Thomas Borgmann – soprano and tenor saxophone, toy-melodica | Max Johnson – bass | Willi Kellers – drums and voice All music by Borgmann / Johnson / Kellers (FMP-Publishing). Recorded live on 31st … Continue reading
Vladimir Tarasov – drums, percussion, cimbalom and hunting horn | Eugenijus Kanevičius – bass and electronics | Liudas Mockūnas – soprano and tenor saxophones, clarinet and bass clarinet All compositions by Liudas … Continue reading
Light Box: Conception of William Hooker Don’t tell him he plays loud. He learned about music and his instrument playing within a tradition that straddles R&B and jazz. That tradition congeals in the smoothly accessible, yet sonically forceful music of the organ trios of the mid-sixties and it demanded amplitude. “An organ is powerful— a Hammond B3 with a Leslie tone cabinet. That’s a six foot cabinet. It’s got that swirly thing inside and you have to play with a certain amount of power,” — Thomas Stanley Continue reading
Fantasm, the title-piece has been created by an amazing deep listener, eminent New York musician, drummer Paul Motian (1931-2011). He was a master of encrypting his deep listening dynamically into imperishable gestalt. Fantasm, a paradigmatic piece here, is fed by heterogeneous sources but unified by composer and composition carrying and keeping its secrets. Mat Maneri used to play in Motian’s bands a lot, nourished and nourishing. On this album nothing sounds like ordinary strings. It has dark moods not fading into ordinary melancholia, contains limping dances into lightness, wondrous fusing dissolving in finale of quiet grandeur, uncatchable creep up shadows, splintering bop and bright solitariness per exemplum. Concentrated. Enjoyably disturbing. — Henning Bolte, Amsterdam, October 2014 Continue reading
Spacy Naan Cheese est un power trio qui invite à une expérience musicale psychédélique alliant Jazz Rock des 70’s, sonorités indiennes et énergie Metal. Continue reading
John Lindberg – double bass | Anil Eraslan – cello All compositions by John Lindberg and Anil Eraslan. Lindy Publishing Company (ASCAP / SACEM). Recorded in May 2011 at Downtown … Continue reading
Giovanni Di Domenico – piano| Peter Jacquemyn – double bass | Chris Corsano – drums All compositions by Giovanni Di Domenico, Peter Jacquemyn and Chris Corsano. Recorded 31st October 2013 … Continue reading
Martin Küchen – tenor and soprano saxophones – Jon Rune Strøm – double bass | Tollef Østvang – drums Track 1 (A) and 4 (B) by Leo Küchen and Martin … Continue reading
Martin Küchen – tenor, alto and sopranino saxophones – Johan Berthling – double bass | Steve Noble – percussion All music by Martin Küchen, Johan Berthling and Steve Noble (STIM … Continue reading
Today if one thinks back to the beginnings of European or more exactly (West) German Free Jazz, the names of Manfred Schoof, von Schlippenbach, Brotzmann, Globe Unity, or Gunter Hampel immediately come to mind. Much less known is the existence of two more remarkable groups which set out to play and record the then-new music called -Free Jazz- at the end of the 1960s. The “Free Jazz Group Wiesbaden” (FJGW) was one of those ensembles which today, undeserv-edly, are almost forgotten. — Ernst Nebhuth Continue reading