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The Space Age of Mark O'Leary

by Eyal Hareuveni
July 18, 2011

Irish guitarist Mark O'Leary continues to produce intriguing concept albums, each time with different collaborators. Two recent albums feature O'Leary's forays in a symphonic-ambient style, similar to the symphonic-progressive rock of the 1970s, but with a less grandiose character. Mark O'Leary / Jeff Herr / Søren KjærgaardProject ApolloTIB

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: On Fertile Ground

by Nenad Georgievski
June 25, 2011

In recent years, singer and composer Nick Cave has proven to be unstoppable. He has not shown any signs of old age nor any intention to slow down the tempo of new work. He is also reissuing his back catalog. Undoubtedly a gifted poet and composer, above all Cave is a dedicated hard worker. You might ...

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Ornette Coleman & Thelonious Monk: One Revolution After Another

by Chris May
June 22, 2011

Two albums in Original Jazz Classics' Remasters series capture one iconoclastic genius at his late 1950s' peak and another limbering up for 1960s' notoriety. Each disc benefits from Joe Tarantino's resonant remastering. Ornette ColemanSomething Else!!!!Original Jazz Classics/Contemporary2011 (1958) In early 1958, when Contemporary's director/producer, ...

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Vibrations of the Day konstruKt a Full Moon

by Jerry D'Souza
June 17, 2011

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 ...

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Konstrukt & Their Mighty Fine Guests

by Mark Corroto
June 12, 2011

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 ...

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Piano in the Foreground

by Raul d'Gama Rose
June 12, 2011

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 ...

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Martin Vognsen Challenges Border Control

by Eyal Hareuveni
May 31, 2011

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 ...

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OnGaku2: Ongaku2 / dialoghiattraversofilielettrici / Kado - Live @ Area Sismica

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 30, 2011

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 ...

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Two Helpings of Hurst: Bob Ya Head and Unrehurst Volume 2

by Dan Bilawsky
May 4, 2011

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, ...

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I Furiosi: Going for Baroque

by C. Michael Bailey
April 30, 2011

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 ...