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Album Review

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

Read "Light As Never" reviewed by Mark Sullivan


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 Van Heertum's trumpet (along with his usual euphonium). Nils Økland sticks with Hardanger fiddle and Ingar Zach again provides percussion. The program's ...

Album Review

Nils Økland: Monograph

Read "Monograph" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Dopo un paio di album realizzati con la Rune Grammofon e diverse collaborazioni da sideman, Nils Økland realizza il suo primo lavoro in totale solitudine, Monograph , per la ECM. Musicista e compositore di grande raffinatezza e maestro dello strumento tradizionale norvegese per antonomasia, l'hardanger fiddle (antenato del violino), da sempre lambisce la scena jazzistica senza mai entrarci appieno. Espressione di grande sensibilità musicale che sa essere trasversale rispetto ai generi e alle epoche, senza soffermarsi, in fuga da etichette ...


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