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Charlotte Hug / Fred Lonberg-Holm: Fine Extensions

Read "Fine Extensions" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose


Viola and cello have coexisted in splendid harmony on the concert stage for hundreds of years, both instruments bolstering powerful orchestral settings for every composer, even before Haydn, Bach, Mozart and Beethoven employed violin and cello in compositions with vivid effect. What delights the inner ear, however, especially on the brazen Fine Extensions, is the fact that these instruments transcend all earlier sonic relationships between the strings. Locked in the embrace of a tonal adventure, jousting with one another, egging ...

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Charlotte Hug - Nina De Heney - Christian Jormin: Acoustic Electronics

Read "Acoustic Electronics" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Trio internazionale composto dagli svedesi Nina de Heney e Christian Jormin e dalla svizzera Charlotte Hug, la più nota grazie alle collaborazioni con John Butcher, Barry Guy, Phil Minton. Album per nulla facile, questo Acoustic Electronics: improvvisazione pura, prodotta e composta all'istante come si evince dalle note di copertina. Sonorità intriganti... melodie deflagranti che evolvono fino a disintegrarsi, poliritmie acustiche con qualche elemento di elettronica, ma con grande misura e parsimonia. Musica che scorazza tra la contemporanea colta e il ...

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Magda Vogel - John Wolf Brennan: Sculpted Sound

Read "Sculpted Sound" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Ardita opera di ricerca, Sculpted Sound è stato commissionato a John Wolf Brennan dallo Swiss Arts Concil Pro Helvetia ed è stato eseguito la prima volta a Londra il 5 giugno del 2000. Ha in seguito subito vari riarrangiamenti e viene presentato in questo CD del 2004 su una registrazione del 2001, nel quale alle 12 tracce del progetto originali, registrate in studion, ne vengono aggiunte altre tre, provenienti da live di analoga ispirazione. La poetica del lavoro è complessa, ...

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Charlotte Hug: Neuland (2001-2)

Read "Neuland (2001-2)" reviewed by John Eyles


In a relatively short time in London, Swiss violist Charlotte Hug (pronounced Hoog) made a big impression through her work at All Angels, with Tony Wren's Quatuor Accorde, at the Freedom of the City festival with Maggie Nichols & Caroline Kraabel and with the London Improvisers' Orchestra.She is somewhat renowned for performing in unusual venues. These have included ice caverns of the Rhone Glacier, and an acoustically insulated S&M torture chamber. Hug herself is a dramatic performer, strikingly ...


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