Results for "WE INSIST! RECORDS"

Tombé de la voûte

Label: We Insist! Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: not impro in roc; crucible; tet’ss; f.t.f. parts 1-7; re:call.

Alberto Braida: Cats In The Kitchen

by Mark Corroto
November 11, 2021

Cats In The Kitchen by the trio of Alberto Braida, Silvia Bolognesi, and Cristiano Calcagnile is the embodiment of la sprezzatura, an Italian expression that has no equivalent in English but roughly translates as doing something extremely well without showing that it took any effort. The nine compositions penned by Braida, an accomplished pianist whose recent ...

Trio Pipeline: Kakuan Suite

by Mark Corroto
July 13, 2021

The concept is simple enough; sandwiched in between two group improvisations is the Kakuan Suite, a series of seven anagram parts (a couple repeated) that make up the ten tracks heard here. Giancarlo Nino Locatelli (Bb and alto clarinet) composed the pieces, based on the movement of his fingers on his instruments' keys, in effect creating ...

The Pandemic Sessions: Duos, Part 1

by Mark Corroto
June 12, 2021

After the initial shock of the COVID-19 crisis and subsequent lockdown, artists did what artists do. Unable to tour, many musicians created solo projects. Musicians, like other sentient beings though, crave contact, so when some of the most severe restrictions lifted, duos were formed and production returned. These small positive steps (note: some were recorded before ...

KORR: Tombé de la voûte

by Mark Corroto
May 26, 2021

Let's face the truth of free improvisation. It is a hit-and-miss endeavor. Three musicians starting from naught and trying to create something, something from nothing. If the musicians are seasoned, maybe they fall back on clichés and stock phrasings, that approach being the banal equivalent of nothing. When improvisers hit upon something fresh it ...

The Pandemic Sessions: Solos, Part 2

by Mark Corroto
May 5, 2021

Part 1 | Part 2 The entire world was in lockdown during the COVID-19 crisis, and of course, that included musicians. Unable to tour and record with their various ensembles, many artists prepared solo projects (some recorded before the virus struck). Most of the music is very personal, as if the artists are asking ...

Alberto Braida: In Love with the Moon

by Neri Pollastri
April 12, 2021

A diversi anni di distanza dall'ultimo lavoro, Alberto Braida torna a cimentarsi con il piano solo, presentando per We Insist! una sofisticata meditazione in quattro parti, di cui il titolo già svela programmaticamente le atmosfere. I poco meno di tre quarti d'ora di musica sono suddivisi in quattro tracce, due di quindici e due ...

In Love with the Moon

By Alberto Braida

Label: We Insist! Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: In Love with the Moon I; In Love with the Moon II; In Love with the Moon III; In Love with the Moon IV.

Kakuan Suite

By Giancarlo Nino Locatelli

Label: We Insist! Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Le Corna; Rito; Roti; Tiro; Tori; Irto (take 2); Orti; Orti; Irto (Take 1); La Coda.

Giancarlo Nino Locatelli: Situations

by Neri Pollastri
September 24, 2020

Sperimentatore delle più diverse forme performative, esploratore della musica di Thelonious Monk, maestro supremo del sax soprano, Steve Lacy era anche un grande e singolare compositore ed era solito proporre i propri brani, assieme a quelli di Monk, nelle sue esibizioni in solitudine. Giancarlo “nino" Locatelli, più o meno contemporaneamente alla registrazione di composizioni lacyane con ...