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Anouar Brahem: After the Last Sky
by Scott Gudell
Although ECM Records has released straight-ahead jazz, free form and more, many of their recordings sweep over listeners with mysterious, ethereal and hypnotic sounds creating alluring siren calls. When those sessions are taking place with an ECM release on the horizon, it is easy to imagine the artists are thinking about 'where's the mystery?'--which is what Anouar Brahem seemed to focus on this time around. Brahem, a revered Tunisian-born master of the oud (the fretless stringed instrument with ...
Continue ReadingAnouar Brahem: After the Last Sky
by Mario Calvitti
Fin dal suo esordio la musica del suonatore di oud tunisino Anouar Brahem ha oscillato tra i tre poli della musica tradizionale classica araba, l'improvvisazione jazzistica e la musica classica europea di stampo cameristico, generalmente adattando le quantità di ogni singolo componente ai musicisti scelti per interpretarla. Dopo i primi due album nei quali aveva proposto essenzialmente la propria versione della musica classica araba, accompagnato da musicisti e strumenti di quella tradizione, Brahem si è via via spostato ...
Continue ReadingAnja Lechner e François Couturier al Teatro Sala Fontana di Milano
by Paolo Peviani
Anja Lechner--François Couturier Ah-Um Meets Europe Milano Teatro Sala Fontana 14.01.2017 Viviamo un periodo storico in cui l'idea di Europa sta attraversando una fase delicata, per non dire di vera e propria crisi. Ad infonderci un minimo di speranza c'è chi -fortunatamente -crede invece che il vecchio continente abbia ancora molto da dire, soprattutto sul piano culturale. Tra questi, troviamo sicuramente Antonio Ribatti, che con la sua associazione C-Jam e con ...
Continue ReadingAnja Lechner all'Auditorium di Settimo Milanese
by Paolo Peviani
Auditorium Settimo Milanese (MI) 21.10.2015 Salutiamo sempre con piacere la nascita di nuove iniziative musicali. In questo caso, Dancing on the Strings, rassegna dedicata agli strumenti a corda ideata da Antonio Ribatti (che organizza anche il festival Ah-Um Milano) e Gianni Barone (patron della Nau Records). Il cartellone di questa prima edizione prevedeva tre concerti, tutti tenuti all'Auditorium di Settimo Milanese, che hanno costruito un percorso musicale assai variegato. Per usare le parole ...
Continue ReadingAnja Lechner / François Couturier: Moderato cantabile
by Hrayr Attarian
On Moderato Cantabile cellist Anja Lechner and pianist Francois Couturier interpret music that is simultaneously spiritual and folklore-ish with supple eloquence and sophisticated vibrancy. Intermixed with works from Greco-Russian guru George Gurdjieff, Armenian musicologist Komitas and Spanish composer Federico Mompou are Couturier's own jazz inflected pieces that maintain the overall mystical theme of the release. Gurdjieff was not a formerly trained musician. Most of his oeuvre, therefore, consists of central Asian folk melodies infused with his own ethereal ...
Continue ReadingAnja Lechner / François Couturier: Moderato cantabile
by John Kelman
ECM Records has long divided its discography in two: the regular series, representing music of a more improvisational bent; and its New Series, featuring largely classical music ranging from the contemporary to the archaic, but more truly defined in its through-composed nature. Still, the line between the two has, however, often been a porous one, where artists perhaps most associated with one side of the fence are able to make the occasional excursion to the other side. Perhaps the artist ...
Continue ReadingAnja Lechner/Vassilis Tsaboropoulos: Chants, Hymns and Dances
by John Kelman
While it is a lesser-known fact that many great classical compositions stemmed from improvisation, performance of most classical work is much more literal, with interpretation being relegated to more subtle inflection, nuance and manner of phrasing. Rarely does such work not only expect a more active degree of improvisation from the performer, but actually demand it. Such is the case with the work of Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, who created musical exercises spontaneously for students of his Institute ...
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