Results for "Robin Fincker"

Robin Fincker

2019: Striking A Balance In Review, Part 1

by Henning Bolte
February 8, 2020

Part 1 | Part 2 Every year the 'Best-of' game is underway again. But, “best of what?" is the immediate question. It's almost impossible for fishes of prey to hunt in a huge herring swarm, or for birds of prey to hunt in those huge budgerigar swarms. 'The best' is a choice from the ...

Jazzdor Berlin

by Henning Bolte
June 29, 2018

Kulturbrauerei (Prenzlauer Berg) Jazzdor Berlin June 5-8, 2018 Jazzdor Berlin is a satellite of the Jazzdor Festival of Strasbourg founded 31 years ago. This year's 12th edition of the Franco-German festival held as usual at Kulturbrauerei, an abandoned brewery in Berlin borough Prenzlauer Berg, presented 11 groups with 40 musicians during four ...

Jazztopad 2015

by Henning Bolte
December 17, 2015

National Music Forum Jazztopad 2015 Wroclaw, Poland November 21-25, 2015 The city of Wroclaw by the Odra River in the southwest of Poland has occupied a pre-eminent position throughout its long, turbulent history, and it still does. Wroclaw's Jazztopad festival is a relatively young one. This year celebrated had ...

Scene Norway 2 at King's Place

by John Kelman
December 13, 2013

Scene Norway 2 Artist-in-Residence: Nils Petter Molvær King's Place, London, UK November 15-17, 2013 Walking into King's Place, in London, England, is an experience in itself. A building opened in 2008 near King's Cross station in downtown London, it was built with the kind of foresight that is rare these ...

Twice

By Robin Fincker

Label: Babel Label
Released: 2012
Track listing: CD 1: 1. Mummy's Boy 05:55; 2. She Languishes 05:00; 3. Hall C 05:53; 4. Country Life 06:09; 5. No 7 03:52; 6. Crunch 05:52; 7. Waltz 03:18; 8. Underfoot 07:39; 9. Image 02:58. CD 2: 10. Camoodi part I + II (live with Vincent Courtois) 12:58; 11. Luna Verde (live with Vincent Courtois)08:12; 12. No 7 (live with Vincent Courtois) 06:01; ; 13. Waltz (live with Vincent Courtois) 05:26; 14. In Two Minds (live with Vincent Courtois) 07:54.

Straw, Sticks & Bricks

By Robin Fincker

Label: Babel Label
Released: 2012
Track listing: 01. Kitchen in the Middle; 02. Bleak Sylvette; 03. Fool; 04. Luna Verde; 05. Golfo; 06. Reverse; 07. We Need Two; 08. Alignment; 09. Long Notes.

Outhouse with Hilmar Jensson: Straw, Sticks & Bricks

by AAJ Italy Staff
August 29, 2012

Gli Outhouse sono una delle giovani band inglesi emergenti nel panorama del nuovo jazz e della nuova musica creativa e sperimentale. Fanno parte del Loop Collective e sono sempre pronti a reinventarsi per cambiare. Perchè hanno capito che nel percorso verso il cambiamento risiede la chiave e la speranza per il futuro. Per il precedente album ...

Blink: Twice

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 19, 2012

È quasi un assioma. Gran parte delle proposte new jazz più interessanti arrivano sistematicamente dalla terra d'Albione. Anche in questo caso dove Robin Fincker, trentaduenne sassofonista e clarinettista francese ma da oltre una decina d'anni stabilito a Londra e per lungo tempo collaboratore della pianista Alcyona Mick, “benedice" con la saggezza dei savi la nuova avventura ...

Outhouse: Straw, Sticks And Bricks

by Bruce Lindsay
April 5, 2011

Outhouse, part of the London-based Loop Collective, is an outfit that's willing to explore--and not just within the boundaries of jazz. After a trip to The Gambia in 2007, the band brought five Wolof drummers to the UK to record its second album, Ruhabi (Babel, 2010). For third album Straw, Sticks And Bricks the core quartet ...