Kudryavtsev/Vincent/Logofet: Free Trees
In a thriving alveolus of free techniques and with frequent use of gadgets and objects on the cello, the art of 'Free Trees' follows characteristic moments with a sort of apologetic thought; it is...
Lukas Ligeti/Thollem McDonas: Imaginary images
In "Imaginary images" we have two musicians who put aside the research, the frills of the composition or the musical traditions, and confront one another solely on the obvious reality of their instruments.
Of course...
La nuova cinquina di Ivo Perelman
Ivo Perelman non smette di stupire e si presenta con cinque nuove pubblicazioni (tutte per Leo R.) che vedono il sassofonista registrare tre di esse in duo e due in quartetto: generalmente si scorge...
Joachim Gies, Ensemble X and Gerd Wameling: Mnemosyne
In "Mnemosyne", you notice the composer's passion for the Greek theater and for the existentialist poets and philosophers: in a performance at Villa Elisabeth in Berlin, Gies plays with the ensemble X (composed by...
Callas and other personalities in the new works of Ivo Perelman
Ivo Perelman's new works suggest an explicit reference to some fundamental musical figures of the past: the sources of inspiration of the saxophone player are Maria Callas (a novelty for his style), the great...
Russian jazz musicians: between free and contemporary jazz
Many critics of free improvisation/free jazz insist to give an appropriate value to the sounds that can evoke images or become simulations of an event or an object: this theory is based mainly on...
Anto Pett/Christoph Baumann: Northwind Boogy
The winning feature of this first pearl of 2013 is the resolute character of music that organizes puzzles of sounds in a form extraordinarily personal in which we can affirm to be in front...
Three Leo Records for Perelman
Senza pause l’iperattività del sassofonista Ivo Perelman: Il 2012 sembra basarsi su queste ulteriori tre pubblicazioni discografiche che hanno ognuna differenziazioni di...
Potage du jour: Go South!
"Go south!" draws the potential of Franziska Baumann's voice, without distinctions, following a path entirely fortuitous: piano and sax (Christoph Baumann and Jurg Solothurnmann) provide an excellent and fantasious coverage of free jazz, useful...
Anne-Liis Poll/Anto Pett/Vlady Bystrov: The enchanted 3
"The enchanted 3" shows the powerful exercises to control the directionality of improvisation, where the interaction among the musicians is an essential condition for their full expression. It is all based on research, through...