer-educator Steve Beresford is a central figure in the British free improvising scene for over forty years. Currently, he is recovering from a recent major surgery. Flying Slippers, a recent collaboration with the Italian...
Mirela Ivičević: Scarlet Songs
When speaking of her fundamental approach to composing, Mirela Ivičević, a Croatian native currently based in Vienna, has described herself as focusing on using as basic materials “bits and pieces of reality abducted from...
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;...
Joke Lanz & Petr Vrba – Mutants in Siberia
Czech experimental trumpeter-electronics player Petr Vrba (the founder of Prague Improvisation Orchestra with American double bass player George Cremaschi, the dramaturgist for Alternativa festival in Prague and Radio DJ at Radio 1) and Swiss,...
Otomo Yoshihide/Emilie Škrijelj/Tom Malmendier – Weird Morning Meeting
The rare configuration of two turntablists and one drummer is rare, but Japanese turntablist (and guitarist) Otomo Yoshihide, French turntablist (and accordionist and electronics player) Emilie Škrijelj, and her Belgian partner-drummer Tom Malmendier are...
Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg at Creative Sources R. + a concert with John Russell
Belgian vocal artist (and music reviewer) Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg has developed, as an autodidact, a unique form of vocal improvisation and extended vocal techniques, with almost three octaves, falsettos, harmonics, deep throat singing, yodels,...
Two types of absence and six mementi
Some thoughts about three new Setola di Maiale's CDs:
-Massaria/Kneer/Hertenstein: The Absence of Zero
-Mario Cianca Trio: Komuso
-Donatello Pisanello: Mementi
The Absence of Zero is the title of a long poem by Canadian poet R. Kolewe, published...
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Concerto conclusivo degli Incontri Internazionali per Giovani Compositori “Franco Donatoni”
Un interessante argomento che una parte della composizione sta affrontando da qualche anno è quello dell'emergenza climatica. Domani sera, alla Fabbrica del Vapore a...
