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MARANATA: Ugly Euphoria
by Mark Corroto
There is the admonition 'run, don't walk' about Ugly Euphoria by the Norwegian noise duo Maranata. With more than a dozen releases to their name, the electronics of Jon Wesseltoft and Dag Stiberg's saxophones create a total onslaught of sound. The encouragement to run instead of walking is not to avoid this recording but to get ...
Moers Festival Interviews: Møster!
by Martin Longley
During his recent visit to the Borealis festival of experimental music in Bergen, your scribe met up with reedsman Kjetil Møster, who also happens to be on the directors board of that mighty fine weekender. In just under two months, he'll be bringing his long-running self-named quintet Møster! to the Moers Festival in Germany (29th May-1st ...
Angular Mass/Soul Stream
by Vincenzo Roggero
Michiyo Yagi, Paal Nilssen-Love, Lasse Marhaug Angular Mass PNL Records Valutazione: * * * ½ Trio anomalo quello formato dal batterista norvegese Paal Nilssen-Love, dal mago dell'elettronica Lasse Marhaug e dalla virtuosa di koto Michiyo Yagi. E trio particolarmente convincente. I primi due brani ne rivelano il lato dionisiaco, ...
Benjamin Duboc/Julien Desprez/Julien Loutelier: Tournesol
by Mark Corroto
The free improvisations by Benjamin Duboc, Julien Desprez, and Julien Loutelier on Tournesol or “Sunflower" bring to mind the lyrics to “Love Dance," a minor crossover hit for George Benson in 1980: “From too much talk to loving touches/Love touches when pure emotion takes the moment/We take the chance/Turn up the quiet, love wants to dance." ...
Dave Rempis: Zen Master
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by Mark Corroto
The best application of philosophy to improvised music is the Chinese concept of “wu-wei." The best translation of this is “no trying." Many listeners have the false impression that it takes a sophisticated ear or at least years of listening to “get" improvised music. Actually, the opposite is true. The key is wu-wei or the art ...
Music Unlimited Festival 2014
by Eyal Hareuveni
Music Unlimited Festival Wels, Austria November 7-9, 2014 Nothing about the appearance of the town Wels, in western Austria, suggests that this sleepy old commune located in the middle of a vast agricultural area is a Mecca for adventurous music aficionados. Every year, hundreds of people habitually gather from ...
Luca Vitali - Il suono del Nord
by Luca Canini
Il Libro Aurore boreali, fiordi, salmoni, un re che si chiama Harald, fenomenali sciatori, un paio di attaccanti spilungoni che hanno lasciato il segno anche in Italia e una scena jazz da crepare d'invidia. Cresciuta rigogliosa nonostante la Novergia non sia esattamente al centro del villaggio globale. E nonostante gli evidenti limiti rappresentati ...
Otomo Yoshihide & Paal Nilssen-Love: Otomo Yoshihide & Paal Nilssen-Love
by Eyal Hareuveni
The musical bond between Japanese guitarist and sound sculptor Otomo Yoshihide and Norwegian powerhouse drummer Paal Nilssen-Love was solidified through previous successful collaborations. First with Nilssen-Love Scandinavian power trio The Thing's Shinjuku Crawl, (Smalltown Superjazz, 2009), then with Peter Brotzmann's Chicago Tentet Concert for Fukushima Wels 2011 DVD, (PanRec, 2013) and finally with an ad-hoc trio ...
The Vocal Art of Norwegian Stine Janvin Motland
by Eyal Hareuveni
Norwegian vocal artist Stine Janvin Motland is known for highly original, extended vocal techniques. Her range and imagination mark new frontiers for the natural acoustics of the human voice. Motland previously recorded with drummer Ståle Liavik Solberg in MotSol, and with he and local sax hero Frode Gjerstad, plus American cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm in the quartet ...
