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Muta: Bricolage

Read "Bricolage" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

La flautista calabrese Alessandra Rombolà, l'arpista gallese Rhodri Davies e il percussionista norvegese Ingar Zach, tutti discreti giramondo, compongono il trio Muta, di cui questo Bricolage (titolo assai emblematico) è stato inciso nell'aprile 2009 ed è edito dalla libanese Al Maslakh. Vi convivono in sostanziale equità (e simbiosi) rumorismo ed elettronica, lungo tracciati marcatamente sperimentali a cui i flauti della Rombolà conferiscono, a spot, un minimo di umanizzazione. Al di là di un'idea sicuramente forte, e anche lodevole, non si ...

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Album Review

Ingar Zach - Ivar Grydeland: Visiting Ants

Read "Visiting Ants" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita

Norwegian improvising musicians drummer Ingar Zach and electric guitarist Ivar Grydeland engage in some acerbic, scrappy dialogue throughout these free-style exchanges. Here, the music expands and contracts amid the duo's abundance of abbreviated motifs. With “Sofamiliar," the drummer conjures up steely-edged sounds via his arsenal of cymbals, while on “First Visit," the guitarist's discordant phraseology complements Zach's polyrhythmic blitz. Grydeland also pursues a series of diametrically opposed angles, largely due to intermittent injections of succinctly stated chord developments, windswept EFX ...

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