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Article: Live Review

Jazzkaar 2011: Tallinn, Estonia, Days 1-3

by John Kelman
April 27, 2011

Days 1-3 | Days 4-6 | Days 7-8 Punkt Festival in Tallinn / Talvin Singh and Niladri Kumar Jazzkaar Festival 2011 Tallinn, Estonia April 20-22, 2011 It's one thing to visit a European country and marvel at the history that has been made in centuries past; it's another to ...

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Article: Interview

Nils Petter Molvaer: Colors, Noises and Moods

by Adriana Carcu
January 3, 2011

Trumpeter/composer Nils Petter Molvær is one of the main exponents of Nordic Jazz--a geographic ramification that has acquired, especially during the last decade, the status of an independent genre. He has created his own style by combining traditional instrumental elements with electronic sound processing: a fusion characterized by pregnant rhythmical patterns and a meditative mood.

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Article: Album Review

WD-41+2: Temi Per Cinema

Read "Temi Per Cinema" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
December 14, 2010

Temi Per Cinema is the follow-up to guitarist Willie Oteri and trumpeter Dave Laczko's self-produced WD-41 (2009), with the addition of lap steel dulcimer and beat jockey artist Dino J.A. Deane and drummer Scott Amendola. Collectively, the musicians have been at the forefront of new music-making, amid variable flavors and shades, bordering on the avant-garde, jazz-rock, ...

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Article: Live Review

Punkt Festival 2010

by John Kelman
September 14, 2010

The trials and tribulations of international travel--flight delays, missing or damaged baggage, and increasing limitations on said baggage--can be enough to frustrate even the most patient and seasoned world traveler. But despite an almost incredible confluence of problems flying to Kristiansand, Norway, for Punkt 2010, once there all such problems were forgotten. Punkt is simply too ...

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Article: Interview

Jan Bang: Head, Shoulders, Hips, Knees and Toes

by John Kelman
July 5, 2010

When it comes to organically integrating modern technology into music, few countries are innovating to the degree of Norway, and at the epicenter of that country's forward-thinking approach to melding improvisation with jazz and Norwegian traditionalism--not to mention contemporary classicism, pop, ambient and more; truly any and all musical markers--is producer/remixer/sampler Jan Bang, who has just ...

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Article: Album Review

Jan Bang: ….and poppies from Kandahar

Read "….and poppies from Kandahar" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
July 5, 2010

It's rare for an album to quietly shake the foundation of what music is...and can be. Fifteen years after Jan Bang first innovated the concept of live sampling--turning an Akai MPC 3000 sampler into a true improvising instrument by sampling other musicians in real time and feeding processed musical ideas back; pushing and pulling the music ...

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Article: Record Label Profile

Rune Grammofon: Mutation and Reevaluation

by David McLean
April 15, 2010

Since its inception in 1998, Rune Grammofon has been at the forefront of ground breaking new music, heralding a new unprecedented interest in Scandinavian music. Whereas ECM's focus on the region has largely been based around the folk/traditional music explorations of its most prolific artists, including Jan Garbarek, Arild Andersen, Terje Rypdal and Jon Christensen, and ...

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Article: Year in Review

Jeff Dayton-Johnson's Best of 2009

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
February 1, 2010

Jazz Man of the Year honors go without a doubt to Rafael Gilbert of Spain, who attended a performance by Larry Ochs of the ROVA Saxophone Quartet at the Sigüenza Jazz Festival in December, and called the police to report that, whatever it was that Ochs was playing, it wasn't jazz. Ochs was asked to play ...

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Article: Interview

David Sylvian: To Blow the Heart Wide Open

by Nenad Georgievski
January 12, 2010

Many artists deliberately avoid taking risks, making changes instead opting for the safe, but David Sylvian is not one of them. Across his illustrious career, Sylvian has always sought to take listeners out of their comfort zone. Self-consciousness and introspection permeate every corner of his works. His most riveting songs have explored various topics, including spirituality ...

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Last night the moon came dropping its clothes in the street

By Jon Hassell

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Aurora; Time and Place; Abu Gil; Last Night the Moon Came; Clairvoyance; Courtrais; Scintilla; Northline; Blue Period; Light on Water.