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Lina Allemano: The Diptychs
by Giuseppe Segala
Di origine canadese, la trombettista Lina Allemano distribuisce la propria attività artistica tra le scene di Toronto e Berlino, manifestando significative sfaccettature di un'attitudine che spazia con spregiudicato talento in vari ambiti della musica e dell'improvvisazione di oggi. Il quartetto protagonista di questo The Diptychs è la sua realizzazione più longeva e la più prolifica in termini di CD pubblicati. Il primo documento registrato dalla formazione, uscito come tutti i suoi lavori con l'etichetta autogestita Lumo Records, risale al 2006. ...
Continue ReadingLina Allemano Four: The Diptychs
by Mark Corroto
Lina Allemano Four's The Diptychs presents three pairs of compositions, inspired by the visual art concept of placing two panels side by side. Just as diptychs in painting create meaning through contrast and dialogue, Allemano's music fashions reciprocal, interdependent sound worlds within each pair. A restless and inventive presence, Allemano splits her time between Toronto and Berlin. Trained in both classical and jazz trumpet, she leads the electric power trio Ohrenschmaus, the pseudo-psychedelic improvising quartet Titanium Riot, and ...
Continue ReadingLina Allemano Four: The Diptychs
by Troy Dostert
Maintaining its biennial release pattern going back to 2021's Vegetables (Lumo Records) and 2023's Pipe Dream (Lumo Records), The Lina Allemano Four once again strikes gold with The Diptychs, another of the group's ventures into its signature territory. With artful, multilayered themes that generate nuanced four-way dialogues, this is music born of the close collaboration that trumpeter Allemano has long championed, and her most accomplished working band is once again in top form. Built around six relatively compact ...
Continue ReadingLive From Berlin: Lina Allemano, Jonas Westergaard & Lisa Wulff
by Martin Longley
Lina Allemano/Uli Kempendorff/Jonas Westergaard/Nathan Ott Kunstfabrik Schlot Berlin, Germany March 24, 2025 Johann Greve is lately running a monthly Schlot Session at this lesser-known (but wonderful) basement jazz club in the Mitte part of town, open since 1993 (originally in Prenzlauer Berg, but shifting here in 2000). It's quite spacious for such a joint, with many tables for quaffing and nibbling snack bar-bites. The stage is well-placed in its sight-lines, and even ...
Continue ReadingPeter Van Huffel's Callisto: Meandering Demons
by Glenn Astarita
Peter Van Huffel, the Canadian-born saxophonist and composer, has long been a force to reckon with in the avant-garde jazz scene. Known for his work with bands like Gorilla Mask and his various collaborations with other innovative musicians, Van Huffel has consistently pushed the boundaries of jazz, incorporating elements of free improvisation, rock and classical music. His previous albums, such as Boom Crane (Fresh Sounds New Talent, 2014) and The Scrambling Ex (FMR, 2015), displayed his fearless approach to composition ...
Continue ReadingPeter Van Huffel’s Callisto: Meandering Demons
by Alberto Bazzurro
Quartetto geograficamente misto, quello diretto dal quarantaseienne (quasi) baritonista canadese Peter Van Huffel, con una trombettista italo-canadese, un pianista greco e un batterista tedesco. Molto coesa, compatta, illuminata (e guidata) da un'idea forte è peraltro la musica contenuta in quest'ottimo album, inciso a Berlino nell'ottobre 2022. L'idea di cui sopra si deve certamente al leader (tutti suoi i brani, ciò che con una buona lente d'ingrandimento riuscirete a leggere, blu su nero...), ma la coesione del quartetto Callisto fa sì ...
Continue ReadingLina Allemano, Thomas Agergaard & Bacchanalia Orchestra
by Maurice Hogue
Canadian trumpeter Lina Allemano says she started writing canons as a fun and challenging compositional game of sorts; eventually the fun and games morphed into her latest album, Canons , where she's accompanied by a varying cast of characters. On the track chosen for this show Lina is joined by trombonist Matthias Müller. Danish saxophonist Thomas Agergaard found his inspiration for Narrrations in the uncertainty of recent observations about UFOs, while Amsterdam's Bacchanalia Orchestra undoubtedly just looks at the name ...
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