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Album Review

Joana Gama - Luis Fernandes - Ricardo Jacinto: Harmonies

Read "Harmonies" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Harmonies is purportedly the next logical step for pianist Joana Gama and electronics denizen Luis Fernandes, following Quest (Shhpuma, 2014), with the addition of cellist Ricardo Jacinto on this album that celebrates classical composer Erik Satie's 150th birthday. Here, the artists cunningly formulate an electro-acoustic soundscape, sketched with Gama's minimalist and Satie inspired themes, offering a principal element, encircled by EFX, avant-chamber, ambient electronica and other aspects or mediums. Jacinto advises that “Harmonies was a commission from Teatro ...

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Album Review

Nick Millevoi: Desertion

Read "Desertion" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Hailing from Philadelphia, guitarist Nick Millevoi possesses a comprehensive music vernacular and has recorded albums with the band Many Arms for John Zorn's Tzadik label amid his collaborations with renowned jazz artists and affiliations with other groups. Indeed, he's an adventure seeker and experimentalist. The guitarist employs top-flight session/solo artists, keyboardist Jamie Saft and drummer Ches Smith to round out a tightknit coalition via a program largely erected on brooding thematic currents. Millevoi's crunching chords, off-center phrasings and ...

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Ozo: A Kind Of Zo

Read "A Kind Of Zo" reviewed by John Sharpe


There's a strand of Portuguese music which oscillates between the points of a triangle formed by improv, ambient and minimalism. Ozo, which comprises erstwhile classical pianist Paulo Mesquita, and rock/pop drummer Pedro Oliveira, sits somewhere in the centre of that triangle. The dominant characteristic of the nine jointly-credited cuts is a pretty melodicism allied to a basic rhythm created using unconventional textures. Although Oliveira is credited only with prepared drums, at times the result is reminiscent of electronics. ...

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Albatre: A Descent into the Maelstrom

Read "A Descent into the Maelstrom" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


Albatre is a Pan-European trio based in Rotterdam, comprised of two Portuguese living in this city--alto saxophonist Hugo Costa and bassist Gonçalo Almeida, member of the Portuguese Lama Trio--joined by German drummer Philipp Ernsting. The trio's debut offers its schizoid vision of free jazz on metal and punk steroids with electronic sonic neurosis. Albatre's aesthetics stick to a thick, distorted stew of fast beats, sudden mood shifts, frantic drumming, and urgent, brutal sax and bass outbursts. Surprisingly enough this explosive, ...


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