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Food For Thought
by John Eyles
Where is the boundary between composed and improvised music? How many renowned improvisers use tried and trusted phrases that they have turned to so often that they have become cliches? How many classically-trained players are able to freely improvise despite never having been taught to do so? These and other similar questions are sure to be ...
Ove Volquartz, Claude Parle, Makoto Sato, Yoko Miura: Chasing the Wild Goose
by John Eyles
The quartet of German saxophonist and clarinetist Ove Volquartz, French accordion player Claude Parle, Paris-based Japanese drummer Makoto Satoand Japanese pianist and melodica player Yoko Miura is not long-standing even though there were connections between members before the foursome formed. Parle and Sato had both been members of the Linda Sharrock Network which recorded They Begin ...
Albert Ayler With Don Cherry: 1964 Recordings First Visit Completed
by John Eyles
In 2020 the ezz-thetics label released the two-disc CD European Recordings Autumn 1964 Revisited which comprised the six November 9th 1964 radio recordings made in Hilversum, the Netherlands, by the quartet of Albert Ayler, cornetist Don Cherry, bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Sunny Murray, “Angels," “C.A.C.." “Ghosts." “Infant Happiness" (composed by Don Cherry), “Spirits" and “No ...
Ornette Coleman: Free Jazz To Ornette! Revisited
by John Eyles
For ezz-thetics' revisited series' fourth Ornette Coleman album, the label has ventured back further than any of its previous Coleman albums, to New York City in December 1960 and January 1961. Recorded at A&R Studios on Wednesday December 21st 1960 from 8pm to 12.30am, the Free Jazz session produced two pieces, the thirty-seven minute “Free Jazz" ...
Houtkamp / Tramontana / Beresford / Blume: Frush
by John Eyles
The improvising trio comprising Netherlands tenor saxophonist and clarinetist Luc Houtkamp, British pianist and player of electronics and objects Steve Beresford, and German drummer and percussionist Martin Blume is well established, having recorded their first trio album Live in Prague 2017 (the pow ensemble, 2017) in November 2017 at the Alternativa Festival in Czechia, followed by ...
MYL Trio: Parallel Universes
by John Eyles
Parallel Universes is the first album from the MYL trio, the group title incorporating the initials of the members' first names, Austrian violinist and vocalist Mia Zabelka, Japanese pianist and melodica player Yoko Miura, and British signal processing instrument player Lawrence Casserley. All three members have past experience of trio playing; Zabelka's own trio with bass ...
Two Very Different Composers On Another Timbre
by John Eyles
The musicians who have featured on Another Timbre (AT) album releases more than anyone else are the ensemble Apartment House who have been on a quarter of the label's last hundred releases, usually performing works by other composers. The label has a penchant for promoting composers, be they young or older, male or female, ...
Magnus Granberg: Holde Traume, kehret wieder!
by John Eyles
When Swedish musician and composer Magnus Granberg's first album on Another Timbre, Ist Gefallen In Den Schnee, was released in 2012, it was credited to Skogen, the nine-(or seven-or ten-) member ensemble in which he played piano (prepared or not) and/or clarinet. It was not until his fifth release on the label, How Deep is the ...
Cheryl Duvall, Patrick Giguère: Intimes Exubérances
by John Eyles
Toronto-based pianist Cheryl Duvall is one of Canada's leading interpreters of contemporary music. In 2011, she co-founded the chamber group Thin Edge New Music Collective (TENMC) along with the equally praise-worthy violinist Ilana Waniuk. Since then, they have commissioned over eighty works and collaborated with such renowned performers as Charlotte Mundy, Jason Sharp, and Ensemble Paramirabo--with ...
Albert Ayler: Live Greenwich Village To Love Cry Revisited
by John Eyles
When Ezz-thetics' previous Albert Ayler album More Lost Performances Revisited was released in December 2023, it felt as if it might be the label's final Ayler release; not only was it the eleventh of the series but, rather than featuring an Ayler album, it comprised recordings of significant points in Ayler's career such as his playing ...
