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Kenton Loewen

François Houle: Insider Listening that Makes You Clever

by Kerilie McDowall
September 20, 2023

Canadians and local Vancouverites have been in awe at BC, Canada's prestigious regular rising star clarinetist François Houle's international ranking status. Houle creates brilliantly fascinating compositions and such clever, innovative work. He has released seven albums as a leader from 2022-2023 and has four more plus on the way. Incredibly he will have released 11 albums ...

Night's Quietest Hour

By Gordon Grdina

Label: Attaboygirl Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Longa Nahawand; Sala Min Shaaraha A​-​Thahab (Gold Streamed Down From Her Hair); Dulab Bayati; Lamma Bada Yatathanna (When She Begins To Sway); Hawj Erreeh (Violent Wind).

Resist

By Gordon Grdina

Label: Irabbagast Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Resist; Seeds; Varscona; Resist the Middle; Ever Onward.

Resist

By Gordon Grdina

Label: Irabbagast Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Resist; Seeds 11; Varscona; Resist the Middle; Ever Onward.

Resist the Middle

October 9, 2020

Album: Resist
By Gordon Grdina
Label: Irabbagast Records
Released: 2020
Duration: 8:27

Gordon Grdina Septet: Resist

by Mike Jurkovic
June 28, 2020

It takes a leap of unconditional faith to enter wholly the resistance. A mindset steadied for the long haul, readied for the next. On his third, integral, must-listen-to release of 2020, Canadian oudist/guitarist/composer Gordon Grdina grandly, darkly, intently, espouses all that and more. Hellbent on creating art as a political act, the sprawling, at times majestic ...

Gordon Grdina: Singular and Prolific

by Doug Collette
June 22, 2020

Gordon Grdina continues his singular and prolific career path with not one but two different recordings conducted with two separate musical ensembles. Accurate and vivid reflections of his eclectic mix of what is, in simplest terms, mainstream jazz, free/improv and Arabic music. Nomad Trio and Resist also build upon his background as protégé of jazz great ...

Pedro Melo Alves, Rich Halley and more

by Maurice Hogue
September 26, 2018

the sonorous tones of the double bass echo throughout this episode, highlighted by a double hit of Israeli bassist Shay Hazan with music from new releases by his quintet and sextet, Argentina's Juan Bayon as well as Tom Abbs, and Kyle Motl with Abbey Rader's West Coast Quartet. You'll hear tracks from new albums by Pedro ...

Gordon Grdina, Francois Houle, Kenton Loewen, Benoit Delbeq: Ghost Lights

by Neri Pollastri
August 28, 2018

Titolo decisamente evocativo dei contenuti musicali, quello assegnato a questo CD dal paritetico quartetto franco-canadese, perché il baluginare di suoni all'interno di atmosfere perlopiù soffuse richiama davvero scenari nei quali la luce si manifesta per poi sparire, in cicli mutevoli e cangianti. Ma non si scambi questo Ghost Lights per un lavoro astratto o ...