Results for "Aspen Edities"

Light As Never

Label: Aspen Edities
Released: 2022
Track listing: Playful; Ostinato; Light As Never; Affirms Nothing; Conway; First Notes; Echo.

A Short Story

By Ruben Machtelinckx

Label: Aspen Edities
Released: 2022
Track listing: Lessness; Towards the Redwood Curtain; Resemblance; Strands of Black Hair; Leaves, Birds and Grapes; Beek 2; Variation of Shadows; Sleepwalkers Forest; Beek; Stone Garden; Pines of Onoe; Dawning.

Linus + Økland/Van Heertum/Zach: Light As Never

by Mark Sullivan
August 19, 2022

Belgian duo Linus—Ruben Machtelinckx, guitar and banjo; Thomas Jillings, saxophone and clarinet—have been recording with additional musicians for several years. This grouping is the largest they have gathered together and revisits the one from the album Mono No Aware (Aspen Edities, 2017). It is rich instrumentation, expanded by Machtelinckx's additional baritone guitar, Jillings' synthesizer and Niels ...

Ruben Machtelinckx: A Short Story

by Mark Sullivan
May 23, 2022

In retrospect the meeting of Belgian guitarist & composer Ruben Machtelinckx and Norwegian trumpeter Arve Henriksen seems inevitable. They are both masters of delicacy and texture, as well as having distinctive and unusual sounds on their respective instruments. Machtelinckx composed most of the tunes, but these duets cast both players as equal contributors. It is a ...

Suura: Luwte

by Mark Sullivan
August 6, 2020

Suura is a Belgian band (Ghent based) formed by guitarist Nicolas Van Belle. Joined by double bassist Emanuel Van Mieghem, tenor saxophonist Reindert Spanhove and alto saxophonist Werend Van Den Bossche, they are an acoustic, chamber jazz quartet (no drums). Like other contemporary Belgian improvisational music—as documented by record labels like El Negocito Records and Aspen ...

Sualme

By Ruben Machtelinckx

Label: Aspen Edities
Released: 2019
Track listing: Mijnmwerker I; Vistrap; Low Organ I; Koers; Peloton; Krekels; Lieve Vrouwke; Short Sentence; Low Organ II; Paarden; Dewy; Rozebeke; Circular; Op De Purperen Hei; Mijnwerker II.

sea legs / hum back

By Shahzad Ismaily

Label: Aspen Edities
Released: 2019
Track listing: Sea Legs; Urlicht; Bowhead; Fugu; Martim.

let's drink the sea and dance

By Poor Isa

Label: Aspen Edities
Released: 2019
Track listing: oceanfuls; sill; the sun at two; elsewhere; izu; seagarden; noonstroom; shroud; sunday lemons.

Porous Structures

By Ruben Machtelinckx / Joachim Badenhorst / Bert Cools / Toma Gouband

Label: Aspen Edities
Released: 2019
Track listing: Structure 3; Mémoire; Structure 1; Sillage; Structure 4; Structure 6; Absence; Inconnue.

Ruben Machtelinckx / Joachim Badenhorst / Bert Cools / Toma Gouband: Porous Structures

by Mark Corroto
December 30, 2019

Is there such a thing as emo jazz? If not, then Ruben Machtelinckx's quartet has produced a new genre of creative and improvised music. We're not talking screaming post-punk guitars. Porous Structures is an acoustic affair that relies on delicate and sparse sounds. And maybe, just maybe, it's what the world needs now. Machtelinckx ...