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Theo Bleckmann: Elegy
by John Kelman
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 ...
Continue ReadingTheo Bleckmann and the Julia Hülsmann Trio at The Stone
by Tyran Grillo
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 ...
Continue ReadingTheo Bleckman: Hello Earth! – The Music of Kate Bush
by AAJ Italy Staff
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 ...
Continue ReadingTheo Bleckmann: Hello Earth! The Music of Kate Bush
by Dave Sumner
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, ...
Continue ReadingTheo Bleckmann: Hello Earth! - The Music of Kate Bush
by Glenn Astarita
Vocalist Theo Bleckmann is a man of numerous modalities and ambitions. He's covered classical composer Charles Ives, teamed with heavyweight guitarist Ben Monder for experimental and improvised sojourns and, more recently, has performed and recorded with the always hip jazz unit, The Claudia Quintet. Here, Bleckmann treks into the pop-rock realm as he imparts a personalized touch to the music of iconic British singer/songwriter, Kate Bush. Bush's use of electronics, layered vocal parts, and futuristic production processes are also noted ...
Continue ReadingJen Shyu and Theo Bleckmann: Breaking the Song Barrier
by Daniel Lehner
Before Robert Moog came out with the first synthesizer, before Adolphe Sax invented his famous reed instrument, before the trumpets sounded at Jericho, even before the world's ancient tribes tightened their animal skins to make drums, humanity's first instrument was the voice. Not that this is of particular consequence to Theo Bleckmann. “To me, that argument is completely moot because it doesn't matter what the first instrument was, it's what you make of it. Just because it may be the ...
Continue ReadingRefuge Trio: Refuge Trio
by AAJ Italy Staff
Un progetto che sulla carta (pregiata e suggestiva della Winter & Winter) ammiccava per accostamenti di strumenti, se non anche solo di talenti (Theo Bleckmann, Gary Versace e John Hollenbeck), lascia all'ascolto un vago senso di disorientamento, per l'aver trascorso un'ora di piacevole vagare senza una meta precisa. Il progetto, nato una decina d'anni fa per una performance in omaggio a Joni Mitchell, si è nel tempo trasformato in ambiente di pratica compositiva ed espressiva per i tre musicisti coinvolti, ...
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