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Moraine: Manifest DeNsity
by John Kelman
The place where chamber music meets the intensity and attitude of rock music has been explored, in recent years, by groups including Canada's Bell Orchestre and US-based Clogs. Add to that list Moraine, a Seattle-based quintet that, with its unorthodox line-up of violin, cello, electric guitar, bass, and drums, has plenty of attitude--and energy. This ain't ...
Beppe Crovella: What's Rattlin' On The Moon? A Personal Vision of the Music of Mike Ratledge
by John Kelman
For a group that's been gone nearly thirty years, Soft Machine sure has been seeing a lot of action. With remastered albums, including core classics Third (Sony, 1970) through Seven (Sony, 1973), and archival live recordings including Reel Recordings' recently earthed Live at Henie Onstad Arts Center 1971 (2009), it seems as if this legendary British ...
SimakDialog: Demi Masa
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il gruppo indonesiano SimakDialog, guidato dal bravo tastierista Riza Arshad, giunge al suo quinto album e stacca un nuovo episodio convincente e ricco di pathos. Il rock progressivo si mischia al jazz e alle musiche orientali per una miscela che tiene sempre ben desta la nostra attenzione. Una dimostrazione di come il termine fusion, se ben ...
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. ...
