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Das B: Canopy
by Mark Corroto
The free improvisational quartet Das B releases its first recording Canopy, taken from a live performance at the Festival Konfrontationen, in Nickelsdorf, Austria 2017. Formed in 2015, the 'B' refers to Berlin, the nexus of activity for the four musicians heard here. The two Australians, drummer Tony Buck and bassist Mike Majkowski, join the Beirut-born trumpeter ...
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Magda Mayas
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Magda Mayas, born 1979, is a pianist and composer performer living in Berlin. Over the past 20 years she developed a vocabulary utilizing both the inside as well as the exterior parts of the piano, using amplification, preparations and objects that become extensions of the instrument itself. Mayas has developed a set of techniques that draw on the history of prepared and inside piano vocabulary, but are highly individualized and expand the language for internal piano music making.
She holds a PhD in Music Performance and Interpretation from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Since 2019, she is the program coordinator and teaches improvisation at Luzern University of applied Sciences and Arts.
Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2018: The Community Series at Koncertkirken
by Henning Bolte
Koncertkirken Copenhagen Jazz Festival Copenhagen July 13-14, 2018 It was a flying visit of two days at this year's Copenhagen Jazz Festival with its 1500 concerts during 10 days. But with so many concerts spread over the city even two days demands serious decision-making and crisscrossing town. I was primarily ...
Tempe Jetz
By Magda Mayas
Label: Relative Pitch Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: A Departure; Customs Declaration; In Transit; Arrival.
Magda Mayas - Jim Denley: Tempe Jetz
by Glenn Astarita
Magda Mayas (Germany) performs on a 1970s manufactured clavinet with reedman Jim Denley (Australia), augmented by their use of field recordings, as they pay homage to a “marginalized corner" of Sydney, Australia on this experimental and irrefutably adventurous improv fest. Yet I wouldn't be so bold to suggest that this is easy listening but for the ...
Catching up with John Butcher at 60
by John Eyles
In November 2014, saxophonist John Butcher celebrated his sixtieth birthday over two evenings at Cafe Oto, London, in the company of musicians including Gino Robair, Tony Buck, Magda Mayas, dieb13, Olie Brice, Guillaume Viltard, Adam Bohman and Ute Kanngiesser, with Butcher playing both solo and in various small groupings. At those gigs, he demonstrated all the ...
Magda Mayas: Myriad
by John Eyles
Myriad is the second duo recording by German pianist Magda Mayas and Lebanese alto saxophonist Christine Abdelnour, building on the excellent Teeming (Olof Bright, 2010). Recorded in concert at Météo Festival, Mulhouse, France, in August 2011, Myriad features two tracks with a combined running time under 34 minutes. However, that is not an issue as the ...
Inside the Piano: Germinal; Gold; The Ill-Tempered Piano; Udentity
by Marc Medwin
Agusti Fernandez & Ingar ZachGerminalPlastic Strip2008 Magda Mayas & Tony BuckGoldCreative Sources2009 Nicola CipaniThe Ill-Tempered PianoLong Song2009 Denman MaroneyUdentityClean Feed
