NATURE HATH PAINTED THE BODY (LP)
Belgian-born, Oslo-based pianist Jonas Cambien couldn’t have chosen better partners than Andreas Wildhagen and André Roligheten to perform his cleverly constructed compositions. On its third studio...
View ArticleGARFO
If you were still uncertain about the relevance and the freshness of Portugal’s contributions to the worldwide jazz and improvised music circuits, this is for you: Garfo (Fork in English) is a band...
View ArticleEGO KILLS
Two years ago, before the Apocalypse, the first album of this same project was presented as Olie Steidle & The Killing Popes. Something changed in the works of the pandemic virus: the personnel is...
View ArticleSTRUCTURES OF UNREASON
Aspects and gestures of a percussive, tactile musicality and an atmospheric energy, incisive and pungent at times, at others more soft and airy, but always diffused and pervasive, are the aesthetic...
View ArticleCHANTING IN THE NAME OF
A Portuguese trumpeter more and more present in the international scene, in such a way that he has more concerts scheduled in other countries than on his own, Luís Vicente never seems to stop: after...
View ArticleBAD COMPANY
Carneiro and Melo Alves aren’t bad companions to each other, as you’ll soon find out. The title of this recording comes from a story by Japanese writer Yasuoka Shotaro, reminding us how literature...
View ArticleISABELLA
Mario Pavone recorded two albums in the final stages of a cancer that he fought for 17 years, when 2021 was starting: “Blue Vertical” (Out of Your Head Records) and this “Isabella”. Now that Pavone...
View ArticleA VIEW THROUGH A SLOT
Italian jazz is a reality on its own, due to its caustic humor, the folkish way it uses melody, the liking for rhythm patterns, the cinematic perspectives and we could continue to bring arguments to...
View ArticleEGO KILLS (LP available soon)
Two years ago, before the Apocalypse, the first album of this same project was presented as Olie Steidle & The Killing Popes. Something changed in the works of the pandemic virus: the personnel is...
View ArticleO QUE JÁ IMPORTA
Moving through to the most eloquent part of an axis where a broader repertoire meets blues guitar inspired music, ‘O Que Já Importa’ represents above all an autobiographical departure: a standpoint of...
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