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Angles: Every Woman Is a Tree
by AAJ Italy Staff
Musicista che si muove con grande curiosità su diversi piani di linguaggio - da quello più aderente alla tradizione free, come nel caso degli Exploding Customers, a quello più radicale che esplora le tecniche meno convenzionali dello strumento - il sassofonista svedese Martin Küchen non nasconde mai una matrice “politica" che contribuisce a muovere il suo ...
Michael Dessen: Between Shadow and Space
by AAJ Italy Staff
Ecco un Cd attuale, piuttosto vario, senza dubbio interessante, anche se non convincente dall'inizio alla fine. In quasi tutti i brani Dessen affianca al trombone l’utilizzo del computer, deformando ed integrando con sonorità filamentose la pronuncia classica dell'ottone. Fra i trombonisti dell'avanguardia storica Grachan Moncur III è quello il cui insegnamento traspare maggiormente nel linguaggio di ...
Fight the Big Bull: Dying Will Be Easy
by Dean Christesen
Fight the Big Bull's debut record begins darkly, with a fear brooding in the growl of a distorted trombone, unsettling bass and haunting shakers. It ends in a similar, yet tweaked tone, with an epic chorus making way for one last statement of defeat (or is it victory?). Amidst the rest of the work emerges a ...
Fight The Big Bull: Dying Will Be Easy
by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Fight the Big Bull describes itself on MySpace as “champions of curiosity." This candid qualifier is doubly introspective because it denotes both the whimsy and the intellectual maturity of Dying Will Be Easy. The Richmond-based nonet, who played at New York City's Issue Project Room Aug. 6, 2008, is led by guitarist Matt White, who also ...
Mark O'Leary: On the Shore
by AAJ Italy Staff
Dopo collaborazioni con Paul Bley, De Johnette ed altri, negli ultimi tre anni il chitarrista irlandese Mark O'Leary ha autoprodotto una quindicina di CD a suo nome, per la Clean Feed, la Ayler e soprattutto la Leo. Il che mi fa presupporre che egli abbia deciso di investire energie e denaro in una sistematica e ambiziosa ...
Angles: Every Woman Is A Tree
by Mark Corroto
Good can triumph over evil. It's just that evil is just so well organized by the political parties, oil corporations, and media conglomerates that the voice of dissent is often overshadowed. Like Woody Guthrie or Charles Mingus utilizing music to protest the sins of their time, today, bubbling in between the cracks of popular culture is ...
Mario Laginha Trio: Espaço
by AAJ Italy Staff
Di Mario Laginha si è sempre parlato poco. Innanzitutto come “del pianista di Maria Joao" e poi quasi niente altro. È quasi un “must", qui come in altri casi. Ma, come in altri casi, non basta. Espaço, un CD pubblicato dall'attenta Clean Feed ormai più di un anno fa, potrebbe essere un ottimo motivo per cominciare ...
Empty Cage Quartet: Stratostrophic
by Rex Butters
Stratostrophic, the sixth release by the Empty Cage Quartet (ECQ), finds the avant West Coasters full of ideas and limited by nothing. Their omnivorous approach gladly frustrates label taggers while rewarding informed listeners with advanced compositional and improvisational delights. Their continuing association pays off in an acquired looseness that revels in taking chances without losing the ...
Adam Lane / Lou Grassi / Mark Whitecage: Drunk Butterfly
by Glenn Astarita
Connotations of a Drunk Butterfly might sound like a humorous proposition, especially when depicted in a cartoon. But art doesn't necessarily imitate art within this 2008 trio release. Sure, the trio embarks upon a few off-kilter flight patterns. However, the musical aspects present numerous examples steeped within the bop, or free-bop scheme of things. And with ...
Mauger: The Beautiful Enabler
by Mark Corroto
Mauger, which is a word defined simply as “in spite of or in opposition to, notwithstanding," begs the questions as to what this marvelous trio opposes. It's definitely not creativity or cooperation. Rudresh Mahanthappa, Mark Dresser and Gerry Hemingway make music in spite of the dumbing down of the popular music culture, notwithstanding the current trends ...
