E LISBOA
With “E Lisboa”, French experimental rock quartet Hifiklub goes to the last consequences in the application of their collaborative program. They once again develop a project in the “home” of their own...
View ArticleANYTHING IS POSSIBLE
Larry Ochs quintet with trumpeter Nate Wooley, bassists Ken Filiano and Pascal Niggenkemper and drummer Harris Eisenstadt started with an intriguing ambition: to create soundscapes (landscapes with...
View ArticleLIVE AT THE BIRD’S EYE JAZZ CLUB
Getting to the core of the matter is what drives trumpeter Matthias Spillmann and his stage companions, Andreas Lang and Moritz Baumgärtner, in this CD recorded live. And this means to find the...
View ArticleEPISODES
It’s not the first time that contemporary classical music and jazz cross paths in a single project and it won’t be the last, but this “Episodes” come with a singular condition: it’s not something...
View ArticleCANÍCULA ROSA
At their second opus, the Portuguese trio The Selva use their previous trans-idiomatic concept to cover new ground. Instead of crossing classical chamber music atmospheres with African rhythmic...
View ArticleI AM THE ESCAPADE ONE
Double bassist and composer Carlos Bica has carved out a jazz niche for himself with his inventive style of lyrical-indie-jazz. Among the several musical projects he leads, his trio AZUL has become...
View ArticleA BRIGHTER SIDE OF DARKNESS
When does a duet means that the music is thinner than with a bigger ensemble? Well, when the duo in question isn’t the one formed by the Portuguese trumpeter Luís Vicente and the Luso-Catalan drummer...
View ArticleTHE OXYMOTHASTIC OBJECTAR
A philosopher, besides being a musician and a sound artist, German guitarist Nicola L. Hein continues to find different ways of integrating philosophical ideas into music and to create music as a form...
View ArticleEGO PILLS (LP)
The fact that Frank Mobus (leader of the band Roter Bereich and part of Carlos Bicaís Azul) is a member of The Killing Popes, and that this group founded by drummer Oli Steidle has Kalle Kalima,...
View ArticleEGO PILLS
The fact that Frank Mobus (leader of the band Roter Bereich and part of Carlos Bicaís Azul) is a member of The Killing Popes, and that this group founded by drummer Oli Steidle has Kalle Kalima,...
View ArticleARCANA
Formed by three of the most active protagonists of the new generation of experimental musicians in Portugal, the trio Não (“No” in English, a term chosen precisely because it should be used more...
View ArticleSTAR SPLITTER
Here is one more example of a musical project inspired in literature. Star Splitter, the duo by the multi-instrumentalists Gabriele Mitelli and Rob Mazurek, makes reference to a poem by Robert Frost,...
View ArticleSTAR SPLITTER (LP)
Here is one more example of a musical project inspired in literature. Star Splitter, the duo by the multi-instrumentalists Gabriele Mitelli and Rob Mazurek, makes reference to a poem by Robert Frost,...
View ArticleDISQUIET
There’s souls in the world who, no matter the distance between them, seem destined to meet: alto saxophonist Ilia Belorukov is from Saint Petersburg and drummer Gabriel Ferrandini has Lisbon as his...
View ArticleO CARRO DE FOGO DE SEI MIGUEL (LP)
Sei Miguel describes his new opus as «a strict asymmetric little vehicle inside a larger symmetric, and absolutely melodic, vehicle», and if you get confused by the rethoric he also says that, in...
View ArticleVOLÚPIAS
The Portuguese (but born in California 1986, from a Mozambican natural and a Brazilian of Italian heritage) drummer Gabriel Ferrandini is usually found in freely improvised music contexts (those, for...
View ArticleCHIASM
It’s difficult to say if it was Evan Parker who invited Jacob Anderskov’s trio Kinetics to start this new collaborative project or if the initiative came from the Danish pianist. The doubt results...
View ArticleAS WE SEE IT…
Here’s some fantastic music with an agenda, or more exactly, an entire program of action. Since the days of the researches developed by the likes of Globe Unity Orchestra and Chris McGregor’s...
View ArticleBEYOND US
Wonderful news, folks: Angles 9 are back. The modus operandi is the same as ever, enabling infinite possibilities: suggestive melodies and a vibrant rhythmic pulsion. You’re familiar with it by now,...
View ArticleLOVE SONG: POST RUINS
Here is the second opus of Luís Lopes’ project Love Song, the opposite of his (also) solo investigations of extreme guitar noise. The title, “Post-Ruins”, follows the idea that it’s always possible to...
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