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Hiromi Kanda: Days of Yesterday
by Dan McClenaghan
Japanese-born and now Honolulu-based vocalist Hiromi Kanda had some success in her homeland with the beginnings of a singing career. After winning a talent contest, plans were made to turn Kanda into a sexy pop idol. She demurred. What Kanda wanted was a career as a singer/songwriter. And she loved the Great American Songbook, and artists ...
Samuel Blaser Consort in Motion: A Mirror to Machaut
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il giovane trombonista Samuel Blaser (svizzero, a lungo a New York, oggi di stanza a Berlino) ripresenta in forma rinnovata il suo Consort in Motion, con il quale assieme a Paul Motian nel 2011 aveva rielaborato musiche di Monteverdi, Frescobaldi e Biagio Marini. Adesso, con un organico diverso (ovviamente manca purtroppo Motian) e ampliato grazie all'ingresso ...
Tim Berne's Snakeoil: Shadow Man
by Troy Collins
New York-based alto saxophonist Tim Berne has long been regarded one of the Downtown scene's most forward-thinking bandleaders. Among his peers, no other artist has so often fostered the creative talent of subsequent generations; multi-instrumentalist Chris Speed, keyboardist Craig Taborn and drummer Jim Black all spent their formative years playing alongside the veteran saxophonist. Likewise, Berne ...
Paul Stapleton - Simon Rose: Fauna
by AAJ Italy Staff
BoSS è l'acronimo di bonsai sound sculpture, uno strumento modulare portatile composto da un giradischi riciclato, elettronica DIY (fai da te), percussioni metalliche amplificate e corde varie. Ideatore del marchingegno è Paul Stapleton, sound artist originario della California meridionale attualmente residente a Belfast nell'Irlanda del Nord. Frequentatore assiduo della sperimentazione anche estrema attraverso la ricerca e ...
Yannah Valdevit: Equilibrium
by AAJ Italy Staff
Yannah Valdevit è una cantante croata, attiva anche come produttrice e autrice sulla scena della musica da ballo inglese degli ultimi anni. Qui è supportata da Zed Bias, tra i registi sonori più noti della medesima scena. L'ascolto delle undici tracce del disco non procura particolari scosse, ma è interessante per avere nelle orecchie un compendio ...
Formo Tre & Metall: Amor & Labor
by Eyal Hareuveni
Norwegian keyboard player Daniel Formo continues to explore and expand the sonic qualities of the old, trusty Hammond B3 organ, and to emancipate this instrument from its traditional role in a jazz setting. Formo began this journey with the impressive Hammond Dialogues (Particular Recordings, 2013), on which he explored the role of the organ as a ...
Metamorphic: Coalescence
by Bruce Lindsay
Laura Cole, leader, pianist, arranger and songwriter of Metamorphic, dedicates Coalescence, the band's second album, to her great grandfathers Sidney Walker and Mervyn Clifford Cole. What would the two men, pictured in the album booklet's 1923 photo of the Irlam Co-operative Wholesale Orchestra, make of their great-granddaughter's approach to music? We'll never know, but the Orchestra's ...
Mattia Cigalini: Beyond
by AAJ Italy Staff
Nel suo nuovo lavoro da leader Mattia Cigalini è affiancato da musicisti di livello assoluto, sia tecnico sia espressivo, come Bebo Ferra, Stefano Bagnoli e Riccardo Fioravanti. La scaletta di Beyond si apre con “Nobody Like Us," uno dei tre originali in programma, e si sviluppa attraverso le riletture di brani recenti provenienti dalle aree tematiche ...
Ralph Towner / Wolfgang Muthspiel / Slava Grigoryan: Travel Guide
by John Kelman
Following an early series of ensemble releases for ECM (the label he's called home as a leader since 1973), Ralph Towner ushered in the new millennium by focusing on solo explorations with Anthem (2001) and Time Line (2006). Not that there's anything wrong with that, but after classic records like Solstice (1975) and Batik (1978), there ...
Drew Gress: The Sky Inside
by AAJ Italy Staff
Formazione stellare quella che Drew Gress presenta per il suo debutto sull'etichetta tedesca Pirouet, e quintetto consolidato fin dal lontano 2005 quando debuttò con l'ottimo 7 Black Butterflies. Formazione di musicisti avventurosi, spinti da un insaziabile spirito di ricerca seppur con prospettive e gradi differenti di intensità che... sembra incappare se non in un esercizio di ...
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