LIVE AT THE BIMHUIS
The trio of Gonçalo Almeida, Martin van Duynhoven and Tobias Klein may present itself as a synthesis of «all kinds of adventurous music of the last 50 years» and that is true, but one in special comes...
View ArticleWEAVING A FABRIC OF WINDS
Can experimental electro-acoustic music have a folkish sensibility? Yes, it can, and the most accomplished case in point is given by “Weaving a Fabric of Winds”, the result of the partnership between...
View ArticleWEAVING A FABRIC OF WINDS (LP)
Can experimental electro-acoustic music have a folkish sensibility? Yes, it can, and the most accomplished case in point is given by “Weaving a Fabric of Winds”, the result of the partnership between...
View ArticleKNOTS
When considering the Chicago jazz scene today (and other associated genres), we have to name the precious contribution of guitarist and composer Tim Stine. Stine’s contributions are brilliantly...
View ArticleLITURGY OF THE BIRDS – IN MEMORIAM OLIVIER MESSIAEN
Portuguese pianist Daniel Bernardes studied both composition (with Emmanuel Nunes and Karlheinz Stockhausen) and jazz (with Carlos Barretto and João Paulo Esteves da Silva, two names of the Clean Feed...
View ArticleOUT FOR STARS
With the previous “Gledalec”, Slovenian pianist and composer Kaja Draksler found a gem to work on, and here is the continuation of that labour, now having the poetry of Robert Frost as both...
View ArticlePLAIN
The new installment in the ongoing series of New York centered recordings, this time with the stellar roster of Chris Speed, Herb Robertson, John Hébert and Tom Rainey, “Plain” is the new brilliant...
View ArticleAN EVENING IN HOUSTON
Patty Waters is a living legend and every record with her voice is, in consequence, a preciosity. Unanimously considered the main singer of the free jazz tendency since the release of her historical...
View ArticleINLAND EMPIRE
This is the happy result of the international partnership of one of America’s top pianists today, Kris Davis, with three of the most in demand musicians on the Scandinavian creative jazz scene;...
View ArticleBELIEVE, BELIEVE
It took some time (“Live in Madison”, the previous releaseof this Luso-American band, dates back from 2013), but here is the much expected fourth album by portuguese guitarist Luís Lopes’ Humanization...
View ArticleTHE PRIVATE SECTOR
TONED may be an electroacoustic trio, but if the term “electroacoustic” suggests something tame from the stodgy contemporary music spectrum, be warned: “The Private Sector” is a deconstructed...
View ArticleGRIDS
It may not seem that way – there’s a mix of soft rock-oriented and minimal atmospheres all along this record,sometimes making us think of the quietest instrumental moments conjured by Tame Impala or...
View ArticleFORAYS
Jean De Lacoste is simultaneously a musician and a video artist, but the approach he has to organized sounds and organized images seems reversed – his music, either when he plays the guitar or when he...
View ArticleTAKE ROOT AMONG THE STARS
“Take Root Among the Stars”, quoting the words of the great science fiction writer Octavia Butler, here is Roots Magic’s third installment for Clean Feed. Cut by the Italian quartet, here and there...
View ArticleYUN
The Mandarin word “Yun” means “Cloud” and it describes quite well the purposes of this new project lead by the Belgian singer Lynn Cassiers: the exploration by an electro-acoustic ensemble of the...
View ArticleMIND THE GAP OF SILENCE
In this new opus coming from Sweden, poly-saxophonist Martin Küchen joins the Landaeus Trio, not only adding his instruments to the band led by pianist Mathias Landaeus but also his immediately...
View ArticleSTRELL | The Music of Billy Strayhorn & Duke Ellington
The collective Who Trio commemorated 20 years of existence in 2018, by starting the project “Strell”, which only now has been committed to record. This was the time considered necessary for their...
View ArticleIN IGMA
Commissioned by the Portuguese Jazz no Parque series (Serralves Foundation, with Rui Eduardo Paes as the curator) in 2019, In Igma, the ensemble, and the opus now released, is a particularly...
View ArticleCONTINENTAL DRIFT
Can musicians of different generations be like-minded companions? Yes they can, at least when their names are Larry Ochs and Aram Shelton, the two composers and bandleaders of this quartet. As they...
View ArticleTEMPORARY PLACES
The most unanimously accepted definition of music is the one presenting it as “organized sound”. In a literal and unique way, that’s precisely what Nicolas Snyder offers us in his debut album,...
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