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Theo Bleckmann - Ben Monder: At Night
by AAJ Italy Staff
L'album si intitola At Night, ed effettivamente le atmosfere sono notturne. I brani si muovono in prevalenza su mezzi tempi, con strutture delicate ed eteree. Tuttavia ci sembra che l'elemento unificante dell'album, la sua identità più vera e profonda, non sia tanto la notte, quanto la musica degli anni '70. Suoni di chitarra saturi e sperimentazioni ...
Chris Gestrin: After the City Has Gone: Quiet
by AAJ Italy Staff
“Non mi piace parlare di musica perché, come ogni forma d’arte, essa si relaziona in maniera differente con ciascuna persona“. E in effetti ascoltando After the City Has Gone: Quiet, ultimo lavoro discografico del pianista, compositore ed ingegnere del suono canadese Chris Gestrin, verrebbe da seguire alla lettera l’affermazione che apre le stringate note di copertina ...
Andy Milne: Dreams and False Alarms
by AAJ Italy Staff
L'M-Base Collective e Steve Coleman avevano dato a Andy Milne una grande chance: l’approccio innovativo all’improvvisazione (M-Base sta per Macro - Basic array of structured extemporizations). E Milne non si era fatto sfuggire l’occasione. Subito metteva in evidenza il suo talento creativo e in poco tempo si imponeva come uno dei più talentuosi pianisti in circolazione. ...
James Carney: Green-wood
by AAJ Italy Staff
Che sorpresa! E’ vero che leggendo i nomi riportati sul retro copertina verrebbe da mettersi il cuore in pace sulla qualità dell’ascolto, ma non sempre la presenza di grandi musicisti assicura la realizzazione di un gran disco. E invece Green-Wood un gran disco lo è proprio! Basta ascoltare l’inizio di “Power“, una sorta di prova d’orchestra ...
Poolplayers: Way Below The Surface
by Mark Corroto
Sublimely titled, there is indeed something Way Below The Surface happening on this fifty-eight minutes of music making. There, just beyond your vision (perhaps in your ears) flows a current of thought, emotion and meaning.Readers might find this description vague as to details, but Poolplayers intentionally conceal the bright lines and themes evident in ...
Wayne Horvitz Gravitas Quartet: One Dance Alone
by Troy Collins
A veteran of the early eighties Downtown New York scene, keyboardist and composer Wayne Horvitz's relocation to the West Coast two decades ago has found him leading numerous projects, from large ensembles to solo performances. The Gravitas Quartet is one of his most recent forays, a chimerical union of neo-classical restraint, post-rock ambience and jazz improvisation.
Songlines Recordings
by Celeste Sunderland
Bill Frisell's music is painterly. It inspires a lush, textured sense of motion. So do the works of artist Gerhard Richter. That these two were paired five years ago at an exhibition in San Francisco makes perfect sense. Eight of Richter's Abstract Pictures hung at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art as part of a ...
Ryan Blotnick: Music Needs You
by Marcia Hillman
Guitarist Ryan Blotnick is on a journey of exploration on this, his first CD. All of the compositions are his originals with one exception--a ballad by alto saxophonist Pete Robbins. Blotnick is accompanied on this journey by Robbins as well as Albert Sanz (piano), Perry Wortman (bass) and Joe Smith (drums), a quintet that was assembled ...
Ryan Blotnick: Music Needs You
by Martin Gladu
As Jack Kerouac's call for a “rucksack revolution" enticed America's youth to discover themselves and the world through rallies and road trips, musicians, for their part, have found taking the road at the same time an uprooting obligation and liberating transience. After all, as the proverb goes, travels do broaden the mind.A young globe-trotter ...
Chris Gestrin: After the City Has Gone: Quiet
by Jerry D'Souza
Back in 2004, Chris Gestrin (piano, prepared piano, percussion) went into a studio in Vancouver to record his music. He had a dream and he wanted to realize it with musicians that he had long wanted to play with and those that had made a mark on the improvised music scene. Some of it was written, ...
