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Sergio Armaroli: Introducing A Very Heavy Person, First Visit

Read "Introducing A Very Heavy Person, First Visit" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri
June 2, 2026

Sulla scorta del suo amore e dei suoi studi su John Cage, Sergio Armaroli raccoglie attorno a sé un quintetto di straordinari musicisti per ricreare (non sapremmo in quale altro modo definire questa che è ben più di una rilettura) uno spettacolo radiofonico che il visionario musicista statunitense mandò in onda il 31 maggio 1942, musicando il radiodramma di Kenneth Patchen The City Wears a Slouch Hat. All'epoca Cage illustrò le scene del radiodramma --una serie di incontri ...

Album Review

Paul Dunmall: Here Today Gone Tomorrow

Read "Here Today Gone Tomorrow" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
December 10, 2025

Much improvised music may be ephemeral, but Here Today Gone Tomorrow, captures British saxophonist Paul Dunmall's long-standing quartet at a peak of collective lucidity. Featuring pianist Liam Noble, bassist John Edwards and drummer Mark Sanders, the ensemble works through three slabs of unapologetic free jazz that display the rare assurance of a band that has put in its time together. Over the years they have honed such rapport that, in a feature which distinguishes ...

Album Review

Gabriele Mitelli Three Tsuru Origami: Colapesce

Read "Colapesce" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
August 4, 2025

The second release from Gabriele Mitelli's Three Tsuru Origami ensemble shifts from the literal to the symbolic, expanding both in concept and personnel. Their debut, Three Tsuru Origami (We Insist!, 2022), was a meditation on birds and migration. This follow-up, Colapesce, draws inspiration from the 12th-century Sicilian legend of a half-man, half-fish who sacrifices himself to save his island. The tale, a fixture of Mediterranean folklore, resurfaced in pop culture through the 1964 film The Incredible Mr. Limpet, in which ...

Liner Notes

Sergio Armaroli Quintet: Follow A Very Heavy Person

by Mark Corroto
May 24, 2025

Time, as a concept, transforms into an endless playground in the hands of Sergio Armaroli. In Follow A Very Heavy Person, the quintet expands upon the foundations laid in Introducing A Very Heavy Person, delving deeper into the sonic and philosophical dimensions of John Cage and Kenneth Patchen's 1942 experimental radio play, The City Wears A Slouch Hat. Emerging from the same recording session, this second volume extends and reinvents its predecessor's exploration of simultaneity, improvisation and the ephemeral nature ...

Liner Notes

Sergio Armaroli: Introducing A Very Heavy Person, First Visit

by Mark Corroto
April 13, 2025

If you reject the assumption that time is linear, the ability to conceive of a time machine is simple. Assume for this discussion that the concepts of past, present, and future are a false dichotomy. In other words, the past and the future simultaneously occur with the present. Composer and percussionist Sergio Armaroli accepts this premise and his quintet accomplishes a rather time-less travel through twelve tracks. Let's back up a bit. In his career, Armaroli has been ...

Album Review

John Dikeman, Pat Thomas, John Edwards, Steve Noble: Volume 2

by John Sharpe
January 16, 2024

An incendiary outfit returns for a second volume (perhaps the second set?) of free jazz mayhem from London's Cafe Oto, recorded in February 2019. It comprises four players, each with a big sound, regardless of amplification, and a big personality to match--Amsterdam-based American John Dikeman, on tenor saxophone, and the British threesome of Pat Thomas (hailed by drummer Tyshawn Sorey as one of the best in the world, following their duet in the 2023 London Jazz Festival) on piano, John ...

Album Review

The Remote Viewers: This Strange Place

Read "This Strange Place" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles
June 30, 2023

South London group The Remote Viewers first came together as a three-sax unit in 1997 when it comprised Adrian Northover, David Petts and Louisa Petts, who all played saxophones, with both Petts playing synths, and Louisa singing. Their first album, Low Shapes in Dark Heat (Leo Lab, 1998) was studio-recorded by the Petts. Of its twelve tracks, nine were Petts compositions, the others were by Sun Ra, Armando Sciascia, and Ervin Drake. Subsequent albums included compositions by David Bowie, Portishead, ...