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L'olandese Metropole Orkest celebra il suo ottantesimo anniversario evitando di compiacersi del ricchissimo e prestigioso passato ma vivendo la contemporaneità in costante tensione innovativa. Per l'occasione pubblica esclusivamente in vinile, Arakatak, un sontuoso doppio LP contenente otto composizioni commissionate a Morris Kliphuis, Vince Mendoza, Donny McCaslin, Miho Hazama, Tineke Postma, Mark Guiliana, Shai Maestro e Louis Cole. La conduzione orchestrale è di Miho Hazama. Ottanta anni di storia fanno dell'orchestra olandese un unicum nella musica extra-colta in Europa ...

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Rodrigo Faina and Change Ensemble: Different Roots

Read "Different Roots" reviewed by Jerome Wilson

by Jerome Wilson
April 25, 2021

This is not the usual large ensemble jazz recording. Instead of having instrumental groups play against each other, this music moves largely as a massed force with only sparing solo statements. It carries the gravity and weight of classical music and mixes in the harmonies and colors of jazz composers like Gil Evans and Kenny Wheeler with occasional blasts of other musical forms like rock and tango. It is the work of Rodrigo Faina, a composer born and raised in ...

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Rodrigo Faina and Change Ensemble: Different Roots

Read "Different Roots" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
March 24, 2021

The cohesive and captivating Different Roots is Rotterdam- based guitarist and composer Rodrigo Faina's cinematic debut for the Red Piano label. For this six-part suite, Faina draws inspiration from three literary works from his native Argentina, two by Julio Cortazar and one by Jorge Luis Borges. On this genre-defying release, Faina also conducts the Change Ensemble which consists of several accomplished European, primarily Dutch, musicians. In fact, Faina utilizes the orchestra as a single unit at times and ...