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The Naked Future: Gigantomachia
by Raul d'Gama Rose
There has always been a raw, sinewy character to music performed wherever and whenever Arrington de Dionyso shows up to play his deep, woodsy clarinets. The epic narratives on Gigantomachia, interpreted by de Dionyso's latest ensemble, The Naked Future, provide no exception. If anything, the music is enveloped in an energetic tension from start to finish, ...
Roswell Rudd: Trombone Tribe
by Raul d'Gama Rose
The trombone is perhaps the only brass instrument that can--if well played--capture a devastating array of human emotions. It can be made to wail plaintively and growl menacingly. It can be played to sing and make extraordinary leaps of joy, even evoke hallelujahs and other spiritual epiphanies with breathtaking abandon. But it must be played with ...
Rakalam Bob Moses: Father's Day B'hash
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Two words that best describe the work of Rakalam Bob Moses are “ancient future." This twin epithet really requires no explanation. But it includes the suggestion that the music comes from a time and place when the aural expression of emotions was incredibly pure and extends--as if by magic--to that time and place where the reflection ...
Miles Okazaki: Generations
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Myriad ideas collide and interact on Miles Okazaki's follow-up to Mirror: his latest offering, Generations. These ideas span not only musical forms and concepts but also cultures--from Indian to European and American. The music also leaps across various artistic disciplines--philosophical, mathematical and visual--to render one central ostensible idea: that all sound is an experience shaped by ...
Ben Wendel: Simple Song
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Reedman Ben Wendel plays music that sings in different idioms. He has collaborated with the renowned conductor, Kent Nagano in a series of concerts in Germany, and has toured with Cuban drummer, Ignacio Berroa, electronica artist, Daedelus and rapper, Snoop Dog. He is also founding member of the indefinable band, Kneebody, which has been described as ...
Diego Barber: Calima
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Very few contemporary musicians imbue Impressionism in the truly classical sense of the term. And of those who do qualify, fewer still play the guitar. Ralph Towner does come to mind and his is a living legacy and tribute to this enduring movement. Egberto Gismonti--especially with his masterpiece Musica de Sobrevivencia (ECM, 1993)--is probably the epitome ...
Duke Ellington: Symphony of the Body and Soul
by Raul d'Gama Rose
A study in sepia It was the package that arrived, which prompted me to open an album of memories in the first place. Looking at the photograph, I recall some--not all--of the many details of the evening it was taken. The boy in the photograph is I, and I am in a black mood. ...
Gina Schwarz / Richard Oesterreicher: AirBass
by Raul d'Gama Rose
There could be many a slip between coming up with an unusual concept for a record and actually having the gumption to pull it off. Austrian bassist Gina Schwarz and harmonica maestro Richard Oesterreicher have indeed pulled it off on AirBass, a wonderful record where the two musicians share principal credits, although Schwarz is the main ...
Barnacled: Charles
by Raul d'Gama Rose
The best part of the event that is Charles--the rather full-length record from Barnacled--is that it simply cannot be categorized. It therefore appears a mistake to label the group “prog" throughout the otherwise insanely fine liners that accompany the package. Thus it's an infinitely rewarding experience to approach the music first and then go to the ...
Yximalloo: Unpop
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Yximalloo is a comet streaking across the societal landscape. The fact that for over a decade he has dallied every now and then to pour mirth and scorn on a world so absorbed by commercialism that it has begun to devour itself may now seem prophetic. His work is elegantly absurd and hypnotic. It occupies the ...
