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Insubordinations: Mapping the Forefront of Sound
by Florence Wetzel
Electroacoustic improvisation is surely one of the most exciting fronts in twenty-first century music. Each time there's a digital innovation, this music innovates as well, which means that the changes are coming fast and thick. It's an explosion, really.For devotees of this music, as well as anyone who is curious about these new sounds, ...
Ciampi, Tenco e dintorni
by AAJ Italy Staff
È indiscutibile che, fra le ormai numerose rassegne che in giro per lo Stivale sono state intitolate a questo o quel cantautore scomparso, quelle dedicate a Luigi Tenco (dal 1974) e a Piero Ciampi (dall'85) sono le più longeve, nonché - verosimilmente - gloriose. Scartabellando fra le recenti uscite discografiche di settore, eccoci dunque di fronte ...
Particular Recordings: Hammond Dialogues
by Eyal Hareuveni
In recent years, Norway has produced a generation of young, innovative musicians, sonic explorers who are redefining the roles of their instruments--guitarists Stian Westerhus, Kim Myhr and Petter Vågan, trumpeter Eivind Lønning and tuba players Martin Taxt and Kristoffer Lo. Organ player Daniel Formo, member of the avant-pop trio Kobert and mainstream jazz ...
Two Sides of Ben Goldberg
by Troy Collins
Developments in the evolving recording industry have inspired an increasing number of musicians to form their own labels. San Francisco-based clarinetist Ben Goldberg, a veteran of the 1990s Downtown New York scene, joined many of his peers in 2009 with Go Home, the inaugural release of his BAG Production Records imprint. Goldberg's prior efforts, issued by ...
Norwegian Sound Poems: Kristoffer Lo and Bjorn Thevik
by Eyal Hareuveni
These two debut solo albums of innovative Norwegian musicians--Kristoffer Lo and Bjørn Thevik feature long and nuanced sound poems, created with minimal means. Kristoffer LoAnomieGigafon2013 Tuba player Lo, a member of the art-rock trio PELbO and Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, is using only his tuba, ...
Workshop improvisers in action: James O’Sullivan, Tom Soloveitzik, Jerry Wigens
by John Eyles
Every Friday evening since November 1999, a variable number of musicians--from six to twenty-six--has gathered together in south London for over two hours to improvise together in various combinations from duos upward. Originally convened by AMM drummer Eddie Prévost, and still led by him most weeks, this Workshop has featured hundreds of musicians since 1999 and ...
Voci e corde dalla Norvegia all’India
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il fronte etnico - senza scomodare il termine world music, che vuol dire tutto e niente - continua ad espandersi da anni. Ciò accade, a sintetizzare parecchio, in una duplice direzione: il prestito, la contaminazione, l'ibridazione di input e linguaggi; o la riproposizione in sé e per sé. I sei lavori qui riuniti si prestano in ...
Checking In On The Czech Republic: A Pair Of Offerings From Amplion Records
by Dan Bilawsky
Jazz history, development, and direction have always been documented through the force of recording. In the past, that meant that the few and mighty major labels and handful of independent start-ups essentially dictated what would and wouldn't be disseminated to listeners around the world. Now, with the collapse--or (re)evolution--in the music industry, things have changed. Recording ...
Shoreditch, London, December 2011: One great gig, two fine albums
by John Eyles
In December 2011, French-Canadian alto saxophonist François Carrier was approaching the end of a six-month sabbatical visit to London, sponsored by Conseil des arts et des lettres Québec. On December 6, Carrier played a gig at The Vortex to launch his album Inner Spire (Leo, 2011) recorded the previous year in Russia with his long-time drummer ...
Close Encounters Of The Skronky Kind
by Eyal Hareuveni
Paal Nilssen-Love is one of the hardest-working musicians in the European free jazz and free improvisation scenes. Amongst his near-countless activities, the Norwegian drummer collaborates on a regular basis with Chicago reed multi-instrumentalist Ken Vandermark, in their ongoing duo, in the Double Cement trio and Lean Left quartet, as a member of Peter Brötzmann's Hairy Bones ...
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