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Album Review

Hans Koch, Christine Abdelnour: FFlair

Read "FFlair" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
April 19, 2024

Quattro successivi episodi col medesimo titolo contrassegnati dai relativi numeri romani, svarianti dai sette ai diciassette minuti, compongono questo album, inciso a Biel / Bienne (città di cui Hans Koch è nativo, laddove Christine Abdelnour arriva da Parigi) nel gennaio 2023. Chi si attendesse un duo sassofonistico avrà di che sorprendersi, trattandosi di un intersecarsi largamente rumoristico delle due voci in cui emissione e timbriche dei rispettivi strumenti non trovano di fatto riscontro, se non nelle loro forme più estreme ...

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Two new releases on ezz-thetics

by John Eyles
September 26, 2023

In recent years the “revisited" series of albums on the ezz-thetics label has been so praised and successful that some jazz afficionados probably associate the label more with albums of classic Charlie Parker or Albert Ayler recordings than with releases of new music on the label. Nonetheless, as it has done for decades (in various guises--Hat Hut, Hat ART, Hat MUSICS, Hatology...) the label continues to release newly-recorded albums of contemporary music including jazz, improv, contemporary composition... The early catalogue ...

Album Review

Hans Koch / Frantz Loriot / Jonas Kocher: Stranger Becoming

Read "Stranger Becoming" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
February 10, 2023

The title says it all, Stranger Becoming. Not “becoming stranger," but Stranger Becoming as in unusual yet attractive or tasteful. That certainly is a perfect descriptor for the music generated by the trio of Hans Koch(clarinet), Frantz Loriot (viola), and Jonas Kocher (accordion). All three have a background in classical music which serves as the foundation for the sound of this session. From that cornerstone the trio delves into free improvisations on these six tracks. Their music is ...

Album Review

Hans Koch, Paul Lovens: Nephlokokkygia 1992

Read "Nephlokokkygia 1992" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
April 19, 2022

Registrato nel corso del tour in terra bulgara datato 1992 (quattro sezioni, ciascuna da una località diversa, la più lunga di poco meno di un quarto d'ora), questo prezioso album coglie all'opera due liberi improvvisatori mitteleuropei di comprovata fede e militanza come lo svizzero Hans Koch e il tedesco Paul Lovens, separati da un solo anno (1948 per il primo, 1949 per il secondo), che dall'alto del loro indiscusso magistero in materia confezionano una performance mossa, vivace, ricca di temperamento, ...

Album Review

Hans Koch & Paul Lovens: Nephlokokkygia 1992

Read "Nephlokokkygia 1992" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
May 24, 2021

This live recording from a tour through Bulgaria in 1992 begs the questions: why Bulgaria? and, most importantly, why are there not more recordings from Hans Koch and Paul Lovens? Nephlokokkygia or “CloudCuckooLand" is seeing the light of day for the first time as, during the pandemic year of 2020, Koch edited tape recordings of the duo's tour performances. The two musicians had performed together in large ensembles, such as X- Communication which was perhaps the genesis of Butch Morris' ...

Album Review

Hans Koch / Jacques Demierre: Incunabulum

Read "Incunabulum" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles
July 11, 2019

Although their discographies are both liberally sprinkled with duo recordings, this album seems to be the first time that the Swiss pair of reed man Hans Koch and keyboardist Jacques Demierre have recorded together as a duo. Both have been members of Insub Meta Orchestra and, for a period, were simultaneously in the ensemble long enough to be recorded together, on Archive#2 (Insubordinations, 2012). The eight tracks on Incunabulum (for some reason, the title describes any book printed in the ...

Album Review

Moodswing 3: Wegen Meines Beines

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 12, 2010

A documentare cosa succede nella musica improvvisata tedesca ci pensa il Goethe Institut di Roma, che invita un trio dedito alla sperimentazione piuttosto che allo swing evocato nel nome. Le bordate percussive di Paul Lovens sono una costante pronta ad esplodere in ogni momento, mentre la duttile voce di Sabina Meyer ed il clarone di Hans Koch, spesso intento anche a manovrare aggeggi elettronici, seguono linee improvvisative più sottili e meditate. È un discorso a tre completamente improvvisato, sorretto dall'ispirazione ...