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Sylvie Courvoisier: Chimaera

Read "Chimaera" reviewed by John Sharpe


Even though pianist Sylvie Courvoisier has bassist Drew Gress and drummer Kenny Wollesen on hand for Chimaera, the six-piece band is a long way from being merely the storied threesome, which made Double Windsor (Tzadik, 2014), D'Agala (Intakt, 2018) and Free Hoops (Intakt, 2020), plus added guests. As she explains in the liners, the music was originally commissioned for the 2021 Sons d'Hiver festival in Paris and was inspired by the surreal works of French Symbolist artist ...

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Sylvie Courvoisier: Chimaera

Read "Chimaera" reviewed by Troy Dostert


It says something about pianist Sylvie Courvoisier's current profile in creative jazz that she could assemble such a distinguished ensemble for her latest release, Chimaera. Augmenting her usual trio of bassist Drew Gress and drummer Kenny Wollesen are trumpeters Wadada Leo Smith and Nate Wooley, and with the always interesting Christian Fennesz completing the group on guitar and electronics, one would expect extraordinary results. And so they are--worthy of a lengthy, two-CD treatment, in fact. Courvoisier's work with ...

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Fennesz - Brandlmayr - Dafeldecker: Till the World's Blown Up and a New One Is Created

Read "Till the World's Blown Up and a New One Is Created" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


A raccontarne la genesi e il procedimento, questa collaborazione tra gli austriaci Christian Fennesz, Martin Brandlmayr e Werner Dafeldecker [già frequentemente incrociatisi in passato, ad esempio negli splendidi Polwechsel] potrebbe sembrare come un progetto sfizioso e secondario: la voluta episodicità del tutto, con i frammenti improvvisati dai singoli musicisti che vengono riprocessati dai medesimi e poi assemblati in una composizione dal respiro più ampio, è in realtà l'opportunità per condividere un lavoro stratificato che mette a fuoco con grande precisione ...

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Fennesz - Sakamoto: Cendre

Read "Cendre" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Cendre, stampato per la label inglese Touch a breve distanza dal fortunato Sala Santa Cecilia, documenta un secondo lavoro in duo del chitarrista Christian Fennesz e del pianista Ryuichi Sakamoto. Registrato a fasi alterne, tra il 2004 e il 2006, a New York da Sakamoto e a Vienna da Fennesz [l'uno le parti di chitarra su supporto elettronico e poi l'altro, sopra, quelle al piano, e così anche l'inverso], è stato mixato dai due insieme a New York. Frutto deliberato ...


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