Joëlle Léandre/Evan Parker – Long Bright Summer
French master double bass player Joëlle Léandre and British soprano and tenor sax master Evan Parker have accumulated more than one hundred years of experience playing free improvised music. Guitarist Derek Bailey brought them...
Lauro/Mayer/Drab – live recording session #2
Audrey Lauro is a French, Brussels-based alto sax player, trained in composition, jazz, and contemporary music. She then devoted her energy to experimental music, particularly improvisation, constantly questioning the language of instruments, phrases, and...
Rip Guy Strale
Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg, noto cantante improvvisatore belga, conosce tutti i segreti della libera improvvisazione nel suo Paese, soprattutto in chiave storica. L'8 Dicembre Jean-Michel ha comunicato sulla sua pagina facebook in maniera ufficiale la...
Jaap Blonk with Smith & Zerang and with Stadhouders
Dutch self-taught vocal artist, sound poet, and visual artist Jaap Blonk’s first album on his own label Kontrans’ series of free improvised meetings was with American, Chicagoan percussionist Michael Zerang and Swedish reed player...
Luigi Marino & David Birchall – Bristol Sessions
Bristol Sessions documents the very first, free improvised recording session of two idiosyncratic sonic explorers - Italian, Bristol-based percussionist Luigi Marino, who also employs DIY circuits, and Manchester-based banjoist who uses Ebows David Birchall,...
GRÜM – Meschin
GRÜM is an experimental improvising quartet featuring German, Basel-based vocal artist Lara Süß, who also plays a sampler, Swiss Thomas Rohrer, who plays the rabeca (a string instrument related to the violin, originating from...
Adia Vanheerentals: two different improvised settings
Adia Vanheerentals is a young Belgian soprano sax player who leads the free-improvising trio Bodem, and recently joined Fire! Orchestra's European WORDS tour. Taking Place is her first full-length solo album, following the EP...
A Short Guide to Current Improvised and Experimental Music in China
English and Italian language. Texts by Yan Jun, Zhang Cai & Sun Yizhou.
This article was born during a dinner a couple of months ago with Mario Gabola after one of his concerts. During that...
Eva-Maria Houben – portative air
German composer, organist, and musicologist Eva-Maria Houben is related to the reductionist school of the “wandelweiser group” of composers. Houben is interested in deep listening as an awareness of fading sounds, and fading sounds...
Two different trios of the sax master John Butcher
Leaflight: Close Call documents a free improvised set of three idiosyncratic improvisers: British John Butcher on tenor and soprano saxes, German, Berlin-based vocal artist Ute Wassermann and her stream of imaginative vocalisations and bird...
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Rip Guy Strale
Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg, noto cantante improvvisatore belga, conosce tutti i segreti della libera improvvisazione nel suo Paese, soprattutto in chiave storica. L'8 Dicembre Jean-Michel...
