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French Connections - The Jazzdor Experience
by Henning Bolte
Jazzdor is a French festival with two annual editions. The main part is held in the Strasbourg area (France) in November and the other one in Berlin (Germany) in June. Both editions present a considerable number of bilateral and multilateral collaborations; an essential part of the festival's philosophy and policy. The Strasbourg festival is ...
Hear Palmer 2016 Featuring the Archie Shepp Quartet
Music in the Cellar, Music in the Soil It’s Château Palmer’s secret garden, in the shadow of its vineyards, at the heart of its village: the winery. It’s here, in the spring, that the year’s assemblages are expressed for the first time… in music. For, although these primeurs may certainly be tasted, they may also be ...
Papanosh: A Chicken in a Bottle
by Anthony Shaw
Papanosh originate in the northern French city of Rouen and have been together over 10 years. This second CD of somewhat discordant, deconstructed hard bop is another example of their concept of an imagined folklore, a new musical tradition created together by musicians and listeners in their shared synergy. It involves widely varied music that, with its sudden ...
Babel Med Music 2017
by Martin Longley
Babel Med Music 2017 Marseille, France March 16-18, 2017 Babel Med Music is at once a public festival, a conference and a trade fair, possessing the capacity to be experienced on multiple levels, as the ratios of these aspects are juggled by the individual attendee. Its thrust is primarily towards ...
La Marmite Infernale: Les hommes… maintenant!
by Alberto Bazzurro
Formazione storica dell'avanguardia francese più squisitamente iconoclasta (pur se di quell'iconoclastia disincantata, ironica e un po' cialtrona che è tipica della scena jazzistica d'oltralpe), La Marmite Infernale è realtà schiettamente live, un po' imbrigliata fuori dai tracciati di un palco (o di una piazza, o al limite di una strada), più o meno come accadeva al ...
Eric Bibb: Migration Blues
by Chris Mosey
Eric Bibb says in the sleeve note to Migration Blues, his most politicized album to date: “The way I see it, prejudice towards our brothers and sisters who are currently called 'refugees' is the problem. Fear and ignorance are the problems. Refugees are not 'problems'--they are courageous fellow human beings escaping dire circumstances." ...
Derby Derby: Love Dance
by Troy Dostert
Ormo Records is a small French label dedicated to producing out-of-the-mainstream music that has one foot in the jazz tradition and the other alternatively venturing into post-rock, minimalist, and freely-improvised idioms. Bassist Sylvain Didou is the driving force behind the label's music, as he's composed and appeared on each of their releases so far, one of ...
Michael Pisaro: Resting in a Fold of the Fog
by John Eyles
The popularity of Michael Pisaro is ongoing; the composer and guitarist now averages an impressive four releases a year, not all on Editions Wandelweiser, as was once the case, but across a variety of labels including his own Gravity Wave, and Erstwhile. Potlatch is a recent addition to the fold; this release is the second on ...
French Prog Ensemble Yang Release Highly Anticipated 3rd Album "The Failure Of Words"
Founded by Frédéric L’Épée in 2002 (previously founder of the bands Shylock in the '70s and Philharmonie in the '90s), Yang is an instrumental quartet which compositions melt guitar counterpoints, odd time signatures, New Music with a hint of oriental modes all together with a powerful rock pulse. Their new opus, The Failure of Words, is ...
