Laurent Rochelle : bass clarinet, compositionvocals
Rebéca Féron : harpvocals
Frédéric Schadoroff : pianovocals
Juliette Carlier : vibraphonevocals
Fanny Roz : vocalsvocals
All compositions by Laurent Rochelle
PRIMA KANTA is a band created by Laurent Rochelle in 2019 to explore a repertoire of repetitive modal music in which improvisation plays an main role.
Released: March 20, 2020
Label: Enja & Yellowbird Records
CARAMEL IS THE FIRST ALBUM OF THE LIMINAL ZONE UNIVERSE AND A REAL "BREAKING-OUT-OF-THE-SHELL ALBUM". ULRICH GIVES HERE FREE REIN TO ALL HIS DIFFERENT INFLUENCES AND CREATIVITY. AN ODE TO THE CREATIVE PROCESS IN WHICH HE COMBINES JAZZ WITH NEOCLASSICISM, MINIMALISM AND FILM MUSIC. THE SOUNDTRACK OF AN IMAGINARY FILM.
CARAMEL REIMAGINED, THE REMIX ALBUM TO ULRICH DRECHSLER'S CELEBRATED CARAMEL, THE NEO-CLASSICAL SOUNDTRACK OF AN IMAGINARY FILM.
SOME OF THE GREATEST REPRESENTATIVES OF THE VIENNESE AND BERLIN ELECTRO SCENE (MARKUS KIENZL, PETER ZIRBS, INGO RIEBER AND OTHERS) HAVE GATHERED HERE TO FURTHER PROCESS ULRICH DRECHSLER'S ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS AND REFINE THEM ON A WHOLE NEW LEVEL.
All songs written by Rebecca Foon. Except “Wide Open Eyes” written by Jace Lasek, Richard Reed Parry and Rebecca Foon
Rebecca Foon, the composer and musician behind Saltland and Esmerine (and former longstanding member of Silver Mt. Zion) presents a new album entitled Waxing Moon. While best known as an incomparable cellist (and more recently, as a cofounder of Pathway To Paris) this collection of songs finds Foon emphasizing piano and voice with striking intimacy and elegance, showcasing a profoundly captivating evolution in her always resplendent songwriting.
All tracks composed and interpreted by:
Yannic Seddiki (piano)
Dimitri Delporte (drums)
Yoann Bellefont (double bass)
E-life is the second album of the energetic jazz trio, originally from Northern France. The album consists of eight original compositions and features acoustic instruments infused with samples and effects.
Jonas H. Sjøvaag is a multi-talented artist and musician, working with everything from musical improvisational structures.
Jonas H. Sjøvaag is a drummer, composer and artist. ... As a musician Sjøvaag is part of the Norwegian contemporary jazz outfit Eple Trio.
Released: December 8, 2020
Label: Storyville Records
Carsten Dahl (piano)
Stefan Pasborg (drums)
Nils Bosse Davidsen (bass)
Carsten Dahl is widely considered to be one of the most original and creative pianists coming out of Europe.
On "Mirrors Within", Dahl and his bandmates, Stefan Pasborg (drums) and Nils Bo Davidsen (bass), explores total improvisation. All the recordings were made without talking in the studio and with no prior previous agreements or ideas, except two tracks based on rough sketches ('Falling Down Down' and 'How I Hear Beautiful'). That the result sounds so good and cohesive is a testament to the level of musicianship and connection between the three...
Released: December 4, 2020
Label: Spotted Peccary Music
After an adventurous twenty-five year career artfully blurring the lines between traditional ethnic acoustic and contemporary electronica, the duo known as Green Isac have expanded their sound to include three additional artists, leading to the latest project titled the Green Isac Orchestra.
For those who have followed Andreas Eriksen and Morten Lund since the beginning and have enjoyed the wide net they’ve cast masterfully over multiple styles and genres, the same delicious fusions are present, only this time there’s an immediacy to the recording suggesting it erupted spontaneously as one inspired live performance.
This new Green Isac release is an unforgettable odyssey far removed from the mundane — a place of serene tributaries and unexplored villages of sound that climax into an enchanting jubilant festivity of melody and harmony.
Released: December 1, 2020
Label: VAX Records Iceland
Bass Clarinet, Soprano Saxophone, Contrabass Clarinet – Jóel Pálsson
Concert Grand Piano – Hannes Helgason
Double Bass – Valdimar Kolbeinn Sigurjónsson
Drums – Magnús Trygvason Eliassen
Words By – Jóhannes Birgir Pálmason
Dalalæða’s Dysjar is an artwork that intertwines music, poetry and social history. Musically speaking, this is a gloomy approach to the form of jazz －some sort of “doom jazz”－ characterized by slow progression, mysterious atmosphere and impressionism. The sound of the traditional jazz piano trio is merged with a neoclassical texture from bass and contrabass clarinet as well as electric sounds and recordings taken from the Icelandic environment in the city and nature.
