Results for "Martin Kuchen"

Live In Oslo

By Martin Kuchen

Label: Clean Feed Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: A Desert On Fire, A Forest; The Spirit Of Pitesti; A Different Koko; Sounds & Ruins; In Tears.

Trespass Trio, Mikko Innanen, Mark Solborg & Noa Fort

by Maurice Hogue
December 18, 2023

If you like your music on the edge, this episode of OMJ has plenty, starting with Swedish saxophonist Martin Küchen and his Trespass Trio, Live In Oslo, ably abetted by the dynamic trumpet of Susana Santos Silva. Danish guitarist Mark Solborg's Babel draws upon language for his latest, while saxophonist Ivo Perelman continues his regime of ...

bBb: Animal Quotes

by John Sharpe
October 31, 2023

Swedish saxophonist Martin Küchen practices at least two distinct modes of expression. One is the variously sized Angles ensembles he fronts, which present sometimes exuberant, sometimes heart-rending riff-fuelled anthems to the acclaim of festival crowds across Europe. He also partakes of more arcane pursuits, using his saxophones as tools to examine the very question of what ...

A Muted Reality

By Martin Kuchen

Label: Clean
Released: 2022
Track listing: Muted Reality; The Hidden Balcony; Fkk Down, Fkk Off.

The Steps That Resonate

Label: Not Two Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: The Steps That Resonate: Part 1; Part 2.

Mark Corroto's Best Jazz Albums Of 2022

by Mark Corroto
December 13, 2022

Year end “Best of" lists are curious beasts. If you asked me last week, I would have listed Wadada Leo Smith's The Emerald Duets (TUM) and John Hébert's Sounds Of Love (Sunnyside) as the best releases of the past year. And most definitely when you inquire next week, I'll certainly tell you to add JD Allen's ...

Martin Kuchen, Agusti Fernandez, Zlatko Kaucic: The Steps That Resonate

by John Sharpe
October 23, 2022

Once improvisers reach a certain level of experience, it is rare that a meeting between them does not deliver the goods. By this stage they are well versed in the mechanics of collective music making off the map. They have developed a fine sense of when to play and when not, how much they can respond ...

Angles: A Muted Reality

by Mark Corroto
September 13, 2022

For Swedish saxophonist Martin Küchen, all music is folk music. Proof of that statement is the Angles' release A Muted Reality. Whether he is referencing Balkan, African, Swedish, American jazz or Spanish dialects, he is drawing on kindred spirits in his music. With the various editions of his Angles projects, from trios to 10-piece small big ...

Küchen, Fernandez, Kaučič: The Steps That Resonate

by Neri Pollastri
August 29, 2022

Registrato il 9 settembre 2021 a Šmartno, durante l'undicesima edizione del Brda Contemporary Music Festival, questo disco documenta l'improvvisazione realizzata dal sassofonista svedese Martin Küchen, dal pianista spagnolo Augusti Fernandez e dal batterista Zlatko Kaučič, che del festival è organizzatore e anima. Il lavoro è suddiviso in due parti (sebbene la copertina non lo riporti): la ...

Martin Küchen, Agustí Fernandez, Zlatko Kaučič: The Steps That Resonate

by Mark Corroto
June 21, 2022

Let's test the laws of thermodynamics with free improvisation music. The first law of thermodynamics states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed; energy can only be transferred or changed from one form to another. This law is sublimely displayed during the live performance by Martin Küchen, Agustí Fernandez, and Zlatko Kaučič at the BCMF ...