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Straight from the first notes, reality blurs and form becomes fluid. On The Forward Process Belgian guitarist Kobe Van Cauwenberghe turns a literary notion of time into a working musical system. He sets his guitar alongside French saxophonist Sakina Abdou and English turntablist Mariam Rezaei on cycles that rarely resolve in the conventional sense. Under the moniker 1984--named after the birth year of the three protagonists, but with Orwellian echoes--the three traverse five pieces by Van Cauwenberghe intercut with three ...

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Kobe Van Cauwenberghe: Plays Anthony Braxton

Read "Plays Anthony Braxton" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
December 23, 2022

Works by Anthony Braxton appear occasionally in the repertoire of others, but it is exceptional for entire albums to be devoted to them. That is especially true for some of his later works. But Belgian guitarist Kobe Van Cauwenberghe looks to rectify that. He already has one such outing under his belt—Ghost Trance Solos (ATD, 2020)—but his ambition propels him even further on Ghost Trance Septet Plays Anthony Braxton, where his assembled crew gets to grips with four of Braxton's ...

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Kobe Van Cauwenherghe’s Ghost Trance Septet: Plays Anthony Braxton

Read "Plays Anthony Braxton" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
July 28, 2022

Why is it that we remember the past but not the future? That is a question which theoretical physicists are continually fascinated by. Think about it for a moment, we rely on our flawed individual observations to make judgements about the world. A few hundred years ago, Earth was definitely flat and, by further inspection, the sun most certainly revolved around said Earth. It required some distance, say a spaceship, to get a clear perspective. The same can be said ...