Jazz Articles about Cora Venus Lunny

About Cora Venus Lunny

Album Review

Izumi Kimura & Cora Venus Lunny: Invisible Resistances

Read "Invisible Resistances" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
January 25, 2023

Take two of contemporary music's most versatile improvising musicians, give them free reign to play and something of real worth is likely to arise. That is the philosophy of Farpoint Recordings, an Irish label founded by Anthony Kelly and David Stalling in 2004. Their trust in pianist Izumi Kimura and violinist/viola player Cora Venus Lunny is well founded. Fearless performers both, they work in a wide variety of improvised, genre-fluid settings that draw variously from folk, jazz and beyond. On ...

Album Review

Izumi Kimura, Cora Venus Lunny, Anthony Kelly: Folding

Read "Folding" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
July 14, 2021

Inspired by environmental sounds in the townlands surrounding Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin, Folding brings together Irish sound artist Anthony Kelly and two of Ireland's preeminent contemporary musicians, Yokohama-born pianist Izumi Kimura and violinist Cora Venus Lunny, reunited here following their memorable performance at Improvised Music Company's Ban Bam festival in 2017. The song titles reflect the bucolic nature of this project, though there is plenty of passion in Kimura and Lunny's interplay. With his pristine recordings of the sea, wind, ...