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About YUGEN

Album Review

Following their 2023 release Tears and Light (Dodicilune), Italian trio Yugen continue to refine a distinctive sound world that defies rigid genre classification, blurring the lines between jazz, ambient music and rock, all infused with cinematic imagination. It is an approach that has already earned the group numerous awards. The nine compositions on Picture #2 are all written by pianist Katya Fiorentino, who provides both the structural and emotional blueprint for the band's sound. Rather than adopting the familiar piano trio format ...

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Yugen: Death by Water

Read "Death by Water" reviewed by Claudio Bonomi

by Claudio Bonomi
July 8, 2016

Gli Yugen proseguono ostinatamente il loro viaggio quasi solitario nei meandri di una musica concettuale, colta e imparentata con Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Bartok, Romitelli, Cage, Ligeti, Zappa, Univers Zero, Henry Cow, King Crimson e altri. Un viaggio a zig zag segnato da fughe, variazioni, accelerazioni, conflagrazioni, divagazioni, pause, tempi frammentati e poi ricomposti, e, in sintesi, da una ricchezza di dimensioni e chiavi d'accesso, anche a livello letterario, che fanno di ogni lavoro del collettivo milanese guidato dal chitarrista-compositore Francesco Zago ...

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Yugen: Uovo Fatali: Yugen Plays Leddi

Read "Uovo Fatali: Yugen Plays Leddi" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
April 25, 2009

While the concept of a new kind of classical music--liberally cross-pollinating beyond its furthest reaches--has been evolving since the 1970s with artists ranging from Univers Zero to Frank Zappa, there are those sadly overlooked in a new chamber music as likely to mix electric keyboards with violins as it is mandolin and drums with clarinets and grand piano. Multi-instrumentalist Tommaso Leddi was a founding member of Italy's Stormy Six, one of the seminal Rock in Opposition groups alongside Univers Zero, ...