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Two First Visits From ezz-thetics
by John Eyles
So far, ezz-thetics' label First Visit (motto: First Visit archive offers previously unreleased recordings of historic and musical importance) has lived up to expectations with historic recordings from Cecil Taylor (two albums), Anthony Braxton, Albert Ayler (two) and Steve Lacy making the juices of classic jazz fans flow. Interspersed with such treasures have been ...
Résonances at Toulouse Lautrec Jazz Club
by John Eyles
Résonances Toulouse Lautrec Jazz Club London December 16, 2024 The very first Résonances took place at London's Vortex Jazz Club in 2017. Then, as now, the event was curated by the French-born visual artist and poet Aurélie Freoua who has become a regular conductor at the monthly performances by the London Improvisers ...
Giuliano d'Angiolini: )))(((
by John Eyles
Yes, “)))(((" is the title of the opening track of this album, and the title of the album itself. How one pronounces it is unclear. )))((( is the fourth album released by the Italian composer and ethnomusicologist Giuliano d'Angiolini who was born in Rome in 1960. He studied composition at the Rome Conservatory, ethnomusicology at Rome ...
Two return visitors to Another Timbre, performed by Apartment House
by John Eyles
One would have to think long and hard to find several similarities between composers Adrian Demoč and Linda Catlin Smith. Of different genders, they were born on different continents in different decades. Their routes to becoming composers differed, yet they both ended up as Another Timbre artists with a respectable selection of album releases on the ...
Gwendolyn Kassenaar at LightSounds 2024
by John Eyles
Gwendolyn Kassenaar Rich Mix LightSounds 2024 London, United Kingdom November 23, 2024 The weekend of Saturday November 23rd and Sunday November 24th saw the annual LightSounds festival which, instead of being a mere offshoot of music or visual art, positions audiovisual art at the center of the creative universe. This ...
Eden Lonsdale: Dawnings
by John Eyles
British/German composer Eden Lonsdale was born in 1996. When he was nine, he started making music with his cousin of the same age. When he was 12, he started enjoying playing the cello which he had been learning since he was 9. From then on, he spent weekends listening to Bach while following along with the ...
Three types of albums from ezz-thetics
by John Eyles
In 1975 Werner X. Uehlinger founded the Swiss-based HatHut label which mainly released jazz by such illustrious names as Anthony Braxton, Steve Lacy, Joe McPhee, Max Roach and Cecil Taylor. The labels Hat MUSICS and Hat ART followed in 1981. !997 brought hatOLOGY and hat(now)ART, the latter issuing modern compositions by the likes of John Cage ...
Lisa Barkas: Cinq Ponts
by John Eyles
Released by INSUB on September 26th, 2024, as a cassette or Bandcamp download, it is a relief to welcome Cinq Ponts as it is the label's first release since Jürg Frey's impressive Circular music (Ext.no1-no2-Ext.no2) was released by the label on September 1st, 2023. Cinq Ponts comprises three tracks with a total playing time of just ...
Cyril Bondi, Erika Nieva Cunha, Julie Semoroz, Emma Souharse: Boxing Noise
by John Eyles
After a period when the Swiss Insub label was not very active, it is a pleasure to report that Boxing Noise features one of Insub's main driving forces, Cyril Bondi, on drums, which he has played since the mid 1990s. The album was recorded live at Cave 12, Geneva, and Bikini Test, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, from ...
Urs Leimgruber: AIR Vol. 2
by John Eyles
Released a year after the four-disc album AIR Vol. 1 (Creative Works Records, 2023) comes the three-disc AIR Vol. 2, which has a similar layout to the earlier release. Each disc of the four-disc album featured Swiss saxophonist Urs Leimgruber in a duo with a different player: American drummer Gerry Hemingway, Swiss pianist Hans Peter Pfammatter, ...
