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Mariel Roberts

“Trailblazing” cellist Mariel Roberts (Feast of Music) is widely recognized as a deeply dedicated interpreter of contemporary music. Recent performances have garnered praise for her “technical flair and exquisite sensitivity” (American Composers Forum), as well as her ability to “couple youthful vision with startling maturity”. (InDigest Magazine). Roberts' work emphasizes expanding the technical and expressive possibilities of her instrument through close relationships with innovative performers and composers of her generation. Her passion for collaboration and experimentation has led her to premiere hundreds of new works by both emerging and established artists. Roberts has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician across four continents, most notably as a member of the Mivos Quartet, Wet Ink Ensemble, International Contemporary Ensemble, and Ensemble Signal

Purposing the Air

By Ingrid Laubrock

Label: Pyrolastic Records
Released: 2025
Track listing:

CD 1:

Fay Victor & Mariel Roberts: Koan 28; Koan 13; Koan 55; Koan 15; Koan 47; Koan 11; Koan 18; Koan 37; Koan 12; Koan 38; Koan 46; Koan 39; Koan 43; Koan 35; Koan 58.

Sara Serpa & Matt Mitchell: Koan 5; Koan 3; Koan 7; Koan 48; Koan 29; Koan 42; Koan 31; Koan 36; Koan 49; Koan 25; Koan 56; Koan 17; Koan 6; Koan 20; Koan 9.

CD 2:

Koan 8.

Theo Bleckmann & Ben Monder: Koan 23; Koan 10; Koan 24; Koan 30; Koan 32; Koan 33; Koan 45; Koan 40; Koan 14; Koan 59; Koan 60; Koan 53; Koan 51; Koan 54.

Rachel Calloway & Ari Streisfeld: Koan 1; Koan 34; Koan 22; Koan 19; Koan 26; Koan 21; Koan 57; Koan 27; Koan 41; Koan 50; Koan 52; Koan 44; Koan 2; Koan 16; Koan 4.

Jazz em Agosto 2026, Part 2

by Petra Cvelbar
September 6, 2026

The sixth day of the 42nd edition of Jazz em Agosto continued with a performance by The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, featuring Mette Rasmussen on alto saxophone, Mariam Rezaei on turntables, Gabriele Mitelli on piccolo trumpet, electronics, and vocals, and Lukas König on drums, electric cymbals, and synthesizer. On the seventh day, we ...

Koan 28

July 14, 2025

Album: Purposing the Air
By Ingrid Laubrock
Label: Pyrolastic Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 3:15

Ingrid Laubrock: Purposing The Air With Music And Voices

by Lawrence Peryer
June 14, 2025

Today, the Spotlight shines on saxophonist and composer Ingrid Laubrock. Ingrid's just released Purposing The Air (Pyroclastic Records, 2025), a double album that sets 60 brief poems by Erica Hunt to music through four different vocal-instrumental duos. It's an ambitious project that transforms Hunt's emotionally sharp koans into what Ingrid calls “a library of ...

Past, Present, And, Future Sounds

by Bob Osborne
May 15, 2025

The most fascinating and enduring aspect of jazz, and other improvised music, is its' capacity to surprise the listener. This week a diverse collection of pieces that deliver different and ground breaking new sounds. At the centre Ingrid Laubrock's unique new album which is meets this specification and more. And to close a classic album from ...

Ascending Primes

By Joshua Modney

Label: Pyroclastic Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Ascender; Lynx; Everything Around It Moves; Fragmentation and the Single Form 1. Source; Fragmentation and the Single Form 2. Vox; Fragmentation and the Single Form 3. Song; Fragmentation and the Single Form 4. Call; Event Horizon 1. Serrated Scream; Event Horizon 2. Passacaglias; Event Horizon 3. Ascenders.

Shimmer Wince

By Anna Webber

Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Swell, Wince; Fizz; Periodicity 1; Squirm; Periodicity 2; Shimmer.

Ascender

August 11, 2024

Album: Ascending Primes
By Joshua Modney
Label: Pyroclastic Records
Released: 2024
Duration: 7:49

Anna Webber: Shimmer Wince

by John Sharpe
February 29, 2024

There is often an underlying rigor to the work of Canadian saxophonist and flautist Anna Webber, be that inspiration from the digital world on Binary (Skirl, 2016), her investigation of multiphonic intervals on Idiom (Pi, 2021) or contemporary classical percussion repertoire on Clockwise (Pi, 2020). On Shimmer Wince, she derives her compositions from ...