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Adam Rudolph - Go: Organic Guitar Orchestra: Turning Towards The Light

Read "Turning Towards The Light" reviewed by Mario Calvitti


Il percussionista e compositore statunitense Adam Rudolph è uno di quei musicisti ai quali qualsiasi etichetta va stretta. Basta scorrere la lista degli artisti con cui ha collaborato per rendersene conto: personaggi come Don Cherry, Jon Hassell, Sam Rivers, Pharoah Sanders, L. Shankar, Fred Anderson, Muhal Richard Abrams, Wadada Leo Smith, Omar Sosa, e soprattutto Yusef ...

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Article: Live Review

Big Ears Festival 2016

Read "Big Ears Festival 2016" reviewed by Mark Sullivan


Big Ears Festival Knoxville, TN March 31-April 2, 2016 Since its beginning in 2009, the Big Ears Festival has always been willfully, unapologetically eclectic. Their own self-description is “a dynamic, interactive experience that explores connections between musicians and artists, crossing all musical genres while interfacing with film, performance and the visual arts." ...

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Article: Album Review

Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith: A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke

Read "A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke" reviewed by Mark Corroto


The expansion of the mind, or better yet, consciousness, can come from multiple approaches. Prayer, physical activity, hallucinogenic substances, and mathematics are but a few routes. All seem to distillate to one essence, that is quiet, the emptiness of silence. For prayer or meditation, the quiet is obvious. But also, great scientists and athletes tell us ...

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Article: Album Review

DarkMatterHalo: Darkness Interrupted

Read "Darkness Interrupted" reviewed by Claudio Bonomi


Hardedge, all'anagrafe Velibor Pedevski, si definisce un sound designer. Non un sound designer qualsiasi. Hardedge è un architetto di suoni elettronici dotato di una sensibilità non comune. È capace di costruire scenari e affreschi apocalittici di una profondità siderale, e quasi mai disturbanti, che si reggono su autentiche colonne soniche. Potremmo definirlo un ...

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News: Recording

ECM Records Releases Vijay Iyer / Wadada Leo Smith's "A cosmic rhythm with each stroke"

ECM Records Releases Vijay Iyer / Wadada Leo Smith's "A cosmic rhythm with each stroke"

Vijay Iyer / Wadada Leo Smith's A cosmic rhythm with each stroke Wadada Leo Smith: trumpet Vijay Iyer: piano, Fender Rhodes, electronics A cosmic rhythm with each stroke features pianist Vijay Iyer and the musician he has described as his “hero, friend and teacher”, trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith. Vijay has previously played extensively with ...

Article: Album Review

Wadada Leo Smith, John Lindberg: Celestial Weather

Read "Celestial Weather" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro


Entrambi colonne dell'avanguardia jazzistica, sia pure con tempi, ruoli e modalità differenti, Wadada Leo Smith e John Lindberg dialogano in questo notevole album, la cui incisione risale al giugno 2012, dando da subito l'impressione di intendersi ottimamente. La suite che apre il disco (e che si deve al trombettista, come del resto la ...

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Article: Album Review

Ches Smith with Craig Taborn and Mat Maneri: The Bell

Read "The Bell" reviewed by Karl Ackermann


Despite appearing on at least fifty recordings since 2001, Ches Smith remains the more under-recognized, yet highly in-demand, member of this newly formed trio. The drummer/percussionist and vibraphonist for Tim Berne's Snakeoil, Smith has played with John Zorn on Voices in the Wilderness (Tzadik, 2003), as well as Wadada Leo Smith, and guitarists Fred Frith and ...

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News: Recording

Ches Smith with Craig Taborn and Mat Maneri release "The Bell" on ECM Records

Ches Smith with Craig Taborn and Mat Maneri release "The Bell" on ECM Records

Ches Smith: drums, vibraphone, timpani; Craig Taborn: piano; Mat Maneri: viola The Bell features dynamic chamber music compositions written for masterful improvisers. “The best thing I caught all weekend,” said critic Peter Margasak of the 2014 New York Winter Jazzfest, “was a superb trio led by drummer Ches Smith with pianist Craig Taborn and violist Mat ...

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The Nile

Label: Hardedge
Released: 2015
Track listing: The Nile; Signs and Symbols of Humanity; Civilization of Barbarism; Harp.

Album

Red Hill

Label: RareNoiseRecords
Released: 2015
Track listing: Gneiss; Janus Face; Agpaitic; Tragic Wisdom; Debts Of Honor; Arfvedsonite.


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