Results for "Thomas Jillings"

Thomas Jillings

Light As Never

Label: Aspen Edities
Released: 2022
Track listing: Playful; Ostinato; Light As Never; Affirms Nothing; Conway; First Notes; Echo.

Linus + Økland/Van Heertum/Zach: Light As Never

by Mark Sullivan
August 19, 2022

Belgian duo Linus—Ruben Machtelinckx, guitar and banjo; Thomas Jillings, saxophone and clarinet—have been recording with additional musicians for several years. This grouping is the largest they have gathered together and revisits the one from the album Mono No Aware (Aspen Edities, 2017). It is rich instrumentation, expanded by Machtelinckx's additional baritone guitar, Jillings' synthesizer and Niels ...

Ruben Machtelinckx: Sualme

by Mark Sullivan
October 1, 2019

As a local resident, Belgian musician Ruben Machtelinckx was asked to contribute to Kunst en Zwalm (Art and Zwalm) 2019, a contemporary art festival that happens every two years in Zwalm, a small village on the Belgian countryside. Machtelinckx settled on a sound diary format, taking a digital recorder and instruments he could bring with him ...

Aspen Edities: The Album as a Work of Art

by Jakob Baekgaard
July 9, 2019

It's a paradox of the digital age that it has spawned some of the most beautiful physical editions of music, but perhaps it's quite logical. In an age where almost everything becomes available digitally, it's a good thing for a physical product to distinguish itself. This is exactly what the records from the Belgian-based label Aspen ...

Linus + Skarbø / Leroux: Linus + Skarbø / Leroux

by Dave Wayne
April 21, 2016

In the seven years since its inception, El Negocito Records, based in Ghent, Belgium, has established itself as one of the most adventurous and far-ranging independent labels on the European new music scene. The phrase “new music" is operative here because the label concentrates on improvisation in all of its musical guises. There are modern jazz ...

Ruben Machtelinckx & Linus: Belgian Experimental Music, Strings Attached

by Mark Sullivan
March 5, 2016

Belgian guitarist/composer Ruben Machtelinckx has built an impressive catalog of recordings as a leader since graduating from the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp in 2010. He tends to work in groups with no drummer, a chamber jazz approach that suits his lyrical, sometimes minimalist compositions well. His guitar style is tasteful and devoid of flashy pyrotechnics: even ...

Silent Songs: Introducing Ruben Machtelinckx

by Jakob Baekgaard
November 1, 2015

The easiest way to impress as a musician is to play loud and fast, but it is not necessarily the most emotionally engaging way of playing music. Instead, some of the best music creates a quiet room that it is possible to inhabit for the listener and such a space has become necessary in a time ...