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Axel Erotic: In Love With
by Eyal Hareuveni
French drummer-percussionist Sylvain Darrifourcq describes In Love With, his trio Axel Erotic debut album, as “the curves of the desire imprisoned somewhere, in a space with an implacably rectilinear geometry. But it's also a pink sky pastel, something of our sexual, epileptic and short-lived world." An apt description of Axel Erotic, a trio that is comprised ...
Jean-Brice Godet Quartet: Mujo
by John Sharpe
Young French reedman Jean-Brice Godet enlists a seasoned cast for his debut leadership album, recruited during one of his frequent visits to NYC. Downtown stalwart Michael Attias completes the two horn front line, while bassist Pascal Niggenkemper and drummer Carlo Costa man the engine room. Godet works regularly with celebrated bassist Joelle Leandre, appearing on Can ...
Moppa Elliott: Still, Up In The Air
by Luca Canini
Non è facile volere bene a quel brontolone del contrabbasso quando decide di mettersi in proprio. Il legno, le corde, l'archetto, il suono goffo e introverso, le note slabbrate, imprecise, la fatica immane di cavare sangue dal più rapa degli strumenti: poche altre situazioni in ambito improvvisativo sanno essere più scorbutiche e meno amichevoli. Eppure la ...
Léandre - Delbecq - Houle: 14 rue Paul Forte, Paris
by Giuseppe Segala
Dice Kafka che “il libro deve essere un rompighiaccio, per spezzare il mare gelato dentro di noi." Questa musica è un rompighiaccio. Ma è anche un bisturi, una torcia, un occhio che esplora, un urlo. Una voce. Tre voci. Che si accostano, si ascoltano, si mescolano, si avvinghiano. Chi ascolta resta sospeso, colpito, stupito da tale ...
Joëlle Léandre - Urs Leimgruber - Fred Frith - Alvin Curran: Oakland/Lisboa
by Glenn Astarita
This multinational dream team's second album was recorded live at a venue in Lisbon, Portugal. MMM stands for Mills Music Mafia, alluding to the respective artists' tenure or residency at Mills College in Oakland, CA. As anticipated, the quartet embarks upon a course of ingenuity that would be difficult to top within global improvisational circuits. Indeed, ...
Leandre - Delbecq - Houle: 14 rue Paul Forte, Paris
by Glenn Astarita
Leo Records' press release correlates this trio's output to “heavy artillery" music, but it's most assuredly not all about bombast or in-your-face type avant-garde improvisation. Hence, these esteemed improvisers do what they do best in front of a select audience in Paris. Bassist Joelle Léandre and Benoit Delbecq hail from France and like Canadian clarinetist Francois ...
Sonic Communion: Sonic Communion
by John Sharpe
In one of the more appropriately titled releases, three French improvisers encounter two Americans in concert, captured during a short tour of France. Heading up the US contingent is underexposed AACM stalwart reedman Douglas Ewart, accompanied by another Windy City denizen in drummer Michael Zerang. Bassists Joelle Leandre and Bernard Santacruz thicken the ensemble sound, while ...
Deux Maisons: For Sale
by John Sharpe
The two houses name-checked in the outift's moniker refer to the twin countries represented by the string pairing of French brothers Théo and Valentin Ceccaldi and the Portuguese duo of trumpeter Luis Vicente and drummer Marco Franco. Vicente already boasts a well received previous disc in Clocks & Clouds (FMR, 2014) which matched both him and ...
European Jazz Conference 2015: Hungarian Showcases
by Henning Bolte
Budapest Music Center European Jazz Conference Hungarian Showcases Budapest, Hungary September, 24-27, 2015 The European Jazz Conference is a step forward for pan-European cooperation and collaboration. What was formerly the General Assembly of the Europe Jazz Network (EJN), became the European Jazz Conference from 2014. It is now also opened to ...
Brda Contemporary Music Festival 2015
by Angelo Leonardi
Brda Contemporary Music Festival 2015 Smartno--Slovenia 10-12.09.2015 A Smartno in Slovenia, poco oltre il confine con l'Italia prospicente Cormons, si tiene da cinque anni un piccolo ma avvincente festival dedicato alla libera improvvisazione. La regione, chiamata Brda, è tanto suggestiva quanto quella del vicino Collio: un paesaggio di verdi ...
