Fridolin Blumer – Anklam
Swiss, Zürich-based double bass player Fridolin Blumer works in the fields of modern jazz, free improvisation, and contemporary music. He says that his music is inspired by everyday life and seeks illiterate or musical...
The Hemphill Stringtet – Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill
Next week will be the 30th yahrzeit of one of the greatest jazz musicians of the 20th century, sax player-composer Julius Hemphill (1938-1995), co-founder of the multidisciplinary arts collective Black Artists’ Group, founder of...
Paulownia
Paulownia is an experimental, all-female zither trio formed at New England Conservatory in Boston in 2021, and featuring Korean Yoona Kim playing the traditional Korean ajaeng, Chinese Anwei Wang playing the traditional guzheng and...
Studio Dan – Walking Through a Brave New World – 8 Improvisations
The Viennese music collective Studio Dan has investigated the intersection of new jazz and contemporary avant-garde for the last two decades with commissioned works from radically different aesthetic fields. Walking Through a Brave New...
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,...
Bloomers – Cyclism
Bloomers is the Copenhagen-based trio of Danish alto sax player-clarinetist Maria Dybbroe, trumpeter Anne Efternøler, and Irish clarinetist-bass clarinetist Carolyn Goodwin (who plays with Dybbroe in the Copenhagen Clarinet Choir). Cyclism is the debut...
Quentin Rollet & Jérôme Lorichon – Planisphère
French, Paris-based sax player and analog synth and phone apps player Quentin Rollet (and producer and founder of the legendary Rectangle Records, together with guitarist Noël Akchoté, and of Bisou Records) and modular synth...
Verhoeven/Lopes/Serries: Invincible Time
Invincible Time brings together three wilful free improvisers into the beautiful resonance of the Oude Klooster chapel in Brecht, Belgium. Partners in life and music - Belgian pianist Martina Verhoeven, who plays on the...
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,...