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Article: Album Review

Equilibrium: Liquid Light

Read "Liquid Light" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


This European trio's third release is abetted by Songlines Recordings' pristine audio processes, which is a vital aspect since many of these tracks are quietly penetrating in scope and designed with ethereal atmospherics. The artists' specialty may lie within an artsy, avant-garde schema via a channel of electro-acoustic tone poems, enamored by Sissel Vera Pettersen's luminous ...

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Liquid Light

Label: Songlines Recordings
Released: 2014
Track listing: Praha; Eupnea; Thalassa; Totemic I; Totemic II; Respire; Oslo From Above; Air; Grundtvig Coral; Motels Mono; Hiro; Sweep; Laglio; Statolith; Comacino Dreaming.

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Article: Album Review

Samo Salamon: Ives

Read "Ives" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian


In addition to being a prolific recording artist, each one of guitarist Samo Salamon's projects is uniquely inventive. Quantity with Salamon is never at the expense of quality. Ives, his fourth release as a leader for the year 2014 is a collaboration with two other guitarists, each with his own distinct style.Their individualities contrast ...

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Article: Album Review

Equilibrium: Liquid Light

Read "Liquid Light" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


The concept of equilibrium is all about the balancing of opposing forces, actions, or influences; the music of Equilibrium is largely about the same, though some twists, focal point shifts, and ambient sound plays complicate and muddy the concept a bit. Equilibrium--a trio comprised of Belgian clarinetist Joachim Badenhorst, Danish guitarist Mikkel Ploug, ...

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News: Recording

New Release By Mikkel Ploug & Lars Graugaard

New Release By Mikkel Ploug & Lars Graugaard

Clang has released Ngelo by Danish guitarist and composer Mikkel Ploug and the Danish musical chameleon Lars Graugaard. All tracks on Ngelo are edited improvisations that provide a listening experience that combines the liveliness of the moment with a concise structure, either with a well-defined atmosphere or of a particular compositional aim. The three ballad-style tracks ...

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Take Five With George Stavroulakis

Read "Take Five With George Stavroulakis" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet George Stavroulakis: George Stravoulakis was born in Athens in 1978 and has been active in the Greek jazz scene since 2006. Stravoulakis has played with renowned Greek artists like Kostas Konstantinou, George Georgiadis, Seraphim Bellos, Dimitris Pantelias, Pantelis Benetatos and many others. Outside of his jazz-oriented activities, Stravoulakis also performs in rock groups and ...

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Frankie

Featuring the music of Mikkel Ploug
Duration: 7:26

Mikkel Ploug Trio live in Madrid performing "Frankie" a tribute to Frankie Dunlop
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Article: Album Review

Pete Robbins Transatlantic Quartet: Live In Basel

Read "Live In Basel" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Like most modern jazz players, alto saxophonist Pete Robbins works in multiple bands, playing varying styles and disciplines of this thing called jazz. Sounds reasonable, yes? But, thirty years ago this wasn't possible. Musicians, listeners, and jazz critics (let's not leave them out) had to take sides, choose categories and labels to classify and compartmentalize their ...

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Article: Album Review

Soren Dahl Jeppesen: Route One

Read "Route One" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard


The new wave of Danish jazz has brought several guitarists into the public eye, among them, Jakob Bro, Mark Solborg, and Mikkel Ploug. However, a somewhat underexposed talent on the Danish jazz scene is Søren Dahl Jeppesen. His graceful, lyrical tone and abilities as a composer have benefitted the ambient chamber jazz of the group Pauseland. ...

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Harmoniehof

Label: Fresh Sound Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Introduction; Awkward Sentences; Enthusiasts; Motion; Second Around; Intro; Harmoniehof; Pablos Stroll; Molto Moderato-First Rhapsody; Intro II; Soft Spoken; Intro III; Somewhere Soon.


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