Jazz Articles about Spunk

Grande improvvisazione ad Angelica

by Libero Farnè
June 3, 2016

Angelica Festival Bologna Teatro San Leonardo 21-22.05.2016 All'interno di un festival che programmaticamente non privilegia nessun genere musicale, ma che dà spazio ad autori delle più svariate provenienze e alle modalità più disparate del fare musica, è possibile imbattersi in alcune esperienze significative dell'improvvisazione assoluta. È quello che è capitato nell'edizione in corso, la ventiseiesima, di Angelica “momento maggio," apertasi il 5 maggio con la prima italiana della sorprendente Ellen Fullman alle prese con il ...

Spunk: Kantarell

by John Kelman
August 9, 2009

As challenging as free improvisation can be, the truth is that while it may appear to be an aimless mixture of sounds found or otherwise, in the right hands it is something that--best absorbed as a whole rather than a collection of individual parts--can be as beautiful as it sometimes is jarring and off-putting. Spunk pushes the limits of acoustic and electronic instrumentation, as well as voice; but with an injection of humorous absurdity that may, perhaps, be best experienced ...

Spunk: En Aldeles Forferdelig Sykdom

by Eyal Hareuveni
January 14, 2006

The third studio disc by the Norwegian all-female quartet Spunk suggests a new perspective on free collective improvisation. Free improv does not have to be cerebral and dead serious. Spunk likes to push the music into absurdist extremes, to load the music with eccentric ideas, almost to the brink of anarchy, but always with a quirky humor and subtlety and an emphasis on how individual voices can become one.

En Aldeles Forferdelig Sykdom ("An Absolutely Terrible Disease") is ...