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Stefano Battaglia Trio: The River of Anyder

Read "The River of Anyder" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Il lungo viaggio musicale di Battaglia, nel suo nuovo capitolo per l'etichetta di Manfred Eicher, s'ispira ai luoghi fantasticati che scrittori, filosofi o mistici hanno evocato nel corso dei secoli. I titoli dei brani spaziano dalla città-fortezza descritta da Tolkien ne Il Signore degli Anelli (Minas Tirith) ad Anagoor di Dino Buzzati, dalla Bensalem di Francis ...

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Ricardo Villalobos / Max Loderbauer: Re: ECM

Read "Re: ECM" reviewed by David McLean

by David McLean

Over the past decade or so, the ECM label has been flirting with elements of electronic music in varying degrees. Evan Parker's Towards The Margins (1997) introduced electronic manipulation in the live processing of sound as a new improvisational tool, embellishing the saxophonist's already avant-garde collection of instrumentation. Since then, subtle machinations have crept into other ...

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Charles Lloyd / Maria Farantouri: Athens Concert

Read "Charles Lloyd / Maria Farantouri: Athens Concert" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

When ECM enticed him back into action in 1989, who knew that reed/woodwind multi-instrumentalist Charles Lloyd's career wouldn't just kick-start, it would signal a period of ascendancy that's moved from one creative height to another ever since? Two decades later, his stable quartet of young Americans rivals the stellar group responsible for Atlantic megahits including 1966's ...

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Wolfert Brederode Quartet: Post Scriptum

Read "Post Scriptum" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan

ECM Records has a way of offering up music from various artists that seems as if it has existed forever--in nature, in the air--and that they, the label and the artists involved--be it pianists Tord Gustavsen or Bobo Stenson, or saxophonist Jan Garbarek--are simply conduits for grabbing those sounds and bringing them to the listening/CD-buying public. ...

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Ricardo Villalobos / Max Loderbauer: Re: ECM

Read "Ricardo Villalobos / Max Loderbauer: Re: ECM" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

The concept of remix-- using studio technology to deconstruct, reshape and reconstruct extant recordings--is far from new, but the past decade has seen a considerable expansion of purview. Once more closely aligned with the club scene, remixes are no longer solely about relentless beats for dancing; instead, as Norway's Punkt Festival has been demonstrating for seven ...

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Nils Okland / Sigbjorn Apeland: Lysoen: Hommage a Ole Bull

Read "Lysoen: Hommage a Ole Bull" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

The problem with being tagged as traditional is an inherent and immediate perception as being somehow retro or backwards-looking when, in truth, traditions ought to be living, breathing things whose definable frames of reference aren't necessarily confined by them. Norwegian violinist Nils Økland and pianist/harmonium player Sigbjørn Apeland know this better than most; in their 1982 ...

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Paolo Fresu - A Filetta Corsican Voices - Daniele Di Bonaventura: Mistico Mediterraneo

Read "Mistico Mediterraneo" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

A Filetta è il gruppo vocale che più di ogni altro, da trent'anni, porta avanti la prosecuzione e lo sviluppo del canto a cappella tradizionale della Corsica. Prosecuzione, perché è nella lunga tradizione isolana che si radica la tecnica vocale e la proposta poetica di A Filetta, nato infatti nel 1978 come gruppo di musica tradizionale; ...

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Konitz / Mehldau / Haden / Motian: Live at Birdland

Read "Live at Birdland" reviewed by Kevin Davis

by Kevin Davis

It begins with a conversation between Lee Konitz's airy alto sax and Paul Motian's even more ethereal drums, and instantly the groove of this 1954 Sonny Rollins workhorse, “Oleo," feels comfortable, welcoming, and lived-in. Like much of what transpired on the December, 2009 dates from which ECM culled Live at Birdland, which plays home to this ...

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Francois Couturier: Tarkovsky Quartet

Read "Tarkovsky Quartet" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

He may have passed away a quarter century ago, but the spirit of Russian film director Andrey Tarkovsky continues to loom large, and not just in the world of cinema. The connection between film and music has long been an intimate one, dating back to the early silent days, when pianists provided a live (and often ...

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Wolfert Brederode Quartet: Post Scriptum

Read "Post Scriptum" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

At a time when the world is becoming an increasingly busy and, in some cases, hostile place, it's easy to forget the power of music, to create a space away from the demands and stresses of day-to-day life, where it's possible to just sit back, absorb, and become absorbed in something transcendent. Music doesn't always have ...


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