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NAIL (Doneda Frangenheim Turner): NAIL in Ulrichsberg
by John Eyles
The trio of saxophonist Michel Doneda, double bassist Alexander Frangenheim and drummer Roger Turner has been together for about three years, long enough for the cosmopolitan threesome (French, German, British, respectively) to decide upon a suitably short, snappy name instead of the roll call of their surnames. So, we welcome NAIL and their first album NAIL ...
Biliana Voutchkova & Sarah Davachi: Slow Poem for Stiebler
by John Eyles
In 2020 Another Timbre released Für Biliana, an album of four compositions by the veteran German composer Ernstalbrecht Stiebler, two of which, “Für Biliana" and “Glissando für Solo Violine," he had composed for the Bulgarian-born Berlin-resident, violinist & composer Biliana Vouchkova who performed on all four of the album's tracks. Her solo rendition of “Für Biliana" ...
Frank Denyer: Melodies
by John Eyles
London-born composer Frank Denyer has a long and varied career dating back to the 1960s. This two-disc album, released in plenty of time for his eightieth birthday on April 4th 2023, is the most recent of a dozen albums which have been released featuring his compositions, the first having beenWheat (Orchid, 1984) released on vinyl. Five ...
Eric Dolphy: Outward Bound To Out To Lunch Revisited
by John Eyles
Ask any jazz aficionado for their favourite jazz albums of the '60s and the chances are that, alongside such decade-defining choices as Jimmy Giuffre's Free Fall (Columbia, 1963), John Coltrane's A Love Supreme (Impulse, 1965), Andrew Hill's Point of Departure (Blue Note, 1965) and Albert Ayler's Spiritual Unity (ESP, 1965), they will select Eric Dolphy's Out ...
Elsa Bergman: Playon Crayon
by John Eyles
Ever since 1967, when British composer Cornelius Cardew's 193-page graphic score Treatise was published, there has been controversy about the role graphic scores play in improvised music. Having worked on Treatise from 1963 to 1967, once it was published and discussed, Cardew wrote Treatise Handbook, published in 1971, which shed no light on how Treatise's complex ...
Ornette Coleman: Ornette At 12, Crisis To Man On The Moon, Revisited
by John Eyles
The re-release albums on Ezz-thetics, by jazz legends from the 1940s, '50s and '60s, have been widely praised, particularly for their sound quality which is invariably much improved compared to the originals or later rereleases. Another impressive aspect of these re-releases is the behind-the-scenes detective work which has tracked down rarities by some iconic musicians. One ...
King Übü Örchestrü 2021: Roi
by John Eyles
The large improvising ensemble King Übü Örchestrü first saw the light of day when they recorded their debut album, Music Is Music Is (Uhlklang, 1985) in Akademie der Künste, Berlin, in December 1984. It was a sign of the times that their trumpeter Mark Charig was prevented from going to Berlin for the recording. But, with ...
Noisy Women present at Café Oto, London
by John Eyles
Noisy Women Flying Free Café Oto London Sunday February 19, 2023 Barely thirteen months after the Noisy Women's debut concert at Hundred Years Gallery, London, with the total of their concerts still in single figures, there was an air of excitement and anticipation in the audience before this performance began. The original four Noisy ...
Erik Blennow Calälv, Lisa Ullén, Finn Loxbo, Ryan Packard: Bi, In yo & Iwato
by John Eyles
The three pieces here, each with a duration between twelve and thirteen minutes, are compositions by Swedish bass clarinetist Erik Blennow Calälv who is a member of the quartet The Schematics. No other members of that group join him here, but Swedish guitarist Finn Loxbo, who recorded Snow Country (Creative Sources, 2017) in a duo with ...
Samuel Rohrer: Codes of Nature
by John Eyles
Born into a musical family in Bern, Switzerland, in 1977, Samuel Rohrer began playing piano at age seven and drums at fourteen. After studying arts and music in Bern and Boston, he moved to Berlin in 2003 and was soon issuing recordings. Since then, he has worked with an impressive array of talented musicians, including Eivind ...
