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Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga: Stroke by Stroke
by John Eyles
Zither player Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga's Stroke by Stroke is initially intriguing for the circumstances of its recording. As Lazaridou-Chatzigoga writes in her sleeve notes, “All the recordings were made at home in Athens between June 2010 and April 2011... Ambient noise from several parallel events taking place in Greece at the time of the recording has deliberately not been removed." As the period during which the recordings were made coincided with considerable unrest and disturbances on the streets of Athens, those ...
read moreSLW: Fifteen point nine grams
by John Eyles
Recorded live in France in July 2007, this is the second release from SLW, the follow-up to its debut, SLW (Formed, 2008), recorded live in October 2006. The quartet, with its line-up of Burkhard Beins, Lucio Capece, Rhodri Davies and Toshimaru Nakamura, merits the title “super group"; however outmoded and gauche that phrase may seem, it does describe the conglomeration of improvising talent on display here.
SLW is short for “sounds like water," and its debut lived up to that ...
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