Leonardi/Pastor/Blumer/Geisser: Conversations about Thomas Chapin
Stefano Leonardi, an Italian young flutist, is a spokesman for the Chapin's artistic rediscovery. He organized a quartet of Italian and Swiss musicians (Fridolin Blumer on bass, Heinz Geisser on drums and Stefano Pastor...
Rank Ensemble: Papilio Noblei
Rank Ensemble is a highly respected quartet, with an academic training, orbiting in the Finnish scene of free improvisation; the four musicians carry out an unusual line of expression between contemporary music and free...
Ensemble 5: The summary of 4 vol. 2
The second volume of Swiss recordings after the Japan tour brings us again in that devious state of description, apt to represent the attitudes of the musical scenario. A situation that I had enucleated...
John Wolf Brennan/Tony Majdalani/Marco Jencarelli: Pilgrims
After all, John Wolf Brennan has accustomed us to meetings between East and West: those who remember his masterpieces recorded long ago have always perceived his proximity to some aspects of non-Western thought, so...
The art of the improv trio nei volumi di Ivo Perelman
La vena camaleontica di registrare grandi quantità di musica è un progetto con in quale i musicisti dell'improvvisazione inondano gli ascoltatori per mettere a nudo ogni passaggio temporale del loro sviluppo: nella maggior parte...
Italian jazz again
Umberto Petrin - Traces and ghosts
La regola dell'ufficialità del cd in solo non sembra potersi applicare al pianista Umberto Petrin: nonostante il primo vero disco in solitudine è arrivato nel 2011 grazie all'appeal internazionale...
Karl Berger & Ivo Perelman: Reverie
"Reverie" is composed of six songs that are musical pills of wisdom, that demonstrate an immense knowledge of the expression: these improvisations reflect Berger's pianistic entretien but constitute a real test for the Brazilian...
Helen Bledsoe & Alexey Lapin: Ghost Icebreaker
There is a kind of symbolism hidden in the music of Bledsoe / Lapin, that it does not reflect a simple emulation of arctic sounds. Although the two musicians do not communicate any introspective...