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Steven Wilson: Remixing Yes, Jethro Tull & XTC

by John Kelman
January 4, 2014

While 2013 has largely been occupied by a world tour in support of his recent The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories) (Kscope, 2013), Steven Wilson has, as he said he would in his 2012 All About Jazz interview, certainly kept up with the run of stereo and surround sound remix projects that have ...

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Satoko Fujii & Natsuki Tamura: Gen Himmel / Dragon Nat / Tornado

by Hrayr Attarian
December 18, 2013

Pianist Satoko Fujii and her husband trumpeter Natsuki Tamura are one of the most boldly creative and fearlessly innovative couples in contemporary music. For the past three years they have also been quite prolific, releasing eight albums on their own Libra Records alone. This increase in productivity, however, has not come at the expense of quality ...

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2013 Yuletide Offerings

by Dan Bilawsky
December 2, 2013

It's clear that the holidays are coming when the mercury dips and the cheery tidings of the season are balanced out by shopping-fueled malaise. When it comes to music, said shopping is often centered on a series of new holiday-themed releases that seem to arrive like clockwork in the weeks and months prior to Christmas; this ...

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Sean Mac Erlaine: Long After The Music Is Gone and This Is How We Fly

by Ian Patterson
November 29, 2013

The common denominator between these two CDs is Dublin-based multi-reedman/composer Seán Mac Erlaine, one of the most progressive musicians in Ireland today. Equally at home in contemporary jazz, free improvisation or traditional/modern Irish folk settings, Mac Erlaine has been a leading figure in Irish experimental music for a decade. As one of the curators of the ...

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Kari Ikonen: Bright and The Helsinki Suite

by John Ephland
November 6, 2013

Kari Ikonen Trio Bright Ozella Music 2013 The 40-year-old Finnish keyboardist Kari Ikonen--first heard by this reviewer in a live context in his native homeland with another, much more open and unconventional trio Slo Motive--lets his jazz chops shine, his groove glisten and his range within the music flourish with these ...

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Turkish Free Music Box Set

by Eyal Hareuveni
November 1, 2013

This project is a labor of love. It began when guitarist Umut Çağlar, head of the Turkish avant-jazz label and musicians collective and band KonstruKt, found a new edition of a rare album documenting the musical meeting of American multi-instrumentalist Phil Musra with one of the forefathers of Turkish free jazz scene, drummer Hüseyin Ertunç (At ...

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John Lilja's Robblerobble

by Eyal Hareuveni
October 27, 2013

American double bassist John Lilja, based in Stavanger, Norway, for more than 15 years, has collaborated frequently with the fertile, genre-bending, community of musicians of Stavanger, among them saxophonist Frode Gjerstad' s Circulasione Totale Orchestra, Kitchen Orchestra and trumpeter Gunhild Seim's Time Jungle. The quintet Robblerobble is Lilja's first project as a ...

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A Pair On Polí5: DoMa Ensemble and Limbo

by Dan Bilawsky
October 25, 2013

Polí5 is a small, Prague-based imprint that takes its name from the bookstore/cultural hub from whence the music comes. The store opened its doors in 2006, but its proprietors were involved in supporting independent artists long before that. Under the name “Manuzio," they “ran the 'Apartment gallery,' held concerts and theatre performances and published low-edition book ...

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Le "middle bands" di Mike McGinnis

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 23, 2013

Quarant'anni giusti giusti, nativo del Maine, il clarinettista e compositore Mike McGinnis sforna a un paio di mesi l'uno dall'altro due album che, incisi tra il febbraio e il giugno 2012, ce ne consegnano un'immagine per un verso dicotomica, per un altro sostanzialmente conseguente. Vi si alternano infatti due differenti middle bands, il che da un ...

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Leigh Carriage: Get Out Of Town/Mandarin Skyline

by Ian Patterson
October 22, 2013

After just one studio album in the previous eight years--Until (Self Produced, 2004)--Australian singer/composer Leigh Carriage has released not one but two albums in less than a year, showcasing different sides of her musical personality--the interpreter of standards/torch songs, and the songwriter. Lismore, NSW-based Carriage is Head of Vocal Studies at Southern Cross University, and there's ...