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Pauli Lyytinen Magnetia Orkesteri: Hypnosis
by Friedrich Kunzmann
It can be interpreted as quite the democratic statement when an album from a saxophonist is introduced with an almost two-minute long drum solo that solely focuses on the percussive qualities of the instrument. Which is exactly what drummer Mika Kallio does on the opening segment of the Finnish saxophonist Pauli Lyytinen's sophomore album with the Magnetia Orkesteri. It doesn't take a professional translator to figure out that this quartet's name has something to with magnetism and is referred to ...
read moreVerneri Pohjola: The Dead Don't Dream
by Ian Patterson
The photo on the front cover shows a levitating Verneri Pohjola. A rising star? That tag might have been appropriate at the time of Aurora (ACT Music, 2009), but the brilliant subsequent albums Bullhorn (2015) and Pekka (2017), both on Edition Records, confirmed the Finnish trumpeter's arrival at the top table of European jazz. Pohjola's distinctive tone--lyrical yet with a visceral edge--and his melodic improvisations and compositional flare are common to all his albums, though no two sound the same. ...
read moreUnit: Wavin'
by AAJ Italy Staff
Un inizio minimalista, dove gli strumenti entrano in gioco lentamente, in punta di piedi. Si accarezzano e sfiorano alla ricerca della giusta alchimia, delle migliori sollecitazioni, delle più profonde reazioni chimiche in una sorta di pastorale laica. Quando un'armonia panteistica sembra prendere il sopravvento ecco l'accidente: una tromba ed un sassofono che parlano un linguaggio apparentemente differente, la batteria che solitaria rompe il silenzio prima che gli altri strumenti si accodino ad un corteo dall'andatura dinoccolata e imprevedibile. L'alternarsi di ...
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