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Nick Dunston: Colla Voce

by John Sharpe
One thing you can expect from a Nick Dunston leadership date is the unexpected. After Atlantic Extraction (OOYH, 2019), Spider Season (OOYH, 2022) and Skultura (Fun In Church, 2023), Colla Voce is something else again. Although an in-demand bassist in adventurous contemporary circles, as evidenced by stints with trumpeter Dave Douglas, guitarist Mary Halvorson and drummer Tyshawn Sorey, as a composer Dunston ranges even more widely. Assembled from sessions in Berlin and NYC, Dunston calls on a 13-strong ...
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by Mark Corroto
Composer and bassist Nick Dunston's Colla Voce -"with the voice" -is a chamber construction which he describes as an Afro-surrealist anti-opera that operates in the concept of an individual experience, as opposed to a collective one. By that he asks, what if the blue that I see is not that same blue that you see?" His caveat is that each listener's experience may differ. Historical examples of this phenomenon are Igor Stravinsky's 1913 premiere of The Rite of ...
Continue ReadingMax Andrzejewski's Hütte: Hütte & Guests Play the Music of Robert Wyatt

by Jerome Wilson
Robert Wyatt is a unique figure in modern music. He came out of Canterbury, England's music scene in the 60s, gaining his first notoriety as drummer and singer with the jazz-inclined rock band, The Soft Machine. In the 70's he briefly led a more experimental jazz-rock outfit, Matching Mole, and then moved on to a solo career before falling out of a window in 1973, an accident which has left him confined to a wheelchair ever since. His drumming days ...
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