Jazz Articles about Nuova Camerata

Nuova Camerata: Chant

by Nicola Negri
December 25, 2016

Free improvisation and contemporary music share many aspects, and the goal is the same--to avoid the beaten path of established musical idioms. Of course, sometimes they can both become actual styles, somewhat conforming to predictable strategies, but the most successful instances are those that keep the ambiguity intact, presenting the ideal of “new music" in its purest form. Nuova Camerata is a new group based in Lisbon that brilliantly merges these two worlds, as this recent release ...