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Michael Musillami's Dialect: Fragile Forms
by AAJ Italy Staff
Non è ancora molto noto da noi, ma il chitarrista Musillami è seguito con interesse dalla critica americana da tempo, che lo elogia grazie per il suo stile che sintetizza i tanti generi ascoltati in un modo personalissimo. Il musicista californiano trae ispirazione dai grandi come Baker, Davis, Coltrane e Evans, ma ha un occhio di ...
Seven Blend
Album: Fragile Forms
By Michael Musillami
Label: Playscape Recordings
Released: 2006
Duration: 7:14
Michael Musillami: Fragile Forms
by Troy Collins
Fragile Forms is the debut of Dialect, Michael Musillami's new all-star quartet. The undersung guitarist, well-known for his adventurous and highly consistent Playscape Recordings label, recruited an impressive array of talent for this session. Musillami's previous recording, 2005's muscular Dachau (Playscape), featured his core trio with a few invited guests, including pianist Peter Madsen, who also ...
Michael Musillami Trio: Dachau
by Renato Wardle
The cult of youth has poisoned the world of music. Pop culture would have “instant artists shine momentarily, and then disappear quietly into the “where are they now category before they lose their baby teeth. In spite of this, seasoned musicians continue to move forward, breaking boundaries and defying the international fetishism of youth. ...
Dachau
Label: Playscape Recordings
Released: 2005
Track listing: Dresden; Archives; Dachau; Part Pitbull; Rottweil; Today the Angels; Metaphor 3.4.5.
Spirits
Label: Playscape Recordings
Released: 2005
Track listing: 1. Squid Fantasy
2. Star
3. Nambian Sunset
4. Goody
5. Spirits Rebellious
6. Circles
7. The Walking Wounded
Part Pitbull
Album: Dachau
By Michael Musillami
Label: Playscape Recordings
Released: 2005
Duration: 07:28
Michael Musillami Trio: Dachau
by Elliott Simon
In the wake of its strong premiere effort, Beijing (Playscape, 2000), the Michael Musillami Trio continues its globetrotting, turning to Germany for inspiration to produce its sophomore offering, Dachau. While the opening “Dresden and the title piece itself conjure up some of the 20th century's worst horrors, the music is wonderfully uplifting and powerfully creative. Musillami's ...
Michael Musillami Trio: Dachau
by Paul Olson
There's nothing new about a jazz guitar trio, or, for that matter, a jazz guitar trio augmented with piano and horns. That said, guitarist Michael Musillami has done something truly innovative with this format on Dachau. Musillami, bassist Joe Fonda, and drummer George Schuller--augmented on four of the album's seven tracks with various combinations of tenor ...
Michael Musillami Trio: Dachau
by John Kelman
The intrepid Playscape Recordings imprint, founded at the turn of the century by guitarist Michael Musillami, has been responsible for a small but consistent catalogue of releases that constantly look for new ways to combine forward-thinking compositional form with a more exploratory aesthetic. Working with a relatively small core group of veteran players, the label has ...
