Léo Dupleix – Resonant Trees
A inizio giugno, l’etichetta australiana Black Truffle, ha pubblicato Resonant Trees: un vinile contenente due composizioni di Léo Dupleix. Oltre ad aver firmato le due “facce” del vinile, Dupleix suona il clavicembalo ed il...
Sylvaine Hélary & Orchestre Incandescent – Rare Birds
French flutist-vocalist-composer Sylvaine Hélary is a rare bird. She has played in Eve Risser's White Desert Orchestra, the Orchestre National de Jazz under the artistic director Frédéric Maurin. She will become the director of...
Simon Rummel | On Water Orchestra – Der Zauberlehrling
German, Cologne-based composer Simon Rummel was educated as a singer in a boy’s choir. He later studied jazz piano with British pianist John Taylor, composition with German composer-violinist Johannes Fritsch, and visual art and...
Miroslav Beinhauer – Adrián Demoč: Piano
Thanks to the elsewhere label I got to know the most beautiful and moving music of Slovak contemporary composer-educator Adrián Demoč as interpreted brilliantly by Czech pianist Miroslav Beinhauer. The elsewhere label focuses on...
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...
Placebo Domingo – First Crash
Placebo Domingo is the wild, otherworldly alter-ego of the German, Cologne-based Philip Zoubek Trio, an electronic variant of the piano jazz trio. The prolific pianist Zoubek, the bandleader and the composer, leaves the piano...
Cinque nuove pubblicazioni di Sawyer Editions per ‘Cinque Mappe del Mondo Sperimentale’
“When I think about our group now, and especially the large set of friends of this music, I wonder if some of the most fragile seeds planted in the mid-century, by Cage and the...
Langham Research Centre – Tape Reworks Vol. 2 – Remixes
La pratica del remix, come si evince dal sottotitolo Vol. 2, non è nuova al gruppo Langham Research Centre composto da Felix Carey, Iain Chambers, Philip Tagney e Robert Worby: la nuova edizione,...
Marina Džukljev con Michael Thieke e con Ilia Belorukov
Marina Džukljev con Michael Thieke (Motionless Pool; scatterArchive) e Ilia Belorukov (Everything Changes, Nothing Disappears; Acheulian Handaxe)
Non capita tutti i mesi di avere l’occasione di recensire due pubblicazioni per due distinte etichette che comprendono...
Félicie Bazelaire – Otos
The strange phenomenon of the creative illness is something we sometimes find among artists. What is meant here isn’t the often-noted connection between psychological instability and artistic activity, but rather the creative response of...