Jazz Articles about Carlo Costa

About Carlo Costa

Album Review

When we think about a recording, we rarely consider its tactile qualities. We hear pulse, rhythm and momentum, the obvious physicality of sound. A rave, for example, can be experienced as much through the body as through the ears, its bass frequencies vibrating through bone and muscle. But the trio Earth Tongues approaches physicality from the opposite direction. On Phases, trumpeter Joe Moffett, tubist Dan Peck and percussionist Carlo Costa concern themselves not with overwhelming force but with minute sensation. ...

Album Review

Diaphane: München

by Mark Corroto
February 24, 2025

The quartet Diaphane lives up to its name, creating music marked by an exquisite delicacy of form. Yet, their sound is as dynamic as it is subtle --quiet and loud, minimal and intense, ethereal and robust. Longtime collaborators in ensembles such as Natura Morta and the Frantz Loriot Systematic Distortion Orchestra, Italian percussionist Carlo Costa and French-Japanese violist Frantz Loriot founded this free improvisation group with Swiss pianist Raphael Loher and German tubist Carl Ludwig Hübsch. Together, they have toured ...

Album Review

Håvard Volden / Carlo Costa: In the Wake

Read "In the Wake" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard

by Jakob Baekgaard
May 28, 2018

How would it sound if the American primitive guitar of John Fahey met the avant-garde of abstract jazz improvisation in the wilderness? Guitarist Håvard Volden and drummer Carlo Costa give the answer on their album In the Wake. The cover by Brooke Herr is an image of an abstract seascape that resides somewhere between the referential image and a manipulation that goes beyond the image. The same thing goes for the music that uses the recognizable sounds ...