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Adam Berenson: Everything That No One Ever Saw

Read "Everything That No One Ever Saw" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
March 8, 2026

You may recall Rod Serling's famous introduction to The Twilight Zone (1959-1964): “You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension--a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind." Those words provide an apt entry point for pianist and composer Adam Berenson's Everything That No One Ever Saw. ...

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Everything That No One Ever Saw

By Adam Berenson

Label: Neos
Released: 2025
Track listing: Everything That No One Ever Saw; Mammisi; String Quartet No. 4.

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Low Down Music

By Manfred Kniel and his Reduction Quartet

Label: Neos
Released: 2011
Track listing: Burgermusi; Naiv, Tief Und Grausig-Schön; Miss Blue; Eklat; Free 'n' Open; Pozilei; Klagelied; Schneefelder II.

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Allurements of the Ellipsoid

By Otomo Yoshihide

Label: Neos
Released: 2011
Track listing: CD1: Allurement 1; Allurement 2. CD2: Allurement 3; Allurement 4.

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Otomo Yoshihide Quartet: Allurements of the Ellipsoid

Read "Allurements of the Ellipsoid" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
October 6, 2011

The minimalist improvisation of Otomo Yoshihide's Quartet, assembled for the 2005 Donaueschinger Music Festival, delivers a thoroughly abstract sound that could never be described as obtuse. This coming together of heavyweight improvisers yielded two discs--one, a studio session and the other, a live performance--recorded over three days. Those familiar with the genius of Yoshihide's ...

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Manfred Kniel and his Reduction Quartet: Low Down Music

Read "Low Down Music" reviewed by Nic Jones

by Nic Jones
February 28, 2011

Drummer Manfred Kniel has leadership status on this release, and all the compositions are his. But this is also, perhaps, the key to the music's shortcomings, especially when the rhythmic vitality the leader habitually imparts is not matched by some other equally compelling element. His sly and sometimes witty melodic sense seems often to be a ...