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Diatribes: Great Stone / Blood Dunza
by John Eyles
The duo Diatribes--d'incise (a.k.a. Laurent Peter) and Cyril Bondi--are the driving forces behind the INSUB label on which many of their recordings have been released, either as Diatribes or within other groupings. Great Stone / Blood Durza is not the duo's first release on a label other than INSUB, but it is noteworthy for other reasons; ...
Tobias Meier, Marc Méan: Philippe & Paul
by Alberto Bazzurro
Le difficoltà iniziano dalla copertina: spacchettarla per trovarvi dentro l'oggetto è già impresa degna di miglior causa (per non parlare del reimpacchettamento...). Poi si capisce il meccanismo, e si va via un po' più sciolti. Intanto, però, si è messa mano (orecchio) al prodotto e le difficoltà si sono acuite. La musica contenuta ...
Blaer: Blaer
by Bruce Lindsay
Led by pianist and composer Maja Nydegger, Blaer is a jazz quintet from Switzerland. This self-titled album is the band's debut release--a collection that establishes the band as an ensemble of real promise, with early signs of a distinctive and individual sound emerging. Blaer operates on the calmer, more languid end of the jazz ...
Marco von Orelli 5: Alluring Prospect
by Glenn Astarita
Swiss trumpeter Marco von Orelli (George Gruntz Workshop Big Band, Tommy Meier Root Down) possesses a manifold musical persona. He's composed for TV, theater and collaborates with many notable European jazz artists and improvisers. But as a leader, Alluring Prospects poses deep insight into his enthralling compositional pen, bridging classical, jazz and the improvisational element into ...
Irene Schweizer / Jurg Wickihalder: Spring
by John Sharpe
On his only previous session in duet with piano -A Feeling For Someone (Intakt, 2008) -Swiss reedman Jurg Wickihalder's indebtedness to that master of the straight horn Steve Lacy was still evident. But on Spring, in the company of the iconoclastic pianist Irene Schweizer, Wickihalder sounds entirely his own man. Both principals boast serious avant-garde credentials, ...
Colin Vallon Trio: Le Vent
by Hrayr Attarian
Swiss pianist Colin Vallon's fourth release as a leader, Le Vent is a truly collaborative effort that eschews individual solos in favor of a haunting, collective sound. The results are atmospheric and exquisitely formalistic. This is not to suggest that, because of its ambient nature, the album is without substance. On the contrary, its structure becomes ...
Two INSUB releases
by John Eyles
When Switzerland's INSUB records issued its first two releases in a new format in early 2014, that innovative format got nearly as much attention as the music itself. Solving the download vs. physical object debate, its combination of attractive packaging (including A3 poster-size artwork) with a download code gave customers the best of both worlds. That ...
Samuel Huguenin Symbolic Quartet: L'Exile des Nymphes
by Luigi Sforza
Un piacevole e significativo numero di idee musicali--ben argomentate--sono presenti in L'Exile des Nymphes, album del giovane sassofonista svizzero Samuel Huguenin, che a capo di un pregevole quartetto esplora antiche danze musicali ("Estampie"); mescola essenze melodiche balcaniche con arabesche cadenze musicali ("Mescaline"); si esprime con inflessioni che lasciano immaginare gli strumenti ad ancia dell'Epiro ("Sikkim," ballad ...
Matthias Tschopp Quartet: Plays Mirò
by Luigi Sforza
La storia della musica annovera un discreto numero di esempi di compositori che si sono ispirati a opere pittoriche per tradurre in suoni le suggestioni evocate da quadri e disegni più o meno celebri. Quadri di un'esposizione di Modest Mussorgsky è la suite sicuramente la più famosa. Anche il mondo del jazz contemporaneo europeo ha in ...
Luzia von Wyl Ensemble: Frost
by Glenn Astarita
The age-old debate, regarding the pros and cons of melding classical music with other genres will live on. And of course, the oil and water analogies will be discussed as many hybrid encounters may seem contrived, evidenced by hard-rock guitar solos wailing above syrupy strings arrangements or abstract scenarios where free-jazz soloists merge chamber music and ...
