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Gianni Gebbia / Lukas Ligeti / Massimo Pupillo: The Williamsburg Sonatas

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By Ken Waxman

Lukas Ligeti's background encompasses jazz, avant-rock, and contemporary composition, and he eases that experience into his playing. Massimo Pupillo is an electric bassist with the Italian noise rock band Zu who has collaborated with everyone from avant folkie Eugene Chadbourne to former Can singer Damo Suzuki, not to mention Chicago reedist Ken Vandermark. Luckily his baggage here includes the rhythm, but not the stultifying beat of pop music.

Meanwhile, Sicilian alto saxophonist Gianni Gebbia is a free ...

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Album Review

Anatrofobia: Tesa Musica Marginale

Read "Tesa Musica Marginale" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza


When Anatrofobia banded in 1990, these players set out to play what they describe as “angry crossover." Four years later the entrance of bassist Luco Cartolari turned their concentration towards a greater degree of improvisation. By the time '99 came along they were off in yet another direction: pop music.

Anatrofobia mixes all the elements that have triggered their music and these players do it in an oddball but charming way. They jump from one impulse to another, ...


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