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Rejoice - Three New Ivo Perelman Discs
by Mark Corroto
Just think what could have been if artists like Jimmy Lyons or Albert Ayler were recording today. We might have had the ability to witness their development and observe how creative music gets nudged in new and different directions. That's exactly the gift we're given with the proliferation of recent Ivo Perelman recordings. The São Paulo-born, ...
Billy Bottle & The Multiple: Unrecorded Beam
by Glenn Astarita
Multi-instrumentalist, vocalist Billy Bottle is the pianist for renowned big band leader Mike Westbrook and has performed with British progressive rock luminaries. His octet and guest artists incorporate jazz rock and folk with a splash of Indie pop on this beguiling set. It's outlined on eminent American author and transcendentalist, Henry David Thoreau's poems, also providing ...
Ensemble 5: The Summary Of 4
by Mark Corroto
It is refreshing to hear a free jazz improvising group that doesn't abandon meter and melody for the goal of spontaneous music making. For percussionist Heinz Geisser, performing improvised music doesn't require he throw the figurative baby out with the bath water. The dude abides.Like the Collective 4tet he established in the 1990s with ...
Hanuman: Soundhousing
by Glenn Astarita
Hailing from Italy, The Hanuman Quartet's gospel professes a far- reaching and multicolored plane of concepts, including hummable themes, investigative dialogues and asymmetrical pulses that pose a slight realm of suspense on a per-track basis. Many of the semi-structured compositional attributes contain an open forum for improvisation amid nimble atmospherics, simmering free-jazz opuses and a little ...
Matthias Schubert / Simon Nabatov Duo: Descriptions
by Vic Albani
Si conoscevano e frequentavano da quasi trent'anni ma, sino a oggi, nonostante i tanti concerti, non avevano mai avuto la possibilità di incrociare i propri strumenti registrando anche un disco insieme. Per fortuna loro e nostra il signor “risolvo i problemi" Leo Feigin, strabiliante mente operativa e produttiva di una buona metà della musica di ricerca ...
Matthias Schubert / Simon Nabatov Duo: Descriptions
by Glenn Astarita
Descriptions marks the initial alliance of venerable European improvisers, tenor saxophonist Matthias Schubert and pianist Simon Nabatov. Recorded live at a venue in Cologne, Germany, the musicians plan their modalities on descriptive nouns, which is an interesting proposition that tenders food for thought on a per-track basis. They mold song forms based on ephemeral or lengthy ...
Antonio Bertoni: 1/2 H(our) Drama
by Glenn Astarita
After several decades residing as a prominent UK-based jazz, avant-garde and improvisational record label, it's not a common occurrence for Leo Records proprietor, Leo Feigin to pen an artist or group's album notes. On this outing by Italian bassist Antonio Bertoni, he advises, “I could not help writing in the booklet that this is one of ...
Enigma
By Ivo Perelman
Label: Leo Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: Enigma; Irresistible Incarnation; Annunciation; Supernatural Life;
Return To Nature; Ritual; Gentle As A Fawn; A Bourgois Ideal.
