Results for "Leo Records"

Pat Battstone and Giorgia Santoro: Dream Notes

By GEANNINE REID

Dream Notes is a collaborative effort by American pianist Patrick Battstone and Italian flautist Giorgia Santoro, along with Italian painter Daniela Chionna. Battstone connected to her paintings and had a strong affinity for her improvisational style. Previously her “Immersion" series of paintings was absorbed in his previous recording Elements. When she created the series, “Dream Notes," ...

Urs Leimgruber - Andreas Willers - Alvin Curran - Fabrizio Spera: Rome-Ing

By GLENN ASTARITA

These venerable European improvisers tease and taunt the listeners' psyches with free-form minimalist sound-shaping designs and subdued inner-workings with gradual buildups and asynchronous movements, countered by explosive episodes of angst, tinted with creaky sub-motifs. With four lengthy works recorded live in Rome--hence, the album title—American pianist Alvin Curran and Swiss guitarist Andreas Willers incorporate electronics into ...

Efflorescence Volume 1

By IVO PERELMAN / MATTHEW SHIPP

Label: Leo Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: CD1: Hibiscus; Cosmos; Rose; Lotus; Amaryllis; Zinnia; Iris; Bleeding Heart; Moonflower; Peony; Clematis; Tiger lily; Mandevilla; Cape Primrose; CD2: Quince; Columbine; Hydrangea; Jacob’s Ladder; Yellow Bell; Trillium; Nigella; Helenium; Goldenrod; Forsythia; Sage; CD3: Clover; Heather; Sweet Pea; Veronica; Strawflower; Aster; Catmint; Honeysuckle; Impatiens; Globeflower; Jasmine; Sweet William; Nightshade; Lilac; CD4: Snapdragon; Heath; Narcissus; Lupine; Shasta Daisy; Rosilla; Snowdrop; Carnation; Orchid; Tiger Flower.

No Man's Land

By VINZ VONLANTHEN

Label: Leo Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Whistle of Naskapi (dedicated to Felix); Lose; Tribulation; Nomad; On the Run; Ray of Hope; A Un Fil; Dreaming Stowaway; Amazing Maze; Cross No Man’s Land; Train to a New Light.

Rome-Ing

By ANDREAS WILLERS

Label: Leo Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Part I 17:50, Part II 24:27, Part III 9:16, Part IV 17:17

Dream Notes

By PATRICK BATTSTONE

Label: Leo Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: L’Albero dell’Incantatore; The Forest Within( pt 1); The Forest Within( pt 2); Beyond the River Banks; Attraverso i Rami; The Flowers of Benten; Window into the Night ( pt 1 ); Window into the Night ( pt 2 ); Blue/Ocean of Hearts; The Mist of Morning Waters; Song of Daphne.

Juan Saiz

Born in 1986 in Santander and begins to play the transverse flute at the age of 10 at the Conservatory Jesus de Monasterio de Santander, where he studies flute with Jaime Salas and composition with Emilio Otero. During his last years at the conservatory he focuses on the study of jazz and contemporary composition and, shortly thereafter, moves to Barcelona to study the upper level of Jazz and Modern Music at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC). He completed his studies between Barcelona and the Kask-Koninklijk Conservatorium de Ghent (Belgium) with professors such as Bart Defoort, Eladio Reinón, Gary Willis, Agustí Fernández, Gorka Benítez, Julia Gallego

Vinz Vonlanthen: No Man's Land

By GLENN ASTARITA

Swiss improvising guitarist Vinz Vonlanthen constructs his second solo guitar album since Oeil (Leo, 2004) amid his more recent collaborative recordings for Leo Records, largely featuring like-minded French artists. Otherwise, it's an apt album title via the guitarist's resonating electric avant-garde workouts, speckled with his wordless voice overlays on several tracks. Essentially, he conveys despair and ...

Ivo Perelman / Matthew Shipp: Efflorescence Volume 1

By MARK CORROTO

Charles Darwin (1809—1882) might have set in motion, with his Theory of Biological Evolution, the idea that we humans are related to apes, but it was the later explorations into DNA and genetics that proves our basic structures are but a few variations from all other lifeforms on earth. What, you make ask, does this have ...

Marilyn Crispell - Tanya Kalmanovitch - Richard Teitelbaum: Dream Libretto

By GLENN ASTARITA

World-class pianist, Marilyn Crispell crafts an endearing musical statement, where she and her cohorts execute a requiem framed on improvisations and succinct melodies based on the pianist's close friends and family who have passed on. Consequently, the first part of this set features Crispell, violinist Tanya Kalmanovitch and legendary electronics ace, Richard Teitelbaum, while the second ...