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Instrument: Saxophone
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by John Sharpe
Bassist and composer Barry Guy combines a number of his passions on All This This Here in a stunning act of synthesis. For the third major work for his Blue Shroud Band, following its eponymous debut (Intakt, 2016) and Odes And Meditations For Cecil Taylor (Not Two, 2018), Guy sets to music Nobel winning playwright Samuel Beckett's last poem What Is The Word (in two versions, both the original French and the English translation, which bookend the program).
read moreTorben Snekkestad / Soren Kjaegaard / Tomo Jacobson: Spirit Spirit
by Dan McClenaghan
“I love the illusive, enigmatic nature of this material. Being in that space can perhaps leave the listener with the only obvious choice of just listening to what is rather than understanding any of it." Tomo Jacobson Polish-born, Copenhagen-based bassist Tomo Jacobson embraces a minimalist mode on his Spirit Spirit. The cover art is a looping line drawing on white; the music is spacious and calm, every note selected in the moment, with seeming great deliberation--although improvisation, by ...
read morePer Oddvar Johansen: The Quiet Cormorant
by Neri Pollastri
Collaboratore di alcuni dei più importanti musicisti scandinavi—da Trygve Seim a Christian Wallumrød fino alla giovane Mette Henriette—il batterista norvegese Per Oddvar Johansen è qui alla guida di un trio completato dai connazionali Helge Lien al pianoforte e Torben Snekkestad alle ance, che in due brani si allarga a quartetto con l'ingresso della chitarra di Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen, per mettere in scena musica, che ha pensato e composto durante un ritiro sulle solitarie coste nordiche. Il risultato è ...
read moreTorben Snekkestad / Agusti Fernandez / Barry Guy: The Swiftest Traveler
by John Sharpe
A trio of exploratory and quick-witted improvisers unite for an exciting and stimulating outing on The Swiftest Traveler. Norwegian reedman Torben Snekkestad and Catalan pianist Agusti Fernandez are comrades of bassist Barry Guy in his The Blue Shroud Band and also the 2020 edition of the London Jazz Composers Orchestra. The three familiars forge an alchemical transformation of disparate sounds into music, abstract in the sense of Miro rather than Pollock, in that its assembly hails from recognizable fragments.
read moreTorben Snekkestad: Winds Of Mouth
by Mark Corroto
The Homo sapien caveman picked up a goat's horn and blew some notes through it to entertain the Neanderthals, who had somehow, not paid the cover charge for the spring solstice show. No worries he thought, they'll soon be extinct, and I've just invented music. What the Neanderthals were fascinated with, was, just how did the caveman make those sounds? Same can be said of musician Torben Snekkestad's recording Winds Of Mouth. Actually, it's just one of three ...
read moreTorben Snekkestad & Barry Guy: Slip Slide And Collide
by Enrico Bettinello
Una musica del dettaglio, della sovrapposizione di brevi bagliori e schegge d'ombra. Si incontrano qui i sassofoni del norvegese Torben Snekkestad e il contrabbasso di Barry Guy, dentro tredici cellule di dialogo dichiarate della durata ciascuna di 2 minuti e 16 secondi, in realtà di durata variabile, ma prevalentemente brevi. Un “inganno" apparentemente insignificante, in realtà quasi un invito a una percezione temporale rigorosa. La violinista Maya Homburger parla, nelle note che accompagnano il disco, ...
read moreThe Living Room: Still Distant Still
by AAJ Italy Staff
Still Distant Still è l'album di debutto di un trio paritario formato dal sassofonista Torben Snekkestad, dal pianista Soren Kiaergaard, entrambi danesi, e dal batterista norvegese Thomas Stronen. Il sassofonista è noto sia per le sue performance con orchestre sinfoniche ed ensemble che operano nell'ambito della musica classica che per le sue frequentazioni con la scena impro europea (Barry Guy, Evan Parker su tutti). Il pianista, vincitore del prestigioso Danish Radio Jazz Price nel 2004, predilige collaborazioni al di là ...
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