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Kirke Karja / Étienne Renard / Ludwig Wandinger: Caught In My Own Trap

Read "Caught In My Own Trap" reviewed by John Sharpe


Estonian composer Arvo Pärt developed a style he termed tintinnabulation, because of its resemblance to pealing bells. While pianist Kirke Karja doesn't use the same technique as her esteemed countryman, the sustained resonances of her playing on “Caught In My Own Trap “often suggests trouble in the belfry. That is certainly the case on “Take My Tender Heart," the first number on the wonderful album by the cosmopolitan trio of Karja, French bassist Étienne Renard and German drummer Ludwig Wandinger. ...

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Anastasios Savvopoulos Azure: Ebbs And Flows

Read "Ebbs And Flows" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Quartetto atipico per strumentazione—sax, pianoforte, chitarra e batteria, ma senza contrabbasso—e per nazionalità—due tedeschi e due greci—questo Azure è diretto dal chitarrista Anastasios Savvopoulos, che ne firma anche le nove composizioni, tutte venate di una narratività melodica, ma al tempo stesso anche molto aperte, destrutturate, virtuosamente sbilenche. Ad aprire è la suite bipartita che presta il nome all'album, “Ebbs and Flows": la prima parte, più intensa, vede protagonista il sax tenore di Peter Ehwald, dal suono morbido ed ...


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