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Lex Korten: Canopy
by Jerome Wilson
Lex Koeten's Canopy is a project of different musical styles swirled together in a dizzying stew. It sounds discordant on first listen but ultimately this collection of jumpy prog freakouts, delicate ballads and misty ambience hangs together as parts of the same whole. Korten creates all this out of a simple lineup of keyboards, voice, alto sax, guitar, and drums. The opening “Oasis Walking" feels like the work of an adventurous singer-songwriter like Sarah McLaughlin or Beth Orton ...
Continue ReadingTal Yahalom: A Guitarist's Mirror Image Of Tradition
by Lawrence Peryer
Tal Yahalom, Mikkel Ploug, Ambrose Akinmusire, Thomas Naïm & More
by Ludovico Granvassu
A playlist focusing on recent outstanding guitar albums, with two cherrys on top, the latest releases by Kjetil Mulelid and Ambrose Akinmusire.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Mikkel Ploug Trio “Chant" Hope (Songlines) 0:16 Host talks 5:09 Thomas Naïm “Manic Depression" May This Be Love (Acoustic Guitar Takes on Jimi Hendrix) (Rootless Blues) 6:34 Host talks 9:20 Tal Yahalom “Hymn for Tomorrow" Mirror Image (Adhyâropa) 11:02 Kadawa “Studentist" ...
Continue ReadingNick Dunston: Colla Voce
by John Sharpe
One thing you can expect from a Nick Dunston leadership date is the unexpected. After Atlantic Extraction (OOYH, 2019), Spider Season (OOYH, 2022) and Skultura (Fun In Church, 2023), Colla Voce is something else again. Although an in-demand bassist in adventurous contemporary circles, as evidenced by stints with trumpeter Dave Douglas, guitarist Mary Halvorson and drummer Tyshawn Sorey, as a composer Dunston ranges even more widely. Assembled from sessions in Berlin and NYC, Dunston calls on a 13-strong ...
Continue ReadingNick Dunston: Colla Voce
by Mark Corroto
Composer and bassist Nick Dunston's Colla Voce -"with the voice" -is a chamber construction which he describes as an Afro-surrealist anti-opera that operates in the concept of an individual experience, as opposed to a collective one. By that he asks, “what if the blue that I see is not that same blue that you see?" His caveat is that each listener's experience may differ. Historical examples of this phenomenon are Igor Stravinsky's 1913 premiere of “The Rite of ...
Continue ReadingYosef-Gutman Levitt & Tal Yahalom: Tsuf Harim
by Gareth Thompson
In early Hasidic writings, magical and supernatural concepts rooted in the mystic were common. Such notions held that human acts, including musical activity, could affect the godhead and thus the whole world. By the late eighteenth century, these Jewish religious teachings saw music as something inward, a form of contemplation with the soul. Yosef-Gutman Levitt was born in South Africa and was inspired by Weather Report to learn the bass. After moving to New York, he strived to ...
Continue ReadingGabriel Zucker: Leftover Beats from the Edges of Time
by Vic Albani
Gabriel Zucker è un pianista, compositore e polistrumentista di New York il cui lavoro combina composizioni massimaliste con l'improvvisazione progressiva della scena musicale creativa contemporanea di New York. La sua musica ha ricevuto due importanti premi per la composizione e viene sempre più spesso citata con il massimo delle stelle su DownBeat. Il progetto principale di Zucker, l'orchestra indie jazz “The Delegation," è nato al Banff Jazz and Creative Music Workshop. Il suo ultimo lavoro, Leftover Beats from ...
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