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The Purity of Desire

Label: Not Two Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Purity of Desire; Bridge to the Soul; Love is a Stranger; This Longing; A Garden Beyond Paradise; Music of a Distant Drum; The Joy That Wounds; Light upon Light

Article: Album Review

Ivo Perelman: The Purity of Desire

Read "The Purity of Desire" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
December 21, 2020

Tenor saxophonist Ivo Perelman is an imaginative and intrepid musical explorer. His prolific discography is replete with unique examples of his restless creativity all bearing his inimitable style. On the sensual The Purity of Desire Perelman joins forces with oud player Gordon Grdina and percussionist Hamin Honari. Together they perform a set of eight originals inspired ...

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New Music from Ivo Perelman

by Bob Osborne
December 14, 2020

Ivo Perelman sent me three new albums. When I saw the musicians involved it reminded me of some other great releases featuring those people. I had a search in the archive and pulled together some music to compliment the new releases from Perelman. There's also two great new albums—one from Samo Salamon & Friends, and the ...

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Resist the Middle

October 9, 2020

Album: Resist
By Gordon Grdina
Label: Irabbagast Records
Released: 2020
Duration: 8:27

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Whit Dickey, Sara Serpa & Stanley J. Zappa

by Maurice Hogue
July 29, 2020

This first July show features the debut of a new record label with a focus on improvisation: Tau Forms. The artistic director is drummer Whit Dickey, and it happens that his new Expanded Light is one of first two releases by the label; the other comes from pianist Matthew Shipp. Good luck to Tao Forms! I ...

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Ennio Morricone + Betty LaVette, Gordon Grdina, Billy Martin & New Releases

by Ludovico Granvassu
July 21, 2020

This week we pay tribute to the late Ennio Morricone the way we often do, through renditions of his memorable soundtracks performed by contemporary creative jazz artists like John Zorn, Bill Frisell, Marco Cappelli, Guano Padano, and Oddjob. We then check out some great new releases that cross borders, stylistic definitions and generations. Happy ...

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Gordon Grdina Septet: Resist

by Mike Jurkovic
June 28, 2020

It takes a leap of unconditional faith to enter wholly the resistance. A mindset steadied for the long haul, readied for the next. On his third, integral, must-listen-to release of 2020, Canadian oudist/guitarist/composer Gordon Grdina grandly, darkly, intently, espouses all that and more. Hellbent on creating art as a political act, the sprawling, at times majestic ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

Gordon Grdina: Singular and Prolific

by Doug Collette
June 22, 2020

Gordon Grdina continues his singular and prolific career path with not one but two different recordings conducted with two separate musical ensembles. Accurate and vivid reflections of his eclectic mix of what is, in simplest terms, mainstream jazz, free/improv and Arabic music. Nomad Trio and Resist also build upon his background as protégé of jazz great ...

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Luca Sguera, Enrique Haneine and Joe McPhee & Dave Rempis

by Maurice Hogue
May 27, 2020

This episode is a mixed bag of music of new releases (Gordon Grdina Sextet, Luca Sguera, Enrique Haneine, Dave Rempis & Joe McPhee, and The Necks) plus further listening from recent releases by the likes of Marie Kruttli and Trio, Itaca 4et, Inland Empire featuring Kris Davis, The MacroQuarktet and Simon Nabatov Quintet), and revisits to ...

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Otis Sandsjö, Pablo Ablanedo, Webber/Morris Big Band and More

by Ludovico Granvassu
May 22, 2020

Second part of this week's review of new and upcoming releases [for the first part click here] with the great return of master arranger Pablo Ablanedo, the new single by Swedish saxophonist and flutist Otis Sandsjö, two new projects by the prolific oud and guitarist Gordon Grdina, and saxophones in solo, duo, trio and quartet settings. ...