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Guy Klucevsek - Tales of a Well-Tempered Accordionist

Read "Guy Klucevsek - Tales of a Well-Tempered Accordionist" reviewed by Ludovico Granvassu


A heartfelt tribute to Guy Klucevsek, the gentle giant who unleashed his accordion onto Downtown, and beyond. Happy listening! Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Guy Klucevsek “Stolen Memories" Stolen Memories (Tzadik) 0:16 Host talks 5:49 Accordion Tribe “Chalk Dust" Live in Nijmegen 2002 ([Unreleased]) 7:34 Host talks 9:50 Alan Bern, Guy Klucevsek “Don't Let the Boogie-Man Get You" Notefalls (Winter and Winter) 11:32 Phillip Johnston, Guy Klucevsek “A ...

Album Review

Guy Klucevsek, Volker Goetze: Little Big Top

Read "Little Big Top" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Grande interprete della fisarmonica ed eccellente compositore, capace di attingere da tutte le tradizioni musicali, Guy Klucevsek ha il merito di aver affrancato lo strumento da un ruolo marginale, proponendolo autorevolmente nel jazz, nella contemporanea, nell'avanguardia e nell'improvvisazione, collaborando con rappresentanti di primo piano di tutti gli ambiti. In questo lavoro, nato per sollecitazione del trombettista Volker Goetze, lo troviamo “a casa": il lavoro, infatti, è registrato proprio nella residenza del musicista, a State Island, e vede il quartetto che ...

Album Review

Guy Klucevsek: The Multiple Personality Reunion Tour

Read "The Multiple Personality Reunion Tour" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Guy Klucevsek, statunitense di radici slave, è tra i più poliedrici fisarmonicisti in attività, capace di passare dalla musica folk alla contemporanea, di collaborare con il Kronos Quartet e Anthony Braxton, con Dave Douglas e un quintetto di fisarmoniche, con Laurie Anderson e John Zorn, registrando con etichette prestigiose come la Tzadik e la Winter&Winter. Una poliedricità messa pienamente a frutto in questo album, che la richiama già dal titolo e la concretizza nelle tredici, variegatissime tracce, prodotto della collaborazione ...

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Album Review

Guy Klucevsek: Dancing on the Volcano

Read "Dancing on the Volcano" reviewed by Sean Patrick Fitzell


With good reason, Guy Klucevsek is considered one of the preeminent accordionists in new music. Firmly grounded in tradition, he can play all the styles associated with the instrument with a dizzying facility: fleet melodic runs, droning harmonic accompaniment and solid rhythmic support. No mere technician, Klucevsek's also a dynamic improviser--a quick-witted, deep listener, able to find and express a tune's essence. Dancing on the Volcano collects music commissioned for dance and silent film, in addition to other originals, and ...

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Album Review

Guy Klucevsek & Alan Bern: Notefalls

Read "Notefalls" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


It is almost like a joke, “What do you get when you cross two accordionists? In this case, Notefalls. Accordionists Guy Klucevsek and Alan Bern join forces for this unique duet recording where the two alchemists eutect church organs, bagpipes and pianos in an extravaganza that licks every corner of the musical planet.

The disc opens with a two-part suite, “Deep Blue C, where Klucevsek and Bern evoke medieval church music blended with Polish wedding music and Zydeco. ...

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Guy Klucevsek - Alan Bern: Notefalls

Read "Notefalls" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Con il suo approccio rigoroso e la sua infinità curiosità, Guy Klucevsek ha senza dubbio contribuito ad affrancare la fisarmonica dai limitanti stereotipi del folklore. John Zorn, Fred Frith, Dave Douglas, Bill Frisell, Anthony Braxton, Pauline Oliveros, Aaron Jay Kernis, Alvin Lucier: la lista delle collaborazioni è quanto mai prestigiosa e variegata. In oltre un ventennio di carriera l’irrefrenabile musicista americano ha collezionato esperienze nell’avanguardia contemporanea, nell’improvvisazione, ha scritto e interpretato partiture per spettacoli di danza, rappresentazioni teatrali (con una ...

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Album Review

Guy Klucevsek: The Well-Tampered Accordion

Read "The Well-Tampered Accordion" reviewed by Andrew Durkin


I got one of my first impressions of the social status of the accordion from an article that appeared twenty or so years ago in Time magazine. The writer decried'--in laughable terms'--the “menace'? of the instrument, the sound of which he found abhorrent, given all its usual associations with the (underrated) genre of the polka. I can't remember many of the details of the piece, other than a vague sense that it was probably a response to the accordion's contemporaneous ...


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