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Theo Bleckmann: I Dwell In Possibility
by C. Michael Bailey
Were Theo Bleckmann Irish he would be a leprechaun, a magical bringer of joy and beauty with creativity and a sense of humor. Probably a more apt cultural consideration is viewing this vocalist/performance artist as the embodiment of all that was good, demiurgic, evocative, and provocative of Berlin during the explosively creative Weimar Republic period. Bleckmann ...
Theo Bleckmann: I Dwell In Possibility
by Warren Allen
Theo BleckmannI Dwell In PossibilityWinter & Winter2010 To record I Dwell in Possibility, vocalist Theo Bleckmann made a musical pilgrimage to the Beinwil Abbey in an isolated area of Switzerland. With the aid of producer Stefan Winter, he proceeded to lay down 15 tracks, only using his ...
Theo Bleckmann: I Dwell In Possibility
by Dan Bilawsky
The title of this record also defines vocalist Theo Bleckmann's artistic philosophy. Bleckmann is probably the only human being to ever properly interpret the music of Kate Bush and the compositions of Charles Ives, and his range as an artist doesn't stop there. Bleckmann's Winter & Winter albums, along with successful side projects, have earned him ...
Free Jazz: The Jazz Revolution of the '60s
by Robert Levin
[Editor's note: Revised and expanded here, this piece originated as an oral essay for an installment of the Cosmoetica Omniversica internet radio series on the arts and sciences. The series was hosted by Dan Schneider and Art Durkee.] More or less officially unveiled with the first New York appearance of the Ornette Coleman Quartet ...
Clogs: The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton
by John Kelman
With the digital-only EP, Veil Waltz (Brassland, 2010), neoclassicist quartet Clogs announced that it was back in action after a lengthy hiatus. But that brief collection, largely written for film, was really only a taste-whetter for The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton, Clogs' first full-length CD since Lantern (Brassland, 2006). Like Veil Waltz, Lantern ...
Impermanence
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2009
Track listing:
01. Last Song; 02. Maybe 1; 03. Little Breath; 04. Liminal; 05. Disequilibrium; 06. Particular Dance; 07. Between Song;
08. Passage; 09. Maybe 2.; 10. Skeleton Lines; 11. Slow Dissolve; 12. Totentanz; 13. p 1; 14. Rocking; 15. Sweep 2; 16. Mieke’s
Melody.
Meredith Monk: Impermanence
by AAJ Italy Staff
Si fa prima a rivelare cosa non è stata Meredith Monk nel corso della sua lunga carriera. Fuor di dubbio che dagli anni Sessanta i suoi lavori continuano ad incantare per la vivacità e l'eleganza che hanno. Le composizioni della Monk (da lei scritte e quasi sempre interpretate) nascono tutte, più o meno di proposito, dall'"intersezione" ...
Mikkel Ploug / Sissel Vera Pettersen / Joachim Badenhorst: Equilibrium
by Wilbur MacKenzie
Equilibrium is three-way partnership between Danish guitarist Mikkel Ploug, Belgian saxophonist and clarinetist Joachim Badenhorst and Norwegian vocalist and saxophonist Sissel Vera Pettersen. The trio's charming and ruminative mixture borrows elements of contemporary chamber music, jazz and various indigenous vocal traditions ranging from Inuit throat singing to West African griots and incorporates a variety of extended ...
John Zorn: Femina
by Mark Corroto
John Zorn returns to his famous “file card" technique of composing with Femina, a disc he wrote and conducts with an all-woman lineup, dedicated to women in the arts. Among those honored here are Meredith Monk, Simone de Beauvoir, Frida Kahlo, Madame Blavatsky, Isadora Duncan, Hélène Cixous, Gertrude Stein, Abe Sada, Sylvia Plath, Louise Bourgeois, Margaret ...
John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble: Eternal Interlude
by Troy Collins
In addition to leading the unclassifiable Claudia Quintet and performing numerous sideman duties, composer and percussionist John Hollenbeck is renowned for his inimitable multi-layered writing. Hollenbeck studied under composer Bob Brookmeyer before charting a unique path in creative improvised music, incorporating elements of minimalism, post-rock and indigenous folk music into his eclectic compositions. As leader of ...
