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Boris Savoldelli - Elliott Sharp: Protoplasmic
by AAJ Italy Staff
La voce ruvida come cartavetrata di Boris Salvodelli si incontra/scontra con la chitarra rugosa e sulfurea di Elliott Sharp, uno degli artisti di punta dell'avanguardia newyorkese. Nell'occasione si sprigionano nell'aria scintille scoppiettanti di energia liberata, bagliori dai colori inimmaginabili, scie permanenti di luminescenza luciferina che lasciano una traccia molto netta nel panorama odierno della musica sperimentale. ...
simakDialog: Demi Masa
by Chris M. Slawecki
simakDialog--the complex, electrifyingly joyous brainchild of guitarist Tohpathy and composer-keyboardist Riza Arshad--was born in the Indonesian capitol of Jakarta in 1993. Arshad, who wrote and produced all of Demi Masa, their fifth album, won Best Jazz Producer honors at the 2003 Indonesian Music Awards for simakDialog's album Trance/Mission (2002, Ragadi Music), also voted that year's Best ...
Boris Savoldelli / Elliott Sharp: Protoplasmic
by Nic Jones
Boris Savoldelli doesn't even occupy the same rarefied territory as Phil Minton when it comes to free vocalizing. Instead, he carves out his own niche through his use of various electronic manipulations. However, it's guitarist Elliott Sharp's input that makes all the difference on Protoplasmic. “Prelude To Biocosmo Pt. One" could almost be a comment on ...
Alex Maguire: Brewed in Belgium
by AAJ Italy Staff
La lunghissima introduzione al pianoforte del tastierista inglese Alex Maguire copre praticamente tutto il brano “Psychic Warrior" e non ci pare troppo azzardato immaginarla come un dolente omaggio alla memoria di Elton Dean, il compianto saxofonista inglese che con Maguire aveva collaborato negli anni precedenti alla sua morte. Verso la fine del pezzo entra il sax ...
Boris Savoldelli / Elliott Sharp: Protoplasmic
by John Kelman
In the realm of free improvisation and even more structured pursuits, the limits of the human voice are being tested and expanded more than ever before by artists including Norwegians Sidsel Endresen and her groundbreaking One (Sofa, 2007), and Maja Ratkje with her equally innovative River Mouth Echoes (Tzadik, 2008). Italian singer Boris Savoldelli may have ...
simakDialog: Demi Masa
by Gary Gomes
simakDialog's Demi Masa, one of the best releases of 2009, rejuvenates fusion music and takes it to an entirely new level.The soloists are extraordinarily good on this combination of guitars, electric bass guitar, and keyboards with Indonesian kedang percussion, assisted by percussionist/vocalist Emy Tata, singer Mian Tiara and soundscapist Dave Lumenta--but more on this ...
Alex Maguire Sextet: Brewed In Belgium
by Gary Gomes
Alex Maguire has built an extremely strong reputation as a multi-faceted keyboard player over the past few years. He has, in addition to small band settings like this one, held the keyboard chair in the late drummer Pip Pyle's group Bash! and, after that, participated in a reunion tour of Canterbury legend Hatfield and the North. ...
simakDialog: Demi Masa
by Glenn Astarita
The fifth album by this Indonesian unit offers a mélange of progressive jazz and cerebral rock, augmented by a highly entertaining form factor. Here, the Fender Rhodes electric piano resides as the primary musical voice as Riza Arshad toggles between it and acoustic piano, also using an ancient Oberheim analog synth for colorific textures. Moreover, Arshad ...
Soft Machine: Drop
by AAJ Italy Staff
Questo bellissimo CD documenta il tour europeo dei Soft Machine dell'autunno 1971. Da pochi mesi il batterista Robert Wyatt aveva lasciato la band, pressato e spinto fuori dai dubbi dei due compagni storici Hopper e Ratledge. Al suo posto, su suggerimento di Elton Dean, era arrivato il giovane batterista australiano Phil Howard, una vera e propria ...
MoonJune Records
by Martin Longley
Leonardo Pavkovic is a looming presence on the ever-expanding scene of polynational, polymusical globe-gobbling. Some might deem his MoonJune Records operation a special home for European prog rock, but this is only one aspect of its makeup. “MoonJune is a label for progressive music," he announces, holding court, at an Egyptian kebab cafe in Astoria. “Whatever ...
