Results for "Wide Ear Records"

Jacques Demierre: The Hills Shout

by Alberto Bazzurro
January 11, 2024

Un unico brano di poco meno di quaranta minuti di solo piano, nelle sue più varie accezioni (non suonato unicamente sugli ottantotto tasti, vogliamo dire, ma per esempio, generosamente, sulla cordiera), registrato dal vivo a Monaco di Baviera all'inizio del 2020, copre questo album del ginevrino Jacques Demierre, settant'anni proprio in questi giorni (4 gennaio 2024), ...

The Hills Shout

Label: Wide Ear Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: The Hills Shout

Jacques Demierre: The Hills Shout

by John Eyles
June 20, 2023

Swiss pianist Jacques Demierre has a relatively small recording history considering that it dates back to June 1984. Along the way, it includes collaborations with such luminaries as Cyril Bondi, Sylvie Corvoisier, d'incise, Barry Guy, Insub Meta Orchestra, Hans Koch, Urs Leimgruber, Lucas Niggli, and Barre Phillips, in such fine recordings as Brainforest (Intakt, 2006) by ...

The Workers: Altbüron

by John Eyles
March 27, 2021

Altbüron is the first album release from The Workers, a newly-formed quartet of experienced Swiss improvisers, each of whom had previously collaborated with at least one other member; the quartet comprises soprano saxophonist Urs Leimgruber (born 1952), alto saxophonist, flautist and voice Omri Ziegele (born 1959), bassist Christian Weber (born 1972) and drummer Alex Huber (born ...

Poem Pot Plays Pantano

Label: Wide Ear Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Beyond the Stop Sign: Swiss Landscape; Writing the City; Morning Walk; Last Visit & Supper Prior to the Invasion Only We Know About; Mountain Life; Vaudeville; Time; Eastern Village with Factory; Late December.

Altbüron

Label: Wide Ear Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Altbüron

Dalia Donadio: Poem Pot Plays Pantano

by Alberto Bazzurro
July 28, 2020

La trentatreenne vocalist zurighese Dalia Donadio immerge le liriche (tutte in inglese) del poeta Daniele Pantano, anch'egli svizzero (padre siciliano e madre tedesca), in atmosfere sonore a tratti scure, quasi livide, altre volte più lineari, quasi descrittive, cantando o semplicemente dicendo (a volte lanciandosi anche in vocalizzi privi di testo), sempre opportunamente supportata dalla chitarra elettrica ...