Joe McPhee | Steve Dalachinsky | Evan Parker | Jean-Jacques Avenel | Joëlle Léandre | Sylvain Kassap | Ramon Lopez | Jean-Luc Cappozzo | Simon Goubert | Raphaël Imbert | Urs Leimgruber | Didier Levallet | Barre Phillips | Michel Portal | Lucia Recio | Christian Rollet | John Tchicai | 13 Miniatures for Albert Ayler | RogueArt Jazz

As for the penultimate phases of this polyphonic hirsutism, fortified by explosions, whirlwinds, chants, howls, bubblings and very high pitched sounds, everything happens as if the last cry recalled, as in a trance, a certain aylerien spirit – did not Robert Schumann write “Music is what permits us to speak with the heavens”. — Philippe Carles, excerpt from the liner notes Continue reading

Euphorium Records

EUPHORIUM Records is producing musical documents of a special european circle of improvising musicians. There are grandmasters and new talents involved.

EUPHORIUM Books releases texts that are made to the special european circle of improvising musicians, dancers and performers that are known under the name of the ensemble EUPHORIUM_freakestra. The texts are created by Oliver Schwerdt and speaker-actor Friedrich Kettlitz. Of course these fascinating, neo-dadaistic, german based words can be seen as wonderful music too.

EUPHORIUM Films is producing video documents of a special european circle of improvising musicians, dancers and performers. There are grandmasters, new talents, ordinary and strange people involved.

EUPHORIUM Magazine. Independent Reviews of Jazz, Contemporary & Improvised Music written by Oliver Schwerdt. Radikal-kritisch, poetisch. Relativ.

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