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Handmade Blade: Aram Bajakian's Dolphy Formations

Read "Aram Bajakian's Dolphy Formations" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Guitarist Aram Bajakian has always played music that made things happen, whether it was with his contributions to Lou Reed's band, or Diana Krall's, or on his work on Tzadik Records, or his own self produced CD, 2016's superb Music Inspired By The Color of Pomegranate, an unofficial alternative soundtrack to the Russian movie of the same name. Dolphy Formations is another story. Bajakian is up front about “[wanting] to create a piece where nothing happens." He ties ...

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Aram Bajakian: Music Inspired by the Color of Pomegranates

Read "Music Inspired by the Color of Pomegranates" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Aram Bajakian è un chitarrista assai eclettico, già accompagnatore di Lou Reed nei suoi ultimi tour, poi con Diana Krall, ma allo stesso tempo membro del gruppo Abraxas, due album con la Tzadik di John Zorn, e collabora con Marc Ribot e Yusef Lateef, Mat Maneri e Frank London, Nels Cline e lo stesso Zorn. Bajakian mette poi a frutto questa messe di esperienze nei suoi lavori in solo, di cui quello in esame ha una identità particolarmente curiosa.

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Aram Bajakian: Music Inspired By the Color Of Pomegranates

Read "Music Inspired By the Color Of Pomegranates" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Guitarist Aram Bajakian found a fitting concept to tie together his creative ideas and the extended techniques he's been exploring: An obscure Russian movie about the 18th century Armenian poet, Sayat Nova. The resulting album, Music Inspired by The Color of Pomegranates, is pensive, layered, brilliantly virtuosic music, sometimes minimalist, sometimes orchestral, all of it created by the artist alone in the studio with his 1937 Gibson archtop guitar. A versatile musician who spent two years walking on ...

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Aram Bajakian's Kef: New Sounds from the Armenian Diaspora

Read "Aram Bajakian's Kef: New Sounds from the Armenian Diaspora" reviewed by Chris May


Aram BajakianAram Bajakian's KefTzadik2011 Itself born out of traditional music, jazz has over the last hundred years often enriched itself with folk infusions. In the 1930s, the Gypsy jazz of guitarist Django Reinhardt enlivened the European scene. Contemporaneously, the country swing of bands such as Bob Willis & The Texas Playboys was doing the same thing in the southwestern US. Skip forward a few decades, and guitarist Bill Frisell was creating ...

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Sean Noonan's Brewed by Noon: Boxing Dreams

Read "Boxing Dreams" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Nonostante che i fondamenti della psicologia freudiana sostengano che non è possibile guidare i propri sogni, Sean Noonan immagina - attraverso la scrittura di questo CD - l'epopea di se stesso nei panni di un improbabile boxeur. E realizza 11 episodi in cui cerca continuamente la forma della canzone rock. L'epica accade in “Courage," dedicata a Rocky Marciano, con il testo di una antica invocazione celtica. Il brano è letteralmente diviso in due parti, nella prima viene cantata l'epopea della ...

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Sean Noonan's Being Brewed by Noon : Live From New York And Beyond (CD + DVD) 

Read "Live From New York And Beyond (CD + DVD) " reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Sean Noonan non ama il termine fusion. Dice che gli fa pensare ad elementi diversi fusi insieme, il che non è necessariamente qualcosa di naturale. Preferisce il termine brewed, fermentato, termine che indica un impegno, un impiego di tempo per far sviluppare le cose. Fatte queste premesse, penso sia anche chiaro a tutti che la musica di Noonan include elementi provenienti da orizzonti diversi. Che sono il rock, il jazz, la musica celtica e, soprattutto, la musica dell'Africa occidentale. Il ...


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