Results for "Thomas Lehn"

Thomas Lehn

Speak Easy: @ Konfrontationen

By JOHN EYLES

Recorded in July 2016, at Festival Konfrontationen in Nickelsdorf, Austria, this album consists of a single track lasting fifty-two minutes, which probably represented the entire Speak Easy set at the festival. Speak Easy comprises vocalists Ute Wasserman and Phil Minton, with Thomas Lehn on analogue synthesizer and Martin Blume on drums and percussion. The quartet previously ...

Jacques Demierre: The Well-Measured Piano

By JOHN EYLES

Pianist Jacques Demierre's 2019 must be judged a success because of the release of Willisau (Jazzwerkstatt, 2019) by his new quartet—alongside trio members Urs Leimgruber and Barre Phillips plus new member Thomas Lehn—as well as his first duo album Incunabulum (Herbal Records, 2019) with Hans Koch. By comparison, his solo recording The Well-Measured Piano rather slipped ...

@ Konfrontationen

By PHIL MINTON

Label: Confront Recordings
Released: 2019
Track listing: Speechless.

John Butcher

By JOHN EYLES

In the Building a Jazz Library article on Evan Parker, it says that seasoned Parker followers would describe him as the finest improvising saxophonist of his generation. Curiously, many of those same people would use exactly that phrase about John Butcher. The simple explanation for this apparent contradiction is that we are talking about two generations; ...

John Butcher, Thomas Lehn, Matthew Shipp: Tangle

By JOHN EYLES

Recorded at Café Oto in February 2014, on the first night of pianist Matthew Shipp's three-day residency at the venue, Tangle is the first recording of the trio of saxophonist John Butcher and synthesiser player Thomas Lehn with Shipp. (The YouTube clip, below, was filmed on the night in question.) Typically, there were previous links between ...

John Butcher, Thomas Lehn, John Tilbury: Exta

By JOHN EYLES

The trio of saxophonist John Butcher, synthesiser player Thomas Lehn and pianist John Tilbury had a certain inevitability about it. Although they had not recorded together prior to this album, each of the three possible pairs had done so--Lehn and Tilbury when the Englishman recorded the extraordinary The Hands of Caravaggio (Erstwhile, 2002) with MIMEO of ...

Doves Days in Palermo

By THOMAS LEHN

Label: Universal Music Japan
Released: 2010
Track listing: 01. Gloria - 9:59 [con Gene Coleman]; 02. Particle - 9:52 [con Kim Cascone]; 03. Colloidal - 9:48 [con Robin Hayward]; 04. Composite - 5:20 [con Andreas Wagner]; 05. Palk - 8:30 [con Thomas Lehn]; 06. Eucariote - 9:53 [con Gianni Gebbia]; 07. Particulate matter - 14:29 [con Tez].

Thomas Lehn: Backchats and Somethingtobesaid

By CLIFFORD ALLEN

Speak Easy Backchats Creative Sources 2009 John Butcher Somethingtobesaid Weight of Wax 2009 Electronic instruments have been part of improvised music for over 40 years and the availability of digital ...

Domenico Sciajno: Doves Days in Palermo

By AAJ ITALY STAFF

Doves è un acronimo che sta per “Day Off Venue for the Experimental Scene," vale a dire una serie di concerti organizzati da Domenico Sciajno a Palermo tra marzo e giugno 2008 in collaborazione con G. Coleman, K. Cascone, R. Hayward, A. Wagner, T. Lehn, G. Gebbiae Tez. Le indicazioni sono chiare: a partire dalle registrazioni, ...