Results for "Mette Rasmussen"

Knarr at Cankarjev dom in Ljubljana

by Ziga Koritnik
February 4, 2022

A collection of photos from the Knarr concert at Cankarjev dom in Ljubljana on January, 25, 2022 featuring Ingebrigt Haker Flaten, acoustic and electric bass, compositions; Mette Rasmussen, alto saxophone; Atle Nymo, tenor saxophone, Bb clarinet, bass clarinet; Erik Kimestad, trumpet; Oddrun Lilja Jonsdottir, electric guitar, vocals; Joakim Rainer Petersen, piano, keyboards and Olaf Olsen, drums, ...

Melt

By Susana Santos Silva

Label: Clean Feed Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Fading Icebergs; Tidal Phase; At Daybreak; In Oscillation; Diving Bells; Turbulent Flow.

Fire! Orchestra in Meldola

by Luciano Rossetti
December 14, 2021

Fire! Orchestra in Padova

by Luciano Rossetti
November 30, 2021

Hearth: Melt

by John Sharpe
August 13, 2021

Four of the most exciting young improvisers on the European scene assemble for the first time under the name Hearth. In a cosmopolitan roster overflowing with talents who each possess a distinctive individual voice, Amsterdam-based Argentinean reedplayer Ada Rave joins with the Copenhagen-domiciled Slovenian pianist Kaja Draksler, Stockholm-located Portuguese trumpeter Susana Santos Silva and Trondheim-resident Danish ...

Fred Frith & Ikue Mori: A Mountain Doesn’t Know It’s Tall

by Mark Corroto
April 12, 2021

Have you experienced a performance of John Cage's composition “4:33"? If you are not familiar, while studying Zen Buddhism, Cage wrote “four minutes, thirty-three seconds" to be performed solo or in any combination of instruments or players. The instructions were for the performers to NOT play their instruments for the allotted 273 seconds. Their 'silence' was ...

Tashi Dorji: Stateless

by Gareth Thompson
September 16, 2020

It was an ambitious move from Bhutan to Asheville, North Carolina, that helped shape Tashi Dorji's musical direction. The guitarist had previously been steeped in classic rock and hair metal, but as a foreign exchange student he soon absorbed punk and free jazz. Two saxophonists in particular, John Zorn and Albert Ayler, inspired Dorji to his ...

Mette Rasmussen

Mette Rasmussen is a Danish saxophone player based in Trondheim, Norway. She works in the field of improvised music, drawing from a wide range of influences, spanning free jazz to textural soundwork. Rasmussen works on exploring the natural rawness of her instrument - experimenting on what the saxophone is capable of in sound and expression, with and without preparations. Much in demand, she has performed with the likes of Alan Silva, Chris Corsano, Ståle Liavik Solberg, and with her Trio Riot group with Sam Andreae and David Meier as well as joining the Fire! Orchestra ensemble.

2019: Striking A Balance In Review, Part 1

by Henning Bolte
February 8, 2020

Part 1 | Part 2 Every year the 'Best-of' game is underway again. But, “best of what?" is the immediate question. It's almost impossible for fishes of prey to hunt in a huge herring swarm, or for birds of prey to hunt in those huge budgerigar swarms. 'The best' is a choice from the ...

Mette Rasmussen/Chris Corsano: A View Of The Moon (From The Sun)

by John Sharpe
December 21, 2019

Both Danish saxophonist Mette Rasmussen and American drummer Chris Corsano thrive on exposed situations. No strangers to solo concerts and recordings, they are equally adept at duo experiences. A View Of The Moon (From The Sun) constitutes their second pairing after All The Ghosts At Once (Relative Pitch, 2015), and once again they share a predilection ...