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Samo Salamon & Friends: Almost Alone Vol 1
by Glenn Astarita
To keep the train on the track during the Covid lockdowns, artists must think outside the box. Such is the case with this first volume of duets performed by renowned Slovenian guitarist Samo Salamon and European guitarists via the Internet by using web-based meeting programs and file-sharing processes. And besides performing on acoustic and electric guitars, Salamon incorporates a Moog synth on several tracks, largely used for textural backdrops. He also uses the body of his acoustic as a percussion ...
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by Hrayr Attarian
Slovenian guitarist Samo Salamon is as prolific as he is innovative. His restless explorations have resulted in a large, versatile discography that ranges from the orchestral to the free flowing with a variety of ensembles. His 2020 release Almost Alone Vol. 1 is a set of eleven duets each with a different international guitarist. It is the first in a planned three-record series. Every track features a different set of motifs yet the eloquent lyricism of the dialogues ...
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by Anthony Shaw
Finnish guitarist Kalle Kalima has been making records of a distinctly off the wall hue since he started his professional career over 15 years ago in Helsinki. This orientation took him to study in Berlin where he has been based for the last decade. Working mainly with German musicians, he has seen success in Europe both as a cutting edge instrumentalist and composer, but surprisingly this latest album sees him working specifically with covers of country classics. Focusing particularly on ...
read moreKalle Kalima & K-18: Out to Lynch
by AAJ Italy Staff
Poche suggestioni tipicamente “nordiche" nel nuovo lavoro di Kalle Kalima, fulgido rappresentante di una sorta di new-age finnica, chitarrista vagamente visionario ormai da tempo residente nella sempre più attiva Berlino e innamorato quanto basta del mondo del cinema. Dopo il precedente lavoro ispirato ai film di Stanley Kubrik (Some Kubricks of Blood, divertendosi a storpiare il titolo di uno dei capolavori del jazz d'avanguardia (Out to Lunch di Eric Dolphy), ecco - con il suo quartetto K-18 - questo Out ...
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by Eyal Hareuveni
Berlin-based, Finnish guitarist Kalle Kalima continues to project his aural impressions of the world of movies. This time he focuses on the eccentric characters and locations from the films of David Lynch, following his abstractions of director Stanley Kubrick on Some Kubricks of Blood (TUM, 2009). Kalima is not attempting to re-score or rearrange the original soundtracks from these films. Instead, he exposes his feelings while watching these films, in some cases twenty years later, and filters these initial feelings ...
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by Glenn Astarita
Finnish guitarist Kalle Kalima uses the cinema as a platform for riding a wave of abstract impressionism. As this album title intimates, the premise is based on eccentric film director David Lynch's body of work. The band pulls quite a few punches on a per-track basis, spanning cantankerous minimalism, free jazz, and levitating sub-themes amid some abrupt crash-and-burn breakouts. The quartet seldom allows anyone to attain a comfort zone, but this isn't to say that the program is unfocused or ...
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by AAJ Italy Staff
Il chitarrista finlandese Kalle Kalima risiede da alcuni anni a Berlino ma è rimasto in stretto contatto con molti musicisti finlandesi coi quali è cresciuto, sotto l'ala protettiva del chitarrista Raoul Bjorkenheim. Questo progetto in quartetto dedicato alla follia visionaria del regista Stanley Kubrick gli consente di richiamare al suo fianco vecchi amici-rivali come il saxofonista Mikko Innanen, il bassista Teppo Hauta- aho e il fisarmonicista Veli Kujala, strumentista ben più arcigno del più celebre Kimmo Pojohnen. La fisarmonica utilizzata ...
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