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Urs Leimgruber: AIR Vol. 2

Read "AIR  Vol. 2" reviewed by John Eyles


Released a year after the four-disc album AIR Vol. 1 (Creative Works Records, 2023) comes the three-disc AIR Vol. 2, which has a similar layout to the earlier release. Each disc of the four-disc album featured Swiss saxophonist Urs Leimgruber in a duo with a different player: American drummer Gerry Hemingway, Swiss pianist Hans Peter Pfammatter, Swiss amplified spinet player Jacques Demierre, German synthesiser player Thomas Lehn. Each disc of the three-disc follow-up does the same: French double bassist Joëlle ...

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Vellum: Glints

Read "Glints" reviewed by Mark Corroto


To mark John Butcher's 65th birthday in 2019, a series of concerts were held (mostly in Berlin) which produced five well-appointed limited editions of 300 LPs from the folks at Ni Vu Ni Connu. The varied albums include Induction a trio with Burkhard Beins and Werner Dafeldecker, La Pierre Tachée a duo with Sophie Agnel, Shaped & Chased a trio with Thomas Lehn and Gino Robair, Lamenti Dall'infinito a quartet with Liz Allbee, Ignaz Schick, and Marta Zapparoli, and Glints ...

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Das B: Canopy

Read "Canopy" reviewed by Mark Corroto


The free improvisational quartet Das B releases its first recording Canopy, taken from a live performance at the Festival Konfrontationen, in Nickelsdorf, Austria 2017. Formed in 2015, the 'B' refers to Berlin, the nexus of activity for the four musicians heard here. The two Australians, drummer Tony Buck and bassist Mike Majkowski, join the Beirut-born trumpeter Mazen Kerbaj and Berlin-native pianist Magda Mayas in what is a natural development of the musicians' ongoing Berlin collaborations. Buck, maybe best known for ...

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Magda Mayas - Jim Denley: Tempe Jetz

Read "Tempe Jetz" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Magda Mayas (Germany) performs on a 1970s manufactured clavinet with reedman Jim Denley (Australia), augmented by their use of field recordings, as they pay homage to a “marginalized corner" of Sydney, Australia on this experimental and irrefutably adventurous improv fest. Yet I wouldn't be so bold to suggest that this is easy listening but for the most part, it's relatively subdued. The duo projects organic minimalism amid the sounds of nature and bizarre tone poems that move forward ...


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