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Susana Santos Silva, Lotte Anker, Sten Sandell, Torbjörn Zetterberg, John Fält: Life and Other Transient Storms

Read "Life and Other Transient Storms" reviewed by Troy Dostert

by Troy Dostert
August 26, 2016

Many fans of contemporary creative jazz and improvised music have in recent years become aware of Susana Santos Silva. Despite her relative youth (37), this extraordinary Portuguese trumpet player possesses a remarkably self-assured and distinctive voice on her instrument, and she excels in straddling the lines between composition and free improvisation. For this release, she's assembled ...

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Five New From Konvoj Records

by Mark Corroto
June 16, 2016

If you are a free jazz fanatic, you probably look for those out-of-print vinyl offerings from labels like Hat Hut, FMP, Sonet, and El Saturn Records. Sadly, you would have to be either independently wealthy or Mats Gustafsson to acquire the rarest of the rare music. But take heart, there are small labels producing the free ...

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Lina Nyberg: Aerials

Read "Aerials" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
April 20, 2016

There are very few musicians who dare to expand their artistic vision with every new project as Swedish vocalist-songwriter-composer Lina Nyber. Aerials, is the her second installment in a trilogy of albums that offers her unique perspective about the world, the elements and the music itself. Nyberg began the trilogy with the double album The Sirenades ...

Article: Live Review

34 ° Tampere Jazz Happening

by Luca Vitali
November 18, 2015

Tampere Jazz Happening 2015 Tampere (Finlandia) 29.10- 01.11.2015 Il Tampere Jazz Happening si conferma come un festival di grande vitalità, tra i migliori in Europa. Un'edizione, questa 34^, ancora una volta senza confini geografici né musicali, all'insegna della combinazione tra musica jazz e parola parlata. I cinquemila spettatori paganti ...

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Moers Festival 2015

by Henning Bolte
June 7, 2015

Moers Festival Moers, Germany May 22-25, 2015 After the great changes and new beginnings of last year's edition, this year the festival entered the phase of refinement and consolidation. The special vibe is still flourishing. The festival got an important award, the prize of the Europe Jazz Network (EJN) for Adventurous Programming. ...

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Akira Sakata / Johan Berthling / Paal Nilssen-Love: Arashi

Read "Arashi" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
October 4, 2014

This is a trio of like-minded, fearless musicians who like their music hot, steamy and climatic and would not settle for less than that. The Scandinavian rhythm section of prolific Norwegian drummer Paal Nilssen-Love, member of the power trio The Thing and Swedish double bassist Johan Berthling, member of the like-minded trio Fire! (both feature Swedish ...

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Emil Strandberg: More music for trumpet, guitar and bass

Read "More music for trumpet, guitar and bass" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
September 16, 2014

Swedish trumpeter Emil Strandberg continues to explore the format of an intimate, acoustic trio. He began in 2012 with a self-titled trio of double bassist Pär-Ola Landin and drummer Sebastian Voegler (Self Produced, 2012) that covered standards, continued in 2013 with pianist Sten Sandell and double bassist Patric Thorman in It Is Night and I am ...

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Konvoj Ensemble: Colors Of:

Read "Colors Of:" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
March 4, 2014

The Konvoj Ensemble is a Pan-European quintet based in Malmö, Sweden, and run by Swedish saxophonist Ola Paulson. This quintet is comprised of experienced free improvisers--Danish saxophonist Lotte Anker and lap-top player Jakob Riis, Lithuanian saxophonist Liudas Mockūnas, and Swedish drummer Anders Uddeskog, augmented for its debut recording by British sax legend Evan Parker and Swedish ...

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Music Inside The Language

By Sten Sandell

Label: LJ Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: CD1: Music Inside the Language – solo: Pa; Insidan; Av. Music Inside the Language: the drama: Munnen-scen 1; Munnen-scen 2; Munnen-scen 3; Munnen-scen 4; Munnen-scen 5: Epilog-konklusion. CD2: Music inside the language – the trio: Spraksanger 1; En sonisk triptyk 1; Spraksanger 2; En sonisk triptyk 2; Spraksanger 3; Spraksanger 4; En sonisk triptyk 3; Music inside the Dialogue; Speldialog 110310. CD3: Borduna 58´20´´.

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The Ägg: The Ägg

Read "The Ägg" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
December 21, 2013

Put three electric guitarists, three electric bassists and four drummers in one room all coming from the vibrant Stockholm scene of free improvisation, free jazz and art rock. Let them jam freely, lock in hypnotic grooves that loosely sound like Fela Kuti's Afro-beat bands or worse, like North Korean marching bands on acid, sketch noisy textures ...