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Younee: Improvisations Live in Germany

Read "Improvisations Live in Germany" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro


La quarantenne (il prossimo 20 ottobre) pianista coreana Younee è nota per la sua abitudine a mischiare jazz e classica, terreno (l'insieme, il totale) su cui questo doppio album live, registrato tutto in terra tedesca fra il 2017 e il 2022, due ore e venti di musica piuttosto tirata, interrotta soltanto dalle presentazioni dei vari brani, proposte con un filo di voce per poche decine di secondi ciascuna (i vari segmenti intitolati “Moderation"), si muove con estrema disinvoltura, venendo a ...

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The Musical Universe According to Younee

Read "The Musical Universe According to Younee" reviewed by Lawrence Peryer


At a concert in Nuremberg, surrounded by vintage automobiles, someone in the audience shouted “Cuba!" when YOUNEE asked for a theme to improvise upon. Though she had never visited Havana, the South Korean pianist spun a groove from the classic cars around her, channeling an imagined scene of sunlit streets and chrome bumpers. Such moments of pure musical reaction fill her performances. Her double album, Improvisations Live in Germany (Fulminantmusic, 2024), captures these bursts of creation in concert ...


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