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The Clarinet Trio: Transformations and Further Passages

Read "Transformations and Further Passages" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles

A clarinet trio is a chamber trio comprising a clarinet, a bowed string instrument such as a violin, viola or cello, and a piano; the phrase can also refer to a composition written for such a trio. However, away from such matters, The Clarinet Trio is the name of a three-clarinet group which first recorded together on October 1st 1998, in Berlin, the resulting album, Oct. 1, '98, having been released on the Leo Lab label in 1999. The first ...

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The International Nothing: Just None of Those Things

Read "Just None of Those Things" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles

Hey, another four years have passed so it must be time for a new album from The International Nothing! Sure enough, here it is, bang on time. Just None of Those Things is the fifth album by the Berlin-based clarinet duo of Kai Fagaschinski and Michael Thieke; the first, Mainstream (Ftarri, 2006), was the only one of the five on which the clarinettists were joined by guest players—including vocalists Margaret Kammerer and Christof Kurzmann with whom they had formed the ...

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Extended Analysis

Michael Thieke & Olivier Toulemonde, Lucio Capece & Jamie Drouin: The Berlin Series no. 1

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by John Eyles

The most gratifying thing about The Berlin Series no. 1 is that it seems to be the first of many Another Timbre releases featuring musicians based in Berlin. Given the vibrancy of the city's music scene, it has become a magnet for improvising musicians from across the world. As one of them, French sound artist Olivier Toulemonde has observed, “Berlin is a jungle of improvised music... I would recommend Berlin to anyone who wants to meet a new musician every ...

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Album Review

The Clarinet Trio: 4

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Sono pochi i trii di clarinetti nella storia del jazz e questo probabilmente anche perché lo strumento più basso della famiglia è entrato con forza nella storia del jazz solo negli anni Sessanta, grazie a Dolphy. Non sembra una caso quindi che questo trio tedesco voglia ricollegare tradizione europea del primo Novecento, jazz astratto e musica contemporanea in una sorta di luogo paradisiaco ideale per lo strumento d'ebano. Attraverso un repertorio completamente originale le principali caratteristiche di questa formazione, arrivata ...

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Album Review

Sabina Meyer: Cruelly Coy

Read "Cruelly Coy" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Per chi non conosce Sabina Meyer, diciamo che questo è un disco di sperimentazione vocale che s'innesta sul filone già esplorato da Cathy Berberian, Laurie Anderson, Joan LaBarbara, Diamanda Galas e altre. Come queste artiste anche Sabina ha fatto della sua voce uno strumento duttile e sofisticato per esplorare le relazioni tra i suoni, i rumori e dare voce ai moti dell'animo. Soprano svizzera di madre italiana, vive da anni in Italia dove ha perfezionato gli studi artistici (Gabriella Bartolomei ...

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Album Review

Michael Thieke - Ununumium: Where Shall I Fly Not to Be Sad, My Dear?

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by AAJ Italy Staff

La musica ed i gruppi del clarinettista e sassofonista tedesco Michael Thieke hanno la costante della variabilità e quindi della sorpresa per chi lo ascolta. Il suo è un percorso frastagliato: da interprete della musica di Charles Mingus al trio di clarinetti di Geb Ullmann, restando in ogni caso fedele alla causa dell'avanguardia. Il quartetto Unununium esplora atmosfere e contesti differenti fra di loro, lenti e pensosi come il brano di apertura, in cui il suo poetico clarinetto si abbandona ...

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