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Ben Rosenblum Nebula Project: A Thousand Pebbles

Read "A Thousand Pebbles" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro

Il giovane pianista e fisarmonicista (qui più la seconda della prima pelle, diremmo, almeno come incidenza sul sound d'insieme) newyorchese Ben Rosenblum firma con questo A Thousand Pebbles il quarto album a suo nome e il secondo alla testa del Nebula Project, sestetto (qui rinforzato da Xavier Del Castillo) versatile e capace di generare un clima ...

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Dandy Dandie: Hypnos & Morphée

Read "Hypnos & Morphée" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri

Classe 1974, bretone di Quimper, Alban Darche è musicista uso a muoversi nei contesti più disparati; così, subito dopo l'uscita dell'ultimo lavoro della sua Le Gros Cube #2, una big band nella quale spiccano le presenze di Jon Irabagon e Samuel Blaser, il sassofonista presenta--sempre per la Yolk, etichetta di cui è cofondatore --questo album alla ...

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Vivienne Aerts: Typuhthâng

Read "Typuhthâng" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May

Typuhthâng is a luminous, exquisitely crafted suite of music and an album on a mission. The mission is twofold: to mark International Women's Day with a recording performed and engineered by women, for everyone, and to provide financial support to The Femmes de Virunga, a cacao farming collective of 1,500 women in Virunga State Park in ...

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Tim Bruer: Love Letters: Compositions For Solo Piano

Read "Love Letters: Compositions For Solo Piano" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan

The music on Australian pianist Tim Bruer's Love Letters: Compositions For Solo Piano have simple beginnings. For example, a chord that Bruer loved--one which came about via his “messing around" with a keyboard sound that caught his ear--then developed quickly, with little tweaking, into its completed form; a composition was born Bruer loves sounds ...

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Franco D'Andrea: Sketches of the 20th Century

Read "Sketches of the 20th Century" reviewed by Giuseppe Segala

by Giuseppe Segala

Ogni CD pubblicato da Franco D'Andrea rappresenta una tappa significativa del suo percorso artistico, ne descrive il clima, lo stato di avanzamento, ne sottolinea la costante logica, in un fitto ordito di fattori che dialogano costantemente entro panoramiche ricche di elementi dinamici. Questo Sketches of the 20th Century si pone però quale autentica pietra miliare, che ...

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Tuscany Music Revolution: TMR

Read "TMR" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri

Tre quarti d'ora di musica totalmente improvvisata, divisa in otto parti e suonata da un collettivo di tredici musicisti provenienti da varie parti d'Italia e d'Europa, senza la presenza di un leader: questo è Tuscany Music Revolution, titolo dell'album e nome del collettivo che lo realizza, derivato dall'essere entrambi nati a Buonconvento, nel senese, in occasione ...

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Joel Harrison &. Anthony Pirog: The Great Mirage

Read "The Great Mirage" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic

The gritty, jammy sonics of the leadoff title track quickly convince the listener that avant guitarists Joel Harrison and Anthony Pirog are hellbent on getting it all out of their systems on The Great Mirage. Bassist Stephan Crump, who lays down his acoustic bass and goes electric, and daredevil drummer Allison Miller, who has ...

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Marc Ducret: Palm Sweat — Marc Ducret Plays The Music Of Tim Berne

Read "Palm Sweat — Marc Ducret Plays The Music Of Tim Berne" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto

There is a through line working within Palm Sweat -Marc Ducret Plays the Music of Tim Berne. The guitarist covers compositions passed to him by composer and saxophonist Tim Berne as he was leaving Brooklyn for his home in France just as the Covid19 lockdowns were beginning. The connections between Ducret and Berne are quite obvious. ...

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Christian McBride's New Jawn: Prime

Read "Prime" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic

"Head Bedlam," crashes from the gate with a gale force which instantly gives away the plot of Prime. Put simply, the sophomore release from maverick bassist Christian McBride's New Jawn (Philadelphia slang for something not yet named or created) is a free-form steeplechase. Crying, screeching, testifying, New Jawn trumpeter Josh Evans and saxophonist & bass clarinetist Marcus Strickland ...

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Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra: Lightning Dreamers

Read "Lightning Dreamers" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto

The similarities between Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Orchestra and Sun Ra's Arkestra are numerous. Both leaders travel the spaceways via the technologies available in their time, applied through dynamic rhythm and pulse. For Ra, his sound began when he was an apprentice in Fletcher Henderson's band in the 1940s, and Mazurek's 1990s work revolved around Isotope ...


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