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Eva Novoa: Solo (I)
by Mike Jurkovic
Pianist-composer Eva Novoa can be a difficult listen from time to time. Her modulations. Her incantations. Her dynamic agility to take any moment behind her instrument can be disconcerting to an audience that has not learned to think or imagine broader horizons for themselves. So let us be thankful Novoa took to Manhattan's Sear Sound Studios on West 48th with an active, jagged passion and recorded Solo (I). Since coming to New York for keeps in 2012, Novoa ...
Continue ReadingEva Novoa: Novoa / Gress / Gray Trio, Vol. 1
by Mike Jurkovic
A vivid sense of drama and its intrinsic, minute shadings of light upon dark places animate pianistEva Novoa's work. Barcelona bred and keening with Brooklyn bravura, Novoa swaps the fore and backgrounds with uncompromised glee. Expressionistic, Impressionistic, and forthright, she aligns and upsets the edges to her liking. That, along with the crackling, crosstown chi of bassist/modular synthesist ((Drew Gress}} and drummer Devin Gray makes music like “Miss Celebrity," “Sushi at 6," in fact the whole of Novoa/Gress/Gray Trio, Vol. ...
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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson
