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Stefan Pasborg: The Firebirds

Read "The Firebirds" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro

Il quarantenne batterista danese Stefan Pasborg, un carnet di collaborazioni veramente cospicuo e brillante, è l'artefice di questo ambizioso progetto discografico che consiste nella rilettura di due dei massimi capolavori stravinskyani, L'uccello di fuoco (1910) e La sagra della primavera (1913), integrati (ultimo pezzo) da un ulteriore balletto del 1948 opera di Khachaturian. ...

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Jakob Bro: Gefion

Read "Gefion" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero

I primi centottanta secondi sono quasi impercettibili. Non è una questione di volume, ma di estetica, di dichiarazione di intenti. Jakob Bro si presenta così in Gefion sua prima fatica discografica per ECM, il silenzio, lo spazio, il suono, il Rainbow Studio di Oslo come compagni di viaggio al pari del batterista Jon Christensen e del ...

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Ibrahim Electric: Rumours from Outer Space

Read "Rumours from Outer Space" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero

Una chitarra elettrica Telecaster, un organo Hammond B3, una batteria e il viaggio nello spazio ha inizio. I tre astronauti hanno le sembianze di avventurosi musicisti danesi e il nome del power trio che li rappresenta la dice lunga sulle traiettorie spaziali percorse in questo Rumours from Outer Space. Ossia un crogiolo di ...

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Svend Asmussen: Embraceable

Read "Embraceable" reviewed by Chris Mosey

by Chris Mosey

In 1987 when he was a young man of 70, Svend Asmussen played a gig in a small club in Paris. This year, on the eve of his 100th birthday, the Danish violinist rediscovered a tape made of the evening for a Parisian radio station. He says: “I assumed it would be just another radio show ...

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Sigurdur Flosason and Kjeld Lauritsen: Nightfall

Read "Nightfall" reviewed by Chris Mosey

by Chris Mosey

Icelandic saxophonist Sigurdur Flosason gets a pretty unique sound out of his instrument. His silky, rhapsodic style of playing harks back to Johnny Hodges but with more bite. There are only the very faintest echoes of Charlie Parker and hardly any of John Coltrane. Yet Flosason is both inventive and soulful. This is ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Gefion

Read "Gefion" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

It's been a long time coming. Jakob Bro made his first ECM appearance as a member of drummer Paul Motian's twin-sax/triple-guitar band on the late drummer's Garden of Eden (2006). Three more years passed before he returned, this time as a member of Tomasz Stanko's trans-European quintet on 2009's Dark Eyes--a group that evolved considerably from ...

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Sigurdur Flosason/Kjeld Lauritsen: Daybreak

Read "Daybreak" reviewed by Chris Mosey

by Chris Mosey

They used to call this kind of thing “mood music." The idea was to put the listener in a particular mood, usually one of calm and relaxation. When it came to jazz, the US label Prestige climbed on the bandwagon with a whole series titled--wait for it-- “Moodsville." Moodsville aimed at providing jazz ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Jakob Bro: Gefion

Read "Jakob Bro: Gefion" reviewed by Henning Bolte

by Henning Bolte

Gefion, Danish guitarist Jakob Bro's ECM-debut as leader, is a fascinating reinvention of melodicism. His music leads listeners deep into the rich resonances emerging from brilliantly simple melodic motifs imbued with seductive atmospheres. Like Möbius strips his music's lines wind seemingly endlessly. Its evocative melodic nuclei very often reach the lower limits of dynamics, thereby opening ...

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Sigurdur Flosason/Kjeld Lauritsen: Daybreak

Read "Daybreak" reviewed by Chris Mosey

by Chris Mosey

They used to call this kind of thing “mood music." The idea was to put the listener in a particular mood, usually one of calm and relaxation. When it came to jazz, the US label Prestige climbed on the bandwagon with a whole series titled--wait for it-- “Moodsville." Moodsville aimed at providing jazz ...

Article: Album Review

Lotte Anker: What River Is This

Read "What River Is This" reviewed by Giuseppe Segala

by Giuseppe Segala

What River Is This, si chiede la sassofonista danese Lotte Anker, che abbiamo apprezzato in precedenza nel rodato trio con Craig Taborn e Gerald Cleaver (formato ormai più di dieci anni fa), ma anche in duo con Fred Frith e in trio con Ikue Mori e con Sylvie Courvoisier. “Che fiume è questo" ("Qué río es ...


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