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Florian Ross Trio: Pigs & Fairies

Read "Pigs & Fairies" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
May 16, 2017

As a composer, German-born pianist Florian Ross seldom strays from the musical basics: melody, harmony, rhythm. As a performer, however, he uses those same basics to fashion a broad palette of sound, coming at the listener from a variety of routes and angles cannily designed to deepen an over-all mood of singularity and anticipation.

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Lines & Crosscurrents

By Florian Ross

Label: Toy Piano Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: Arp I; Exhibit A; Augmented Reality; Etch-a-Sketch; Moxel; Manifold; Greenland; Novachord; Venture Cabinet; Driftwood; Rough Patch; Arp II.

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Florian Ross Quintet: Lines & Crosscurrents

Read "Lines & Crosscurrents" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
February 2, 2015

Although you'd be hard-pressed to pick Florian Ross' quintet out of a lineup, the German-based helmsman wrests as much color and contrast as can be envisioned from a group that includes himself on piano or synthesizer, Markus Segschneider on pedal steel guitar and Niels Klein on clarinet, bass clarinet or tenor sax. If the music on ...