BEETROOT & OTHER STORIES
Portuguese, violinist and violetist with parallel careers in erudite and experimental improvised music, besides dedications to fado and tango, Maria da Rocha has in “Beet Root & Other Stories” her...
View ArticleBLUE MOOD
Known primarily as a guitarist, Tyler Higgins’ skill as a multi-instrumentalist is very much on display in “Blue Mood” – with the late night feel of the album’s cinematic arrangements. This Atlanta...
View ArticleCLOSE UP
Singer/composer Sara Serpa releases Close Up, a conceptual album inspired by experimentation and changing identities Close Up, to be released March 16th 2018, via Clean Feed, presents Serpa’s new...
View ArticleASPERGER (Pre order, available May 18)
Video by Maurizio Chiavaro ALBUM CONCEPT: 5 suites. Every composition is inspired to one bad personality of Disney movies. Asperger is sequel of second album Infanticide, that is meant as a virtual...
View ArticleTONOW
ToNow is a contribution in music to the protests that took place at Standing Rock for much of 2016-2017 and remain ongoing. Four songs represent four different aspects: “Plains” (the landscape),...
View ArticleTRIO EXALTATION
Marty Ehrlich has released his first trio recording in many years, entitled “Trio Exaltation.” For this new trio concept, Ehrlich has called on bassist John Hébert and drummer Nasheet Waits. All three...
View ArticleWITH SOFIA JERNBERG
Trombone, piano and a drumkit with some extra percussive devices: this is the format chosen by Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø, Kjetil Jerve and Andreas Wildhagen for Lana trio, a Norwegian experimental band...
View ArticleOPUS FACERE
The Italian, but living in Sweden, saxophonist and clarinetist Alberto Pinton continues to explore the post-bop heritage of the Sixties with his new album, “Opus Facere”, stretching it to include what...
View ArticleSILVER BULLET IN THE AUTUMN OF YOUR YEARS
Chris Pitsiokos is indeed what everybody says about him: the most representative face of a new generation of musicians commited to change the New York jazz scene. Or the New York rock scene, because...
View ArticleTREEM
Klaus Ellerhusen Holm’s writing for the band Honest John may have the kind of ondulations and turnings you recognize from Anthony Braxton’s compositions, but the use of chamber music historical...
View ArticleTHE EXPLORER
Tell me what was your first love in music and I’ll tell you who you are. That’s what you could say about guitarist Asbjørn Lerheim, who played blues and rock before being interested in jazz and now...
View ArticlePAREDE
After concerts and recordings as Angles 10, Angles 9, Angles 8 and Angles 6, here is back the original Angles line-up, Angles 3. It was 2004 and for a gig at the Glenn Miller Cafe it’s mentor and...
View ArticleIMAGINARY BAND
The septet consisting of Lynn Cassiers (compositions, voice, electronics), Sylvain Debaisieux (soprano and tenor saxophone), Ananta Roossens (violin), Niels Van Heertum (euphonium), Erik Vermeulen...
View ArticleEXEGESIS
The name Fake Humans for the duo (yes, it’s a duo, even though sometimes it seems an entire orchestra) formed by Colin Fisher and Carl Didur may really be the most appropriate one, considering that...
View ArticleTHE EXPLORER (LP)
Tell me what was your first love in music and I’ll tell you who you are. That’s what you could say about guitarist Asbjørn Lerheim, who played blues and rock before being interested in jazz and now...
View ArticleLILI & MARLEEN
Guillermo Celano and Marcos Baggiani are outstanding personalities in the Amsterdam creative jazz and free improvised music scene, where they co-lead the project C.B.G (acronym for Celano/Baggiani...
View ArticleTOAD OF LIGHT (LP)
If you like the colorful atmospheres of the North European music of today, be it folk, pop, jazz or experimental, here is something special for you. And special because you can’t label it in any way:...
View ArticleAZUL IN LJUBLJANA
If you say Azul, you have to say Carlos Bica as well, hardly anyone in jazz is connected to a single band like the Portuguese with this unique trio featuring Frank Möbus on guitar and Jim Black on...
View ArticleOXY PATINA
In just a few years, Portuguese drummer Mário Costa became a serious case of success in the international jazz scene. We noticed him first playing in two key records to understand the rich reality of...
View ArticleTHE WINDUP
The title of this debut album from the band BeepHonk refers to the place where it all started in 2011: the Windup Space, in Baltimore. There, bassist Adam Hopkins organized weekly concerts through the...
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