Results for "Michael Davidson"

Six-ish Plateaus

By Alex Fournier

Label: Elastic Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: An Intrepid Toad; Six-ish Plateaus; Addenda/Agenda; Tragic Leisure; Saltlick City.

Noam Lemish: Twelve

by Jack Bowers
December 7, 2022

The number Twelve has several explicit meanings on Israeli-born composer/pianist Noam Lemish's eighth album as leader of his own ensemble, which is twelve members strong (well, thirteen on the first two numbers, on which Laura Swankey adds wordless vocals, and twenty-five if one counts the thirteen-member chorus on Track 3). Returning to the basic premise, Lemish ...

Steals on Steeles

December 2, 2022

Album: Twelve
By Noam Lemish
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2022
Duration: 05:51

Permanent Moving Parts

By Pete Johnston

Label: All-Set! Editions
Released: 2021
Track listing: Underground Over Night; Everything Happens Once; Weathering Teenage Hopes; Quietly Fading Fast; Possible Daylight Dreams; Imperfect Sunlit Room; Surrender Before Then; Familiar Second Thoughts.

Ascension

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2020
Track listing: Ascension; Eclipse; Emerald; Burton's Bounce; Sleepless; Wild Wind; Day Dreams; Ethos; Pulp Fiction; Cardinal on the Cobblestone;

See Through 4: Permanent Moving Parts

by Chris May
February 22, 2021

Composer and bassist Pete Johnston, leader of Toronto's See Through 4, cites Lennie Tristano and Eric Dolphy as primary reference points for the quartet's music. As a listener, you may feel such connections are tenuous. Whatever his strengths, Tristano was not known for playfulness, a quality which runs through Permament Moving Parts. Plus, the contrapuntalism to ...

Underground Over Night

March 12, 2021

Album: Permanent Moving Parts
By Pete Johnston
Label: All-Set! Editions
Released: 2021
Duration: 4:28

Pivotal Arc

By Quinsin Nachoff

Label: Whirlwind Recordings
Released: 2020
Track listing: Violin Concerto: I; II; II; String Quartet: I; II; III; IV; Pivotal Arc.

Peripheral Vision: Irrational Revelation And Mutual Humiliation

by Friedrich Kunzmann
June 24, 2020

Irrational Revelation & Mutual Humiliation sees Peripheral Vision celebrating their outfit's ten-year anniversary of collaboration. During that time, the group has released four studio albums and one live recording (Spectable: Live!, 2011), each time presenting fresh and stirring new music written by the leaders Don Scott and Michael Herring. More than anything though, the Canadian quartet ...

Peripheral Vision: Irrational Revelation And Mutual Humiliation

by Hrayr Attarian
June 18, 2020

The fifth release of the Canadian quartet Peripheral Vision, the stimulating double album Irrational Revelation & Mutual Humiliation crystalizes the band's creative vision of over a decade into 14 captivating originals. Composers Michael Herring on bass and Don Scott on guitar contributed all the tracks that range from the personal to the socially conscious with a ...