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Joel Harrison: America at War

Read "America at War" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


"È tutta la vita che il mio paese conduce tragiche e futili invasioni straniere. Ho sentito che dovevo scrivere su questo fatto, infondere nella mia nuova musica la sua dolorosa eredità." Queste riflessioni aprono il nuovo disco di Joel Harrison, ritornato a sette anni di distanza da Infinite Possibility a guidare un ensemble orchestrale. La storia bellica degli Stati Uniti è piuttosto lunga: in 245 anni ha combattuto 123 conflitti militari vivendo solo 18 anni in completa pace. ...

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Ken Thomson and Slow/Fast: Settle

Read "Settle" reviewed by Dave Wayne


There are ways to get to know people really well, really quickly. Many of these fall under the general category: “challenge them, somehow." For a certain time of my life this meant: “go camping with them." Really. If you go camping with a group of people, you will find out a lot about them in a very brief time. Over the past decade or so, I've found that if you play really intense music with other musicians, you will also ...

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Ken Thomson and Slow/Fast: It Would Be Easier If

Read "It Would Be Easier If" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Il primo brano “Kleine Helmet," coglie di sorpresa perché da una front line con chitarra elettrica, sax/clarinetto basso e tromba, era difficile aspettarsi un sorta di pastorale del terzo millennio, un'atmosfera cameristica screziata da impercettibili irregolarità ritmiche - grande il lavoro di Fred Kennedy - che lascia l'ascoltatore con un senso di pace sospesa e sognante, ma con il pericolo dell'incubo dietro l'angolo. Chiaro segnale dell'andamento dell'intero album? Niente affatto, perché il successivo “Goddamn You Ice Cream Truck" è sporco ...

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Ken Thomson and Slow/Fast: It Would Be Easier If

Read "It Would Be Easier If" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


Ken Thomson, New York based saxophonist and composer, describes the music of Slow/Fast as “21st Century Third Stream." It's an apposite description, for it certainly brings together elements of jazz and classical music, but it underplays the third element of Slow/Fast's sound--the influence of rock. All four members of Slow/Fast, heard on the band's debut, It Would Be Easier If, have roots in rock music, and it's these roots that most clearly inform the excitement and aggression to be found ...


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