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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 ...
Marco Baldini: Maniera
by John Eyles
When Marco Baldini's first ever album, Vesperi (reviewed here), was released by Another Timbre in 2023, its arrival was not exactly awaited with bated breath. Born in 1986, near Florence, Italy, Baldini had no degree in music or composition and had not studied with an established composer. He had attended university, where he studied Roman archaeology, ...
American Composers On Another Timbre
by John Eyles
When the batch of four Another Timbre releases came out in February 2024, one aspect was particularly noticeable; of the four, two albums featured composers who were born in the U.S.A. and still reside there, Nomi Epstein and Paul Paccione. Although the label honored deceased American composers John Cage and Morton Feldman with highly-praised box sets, ...
