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Sara Serpa & André Matos: Night Birds
by Katchie Cartwright
Night Birds, singer Sara Serpa and guitarist André Matos' third album together, offers an ethereal program of compositions written by the duo, separately and together. They are joined on various tracks by Brooklyn-based pianist-composer Dov Manski, South Korean avant-garde cellist Okkyung Lee, Swedish experimental singer Sofia Jernberg, Portuguese drummer João Pereira, and their young son Lourenço. The album concludes with a Béla Bartók bagatelle. To begin with the intriguing closer, the Bartók is performed quite simply, twice, with ...
read moreAria - Tempo Reale Festival 2023
by Neri Pollastri
Aria--Suoni e musica di ricerca Limonaia di Villa Strozzi Firenze 14-15.6.2023 Nel suggestivo spazio della Limonaia di Villa Strozzi, il tradizionale appuntamento fiorentino con la rassegna Aria, organizzata da Tempo Reale, il Centro di Ricerca Produzione Didattica Musicale fondato da Luciano Berio e diretto da Francesco Giomi, si è articolato quest'anno su due serate e tre concerti che coniugavano musica la elettronica e l'improvvisazione in tre fogge assai diverse: il duo, il sestetto e ...
read moreOkkyung Lee & Phil Minton: Anicca
by John Eyles
Following previous Dancing Wayang releases from the duo of John Edwards and Chris Corsano, and a solo release from Mats Gustaffson (with another from Peter Evans in preparation), the label continues its successful series of freely improvised music with this first recorded meeting of vocalist Phil Minton and cellist Okkyung Lee, recorded at Eastcote Studios in May 2009. As always with the label's releases, Anicca is released as a limited edition on 180gram vinyl, in a beautiful, hand screen-printed, wraparound ...
read moreOkkyung Lee - Peter Evans - Steve Beresford: Check for Monsters
by AAJ Italy Staff
Registrato fra New York e Philadelphia, Check for Monsters è figlio di un tour del 2008 che ha portato a spasso il trio anglo-coreano-americano formato da Steve Beresford, che non abbisogna presentazioni, Okkyung Lee, giovane violoncellista sempre più invischiata in situazioni intriganti, e Peter Evans, autentico virtuoso della tromba (leggi la recensione del doppio in solo (!) da poco pubblicato dalla PSI di Evan Parker, Nature/Culture) e membro di quei Mostly Other People Do the Killing che sono tra le ...
read moreGive The Cellist Some: Okkyung Lee / Daniel Levin / Peggy Lee / Alexander von Schlippenbach
by Clifford Allen
The cello has become somewhat like the bass clarinet in jazz--there are a significant number of practitioners on the instrument, yet it still wears the flag of rarity quite proudly. Even if it hasn't been prominent, the instrument still has a long history in jazz, most notably beginning with Oscar Pettiford and Calo Scott in the Fifties and continuing with players like Joel Freedman, Abdul Wadud, Muneer Al Fatah, and Alan Silva in the Sixties, Seventies and Eighties. Four recent ...
read moreOkkyung Lee: Nihm
by Celeste Sunderland
Each of the ten tracks on Okkyung Lee's debut album sounds completely unique. Yet as Lee's cello and Doug Wieselman's clarinets fade away together--and Tim Barnes' and John Hollenbeck's percussion, mixed with Ikue Mori's electronics, rattle in an at times magical, at times frightening clamor--each track opens into the next with complete ease. Nihm undulates between psychological mayhem and organic serenity.As a composer, Lee has the fearless ability to conjoin myriad textures, creating pieces of music with scarce ...
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