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Spinifex: Undrilling the Hole

Read "Undrilling the Hole" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


Spinifex è un gruppo eterogeneo per esperienza e per provenienza geografica, con base ad Amsterdam, che con Undrilling the Hole giunge alla nona pubblicazione, la quinta con questa formazione, un sestetto con tre fiati, sezione ritmica e chitarra. A differenza dei precedenti album nei quali le composizioni provenivano dalla penna di diversi componenti del gruppo, in quest'ultimo la scrittura è tutta appannaggio di Tobias Klein, il fondatore nel lontano 2010 dell'ensemble, allora in forma di nonetto. Questa novità ...

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Klein / Rosaly / Warelis: Tendresse

Read "Tendresse" reviewed by John Sharpe


Tendresse unites three talented improvisers residing in the cosmopolitan melting pot of Amsterdam in a low key frenzy of deep listening and inspired response. German reedman Tobias Klein has been an inhabitant in the Dutch city for over thirty years, while Polish pianist Marta Warelis and American drummer Frank Rosaly are more recent transplants. However, whatever their geographical origin they clearly share a taste for off-the-map excursions that build impact through the accumulation of small finely-judged details. ...

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Spinifex: Undrilling the Hole

Read "Undrilling the Hole" reviewed by Lawrence Peryer


The Amsterdam-based sextet Spinifex borrowed their name from a hardy Australian grass known for thriving in harsh conditions. For nearly two decades, they have forged original music from seemingly incompatible elements--mathematical structures, punk aggression, free jazz fire. Their ninth album, Undrilling the Hole, presents seven new compositions from alto saxophonist Tobias Klein that showcase the band's singular musical vocabulary. Mathematics shapes Klein's compositions, but not in obvious ways. “Nothing fancy," Klein explains. “The basic proportions=-twos and threes, sometimes ...

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Spinifex: Beats The Plague

Read "Beats The Plague" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Finally, a band of brothers retaliates against the coronavirus. The scientists and the anti-vax antipodes have had their day. Time for some partisan guerrilla action. Okay, maybe just a pipe dream, but these nine tracks by the Amsterdam based Spinifex deliver a much needed counterattack to this diabolical infective agent. Recorded in June of 2021, Beats The Plague is the band's seventh release. It follows Soufifex (TryTone, 2019) where the band looked East for inspiration from Sufi music. ...

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Tobias Klein e il Questionario di Proust

Read "Tobias Klein e il Questionario di Proust" reviewed by Paolo Peviani


Il tratto principale della mia musica Musica che risuoni dentro. La qualità che desidero nei musicisti che suonano con me La capacità di vivere una situazione musicale. Come musicista, il momento in cui sono stato più felice Quando sembra che la musica si suoni (o si scriva) da sola. Come musicista, il mio principale difetto L'impazienza. La mia più grande ...

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Esra Dalfidan: Counter Point

Read "Counter Point" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


In questa rinascita del canto femminile in equilibrio tra musica leggera, jazz e altri idiomi, un ruolo significativo lo sta svolgento Esra Dalfidan, 35 anni, nata e cresciuta in Germania da genitori turchi che opera una seducente sintesi tra musiche tradizionali turche e azere in un quadro jazzisticamente cantabile con qualche sfumatura pop. Tra le sue fonti d'ispirazione c'è innanzitutto la cantante e pianista Aziza Mustafa Zadeh ma sul “fronte occidentale" troviamo riferimenti con la portoghese Maria João. Dopo aver ...


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