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Ramon Lopez Quartet: Songs of the Spanish Civil War
by Glenn Astarita
Drummer/percussionist Ramon Lopez follows up his 1999 “Leo Records” release with a quartet outing based upon the Songs of the Spanish Civil War. And if some of you have already formulated notions that this is some sort of historical retrospective, forget it! Here, the drummer has assembled a crew of top-flight European jazz musicians for a ...
Ivo Perelman/Jay Rosen: The Hammer
by Mark Corroto
In examining the lineage of saxophonist/drum energy-jazz duos, consider John Coltrane/Rashied Ali’s Interstellar Space (1967), followed by Frank Lowe/Rashied Ali Duo Exchange (1972), Andrew Cyrille Meets Peter Brotzmann in Berlin (1982), Brotzmann’s duos with Hamid Drake called Dried Rat Dog (1994) and David Murray’s exchanges with Milford Graves, The Read Deal (1994). All these musicians stripped ...
Momentum 2: The Law Of Refraction
by Glenn Astarita
The improvising Trio, “Momentum” follows up their 1999 release with this new effort titled, “Momentum 2” - The Law Of Refraction yet here, violoncello performer Alfred Zimmerlin joins the band for what is basically a continuation or perhaps expansion of the band’s freshman outing. Essentially, the musicians explore stark, desolate regions of sound, counterbalanced with radiant ...
Various Artists: Temenos (Soundtrack)
by AAJ Staff
Vocalists Sainkho Namchylak, Shelley Hirsch, and Catherine Bott contribute to the soundtrack of Nina Danino's film Temenos. While I haven't seen the film (the title means “Sacred Site"), it apparently presents landscapes surrounding places where the Virgin Mary allegedly appeared. (Three essays in the liner notes wax poetic on the subject, offering little in terms of ...
Distance
By Joe Fonda
Label: Leo Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: Happy Chinaman; A Journey into the Desert; Underwater Market Selling Clocks; Monastery on the Peak of a Glacier; Some Silent Movies.
