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Mulo Francel: Mountain Melody

Read "Mountain Melody" reviewed by Geno Thackara


Mulo Francel turned out to be somewhat ahead of his time. He didn't need to wait for a pandemic to send everyone into isolation; he already had a habit of making music in the middle of nowhere for several years before the 2020 outbreak. His fascination with mountains (natural enough for someone who grew up in the shadow of the Alps) had him making climbs throughout Europe and Asia to find some of the most exotic recording locations imaginable— ultimately ...

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Mulo Francel: Crossing Life Lines

Read "Crossing Life Lines" reviewed by Geno Thackara


Mulo Francel clearly believes in life imitating art. The endlessly versatile saxophonist is happy to demonstrate here how music reflects the wider world, but more importantly, Crossing Life Lines offers a determined reminder of how it can go both ways. The concept is simple yet expansive: while touring through parts of Europe that had been in conflict during the second World War, and aware of the ways different powers still try to turn nations against each other 75 years after ...

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Philipp Schiepek: Golem Dance

Read "Golem Dance" reviewed by Friedrich Kunzmann


Melodic ease, harmonic subtlety and an intriguingly dispersed approach to compositional structure make up the winning trinity of this enjoyable debut recording by German guitarist and composer Philipp Schiepek. Most impressively, these aspects belong to the qualities one would expect a 24-year young jazz guitarist to have mastered the least at this point in their career. But Schiepek's hard work at his craft and the many years of experience with a variety of groups, as well as the German Jazzorchestra ...


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