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Calato: John Cage Variations + FOUR6

Read "John Cage Variations + FOUR6" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro


Il quartetto “di improvvisazione e composizione sperimentale" argentino denominato Calato, nato nel 2010 (la presente incisione risale al dicembre 2017), si muove tra cascami free e rumorismo contemporaneo palesando grande dimestichezza con la materia, che, nello specifico, coincide con sette variazioni brevi (da uno a sei minuti appena scarsi) ideate da John Cage a cavallo fra anni Cinquanta e Sessanta e una composizione, decisamente più ampia, “Four6," che rasenta la mezz'ora, addirittura del 1992, che è poi l'anno in cui ...

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Chris Pitsiokos / Javier Areal Velez / Kevin Murray: First Blush

Read "First Blush" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Was this gig at New York's Downtown Music Gallery in January, 2020, a one-off performance? Saxophonist Chris Pitsiokos was scheduled to perform solo, probably to promote his extraordinary solo release Speak In Tongues (Relative Pitch, 2019), but chose instead to expand to a trio. And a new trio at that. This wasn't one of his recent trios with Max Johnson and Kevin Shea, Noah Punkt and Philipp Scholz, or Daniel Levin and Brandon Seabrook. Nor was it his expansive CP ...

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