reviews of releases
February 12, 2010 | Posted in Review | Tagged baggerboot, gunda gottschalk, peter jacquemyn, ute völker
...there is joy in the way that you do hear that cosmic thread when you open yourself up to it. An extraordinary and quite challenging trio, well worth your discriminating listening abilities
February 12, 2010 | Posted in Review | Tagged baggerboot, gunda gottschalk, peter jacquemyn, ute völker
Baggerboot (Henceforth) is energized with palpable passion, with the three improvisers - Belgian bassist Peter Jacquemyn participates along with Gottschalk and Völker - liberated by free jazz passion. The trio improvises blatantly in a manner that mixes tension-release and virtuosity.
February 12, 2010 | Posted in Review | Tagged baggerboot, gunda gottschalk, peter jacquemyn, ute völker
...it is highly provocative artistry that commands rapt attention to the intricacies of three astute musicians who reward the bold voyager with a startling brand of creativity.
February 12, 2010 | Posted in Review | Tagged gustavo aguilar, unsettled on an old sense of place
I love your "GUSTAVO AGUILAR: Unsettled On An Old Sense Of Place" CD so much I'm going to feature it on the Front Page of CD Baby for a few days. We're REALLY picky about what goes on the front page. We get about 150 new albums a day. . . . and yours is one of the best I've ever heard.
February 12, 2010 | Posted in Review | Tagged carla kihlstedt, minamo, satoko fujii
Minamo is a perfect thing, everything seems possible
February 12, 2010 | Posted in Review | Tagged carla kihlstedt, minamo, satoko fujii
For those listeners who enjoy free, truly spontaneous improvisation and the combination of violin and piano, Minamo with violinist Carla Kihlstedt and pianist Satoko Fujii cannot be recommended highly enough. Minamo is a triumph
February 12, 2010 | Posted in Review | Tagged carla kihlstedt, minamo, satoko fujii
The playing is absolutely beautiful, and oddly enough it's beautiful in that classical way in which you might separate an individual's performance from the music that he or she is playing. There are moments here, as in the spontaneous melody of "One Hundred and Sixty Billion Spray," that are executed so well it wouldn't matter what the notes are (if such a distinction could be made, and it often is). But the two are actually making this up from the material of their interaction. Fujii is especially adept at elaborating form, sometimes creating a complex dialogue between left and right hands that follows, frames and amplifies Kihlstedt's lines. That expressive richness here (the Bartok/ Prokofiev lineage) springs from Kihlstedt's profound sound and attack, as rich and dynamic as any violinist who has entered the improvising community.
February 9, 2010 | Posted in Review | Tagged lisle ellis, sucker punch requiem
Non esiste coerenza nel sound-design di Lisle Ellis. "Sucker Punch Requiem" pressa in un format varie estetiche dell'emisfero nu-contemporanea: fermezze avant-jazz, assennati sballottamenti elettro-beat, loop molestati dai fiati e da vocalizzi oltremodo destrutturati (di routine per signorine-nichiliste quali Pamela Z), …
February 9, 2010 | Posted in Review | Tagged lisle ellis, sucker punch requiem
La ricerca dell´espressione artistica nel contrabbassista Lisle Ellis (su questo CD anche agli effetti elettronici)) è passata di recente attraverso la pittura, ed è così che spunta fuoti un omaggio, musicale, beninteso, a Jean-Michel Basquiat, artista figurativo travolto dalle droghe …
February 9, 2010 | Posted in Review | Tagged lisle ellis, sucker punch requiem
Sucker punch Requiem sounds like an achievement, something important.