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Album: The Weight of Light
By Benoit Delbecq
Label: Pyroclastic Records
Released: 2021
Duration: 7:40
Benoit Delbecq: The Weight of Light
by Jerome Wilson
The concept of light having weight may seem unusual but in listening to this solo set by pianist Benoit Delbecq, the idea starts to make sense. His style of playing mixes feathery improvisations with clanking rhythms that bring a feeling of mass and density to his work. Delbecq uses a lot of prepared piano ...
Gard Nilssen, Sam Rivers, Laura Toxvaerd & Dan Blake
by Maurice Hogue
Drummers sparkle in the first hour of this edition of OMJ--Norway's Gard Nilssen with his Supersonic Orchestra, free jazz veteran Abbey Rader, and the iconoclastic RaKalam Bob Moses--plus a long track from some newly released music from the private stash of Sam Rivers. The second hour is a mix of styles, even including some blues from ...
Wadada Leo Smith / Douglas R. Ewart / Mike Reed & Benoit Delbecq
by Maurice Hogue
The lineup for this edition of OMJ is like a menu in an ice cream shop: so many flavours to choose from. The AACM is alive and well in the excellent new release for Astral Spirits by Wadada Leo Smith, Douglas R. Ewart & Mike Reed, power guitar from Slovenia's Samo Salamon with a French quartet, ...
Benoit Delbecq: The Weight of Light
by John Sharpe
French pianist Benoit Delbecq has become one of the leading exponents of the John Cage-inspired school of prepared piano in the jazz and improvised music arena. So much so that Canadian pianist Kris Davis received a grant to study extended piano techniques with him early in her career, and has since performed with him in duet. ...
Benoit Delbecq: The Weight of Light
by Karl Ackermann
Parisian pianist & composer Benoît Delbecq has not recorded a solo album in more than a decade. His collaborations are with impressive company including Tim Berne, Tom Rainey, Lotte Anker, Mark Turner, Steve Argüelles, Gerald Cleaver, Marc Ducret, Gerry Hemingway, Mary Halvorson, Taylor Ho Bynum, and Kris Davis. It is Davis' Pyroclastic Records that Delbecq calls ...
Benoit Delbecq: The Weight Of Light
by Dan McClenaghan
The experience of sound can incite ruminations on the laws of physics, on geometrics, time, space and spirituality. The music on pianist Benoit Debecq's The Weight Of Light--his first solo recording in more than a decade--does just that. It also conjures images of the shape of the African continent that birthed a jumble of rhythmic designs. ...
Elin Forkelid, Susie Ibarra, Benoît Delbecq, Chris Speed and More New Releases
by Ludovico Granvassu
Navasha Daya's tribute to Gil Scott Heron, several projects that explore the trail Coltrane blazed, artists for whom rhythm is melody and melody is rhythm, musicians who plunge themselves into the inner space and the outer space, debut CDs, reissues, label showcase albums... There's something for everyone in this hour of new and upcoming jazz.
Benoit Delbecq: The Weight of Light
by Neri Pollastri
Sperimentatore sulla tastiera e sul pentagramma, in equilibro tra il jazz e la contemporanea, il francese Benoit Delbecq è un vero maestro del pianoforte preparato, che ha più volte proposto sia entro gruppi di varie dimensioni, sia in solo, come accade in questo The Weight of Light, appena uscito per la Pyroclastic Records di Kris Davis. ...
Eyeballing
By Sarah Murcia
Label: Dstream
Released: 2020
Track listing: The Caretaker; Monkey; Come Back Later; Inefficient; Volonté avec un nuage de lait; Small; Eyeballing; So Nice; Minimum.
