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Ingrid Laubrock: Sleepthief
by Nic Jones
Saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock is one of a handful of musicians who have plotted a disparate course through the music whilst ensuring that not an element of their trajectory sounds contrived. There's also an enviable lack of contrivance about her work, and this disc offers abundant proof of that. Furthermore Intakt is a label with built-in quality ...
Ingrid Laubrock with Liam Noble & Tom Rainey: Sleepthief
by Chris May
Listen, this is true. With Sleepthief, Ingrid Laubrock--since mid decade amongst the most interesting saxophonists and bandleaders on the British scene--has made an album so exceptional that it positions the German-born, London-based player as perhaps the most daring and exciting saxophonist anywhere in the world in 2008. It really is that extraordinary--and momentous--a release.
Barry Guy / Marilyn Crispell / Paul Lytton: Phases Of The Night
by Nic Jones
Any subversion of the piano trio tradition as manifested in the clinical virtuosity of a technocratic elite is always welcome, and it's present here in abundance. This is not however to suggest that this trio lacks technique, it's just that the music they produce is so free of the constraints of any overt tradition that the ...
Schlippenbach Trio: Gold Is Where You Find It
by Nic Jones
As this trio is decades into its existence, readers and potential listeners might be forgiven for thinking that the trio's collective music is losing some of its power. This, however, is far from the case. There's kinetic energy about some of the performances here but that sense is tempered by the group's distinctly non-formulaic understanding of ...
Doppelmoppel: Outside This Area
by Nic Jones
If one of the ongoing preoccupations of an identifiably European approach to free improvisation is the undermining of conventional group line-ups, then a quartet of two guitars (Uwe Kropinski and Joe Sachse) and two trombones (Conny and Johannes Bauer) has to be some kind of statement in itself. The same is true of the music they ...
Zentralquartett / Synopsis: Auf Der Elbe Schwimmt Ein Rosa Krokodil
by Nic Jones
This is a reissue of music recorded in March of 1974 and first released by the FMP label in 1976. The decades haven't diminished its fire and the fact that the group has reconvened and recorded occasionally through the years since marks this as the first document of an ongoing story. Communal ...
Maybe Monday: Unsquare
by AAJ Italy Staff
Antefatto. The Stone, novembre 2006. Accade spesso che John Zorn decida di affidare la programmazione del suo locale, “The Stone”, a un direttore artistico a tempo perso. Prassi consolidata e degna di lode quella di Mr. Tzadik, che nel novembre del 2006 cede la chiavi della propria dimora newyorchese a Miya Masaoka. L’artista di origine giapponese, ...
Lucas Niggli Drum Quartet: Beat Bag Bohemia
by AAJ Italy Staff
Beat Bag Bohemia è stato registrato da un gruppo di percussionisti nato all’indomani di un seminario che Niggli tenne a Durban, in Sudafrica. Oltre a lui c’è un altro batterista e percussionista svizzero (Zumithor) e due sudafricani, incontrati proprio nel corso dell’esperienza didattica. Il risultato è un disco interessante, soprattutto perché si pone sull’onda lunga di ...
Elliott Sharp: Concert In Dachau
by Nic Jones
Vocabulary is arguably the key ingredient in any entirely solo performance on any instrument other than the piano. Concert In Dachau is, perhaps, the best realized music Electroacoustic guitarist Elliott Sharp has ever committed to record. It's rare to get the chance to take in a musician's very thought processes as is possible here, and a ...
Globe Unity Orchestra: Globe Unity - 40 Years
by AAJ Italy Staff
Giù il cappello signori! La Globe Unity torna a incidere, non succedeva dal 2002, e il risultato ancora una volta è straordinario. E per festeggiare le quaranta candeline, Schlippenbach e soci hanno fatto le cose in grande. Innanzitutto largo alle nuove leve, con l’innesto di giovani virgulti pescati al di qua e al di là dell’oceano: ...
