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Matthias Ziegler: La Rusna - Music for Flutes

Read "La Rusna  - Music for Flutes" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

La Rusna è disco soggetto a due forze centrifughe. Da una parte vi è il marchio Leo Records, etichetta storicamente votata alla sperimentazione spesso radicale, garanzia di originalità e di integrità artistica. Dall'altra vi sono il sottotitolo, “musica per flauti," e le immagini di copertina (un paesaggio idilliaco con cascate e verdi dirupi mozzafiato) che sanno molto di new-age o di musicoterapia. Il dipanarsi delle sette tracce del disco è caratterizzato proprio da queste due opposte tensioni. Il brano iniziale, ...

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Peter A. Schmid / Ned Rothenberg / Matthis Ziegler: El Ni

Read "El Ni" reviewed by Henry Smith

by Henry Smith

According to Meinrad Buholzer's liner notes, El Niño is, in weather terms, a habitual pattern of intermingling air currents and water temperatures that affects the Pacific Ocean and west coast of Latin America. This serves as a most suitable title for the music of the album, which represents a highly communicative and spontaneous meeting between three virtuoso wind instrumentalists: reedist Peter A. Schmid, flutist and fellow Swiss resident Matthias Ziegler, and New York-based woodwind multi-instrumentalist Ned Rothenberg.

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