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Tómas R. Einarsson: Latínball í Búðardal
by C. Michael Bailey
If jazz can be considered America's gift to the worlda music genre proven absorbent of local influences and capable of being recreated with every performance in every climatethen the brand of Latin jazz of Icelandic bassist Tómas R. Einarsson can be considered an extension of that same gift, second generation and once removed. Iceland, climatically and culturally, would readily seem an odd source for the humid sonics of expertly rendered Latin clave, but it is: illustrating the pan-ownership of music, ...
read moreADHD Live at BIMHUIS Amsterdam
by BIMHUIS
ADHD is the band featuring the brothers Óskar and Ómar Guðjónsson. Óskar is also part of Malamutute, the band led by Jim Black that performed at the BIMHUIS last year. ADHD's organic improvisations lead towards a music that is simultaneously exciting and calming, backed by the trance-like rock beats of drummer Magnús Trygvason Eliassen. On top of that, Davíð Þór Jónsson draws a colorful layer of Hammond, synth and piano. All four members are well-known players in the Icelandic jazz ...
read moreSkúli Sverrisson, Óskar Guðjónsson: The Box Tree
by Neri Pollastri
Un album originale fin dal packaging questo The Box Tree, opera dei due musicisti islandesi Skúli Sverrisson e Óskar Guðjónsson: la copertina è sostituita da una bustina di plastica da cartine geografiche, al cui interno c'è appunto una mappa di un territorio non identificabile, la cui legenda indica i brani, gli autori e i vari dati del disco che si trova al suo interno. Ma le particolarità non si fermano alla confezione, perché la musica del duo ...
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