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Positive Catastrophe: Garabatos Volume One
by Raul d'Gama Rose
There has always been a strong case to tear down the walls that divide music in the past two hundred years--especially in the 21st century. The best case for this phenomenon has always come from forward-thinking musicians themselves. One of the best examples of this comes in the form of Positive Catastrophe, a little big band ...
Wadada Leo Smith: Spiritual Dimensions
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Every note trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith blows on his exquisite brass instrument brings a whole world of joy. The sound of the Earth and the Heavens in every echo and ululation of the notes that flow out of his trumpet, dancing the interminable dance of lovers in unison, like sunrise and sunset, day and night. Each ...
Grosse Abfahrt: Vanity
by Raul d'Gama Rose
What happens when serious musicians get together to examine the character and proclivities of a society, as broadcast via the identification plates on the cars of the people that drive them? The music that describes their very public personalities makes for an ironic, slightly mocking, yet always hilarious look into the “stamped-metal bumper culture expressions" of ...
Richard Barrett: adrift
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Richard Barrett makes music that demands more than total attention, and it's impossible not to be sucked in. On adrift, a collection of three pieces, his command of sound in all its depth and glory is utterly alluring. This makes it easier to fall prey to the seduction of the music--a magnificent collision of instrumentation on ...
Ramona Borthwick: One of Us
by Raul d'Gama Rose
The wonderful music of One of Us dwells on the interconnection of all things. Pianist Ramona Borthwick and her quartet make this happen on two important levels. First, they play from the same script as if they had studied the pages and came to make each their own in a very special and individual way. Second, ...
Otmaro Ruiz: Sojourn
by Raul d'Gama Rose
The Chambers Dictionary describes the word “sojourn" as “a temporary residence or stay, as of one in a foreign land." Pianist Otmaro Ruiz's musical journey offers all the right cues for his Sojourn being so apt to document. Even though it gets somewhat personal at times, it is memorable for anyone interested in taking the journey ...
Eldad Tarmu: Songs for the Queen of Bohemia
by Raul d'Gama Rose
In January 2009, Los Angeles-born, Romanian vibraphonist, Eldad Tarmu took his Chamber Jazz Ensemble, featuring Israeli drummer Yoni Halevy and the Timisoara String Quartet, on tour with a superb new symphonic poem, Songs for the Queen of Bohemia. It has been on record almost since then, but sadly has not received the attention it deserves. Admittedly ...
Bengt Berger: Beches Brew
by Raul d'Gama Rose
There is vorticist movement in percussion colorist Bengt Berger's music. Like a whirling fluid mass slingshot around the world--although anchored in the broad folks forms of Swedish music--it sucks in the dancing and chanting, moaning and prancing rhythmic Hindustani and Carnatic music of India and West Africa, especially that of Ghana. And it is all here ...
Evan Parker: set: For Lynn Margulis
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Lynn Margulis' Serial Endosymbiosis Theory, which began making its rounds in the scientific community in 1966 as The Origin of Mitosing Eukaryotic Cells and graduated into Symbiosis in Cell Evolution, published in 1981 pushed outward forever in dramatic manner the boundaries relating the evolution of micro organisms. Margulis' quest for the absolutely honest and exciting developmental ...
Ithamara Koorax: Bim Bom - The Complete Joao Gilberto Songbook
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Ithamara Koorax Bim Bom: The Complete João Gilberto Songbook Motema Records 2009 João Gilberto did not just epitomize bossa nova, “The New Thing" that he virtually invented, but he also brought his new, laconic vocal style to Brazilian music. So deeply passionate and idiosyncratic was his pronounciation ...
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