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Sogni di Giorno | The Music of Nazareno People | Mudoks Record

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Each man can discover his nature while observing himself in action. We have discovered, playing music ,that we like. Each single music passage of this CD was not created for a “pleasant listening” as it happens for comercial music: instead, each note expresses the person who has felt something new in the reality that surrounds him. The aim of this CD-fruit of a seminar about “improvised music” and “instant composing” – was in fact that of stimulate the freedom of the subject, that is new desires which would have been satisfied together. The work done was a special occasion for our guys to get a deeper knowledge of themselves as weil as joy reality through something newly incorporated music. Music created mouvement, opened towards something new and beneficial. That’s why we can speak of aesthetical experience. Friedrich Nitzsche begins one of his famous works with this sentence: “Since just thanks to aesthetic events, both our experience and our world have their reason forever …. ” The musical seminar was a pleasant unexpected event which gave us the possibility of knowing something beyond our usual reality. — Hubert Bergmann Continue reading →

Mary Halvorson | Hubert Bergmann | Mixtour | Mudoks Record

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Guitarist/composer Mary Halvorson has been active in New York since 2002, following jazz studies at Wesleyan University and the New School. In addition to her own bands, The Mary Halvorson Trio and Quintet, she co-leads a chamber music duo with violist Jessica Pavone and the avant-rock band, People, with drummer Kevin Shea. A veteran of the ensembles of esteemed saxophonist/composer Anthony Braxton, she has also performed with groups led by Tim Berne, Taylor Ho Bynum, Trevor Dunn, Tomas Fujiwara, Curtis Hasselbring, Tony Malaby, Myra Melford, Nicole Mitchell, Jason Moran, Marc Ribot, Matana Roberts, Elliott Sharp, John Tchicai and Matthew Welch among many others.

In 2008, the success of her trio’s debut, Dragon’s Head (Firehouse 12 Records), led critics to call Ms. Halvorson “probably the most original jazz guitarist to emerge this decade” (Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader) and “the freshest, busiest, most critically acclaimed guitar- slinger out of downtown Manhattan/Brooklyn right now” (Howard Mandel, Jazz Beyond Jazz). “A singular talent,” adds AllAboutJazz.com’s Troy Collins, “Brooklyn-based guitarist Mary Halvorson has come into her own as a composer and improviser with her trio debut, Dragon’s Head…light years ahead of her peers, she is the most impressive guitarist of her generation. The future of jazz guitar starts here.” Continue reading →

Hubert Bergmann | Grund | Mudoks Record

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All this music was played in real time without any interruptions, just the few seconds between the takes and played in the sequence of this recording. It is an attempt to develop the unique situation of each live performance in respect of a maximum on variety of a musical approach. The old game with time, space and memory. — Hubert Bergmann, October 2014 Continue reading →

Juan Pablo Carletti | Tony Malaby | Christopher Hoffman | NIÑO / BRUJO | No Business Records

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Tenorist Tony Malaby makes some really wonderful sounds here – but the album’s actually the brainchild of percussionist Juan Pablo Carletti – who composed all the tracks on the set! Malaby continues his wonderful sense of tone and texture here – blowing slow notes sometimes, which unfold like dark sonic flowers – mixed with lighter, tuneful passages that almost have a classic modern tenor quality – a space that seems to range from Rollins to Brotzmann, depending on the needs of the moment. Carletti plays drums, glockenspiel, and melodica – and Christopher Hoffman adds some especially great cello – which is often played at the lower, darker range of its spectrum, as a key component of the trio. Titles include “Lateral Thinking”, “El Brujo”, “Miranda”, “Ballerina”, and “Jose”. — Dusty Groove Continue reading →

Ted Daniel’s Energy Module | Innerconnection | No Business Records

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Trumpeter Ted Daniel’s Energy Module was a short-lived band. They played exactly two gigs in the course of one week in the fall of 1975—and never played again. They gelled quickly as a quintet, however, in large part because everyone knew each other from working in Daniel’s big band, Energy. However, the Energy Module was a less formal affair than the large ensemble, in which they played Daniel’s original compositions and arrangements. “We had a couple of rehearsals and played through the tunes, but our main focus was on collective and individual improvisation,” Daniel says. “We were getting ready to take care of business.” — Ed Hazell Continue reading →

Dave Burrell | Steve Swell | Turning Point | No Business Records

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Dave Burrell’s Turning Point, the third in a series of five suites commemorating the people and events of the Ainerican Civil War, is one of the crowning achievements in his career. A mature and passionate work, it weaves together 150 years of American history and music into a piece that grapples with some of the most horrifying moments in American history and yet remains profoundly hopeful. Born after a nine-month gestation period of historical research and rehearsals, the music evokes the harrowing events of mid-nineteenth century America through a vivid mix of sound imagery, stylistic references, and improvisation in an attempt to come to terms with the Civil War and its legacy. — Ed Hazell Continue reading →

Billy Bang | William Parker | Medicine Buddha | No Business Records

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Billy Bang was a brilliant human being, always much more than himself, especially when he surrendered to his true calling—that of musician, one who transforms music into magic, dancing instead of walking, jumping instead standing still. Billy Bang was an American original, an original musician, an organic person who had tapped into the river of sound and was riding on a boat drenched in blues-soul-funk and space. — William Parker Continue reading →