Jazz Articles about Giovanna Pessi

About Giovanna Pessi

Album Review

Giovanna Pessi - Susanna Wallumrød: If Grief Could Wait

Read "If Grief Could Wait" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 7, 2012

Tra le numerose, non etichettabili sperimentazioni vocali tra classica, contemporanea, folk e pop che ECM sta promuovendo e mettendo in catalogo negli ultimi anni, questa a firma dell'arpista svizzera Giovanna Pessi e della cantante norvegese Susanna Wallumrød è sicuramente tra le più riuscite e interessanti. La Wallumrød, sorella del noto tastierista e compositore Christian, è cantante di stile e voce tipicamente nordiche - eterea la seconda, sospeso e rarefatto il primo - che si muove usualmente sui territori del pop ...

Extended Analysis

Giovanni Pessi / Susanna Wallumrod: If Grief Could Wait

by C. Michael Bailey
March 11, 2012

Giovanni Pessi, Susanna Wallumrod, Marco Ambrosini, Jane AchtmanIf Grief Could WaitECM2012 Manfred Eicher's Edition of Contemporary Music label (aka ECM) has three creative foci: “classical" music, jazz and folk music. The last of these is often overlooked in discussions of ECM, but folk music, particularly that of the colder European climes, makes up a potent part of the company's catalog. These three foci do not exist separately from one another. Instead, ...

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Album Review

Giovanna Pessi / Susanna Wallumrod: If Grief Could Wait

Read "If Grief Could Wait" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
February 3, 2012

There was a time when hard lines existed between genres, but they seem long gone when tenor John Potter and electronic composer Ambrose Field can create a very 21st century take on 15th century musical frameworks with Being Dufay (2009), while Norwegian keyboardist Jon Balke conjoins baroque string ensemble and Fourth World progenitor, trumpeter Jon Hassell into a century and culture-spanning Siwan (2009). It's no coincidence that both recordings are on ECM; with If Grief Could Wait, the German label ...