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Experimentalists: Talking with Adam Berenson, Dana Jessen, and Abdul Moimême
by Karl Ackermann
The newly opened Théatre des Champs-Elysées was sold out on the night of May 29, 1913. The well-heeled Parisian audience had come to enjoy the much-anticipated premiere of Igor Stravinsky's “Rite of Spring" which featured the choreography of the acclaimed Russian ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky. Some accounts of what transpired that night appear to be exaggerated. ...
Fatidic Dreams
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2018
Track listing: Dream 1; Dream 2; Dream 3; Dream 4; Dream 5; Dream 6; Dream 7; Dream 8; Dream 9; Dream 10; Dream 11; Dream 12; Dream 13.
Adam Berenson / Scott Barnum / Eric Hofbauer: Introverted Cultures
by Karl Ackermann
On his 21st album, composer/pianist/electronic artist Adam Berenson continues his string of remarkable and unpredictable projects with Introverted Cultures. His early association with Paul Bley and a broad range of influences and interests have resulted in a harvest of creative music that shapes unexpected hybrids. Here we have a drummer-less trio for the first twelve tracks ...
Adam Berenson/Daoud Shaw: Fatidic Dreams
by Karl Ackermann
Fatidic Dreams brings together two musician whose influences and experiences are as diverse a set of conditions as one could imagine. Philadelphia-area pianist/keyboardist/electronic composer Adam Berenson was a student of Paul Bley at the New England Conservatory of Music, and his musical inspirations run from Beethoven to Zappa. A playwright and teacher, Berenson has recorded across ...
Introverted Cultures
Label: Dream Play Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: CD1: The Symbolism of Hands; Diathesis; Disentangled; Bleak Exultation; Edith Mathis; The Reality of the Psyche; A Haunting Presence on the Moors; We Are Ignorant; ...limping...limping...limping...; I Adore You; You Need Not Fear the Icy Noise Within; Ghost Pillow. CD2: Trail of Tears; Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek; The Lunatic; The Juices of Truth; The Harvest Feast; An Earlier Version of You; Vision Quest; In My Beginning Is My End.
Karl Ackermann's Best Releases of 2017
by Karl Ackermann
2017 was an exceptional year for artists who elude convention; veterans such as Wadada Leo Smith and relative newcomers like Abdul Moimême gave us unique musical insights. It was an outstanding year for solo recordings. Along with Smith and Moimême, Rob Mazurek, Matthew Shipp, Irish multi-instrumentalist Aine O'Dwyer, Cuban pianist Aruán Ortiz, Italian pianist Stefano Battaglia, ...
Adam Berenson / Scott Barnum: Penumbra
by Karl Ackermann
Not one to be tethered to genres or styles, pianist and composer Adam Berenson has been long at home as a jazz pianist, a classical composer, an electronics player or any permutation of those roles. His previous double-CD Lumen (Dream Play, 2014)--complete with two string quartets--was indeed a far-ranging collection of styles and genres that the ...
Lumen
Label: Dream Play Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: Disc 1: Transpersonal; Jnana, Pt. 10; Late 20th Century Stomp; Emotional Idiot; Prose Surrealism;Very Soon Mankind Will No Longer Be a Useless Passion (Broadway Melody of 1996); Jnana, Pt. 13;
Rainer Maria Rilke; Ricercar (For Sven Nykvist); ... Was Near the Black Plague..; A Little Boy Opened a Window 3; ... Searching... Everywhere..; Dithyramb; Jnana, Pt. 8; Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek;
String Quartet #3. Disc 2: "I"; Respectable People; Stars 1; The Adytum; Tickled to Death; Jnana, Pt. 18; Ingrid Thulin; Through This Stillness; Yasujiro Ozu; Spooky Action at a Distance; String Quartet #1: Pt. I; String Quartet #1: Pt. II; String Quartet #1: Pt. III; String Quartet #1:Pt. IV; String Quartet #1: Pt. V.
Adam Berenson: Lumen
by Karl Ackermann
More than forty years ago, Harry Nillson coined the phrase “A point in every direction is the same as no point at all" and as an axiom it has stood the test of time very well. However, Adam Berenson topples the adage with his unlimited imagination and a refined command of weaving multiple genres and sub-genres ...
