reviews of releases
April 22, 2010 | Posted in Review | Tagged incidental
"Incidental", by Minneapolis composer Mike Olson, is an intricate and amusing work, which chews and spits the author's accumulated experiences with a constant alternating tension between 1970s vintage Jazz and Rock.
March 17, 2010 | Posted in Review | Tagged cities and eyes
This duet is a shock. More than a duet it is like an innumerable ant hill of musical creatures
March 17, 2010 | Posted in Review | Tagged sucker punch requiem
An utterly brilliant conceptual piece that mixes notated materials, electronic post-manipulations and improvisation to realize an expression of a fractured requiem to Jean-Michel Basquiat.
March 17, 2010 | Posted in Review | Tagged incidental
What impresses most here is the ambition of Olson’s vision . . .
February 23, 2010 | Posted in Review | Tagged incidental, mike olson
Mike Olson's 'Incidental' sounds like some long lost prog masterwork that has somehow escaped from the looney bin of popular spotlight. Don't let this gem escape your grasp.
February 19, 2010 | Posted in Review | Tagged andrea parkins, cities and eyes, jessica constable
A multitude of sounds lie brooding beneath the ashes of “Cities and Eyes”.
February 14, 2010 | Posted in Review | Tagged baggerboot
A spontaneous creation that loses nothing with repeated listening.
February 12, 2010 | Posted in Review | Tagged lisle ellis, marco eneidi, peter valsamis, sound on survival live
Sound on survival, dont Philippe Elhem a chroniqué un précédent disque axé sur le blues (Américan roadwork cimp 312 in Improjazz 116) a regroupé sur ce cd trois morceaux de neuf à dix-huit minutes enregistrés à Amherst et un quatrième …
February 12, 2010 | Posted in Review | Tagged lisle ellis, marco eneidi, peter valsamis, sound on survival live
Non ci sono pretese di neutralità in queste improvvisazioni tratte da due concerti del trio Sound On Survival: il contrabbasso di Lisle Ellis, la batteria di Peter Valsamis e il sax alto di Marco Eneidi prendono subito possesso dello spazio …
February 12, 2010 | Posted in Review | Tagged lisle ellis, marco eneidi, peter valsamis, sound on survival live
Der freieste, abstrakteste verinnerlichte Ausdruck intimer, wilder, Energiegeladener Musik ist vor allem im Jazz zu finden, mal von Dixieland und anderen Festgefahrenheiten abgesehen. Da werden Instrumente zu Geliebten und die intensive Auseinandersetzung mit kraftvoller, eigenwilliger Komposition und lyrischer bis expressiver …