Results for "HELEN SVOBODA"

Helen Svoboda

Helen Svoboda is a double bassist, vocalist, composer, and nature-enthusiast. ‘With a deep awareness of extra-musical concepts that shape inventive improvisation, and great art.. ‘ (Steve Newcomb, AUS), she draws influence mainly from vegetables, flowers and the genres of minimalist neo-classical music to folk and experimental jazz. With a steadfast ‘desire and ability to create and perform original music’ (Rafael Karlen, AUS), Svoboda has developed a distinctive sound across many different musical avenues. Pursuing a passion for unusual combinations of instrumentation, she is defined not by genre, but by her addiction to music and her love of exciting creative environments (both plant and non-plant related). With Finnish/Australian heritage, Svoboda has spent the past two years in the Netherlands, specializing in soloistic double bass composition with inclusion of voice - particularly focused on the overtone series

A Few More of My Favorite 2023 Jazz Things - Part 4

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 5, 2024

For the past few episodes we have been looking back at albums released this year which we've been most fascinated by, and we cherry-picked songs from those albums that struck us the most... To wrap up this retrospective here's the last batch of sonic gems.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. ...

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden of Jazzy Delights 2023

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 3, 2024

If it is true that, like The Police once put it, “when the world is going down you make the best of what's still around," then throughout 2023 jazz fans were better off than most other social groups. In a year in which everyday news brought ever more inconceivable disappointments, jazz musicians, labels, festivals and venues ...

Time Together / Time Apart

Label: 577 Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: A Beginning; A Proposition; Doubts; Time Together; A Moment Alone; Time Apart; An Ending.

The Odd River

By Helen Svoboda

Label: Earshift Music
Released: 2023
Track listing: Apple Choir; Pick Me; Interlude 1; Honeybee Warfare; Blue (pt 1); Blue (pt 2); Foreign Bodies; Loom (pt 1); Interlude 2; Loom (pt 2); Oddities.

Mike Jurkovic's Best Albums Of 2023

by Mike Jurkovic
December 14, 2023

Led by Veronica Swift and Lakecia Benjamin, 2023 spotlighted some brilliantly moving new music in a year of previously unheard masterpieces. If music soothes the savage beast, this was a great year to be listening. John ColtraneEvenings At The Village Gate Impulse! Records

Bernie Worrell, Kris Davis, Idris Ackamoor, Helen Svoboda & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
October 7, 2023

Travel the spaceways with Sun Ra, Bernie Worrell, Ronald Shannon Jackson and Joe Zawinul, then experience the Afro Futuristic dreams of Idris Ackamoor, the grooves of the Adam Deitch Quartet featuring John Scofield and the river streams that have inspired Helen Svoboda and Slowly Rolling Camera. Happy listening! Playlist Ben Allison Mondo ...

Francois Houle, Sei Miguel & other new Clean Feed Releases

by Maurice Hogue
May 17, 2023

There's plenty of great new music to get excited about in this edition of OMJ. Clean Feed Records, that wonderful label in Portugal, just dropped a whole bunch of new albums and I'm happy to dig into these--the Italian band {m: Roots Magic}} that digs into blues and avant-garde, the unique trumpeter Sei Miguel , Canadian ...

Svaboda / O'Connor / Green: Time Together / Time Apart

by Mike Jurkovic
May 14, 2023

It is hard not be taken aback by the sonorous study undertaken by the peerless trio of double bassist Helen Svoboda, pianist Joe O'Connor and drummer Tim Green on their organically collective and communicative Time Together, Time Apart. Like watching the ocean, “A Beginning" scans the immediate calm surface, expanding your vision out towards ...

Sexmob, Alexander Hawkins, Allen Lowe & Tim Berne

by Maurice Hogue
May 8, 2023

So much new music to explore. The always interesting Sex Mob debuts The Hard Way, Tim Berne hooks up with Hank Roberts and Aurora Nealand, saxophonist and composer and historian Allen Lowe has two new ones, there's a pair from Australia, a trio led by pianist Helen Svoboda and the group Tripataka, English pianist Alexander Hawkins' ...