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Album Review

Eivind Aarset & Jan Bang: Snow Catches on her Eyelashes

Read "Snow Catches on her Eyelashes" reviewed by John Eyles


Although they had been collaborating since the early 90s, the first recording on which the Norwegian guitarist Eivind Aarset and American-born, Norway-resident Jan Bang appeared together was Bang's Pop Killer (Virgin, 1998). In the years since, Aarset and Bang have collaborated on many more albums, but this is the first to credit them as a duo. Particular high spots in their collaborations have included Bang's album on David Sylvian's label ...and Poppies from Kandahar (Samishadsound, 2010), Aarset's Dream Logic (ECM, ...

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Live Review

Parma Jazz Frontiere 2016

Read "Parma Jazz Frontiere 2016" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro


Parma Jazz Frontiere 2016 Casa della Musica, Teatro Regio, Palazzo Sanvitale Parma 18-20.11.2016 Anche quest'anno abbiamo scelto il sottofinale (cioè il penultimo week-end) per compiere il nostro annuale pellegrinaggio, sempre gradito sia per la serietà della rassegna che per il fascino della città, a Parma in occasione della rassegna diretta ormai da ventun anni da Roberto Bonati e portata avanti superando tutta una serie di intuibili difficoltà (ovviamente soprattutto di natura economica, ça va ...

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Live Review

Sidsel Endresen @ 60: Oslo, Norway, November 8-9, 2012

Read "Sidsel Endresen @ 60: Oslo, Norway, November 8-9, 2012" reviewed by John Kelman


Sidsel Endresen @ 60: A Special Birthday CelebrationNasjonal Jazzscene VictoriaOslo, NorwayNovember 8-9, 2012Turning 60 can mean different things to different people: for some, it's a time to think about slowing down, and for others, it's a time to kick into higher gear. In the case of jazz and improvising musicians, age seems to do nothing but accelerate their activities; just look at artists like guitarist Bill Frisell, saxophonist Evan Parker and pianist Chick Corea, three ...

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Extended Analysis

Sidsel Endresen & Stian Westerhus: Didymoi Dreams

Read "Sidsel Endresen & Stian Westerhus: Didymoi Dreams" reviewed by John Kelman


Sidsel Endresen & Stian WesterhusDidymoi DreamsRune Grammofon2012There was a time when a live performance was a one-time event; something experienced once by an audience, never to be experienced exactly that way ever again. Live recordings were costly affairs, and if the particular performance lined up for recording didn't turn out to be a great one--or if there were other factors involved, like a bad piano--well, the artist was, as they say, SoL. ...

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Interview

Sidsel Endresen: The Place to Be

Read "Sidsel Endresen: The Place to Be" reviewed by Adriana Carcu


Sidsel Endresen is one of those rare artists who, after covering a vast musical territory--in her case reaching across from the Nordic folk songs to the rich cultural heritage of Arabic, Chinese and the Japanese traditional singing--have created their own form of expression, and gradually perfected it into a new musical language. She uses her voice to process the immediate sonic environment into a musical presence that emerges like a new energy, both suave and highly technical, to meet and ...

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Album Review

Sidsel Endresen: One

Read "One" reviewed by John Kelman


While those around her were busy exploring the nexus of technology and conventional instrumentation at the 2006 Punkt Festival in Kristiansand, Norway, Sidsel Endresen was demonstrating just how much could be done with one unaltered human voice. One documents the advances she's made in stretching the potential of voice and articulation. It's a record that eschews, for the most part, conventions like melody, pulse and lyric. Still, despite its improvised nature, this brief 32-minute set is not without form or ...

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Album Review

Punkt / Sidsel Endresen / Jon Hassell: Live Remixes Vol. 1

Read "Live Remixes Vol. 1" reviewed by John Kelman


If there's any downside to Norway's intrepid Punkt Fest, it's the inherently restricted audience capable of participating in its profound experience. While performances from artists spanning the entire musical spectrum are almost always captivating, it's Punkt's premise of following each show with a Live Remix, where other musicians interact with radical manipulations of the music just heard. The musical laboratory of the Alpha Room, where the Live Remixes take place, is limited to fewer than 300 people, resulting in a ...


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