Herb Robertson

Un bel pò di anni fa suonare veloce uno strumento era considerata una grande virtù e se pensiamo ai trombettisti free jazz, questa virtù calza alla perfezione. Della tromba di Herb Robertson se ne...

Zeena Parkins: two new works on Relative Pitch

Zeena Parkins is a harpist-mult-instrumentalist-composer-improviser-eductor who pioneered contemporary harp practices by employing extended techniques, object preparations, and electronic processing that re-defined the instrument’s capacities. Dam Against the Spring Tide offers two cycles of compositions...

Martin Tétreault: Vraiment plus de Snipettes!!!

Canadian, Québec-based Martin Tétreault is a sound artist, turntablist, DJ and improviser who came to music from the visual arts milieu. His work shifted from highly imaginative puzzles of musical citations to exploration of...

Georg Graewe & Sonic Fiction Orchestra in concert, Bochum 2022

German master pianist-composer-bandleader Georg Graewe feels at home when composing music for chamber outfits, orchestras, operas, or scores for films, theater productions, radio drama and video. Graewe is also a master improviser, known for...

Introducing Japanese saxophonist Ryoko Ono

Two new free-improv works of Ryoko Ono - a duo with Satoko Fujii and a solo album -: 1) Ryoko Ono / Satoko Fujii - Hakuro (Self-Released, 2023) 2) Ryoko Ono - The Days (Relative Pitch,...

Two free improvising trio with Marta Warelis

Two trios of free improvisation with the pianist Marta Warelis: 1) Abdou - Gouband - Warelis - Hammer, Roll and Leaf (Relative Pitch, 2024); 2) Marta Warelis / Florian Stoffner / Rudi Fischerlehner - Spontaneous Live Series...

On Portuguese alto sax player Hugo Costa: two trios

Portuguese, Rotterdam-based alto sax player Hugo Costa favors the format of the trio, so when he heard that legendary American double bass player-composer-bandleader William Parker plans to visit Rotterdam, he invited the great master...

Celebrating the legacy of Dennis González

American, Texan trumpeter-composer-visual artist-poet-eductor Dennis González (1954-2022) created a free jazz scene in Dallas, founded the local Association for Avant-Garde and Neo Impressionistic Music and his Daagnim records. González led many bands with like-minded...

Polymath Elliott Sharp explores the world of mandolins

American, New York-based polymath Elliott Sharp is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, producer and author, the bandleader of the Orchestra Carbon, Tectonics and Terraplane with compositional strategies that borrow themes from fractal geometry, chaos theory and...

Relational Improvisation: Music, dance and contemporary art

Quando Luciano Berio affermava che la musica aveva più funzioni non si sbagliava affatto. Si potrebbe aggiungere a quanto intuito dal compositore che la musica in tal modo presenta dei paradossi, degli estremi di...

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Herb Robertson

Un bel pò di anni fa suonare veloce uno strumento era considerata una grande virtù e se pensiamo ai trombettisti free jazz, questa virtù...

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