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Vibrations of the Day konstruKt a Full Moon
by Jerry D'Souza
Free jazz from Turkey is more than a catchphrase when it comes to konstruKt. It is an ideal, an approach, a symbiosis of creativity and sound that evolves and blooms. The group brings an incredible level of energy and process into its music in lucid and inventive formations. konstuKt with Marshall Allen, Hüseyin ...
Konstrukt & Their Mighty Fine Guests
by Mark Corroto
Freedom is sweeping the globe. Maybe not in terms of political discourse, business or education, but maybe more importantly, musically. In places like Beirut and Istanbul, the free jazz scene is very much alive. The band konstruKt, made up of guitarist Umut Çağlar, saxophonist Korhan Futaci, drummer Korhan Argüden and percussionist Özün Usta has been garnering ...
Piano in the Foreground
by Raul d'Gama Rose
The piano has been a much coveted instrument ever since its invention and never less so than within the 20th century avant-garde. As a central character in the narrative of music since 1900, the instrument has been hugely dominant. Its near infinite range of harmonics and rhythmic extrapolations have afforded musicians who write for or performed ...
Martin Vognsen Challenges Border Control
by Eyal Hareuveni
Danish guitarist and composer Martin Vognsen's project State Changes According To A Wind, here presented on a 2CD release, offers a unique musical observation about something those of us living in the first world may take for granted: the (relative) freedom to move from one country to another. Vognsen bases his reflections on the main crossing ...
OnGaku2: Ongaku2 / dialoghiattraversofilielettrici / Kado - Live @ Area Sismica
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il duo cagliaritano OnGaku2, composto dal chitarrista Elia Casu e dal batterista Paolo Sanna, stupisce e diverte. E se, come gli auguriamo, continuerà ad esistere a lungo, è destinato anche a far parlare di sé (per leggere l'intervista clicca qui). È d'altronde costitutiva della sua natura questa capacità di sorprendere: ongaku in giapponese combina il concetto ...
Two Helpings of Hurst: Bob Ya Head and Unrehurst Volume 2
by Dan Bilawsky
Robert Hurst has been an in-demand bassist for more than a quarter century, yet his leader dates have been sporadic and scant. Hurst came to prominence in the mid 1980s, first as a member of Out Of The Blue and then as a key figure in bands lead by trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and saxophonist Branford Marsalis, ...
I Furiosi: Going for Baroque
by C. Michael Bailey
The Kronos Quartet was revolutionary in the respect that it made a conscious effort to appeal to all age groups at once, with tense and anxious performances like Black Angels (Nonesuch, 1990). The ensemble Red Priest did this same thing, reducing Vivaldi and his friends to a bare minimum, creating some very provocative music in the ...
Drip, Drip, Drip: A Celebration of Drip Audio
by John Eyles
Violinist Jesse Zubot's record label Drip Audio released its first CD, Zubotta, in March 2005. As it reaches its sixth anniversary, the latest releases on the Vancouver-based label show it continuing to display the strengths that have made it unpredictable and distinctive throughout its existence. Alongside releases featuring Jesse Zubot and his violinist brother Joshua, standout ...
Duos: When The Sum Is Greater Than Its Parts
by Mark Corroto
The defining characteristic of all great partnerships in cinema, from the male-bonding buddy movie to the classic Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy films, is the tension created between two self-assertive characters, before their eventual collaboration. The same can be said of jazz and improvisational duos. By matching two authoritative players, sparks fly and, if the two ...
It's an Upstate Thing: John Medeski and Lee Shaw; Joe Barna and Sketches Of Influence
by J Hunter
It's time once again to prove that all the great jazz in New York State isn't all made in New York City. The state capital of Albany has been doing its part for quite some time, and it doesn't stop with its two favorite musical sons: mallets wizard Stefon Harris and baritone saxman Nick Brignola. Here ...
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