Q – R – S

All artists filed by last name under Q, R and S :

Down This Crooked Road | Modern Poetry From The Road Less Traveled | Lummox Press | E-Book

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Some of these poems have been previously published in these magazines: 2 River View, AntiMuse, Blue Collar Review, Chiron Review, Concrete Meat Press, FIRE, Flashquake, Gnome, Guerilla Poetics Project, Instant Pussy, Lunatic Chameleon, Meat , Naked Knuckle, New York Quarterly, Outsider Writers, Over The Transom, Poems For All, Red Hills Review, Remark, Underground Voices, Word Riot, Words Dance, Zygote in My Coffee, Dogmatika, Coffee House Poetry #6, Broadside #12; A little poetry, Hecale, Forget You Books, Zeitgeist Press, Flashquake, Raw Art Press, Beat Museum , Word Riot, AntiMuse, Kendra Steiner Editions, Sisters of the Page, Rusty Truck… We also apologize to any magazines we may have forgotten to mention. Continue reading →

Jeff Robinson Trio | Getting Fixed

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The Jeff Robinson Trio is a very refreshing sound of ‘real’ acoustic Jazz and genuine creativity. The interplay between the words and the music flows very naturally. There are musical and lyrical moments that remind me of the Great Rahsaan Roland Kirk. The poetry (mostly prose) is heavily laden with the experience of a heroin addict. It actually has the main ingredient for a sound track to a movie. Even though there have been many recordings about the abuse of drugs, the culture, the highs and the lows, i.e., Superfly, The Last Poets, Marvin Gaye’s ‘What’s Goin’ On’, I can’t recall an entire album in this case a CD solely devoted to the addict and his addiction. This is by no means a commercial hit nor is it a typical CD of music and poetry. Continue reading →

Norbert Blei | Jim Spector | The Quiet Time: Door County in Winter

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Jim Spector is best known for his passionate solo flamenco recordings and his inspired concert performances. He has arranged, composed and recorded the soundtracks to award-winning documentary films and music from his compact disc recording “Flamenco Passions” (DCV002, Door Couniy Voices) has been featured on American Airlines. In this collaboration with Norbert Blei, the text provided the images to inspire a musical setting for sensitive, evocative readings. Continue reading →

Albrecht Maurer | Norbert Rodenkirchen | Loplop’s Call | Nemu Records

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Their new project Loplop’s Call is about the surrealistic painter and poet Max Ernst who was born in the Rhineland, went to Paris and later to the USA to become one of the most influential artists of the early 20th century. His artworks and poetry as well as his fascinating biography inspired the two Cologne based musicians to create a tableau of own compositions and improvisations for viola & alto flute and for fiddle & transverse flute. In these works they orient themselves towards the sound of the early 20th century. At the same time they create a contemporary modern form of surrealistic music, influenced by the magic power of the subconscious. The central theme of the album is the fantasy figure Laptop, the superior of the birds, who was one of Max Ernst’s most important artistic obsessions and his alter ego. Loplop is always connected with Nachtigall (the nightingale] – also called Windsbraut [the wind’s bride]. Continue reading →

Francesco Massaro | Beppe Scardino | Danilo Gallo | Adolfo La Volpe | Giacomo Mongelli | Color Network | Aut Records

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Color Network is conceived as a tribute to one of the leading characters in the international music scene: Ornette Coleman. What sets Col-(or Net)-work apart from the others that share the same intention is the choice to focus exclusively on one album, 1957’s “The Shape of Jazz to Come”, which is regarded as one of the texan saxophonist’s seminal works. Coleman’s compositions frame a musical environment that serves sometimes as point of departure and sometimes as landing place for reckless improvisations which explore unfamiliar acoustic regions. The sound resulting in the unusual combination of two baritone saxophones and electronics turns out to be surprisingly effective and constitutes the distintive feature of the music. The band that takes risks and assumes the task of merging some of the forms of free jazz and the search for atypical, contemporary sonorities into a fresh, colourful and autonomous musical statement. Continue reading →

Bryan Rogers ­| Alban Bailly | Matt Engle | David Flaherty | YAPP | Symbolic Heads | No Business Records

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Even for the standards of NoBusiness a label that sometimes features artists who haven’t been very well known so far, YAPP is a really young band, all of the band members seem to be around 30. It’s Bryan Rogers ­on tenor saxophone, Alban Bailly ­on guitar, Matt Engle ­on bass and David Flaherty ­on drums, and they cultivate the field between post rock, modern jazz, minimal and improvised music. — Martin Schray Continue reading →

Giacomo Papetti | Emanuele Maniscalco | Gabriele Rubino | Small Choices | Aut Records

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Small Choices focuses its research on contemporary improvised music, in constant relationship with the practice of composition – including original tunes as well as some personal re- interpretation of influent works from the 20th Century (Ligeti, Messiaen, Sibelius and Gershwin) – reaching a delicate balance between extemporariness and organization. In this scenario “small choices” become necessary in every moment. Strongly influenced by a certain “eccentricity” in contemporary art music and by the expressive power of jazz and free improvisation, this small ensemble expresses itself through an unpredictable and intimate interplay, searching for its own integrity and following its natural urges, easily crossing borders between musical genres. Continue reading →

Kongrosian | Bootstrap Paradox | Aut Records

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The music of Kongrosian is free jazz or is it improvisational jazz? I think both terms will bring to mind complete freedom, which for a few may mean “lack of organization or direction”, which in their case is untrue. Bootstrap Paradox (Aut) is a collaborative effort between the trio and Oreste Sabadin, and together they make music with a small bit of foundation, but then they each have the freedom to go anywhere and everywhere with what they do. In fact, the group say they are “a trio + 1″, and the role of that +1 is open to anyone who wants to join them. I love the concept of music that is “in the making”, or at least music that sounds like it’s being assembled as you hear it. You may hear trumpets, saxophones, and a bass clarinet play an off-key melody, while another clarinet plays around and within that melody, only for another instrument to follow, which in turns follows something else. It’s like an onion unveiling new layers, and you’re not sure whether to enjoy the onion or keep peeling. That’s the joy of such pieces as “I’m A Strange Loop”, “Fractal Structure Of Revolutions”, and “No, sir, away! A papaya war is on!”, the words have no reason for being there and perhaps the sounds are the same. They don’t belong, but do because that’s how it’s combined, to create these reckless sounds that may make you want to join in and play. Bootstrap Paradox is an album that is far from lacking any direction, the fun is trying to compile the sounds and figure out what they’ll do next. I look forward to their next destination. — John Book Continue reading →

Crisco 3 | You can never please anybody | Aut Records

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We are glad to present as our third release a record made by three of the most representative new italian voices on saxophone. Bigoni, Bittolo Bon and Scardino are all members of El Gallo Rojo, a collective which produced many good releases during the last years. The album, the second one of our wind instruments series, is an explosive mix of original and complex themes, collective improvisation devoted to explore the timbre of the instruments and new interpretations of pieces, different by origins and content, like Twenty Years by Bill Frisell and Philosophy of the world by the weird rock group of The Shaggs. Continue reading →