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Mathieu Clement, born in 2001 in Luxembourg, is a dynamic 24-year-old drummer and composer (with a mature talent that belies his age) now based in Cologne, Germany. He began playing the drums and vibraphone at the age of seven, studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz, and was part of the JugendJazzOrchester NRW. Clement's discography includes his debut Coming Home“ (Jazz Thing Next Generation, 2022), and the trio album Fume, (Klaeng, 2024). Ruma is a spirited septet ...

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Robert Landfermann: Topaz

by Don Phipps
December 3, 2019

A brilliant tour de force, Robert Landfermann's Topaz is helped in no small part by the amazing contributions of the quartet Landfermann assembled for this session. It is clear he prefers spontaneous improvisation over formal structures. The key to such an approach relies on the ability of the musicians to both listen to one another and mirror each other's music as the improvisation develops emotionally and contextually in space time. Landfermann is joined on the album by reed ...

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Luís Lopes: Lisbon Berlin Trio

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 27, 2012

È un territorio arido e pieno d'insidie quello coltivato da Luís Lopes, vertice alto del Lisbon Berlin trio, realtà completata dal contrabbassita Robert Landfermann e dal batterista Christian Lillinger. Perché i suoni prodotti nel loro album Lisbon Berlin Trio sono spesso dissonanti, taglienti, difficilmente masticabili da chi non ha denti di ascolto ben affilati. Niente melodie dunque, almeno per ciò che riguarda l'evidenza delle cose, mentre sotto la cenere di assoli visionari, come quello di Lopes nell'iniziale “Hang Out With," ...