Jazz Articles about Boris Savoldelli

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Album Review

Boris Savoldelli: Extrasensorial Songs

Read "Extrasensorial Songs" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri
June 9, 2026

Un vero e proprio esperimento artistico, questo Extrasensorial Songs di Boris Savoldelli: il cantante e compositore ha chiesto all'Intelligenza Artificiale di comporre dei testi ispirati alle modalità di scrittura di James Joyce e William Burroughs, dopodiché li ha utilizzati come ispirazione per una sessione musicale quasi interamente improvvisata, accompagnato da Stefano Zeni al violino e all'elettronica (come lo stesso Savoldelli), Roberto Gorgazzini alle tastiere e Alberto Olivieri alla batteria. La singolare interazione dà vita a un lavoro sospeso ...

Liner Notes

Dwiki Dharmawan: Pasar Klewer

by John Kelman
May 10, 2023

Indonesian keyboard star Dwiki Dharmawan returns following his 2015 MoonJune Records debut, the more fusion-heavy So Far, So Close, with the even more ambitious Pasar Klewer. This vibrant, acoustic piano-driven two-CD set features the cream of Britain's younger expat crop, blending with Indonesian musicians to create a passionate, seamless cultural cross-pollination. Bassist Yaron Stavi and drummer/percussionist Asaf Sirkis form the core trio with Dharmawan, while reed multi-instrumentalist Gilad Atzmon, Gamelan musical virtuoso Aris Daryono and guitarists Nicolas Meier ...

Album Review

Beledo: Seriously Deep

Read "Seriously Deep" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki
April 2, 2022

Beledo's second MoonJune release flows through the listener's ears like the cinematic adaptation of an epic novel, but in sound. Seriously Deep quite deliberately moves from scene to scene (song to song), building up and releasing tension in music that sounds much too powerful and deep to have been primarily created by only three musicians: Uruguayan multi-instrumentalist Beledo on electric guitar and acoustic piano with drummer Kenny Grohowski and master bassist Tony Levin. Within each song, this movement consists of ...

Album Review

Dwiki Dharmawan: Hari Ketiga

Read "Hari Ketiga" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
December 26, 2020

Hari Ketiga is presented as a logbook of a voyage from the Earth to the moon, and beyond, to contact with music from distant planetary systems—a sprawling outer space improv opera as dense and difficult to fathom as Frank Herbert's first three Dune novels, or Samuel Delany's Dhalgren. It began simply enough: Leonardo Pavkovic assembled a group of musicians that included Indonesian pianist Dwiki Dharmawan and three mainstays from from his Moonjune Records roster—vocalist Boris Savoldelli, Touch Guitar ...

Album Review

Dwiki Dharmawan: Pasar Klewer

Read "Pasar Klewer" reviewed by Dave Wayne

by Dave Wayne
January 7, 2017

Another day, another two- disc set. Or so it seems. Fortunately, one does not have to wade through Dwiki Dharmawan's Pasar Klewer. Despite some odd choices in track sequence one may even wonder ..."is that all?" after the second disc has finished its spin. Dharmawan is an Indonesian jazz pianist who, like so many of his countrymen, has found a rich vein of inspiration in the folk and ethnic musics of his native land. It's worth noting that Dharmawan is ...

Take Five With...

Take Five with Boris Savoldelli

by AAJ Staff
May 5, 2016

About Boris Savoldelli: Boris is a vocal performer with a brilliant personality. He's always been in love with his “vocal instrument" and its extraordinary possibilities. He loves to find different original ways of singing, due to his eclectic background, from classical studies to jazz singing (thanks to his mentor Mark Murphy), passing from funk-rock to avant-garde experimental approaches. Boris Savoldelli has performed solo and in various projects all around the world, with over 250 performances in over 120 ...

Lyrics

I 10 CD nel Cd-player di... Boris Savoldelli

by Vincenzo Roggero
December 24, 2014

01. SimakDialog -The 6th Story (Moonjune Records -2013). Band indonesiana del pianista e bandleader Risha Arshad, un caro amico e meraviglioso musicista/compositore. Un ensemble musicale, prodotto dalla mia stessa etichetta newyorkese, portatore di un originale formula che può ricordare un certo Miles elettrico con, in più, un gusto orientale dettato dalla presenza in formazione di ben tre percussionisti di Gamelan. Ci siamo appena incontrati in ben due festival in Cina e ci siamo divertiti un sacco... forse qualcosa insieme ...