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Article: Year in Review

Karl Ackermann's Best Releases of 2017

by Karl Ackermann
December 8, 2017

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, ...

Article: Album Review

Adam Berenson / Scott Barnum: Penumbra

Read "Penumbra" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
January 10, 2017

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 ...

Album

Lumen

By Adam Berenson

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.

Article: Album Review

Adam Berenson: Lumen

by Karl Ackermann
March 18, 2015

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 ...

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A Codex of Silent Voices

By Adam Berenson

Label: Mighty Quinn Productions
Released: 2013
Track listing: Transpersonal; through this stillness; comfort of oblivion; ...a study in...; Don't Destroy Love; Invisible Threads; Anamorphosis; Be My Mirror; The Everlasting; The Thing; It Is Possible; The Other; Scherzo; I Don't Know Where I'm Going; Grief Fills the Room Up; Interstices; written on air; Yasujiro Ozu; Truth Lives.

Article: Album Review

Adam Berenson and Bill Marconi: A Codex of Silent Voices

Read "A Codex of Silent Voices" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
February 4, 2013

Pianist/composer Adam Berenson is a mystery; his Facebook page features nothing about his music-making and, in its photo section, a couple of Jackson Pollock-like abstract paintings along with a Van Gogh-inspired seascape. The song titles on his numerous releases perpetuate the mystery--"Sepulchral Vicissitudes" and “Emotional Idiot," from Contextual (1999),and the title track to The Mystery of ...