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Anna Webber: Shimmer Wince

Read "Shimmer Wince" reviewed by John Sharpe


There is often an underlying rigor to the work of Canadian saxophonist and flautist Anna Webber, be that inspiration from the digital world on Binary (Skirl, 2016), her investigation of multiphonic intervals on Idiom (Pi, 2021) or contemporary classical percussion repertoire on Clockwise (Pi, 2020). On Shimmer Wince, she derives her compositions from her study of Just Intonation, a system which many believe offers a more “pure" way of tuning and allows greater timbral and sonic possibilities ...

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Ferdinando Romano: Invisible Painters

Read "Invisible Painters" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Non ama cullarsi sugli allori Ferdinando Romano: dopo i meritati riconoscimenti ricevuti grazie anche al suo progetto Totem, cambia completamente scenari, lascia da parte il jazz moderno, ancorché strutturato e complesso, e si dedica all'esplorazione di sonorità in equilibrio tra acustico ed elettronico e di atmosfere maggiormente sospese e frammentate. Per farlo l'artista --beneventano d'origine e toscano d'adozione --ha chiamato con sé tre musicisti giovani, che ciononostante già godono di grande attenzione: il pianista e tastierista austriaco, ma ...

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Anna Webber: Shimmer Wince

Read "Shimmer Wince" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Some mechanical wristwatches have clear faces which allow the owner to observe the inner workings of the marvelous object. It is a wonder just how the timepiece utilizes its mainspring and gear train to drive the harmonic oscillator which keeps near perfect time. The same can be said of composer, saxophonist and flautist Anna Webber's investigation into unique tunings using the overtone series known as Just Intonation (JI). It is an ancient system based on the natural vibration of physical ...

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Elias Stemeseder: Solo Piano

Read "Solo Piano" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Pianist Elias Stemeseder, Austrian-born and New York-based since 2015, is ready--in 2022--to release his first album under his own name. Piano Solo is something he might not have taken on. He considers himself still a student. If not for the encouragement of Intakt Records' Florian Keller, this album may not have happened. The pianist has contributed, most notably profile-wise, with his work in drummer Jim Black's trio and his playing with reedist Anna Webber and Philipp Gropper, and percussionist Christian ...

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Jim Black Trio: Reckon

Read "Reckon" reviewed by John Sharpe


The piano trio field is a big one, even that corner reserved for the evenly poised triumvirate heirs to Bill Evans. But drummer Jim Black's unit carves out its own distinctive acre. On the fourth album since its inception in 2011 the threesome, completed by NYC-based, Austrian-born pianist Elias Stemeseder and bassist Thomas Morgan, has reached the stage where they have total trust in one another. On a program of 11 concise self-contained cuts spread across 47-minutes, they create an ...


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