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Ensemble 5: The Summary Of 4
by Mark Corroto
It is refreshing to hear a free jazz improvising group that doesn't abandon meter and melody for the goal of spontaneous music making. For percussionist Heinz Geisser, performing improvised music doesn't require he throw the figurative baby out with the bath water. The dude abides.Like the Collective 4tet he established in the 1990s with ...
Box: Erosion
by Luigi Sforza
Una considerevole distanza separa la musica dei Boxmusic/Cargocollective--gruppo di giovani musicisti elvetici--da ogni forma di ortodossia musicale, soprattutto da quella jazzistica. Nel loro secondo disco, Erosion (il primo, Bruch, è del 2008), il quartetto instaura un regime sonoro ampiamente elettronico, che prevede comunque la presenza di suoni acustici di tromba e batteria, della vocalità rapper (Black ...
Barry Guy New Orchestra: Amphi - Radio Rondo
by John Sharpe
One of the most noteworthy releases of 2013 was the Barry Guy New Orchestra's Mad Dogs (Not Two), a five disc compendium which collected largely freeform meetings between various subsets of the 11-piece company during their 2010 residency in Krakow. However even that copious set offered only a partial view of the Orchestra's range, a deficiency ...
Fritz Hegi Trio: Flow Flow Impro-Visionen
by Alberto Bazzurro
Dinnanzi a un pubblico alquanto sparuto (ce lo dice il volume degli applausi), i tre musicisti svizzeri cuciono insieme il loro set, alimentato da un'improvvisazione inesausta quanto abilmente gestita. L'humus varia peraltro non poco da brano a brano, facendo leva ora su una struttura più sfrangiata, trovata all'impronta, ora compositivamente definita. Già paradigmatica ...
Adasiewicz - Erb - Roebke: Yuria's Dream
by Glenn Astarita
Experimental saxophonist Christoph Erb recorded this lone 43-minute track in Chicago with prominent improvisers and composers, vibraphonist Jason Adasiewicz and bassist Jason Roebke amid a tour of the US. Here, the trio articulates an immense plane of perceptions, and if charted, may appear as a histogram that contains various deviations from the mean, when considering dips ...
Christy Doran's Bunter Hund: Walkin' The Dog
by Ian Patterson
Whilst many 64-year-olds look forward to retirement, Switzerland-based Irish guitarist Christy Doran on the other hand has been kicking into creative overdrive. No.9 (Leo Records, 2013) was a beguiling duo date with Chinese pipa virtuoso Yang Jing, while Mesmerized (Double Moon records, 2013) saw Doran's long-running post-rock group New Bag rejuvenated by the exhilarating vocal presence ...
Sonar: Static Motion
by John Kelman
At a time when more recordings are released than ever before, it's rare to find a group that not just changes the way music is made, but the way it's defined. That description could easily fit Swiss pianist Nik Bartsch and his longstanding group Ronin, its Ritual Groove Music jettisoning overt virtuosity and conventional form for ...
Marc Halbheer's 5th Edition: Confidence in Symmetry
by Ian Patterson
Swiss drummer/bandleader Marc Halbheer couldn't be accused of lumping his eggs in one basket. His more orthodox projects encompass a jazz standards quartet, and the contemporary Trio Edition with bassist Arild Andersen and guitarist Christy Doran. Halbheer's more exotic collaborations embrace the folk musics of China, Central Asia, the Alps and the Balkans in genre-defying fusions. ...
Christof Irniger: Gowanus Canal
by Luca Casarotti
Per essere una formazione senza strumenti armonici, il trio del sassofonista svizzero Christoph Irniger sembra dare un'importanza capitale all'armonia nella sua accezione più stretta, tonale. Questo non significa che il gruppo pensi, componga e suoni in modo troppo tradizionale. A fugare il sospetto bastano i primi secondi della prima traccia, che dà il titolo a questo ...
Colin Vallon Trio: Le Vent
by John Kelman
When Bill Evans emerged in the 1950s, he represented a paradigm shift for the jazz piano trio. No longer a lead instrument supported by a rhythm section, Evans' more egalitarian approach to music-making allowed delineated soloists to engage in a more fully conversational context, with any instrument capable of pushing the music in a new direction ...
