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Linus + Økland/Van Heertum/Zach: Light As Never
by Mark Sullivan
Belgian duo Linus—Ruben Machtelinckx, guitar and banjo; Thomas Jillings, saxophone and clarinet—have been recording with additional musicians for several years. This grouping is the largest they have gathered together and revisits the one from the album Mono No Aware (Aspen Edities, 2017). It is rich instrumentation, expanded by Machtelinckx's additional baritone guitar, Jillings' synthesizer and Niels Van Heertum's trumpet (along with his usual euphonium). Nils Økland sticks with Hardanger fiddle and Ingar Zach again provides percussion. The program's ...
read moreHuntsville + Yuka Honda, Nels Cline, Darin Gray, Glenn Kotche.: Bow Shoulder
by John Eyles
Bow Shoulder is the first Huntsville release since Pond back in March 2016. Surprisingly, it was recorded in Chicago in June 2010 and not mixed until January 2019 and April 2020. Just as surprising—maybe less so, given the album's personnel credits—is that the Chicago recording took place at the Loft, the studio and rehearsal space of the rock combo Wilco. The group's guitarist Nels Cline and drummer Glenn Kotche had previously recorded live with Huntsville at the 2007 Kongsberg jazz ...
read moreMUTA: Bricolage
by Mark Corroto
Quite the collective, MUTA makes soundscapes from a cooperative effort that is nearly solo-free. That is, the trio of flautist Alessandra Rombolà, electric harpist Rhodri Davies and percussionist Ingar Zach set aside any individual ambition on Bricolage, to create a consistent and cogent statement. Formed in 2003, the players have one previous release, Yesterday Night You Were Sleeping At My Place (Sofa, 2007). Their approach of slowly building upon minimal sounds, drones, and altered pitches occupies the field ...
read moreIngar Zach: M.O.S.
by AAJ Italy Staff
Ordine, simmetria, ciclicità: queste le peculiarità che caratterizzano il bel lavoro del percussionista norvegese Ingar Zach. Andando oltre l'estemporaneità improvvisativa di marca free, questo disco rivela a ogni istante (e a ogni ascolto) una grande attenzione per il dettaglio (grazie anche all'ottima qualità della registrazione) e un approccio quasi narrativo, che tiene desta l'attenzione, di chi ascolta tale è la consequenzialità rigorosa che lega, senza irrigidirli, gli eventi sonori. Il vocabolario è quello consueto di tanta musica eterodossa, in cui ...
read moreMuta: Bricolage
by AAJ Italy Staff
La flautista calabrese Alessandra Rombolà, l'arpista gallese Rhodri Davies e il percussionista norvegese Ingar Zach, tutti discreti giramondo, compongono il trio Muta, di cui questo Bricolage (titolo assai emblematico) è stato inciso nell'aprile 2009 ed è edito dalla libanese Al Maslakh. Vi convivono in sostanziale equità (e simbiosi) rumorismo ed elettronica, lungo tracciati marcatamente sperimentali a cui i flauti della Rombolà conferiscono, a spot, un minimo di umanizzazione. Al di là di un'idea sicuramente forte, e anche lodevole, non si ...
read moreIngar Zach - Ivar Grydeland: Visiting Ants
by Glenn Astarita
Norwegian improvising musicians drummer Ingar Zach and electric guitarist Ivar Grydeland engage in some acerbic, scrappy dialogue throughout these free-style exchanges. Here, the music expands and contracts amid the duo's abundance of abbreviated motifs. With “Sofamiliar," the drummer conjures up steely-edged sounds via his arsenal of cymbals, while on “First Visit," the guitarist's discordant phraseology complements Zach's polyrhythmic blitz. Grydeland also pursues a series of diametrically opposed angles, largely due to intermittent injections of succinctly stated chord developments, windswept EFX ...
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