Results for "FMR Records"

Mark O'Leary: Ellipses

by Glenn Astarita
August 21, 2008

Irish guitar wunderkind Mark O'Leary has now set his sights on the jazz-fusion element, to complement his already expansive improvisational vernacular. This 2008 effort might open up a few more doors for an artist who possesses the goods to go anywhere he darn well pleases. For this project, O'Leary and his trio investigate black hole stars ...

Mark O'Leary/Wayne Horvitz/Dylan Van Der Schyff: FLUX

by Glenn Astarita
July 3, 2008

Irish guitar wiz Mark O'Leary's relentless pursuit of melding his improvisational expertise with some of the top guns in the jazz-based business continues here during this trio setting recorded in Seattle, Washington. On this 2008 studio set, the musicians quietly surge into abstract-minimalism via the free-improv route. With O'Leary's harmonically appeasing volume control techniques and fluid ...

Mark O'Leary / Terje Isungset: Shamanic Voices

by Glenn Astarita
June 9, 2008

Irish guitar hero Mark O'Leary continues to pursue the outer boundaries of improvisation. Here, he aligns with Norwegian percussionist Terje Isungset for a polytonal and multihued improv fest. On 2008's Shamanic Voices, with more on the way, the guitarist intermingles acoustic and electric guitar parts with his partner's keen use of disparate percussion objects. Loaded with ...

Francois Carrier / Michel Lambert: Kathmandu

by Budd Kopman
February 24, 2008

Alto saxophonist Francois Carrier is one of the most open musical souls around. When he went to Nepal in October of 2006 with his long-time musical partner, drummer Michel Lambert, to play in the fifth Jazzmandu jazz festival there, the depth of the connection he immediately felt with the Nepali people overwhelmed him. Kathmandu is the ...

Himalayan Beauty

February 22, 2008

Album: Kathmandu
By François Carrier
Label: FMR Records
Released: 2008
Duration: 05:04

Francois Carrier - Michel Lambert: Kathmandu

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 31, 2008

Kathmandu è il resoconto di una settimana di incontri, di amicizie, di sorprese, di colori, di profumi, e, naturalmente, di suoni che il sassofonista Francois Carrier e il batterista Michel Lambert hanno avuto modo di registrare nella capitale nepalese durante la quinta edizione del Jazzmandu Festival. Tra i principali esponenti della scena improvvisativa canadese, i due ...

Coup d'Etat

By Compassionate Dictatorship

Label: FMR Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: The Hang; Bladey; Brain Pickle; Seizmic; Virtual Joyride; It

Kathmandu

By François Carrier

Label: FMR Records
Released: 2007

Burundi Monday

By Trevor Watts

Label: FMR Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Burundi Monday; Double Up.

Nang Naak

Label: FMR Records
Released: 2007