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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 ...
Jo Harrop: The Path of a Tear
by John Eyles
The Path of a Tear is Durham-born singer and songwriter Jo Harrop's fifth album release on the Lateralize label, which was established in 2018. Harrop's first album was Songs For The Late Hours (Lateralize, 2019), a download-only release on which she and her guitar, piano and bass trio arranged and played a selection of Tin Pan ...
Anthony Braxton: Solo Bern 1984 First Visit
by John Eyles
Following hot on the heels of Cecil Taylor Unit's Live At Fat Tuesday's February 9, 1980, First Visit (ezz-thetics, 2024)--the inaugural release of ezz-thetics' First Visit series--comes another never-before-released live album. This one dates from July 7th, 1984, and was recorded live at Altes Schlachthaus, Bern, Switzerland. It features a thirty-nine-year-old Anthony Braxton alone, playing alto ...
Splashgirl + Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe: More Human
by John Eyles
Years after Splashgirl's first album, Doors. Keys (Aim Records, 2007) was recorded, it is a pleasure to welcome their seventh album, their sixth on Hubro, particularly as years have elapsed since their last release, Sixth Sense (Hubro, 2018). The trio at the core of Splashgirl have known each other since 2000--Jo Berger Myhre on bass, Andreas ...
Griffure: Paratonnerre
by John Eyles
Oddly, Paratonnerre is the first album release from the duo Griffure which comprises Léonore Grollemund who plays cello, sings and composes, and Amaryllis Billet who plays violin, sings and composes. Since adolescence, the partnership of Grollemund and Billet has been a field of experimentation involving voice and composition. Griffure is the result and continuation of that ...
Cecil Taylor: Live At Fat Tuesday's February 9, 1980 First Visit
by John Eyles
For some years, Werner X. Uehlinger's Ezz-thetics label has been bringing smiles to the faces of countless lovers of free jazz by re-releasing albums featuring such luminaries as Albert Ayler, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Jimmy Giuffre, Sun Ra, Cecil Taylor (to name but a few of many) all with state-of-the-art sound quality. The label's distinctive orange ...
Two New Composers on Elsewhere
by John Eyles
Of the twenty-nine Elsewhere albums that had been released before the two discussed below, well over sixty percent of them have focused on compositions for piano played by the composer themselves, such as Melaine Dalibert, or by other pianists, such as Reinier van Houdt and Dante Boon playing Jurg Frey's pieces for two pianos. (If double ...
John Butcher, Thomas Lehn, John Tilbury: Lights
by John Eyles
Lights was recorded live at Cafe Oto, London, on May 26th 2016. It features the trio of John Butcher on saxophones, German-born Thomas Lehn on analogue synthesizer and John Tilbury on piano. If the line-up looks familiar, that may be because the same trio had recorded a studio album Exta at City University Music Studio in ...
John Bisset / Milana Sarukhanyan: Verbo i vido - Willow & water
by John Eyles
Milana Sarukhanyan began singing as a young child in Ukraine. Later on, she attended the Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatoire in St. Petersburg, Russia, for two years. From there, she moved to London where she studied at the Royal Academy of Music, graduating with first-class honours in 2018 and a Master of Arts diploma in 2020. Her specialities ...
Paul Newland: Things That Happen Again
by John Eyles
Born in 1966, British composer and musician Paul Newland studied composition at the Royal Northern College of Music, at the Royal Academy of Music, in London, and at Royal Holloway, University of London, receiving his doctorate in 2006. He has taught composition at Guildhall School of Music since 2006 and is currently a Professor of Composition ...
