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Samo Salamon & The Slovene Philharmonic String Chamber Orchestra: Free Strings: Orchestrology
by Hrayr Attarian
Slovenian guitarist Samo Šalamon has to be one of the most versatile and restlessly explorative musicians active today. His 2013 collaboration with The Slovene Philharmonic String Chamber Orchestra, Free Strings: Orchestrology sheds light on his superb compositional skills as he leads the ensemble in interpreting thirteen of his originals. An overall cinematic atmosphere permeates the record with each individual track containing a cohesive narrative that ranges from the expansive to the intimate. The dramatic “Dutilleux" opens with the ...
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by Glenn Astarita
Slovenian guitarist Samo Salamon is not content to rest on his laurels or enviable chops. His two-CD set, Stretching Out (Sazas, 2013), was a fierce progressive jazz and improvisational implosion featuring his work with US and European quartets. Free Strings: Orchestrology signifies a 360-degree turnaround with a core trio and collaboration with the Slovene Philharmonic String Chamber Orchestra, highlighting Janez Podlesek's solo violin passages. Salamon's thirst for exploring variable forms of artistic expression is a multifaceted exposition, combining third stream ...
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by Jakob Baekgaard
It's not a new thing that jazz musicians like to record with strings. Legendary alto saxophonist Charlie Parker lamented the loss of his string section after he had the thrill of touring and recording with strings and fellow saxophonists Stan Getz and Art Pepper both picked an album with strings, Focus (Verve, 1961) and Winter Moon (Galaxy, 1980), respectively, as a career highlight. Some might say that part of the attraction of the use of strings is ...
Continue ReadingSamo Salamon: Stretching Out
by Hrayr Attarian
Slovenian master guitarist and composer Samo Šalamon is one of those rare musicians whose versatility is not aimless and his unique, instantly recognizable, style is far from predictable. Both of these characteristics are amply demonstrated on his fourteenth release, the double disc set Stretching Out comprising of two live sessions captured in 2008, and 2012. On the earlier date, Šalamon leads an all American quartet on three of his long and fiery originals that crackle with spontaneity and ...
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by Jakob Baekgaard
Cosmopolitan is a term that is often used to describe musicians, but in the case of Slovenian guitarist Samo Salamon, it is certainly a description that fits. Salamon has turned the restless nature of the travelling musician into an aesthetic strategy and has worked with two different quartets that represent his different musical sides: the hip underground of the New York jazz scene and the experimental sensibility of the European avant-garde. Stretching Out is ...
Continue ReadingSamo Salamon Quartets: Stretching Out
by AAJ Italy Staff
Dal punto di vista fisico, l'ultimo lavoro discografico del chitarrista sloveno Samo Salamon si presenta come un doppio CD. Dal punto di vista musicale, siamo invece di fronte a due album ben distinti. Registrati con formazioni diverse (un quartetto americano ed un quartetto europeo), in periodi diversi (nel 2008 il primo, nel 2012 il secondo), e soprattutto che si sviluppano secondo orizzonti musicali ed estetici così differenti che, forse, avrebbe avuto più senso pubblicarli separatamente. Detto ciò, è anche interessante ...
Continue ReadingSamo Salamon Trio: Eleven Stories
by AAJ Italy Staff
Nella recente conversazione che abbiamo fatto con lui, Roberto Dani ci parlava della sua collaborazione con il chitarrista sloveno Samo Salamon, che considera tra quelle in cui si sente più a proprio agio. Questo Eleven Stories, in trio con il multistrumentista francese Michel Godard è il più recente di una serie ormai cospicua di frutti di quella collaborazione e mostra perfettamente le ragioni dell'affinità con il batterista veronese. Salamon - che ha al suo attivo progetti con artisti di primissimo ...
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