Results for "Michel Doneda"

Michel Doneda

Born: January 21, 1954

Murmuration (Doneda & Frangenheim)

By Michel Doneda

Label: FMR Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Logik der Verausgabung; Expansion Sans Division; Formations; Syncronised Mirrors; Areas; Singular Movements.

Michel Doneda & Alexander Frangenheim: Murmuration (Doneda & Frangenheim)

by John Eyles
April 2, 2024

Murmuration is the fruit of a long collaboration between the German double bassist Alexander Frangenheim and French saxophonist Michel Doneda. Born in Wuppertal in 1959, Frangenheim has a varied history, as illustrated by past appearances with the Cecil Taylor Ensemble and the Cecil Taylor Workshop Ensemble during Taylor's renowned 1988 residency in jny:Berlin, and also as ...

NAIL in Ulrichsberg

Label: Concepts of Doing
Released: 2023
Track listing: Tack: Shank; Sinker; Encore.

Path Under

Label: Micro-label
Released: 2022
Track listing: 1; 2; 3; 4; 5.

Michel Doneda: Path Under

by John Eyles
February 21, 2022

Artist Cécile Picquot's micro-label releases limited editions of fifteen copies of improvised music, each of them housed in a unique numbered cardboard cover hand-painted and signed by Picquot. Although such items go like hot cakes and are hard to find, the musicians have access to more plainly dressed copies. Path Under is French saxophonist Michel Doneda's ...

Miracle

By Pascal Battus

Label: Potlatch Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Miracle en pointillé; En dérive; Imprononçable; Natte; Herméneutique.

KORR: Tombé de la voûte

by Mark Corroto
May 26, 2021

Let's face the truth of free improvisation. It is a hit-and-miss endeavor. Three musicians starting from naught and trying to create something, something from nothing. If the musicians are seasoned, maybe they fall back on clichés and stock phrasings, that approach being the banal equivalent of nothing. When improvisers hit upon something fresh it ...

Insufficient Funs: Insufficient Funs

by Ian Patterson
January 12, 2017

An original name, if not quite such an original concept. Saxophone and drum duets used to be as rare as the proverbial hen's teeth, with John Coltrane and Rashied Ali's 1960s collaboration always the benchmark. In recent years, however, this striking duo combination has seen something of a boom. Charles Lloyd and Billy Higgins; Dave Rempis ...

A Madman’s Approach To Music And Why Can't Music Be Like A Tree?

by Duncan Heining
March 18, 2015

"Art alone makes life possible." --Joseph Beuys. The Glasgow Improvisers' Orchestra is unique. It's an over-used word, I know, but in this case fully justified. GIO are unique in so many ways--in the way they formed, the way they make decisions, in their make-up, how they work and most importantly how they sound. They ...