Jazz Articles about Theo Bleckmann

About Theo Bleckmann

Album Review

Joseph Branciforte/Theo Bleckmann: LP1

by Dan Bilawsky
June 17, 2019

Is sound something to bathe in? Can music envelop? Does the art of improvisation lend itself to ambient sound painting? The answer to all three questions, according to this collaboration, is “yes." LP1, the debut release on Joseph Branciforte's greyfade imprint, finds the producer and electronics ace teaming up with vocalist Theo Bleckmann to conjure variable atmospheres. The result of some studio experimentation leading up to a 2018 performance alongside the legendary Ryuichi Sakamoto, the four improvisations ...

Live Review

An Evening with ECM al Ravello Festival

by Francesca Odilia Bellino
August 28, 2018

An Evening with ECM Ravello Festival Belvedere di Villa Rufolo Ravello 21.7.2018 Serata d'eccezione al Ravello Festival di quest'anno che ha ospitato nella straordinaria scenografia del Belvedere di Villa Rufolo an Evening with ECM una produzione speciale che ha coinvolto il trio Theo Bleckmann, Stefano Battaglia, Michele Rabbia e un'esclusiva italiana del pianista e compositore Django Bates e il suo trio Belovèd. La prima parte del concerto ha accolto il progetto speciale ...

Multiple Reviews

ECM e le voci: Theo Bleckmann e Sinikka Langeland

by Mario Calvitti
October 24, 2017

Con gli anni, le voci hanno acquistato un carattere sempre più rilevante nel catalogo ECM rispetto ai tempi della sua fondazione, quando l'etichetta bavarese era rivolta alla pubblicazione di musica di carattere prevalentemente jazzistico e quasi esclusivamente strumentale. I primi nomi di cantanti a trovar spazio nel catalogo dell'etichetta sono stati quelli di Norma Winstone, Aina Kemanis, Sheila Jordan e Meredith Monk (inizialmente unica titolare di album a suo nome), tutte artiste vicine alla musica d'avanguardia (anche la Winstone, pur ...

Album Review

Theo Bleckmann: Elegy

by John Kelman
January 20, 2017

While ECM is a label largely renowned for its subtlety, attention to space and detail, and overall understated, “less is more" aesthetic--an early sampler titled, even, The Most Beautiful Sound Next To Silence--it's hard to imagine a label debut as a leader that could be less about virtuosity and more about creating soft atmospheres and ambiences than singer Theo Bleckmann's delicately moving, aptly titled Elegy. Bleckmann is no newcomer to the label: he was an important guest on ...

Live Review

Theo Bleckmann and the Julia Hülsmann Trio at The Stone

by Tyran Grillo
October 9, 2015

Theo Bleckmann and the Julia Hülsmann Trio The Stone A Clear Midnight: Kurt Weill and America New York, NY June 21, 2015 In late June of 2015, vocalist Theo Bleckmann held residency at New York's The Stone. The venue's interdisciplinary hipness was epitomized by Bleckmann's week-long tenure, during which his offerings spanned the gamut from solo improvisations and the music of Kate Bush to the presentation of Kurt Weill songs reviewed here. For this ...

Album Review

Theo Bleckman: Hello Earth! – The Music of Kate Bush

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 9, 2012

Ci vuole il coraggio dei leoni oppure la sfrontatezza dell'animo giovanile per tentare grandi imprese. Forte del successo del momento e sorretto da ciò che resta degli anni giovanili veri e propri (è nato nel 1966, non proprio l'altro ieri), il tedesco Theo Bleckman (sempre più apprezzato dall'altra parte dell'oceano, ove peraltro vive) approda al suo ottavo lavoro per Stefan Winter, sciogliendo i lacci della paura per andare a incontrare un mondo vocale davvero unico nel panorama contemporaneo, quale quello ...

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Extended Analysis

Theo Bleckmann: Hello Earth! The Music of Kate Bush

by Dave Sumner
April 4, 2012

Theo BleckmannHello Earth! The Music Of Kate BushWinter & Winter2012The 1980s possessed an incongruous hope for the future against a backdrop of possible nuclear annihilation, as if in the darkest of times, society retreated to a naive state. This is a generalization that doesn't, obviously, represent the entire gamut of human experience, yet it was there all the same. The majority of singer and composer Kate Bush's music came from that decade, ...