Results for "Raphael Malfliet"

Raphael Malfliet

LE10 18-05

By RAPHAEL MALFLIET

Label: Ruweh Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Arborescence; Supersonic; Orbital Decay I; Orbital Decay II; Orbital Decay III; Scintilation; Blazar; Parcours; Trajectory.

Raphael Malfliet Large Ensemble: LE10 18-05

By KARL ACKERMANN

On his debut album, Noumenon (Ruweh Records, 2016), Belgian-born bassist Raphael Malfliet incorporated his influences of modern classical, avant-garde, and improvised music, without deference to any particular genre. In that trio setting, Malfliet mixed textures and loose, fluctuating melodies that played as a surprisingly full sound and served to emphasize the opposing uses of silence. The ...

Raphael Malfliet: LE10 18-05

By JAKOB BAEKGAARD

Belgian-born electric bassist and composer Raphael Malfliet continues to explore the complex worlds of sound that he introduced on his acclaimed debut, Noumenon (Ruweh Records, 2016). However, his second album LE10 18-05 shifts focus from the tight constellation of the trio to the extended possibilities of a large acoustic ensemble. On Noumenon, Malfliet already ...

Noumenon

By RAPHAEL MALFLIET

Label: Ruweh Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Kandy; My Name; Kort; Arcana; Samen; Rotation; Boog (CD Only).

Karl Ackermann's Best Releases of 2016

By KARL ACKERMANN

2016 has proven that jazz and creative music in general, are healthier than ever. Artists like Steve Lehman, Nate Wooley and Vijay Iyer continue to push the envelope while those like Bob Gluck find ways to make the old, very new. This list is--for the most part--outside the mainstream because that is where artists risk the ...

Raphael Malfliet: Noumenon

By KARL ACKERMANN

Belgian-born bassist Raphael Malfliet graduated from the Conservatory in Antwerp in 2014, moving to New York shortly afterward. Though the music on his debut trio album Noumenon is outside of well-defined genres, his influences of modern classical and improvisation are evident from the start. One is as likely to hear traces of Elliott Sharp as they ...

Raphael Malfliet: Noumenon

By JAKOB BAEKGAARD

How does it sound when a bass is not a bass, a guitar not a guitar and a drum is a not a drum? The answer to this riddle is the album Noumenon by the Belgian-born bassist Raphael Malfliet. His album is yet another worthy addition to the hip Brooklyn label, Ruweh, but ...