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Tashi Dorji

Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville 2023

by Mike Chamberlain
May 29, 2023

Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada May 18-21, 2023 This year's 39th edition of the Festival International de Jazz de Victoriaville (FIMAV) was characterized by a new performance space, a good number of noteworthy performances, and trepidation about the future of the festival following artistic director Michel ...

Jazz em Agosto 2022

by Stefano Merighi
August 16, 2022

Jazz em Agosto Fondazione Gulbenkian -Varie sedi Lisbona, Portogallo 30.7-7.8.2022 L'ultima edizione di Jazz em Agosto conferma il fiuto infallibile della direzione artistica per ciò che profuma di nuovo nelle musiche contemporanee afferenti al jazz. Vi sono larghi mezzi qui, che permettono di invitare appositamente artisti non necessariamente in ...

All Your Ghosts In One Corner

By Dave Rempis

Label: Aerophonic Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: One Fell Swoop; Scythe Part 1; Scythe Part 2; Scythe Part 3; Year Of The Rat.

Mark Corroto's Best Recordings Of 2021

by Mark Corroto
December 16, 2021

Another year in jazz, and another year in global pandemic jazz. When we look back on these times, I believe we will refer to them much like the designations BC and AD (or BCE and CE, if you like). We'll ask, what was music like before masks and social distancing; and, remember when we squeezed together ...

KUZU: All Your Ghosts In One Corner

by Mark Corroto
September 29, 2021

The edge in which the trio Kuzu lays down the five live tracks on All Your Ghosts In One Corner is sharpened by an impending sense of foreboding that accompanied (and still accompanies) the COVID-19 pandemic. Recorded at the end of a tour in March 2020, on the eve of our social isolation with clubs and ...

Stateless

By Tashi Dorji

Label: Drag City
Released: 2020
Track listing: Refusal, Part I; Refusal, Part II; Statues Crumble, Heroes Fall; End of State, Part I; End of State, Part II; End of State, Part III; What You Will Loose, As All Are Lost; The Swelling Fruit About to Shatter the Husk of The Old World; Now, Part I; Now, Part II.

Purple Dark Opal

Label: Aerophonic Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: To The Quick.

Tashi Dorji: Stateless

by Gareth Thompson
September 16, 2020

It was an ambitious move from Bhutan to Asheville, North Carolina, that helped shape Tashi Dorji's musical direction. The guitarist had previously been steeped in classic rock and hair metal, but as a foreign exchange student he soon absorbed punk and free jazz. Two saxophonists in particular, John Zorn and Albert Ayler, inspired Dorji to his ...

Kuzu: Purple Dark Opal

by John Sharpe
May 9, 2020

Hard as it is to believe, the wonderful Hiljaisuus (Aerophonic, 2019) documented the first encounter between Chicago reedman Dave Rempis, North Carolina-based Bhutanese guitarist Tashi Dorji and drummer Tyler Damon, under the banner Kuzu. On the basis of that triumph, the musicians put together a twenty-date US tour. For their follow up release, Purple Dark Opal, ...