The Monades album is the result of a research work on rhythm in traditional music, especially Middle Eastern, African and Eastern European. All these musics employ rhythmic figures that may appear elaborate or even complex when compared to those used in today's commercially oriented Western music.
Released: November 27, 2020
Label: RareNoiseRecords
J. Peter Schwalm: piano, drums, electronics and programming
Arve Henriksen: trumpets, percussion and voices
How we define the age we live in depends entirely on the frame we choose to view it through. On one timescale we’re just getting settled into the 21st century; zoom out and we’re deeply entrenched in the Anthropocene. We might be waking to the dawn of an enlightened, interconnected new era or teetering on the brink of a sixth mass extinction.
Neuzeit, which German electro-acoustic composer J. Peter Schwalm views through his new duo outing with the Norwegian trumpeter Arve Henriksen, is generally taken to refer to the modern era that began in the 16th century and witnessed the rise of Western Civilization.
“Neuzeit reflects the time of change after a crash,” says Schwalm. “The cards are remixed again; changes in any direction are possible. There are opportunities to get things right again – e.g. to rearrange them. Of course, there is always a dark side in everything.”
RYMDEN:
Bugge Wesseltoft – Piano, Keyboards
Dan Berglund – Bass
Magnus Öström – Drums
RYMDEN deliver another live selection from the memory banks to follow on from 2019's "Live on Earth", this time from a live performance at the Umeå Jazz Festival in October 2019. Featuring new interpretations of tracks from their smash debut, "Reflections and Odysseys", this is a perfect document of RYMDEN's broad musical spectra, their endless curiosity and invention, their dynamic skills and emotional range.
Released: November 13, 2020
Label: W.E.R.F. Records
Casper Van De Velde: drums & percussion
Harrison Steingueldoir: piano
Stan Callewaert: double bass
Sigbjørn Apeland: harmonium
This album is the result of the curiosity about our musical roots. The repertoire is inspired by early music from The Lowlands (Belgium & The Netherlands).
Dag-Filip Roaldsnes, piano
Hanna Paulsberg, tenor saxophone
Morten Barrikmo, clarinets
Ingvild N. Sandnes, cello
Magnhild S. Torvanger, violin
Tore T. Sandbakken, drums
Pianist and composer Dag-Filip Roaldsnes third album. Warm Poetic Melodic and powerful playing makes this album to a special journey within new Norwegian jazz music anno 2020.
Francesco Orio - piano, sonorium, electronics
Davide Bussoleni - drums
Simone Di Benedetto - upright bass, electronics
Il lavoro è stato registrato da Stefano Amerio presso Artesuono. In studio con noi sono comparsi anche diversi ospiti, che hanno contribuito alla realizzazione di diverse tracce: Umberto Petrin (voce recitante!), Luca Perciballi (ospite compositore), Camilla Battaglia, Maria Piacentini, Francesca Gaza, Marco Marasco (canta gregoriano!), Federico Calcagno, Eleonora Filipponi, MinFeng Pu (che è anche la mia insegnante di Cinese).
Brani originali ma anche rivisitazioni di canto gregoriano, Vivaldi, canti tradizionali norreni, musica sacra…per ascoltare qualcosa in anteprima clicca qui
Original music and covers about vocal music without vocals (most of the times). From VIII to XXI century. Just check it out.
The record has been in the works for some time, with the Icelandic composer completing much of the project before lockdown.
Once quarantine had been enforced, Ólafur Arnalds retreated to his Reykjavik studio, where he finished the material.
Out on November 6th, 'some kind of peace' is billed as a highly revealing, extremely personal project, with the composer staring into the mirror.
Ivan Blomqvist, keyboard wizard and composer for Rohey and Mosambique, and contributor to Neon Ion (Natalie Sandtorv) and Linda Sundblad, releases his Jazzland Rec solo debut album, "Nu minns jag".
This album presents a different side of Ivan's musical world, with tracks that are contemplative, serene, melancholy, nostalgic and offering a clearer picture of his improvisational skills than previously. Simultaneously, he demonstrates his unique take on electronic processing and beatmaking.
′′ The philosophical ligand that guided the ripening path of the CD ′′ Islands ′′ was the ′′ de-thinking ": playing without identification on what ′′ certain ′′ music should be. We worked to get to play without judgement, without pre-judgement, without pre-concept ideas of what our music should be, without an idea of where we'd get to playing...."
Released: October 30, 2020
Label: ECM Records, ECM 2700/01
Keith Jarrett Piano
The second complete show to be issued from Keith Jarrett’s 2016 European tour – following on from the widely-acclaimed concert released as Munich 2016 - this double album documents the pianist’s solo performance at the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall in Budapest. Jarrett, whose family roots reach back to Hungary, viewed the Budapest concert as akin to a homecoming, and the context inspired much creative improvisation.
Erik K Skodvin and electronic composer Jasmine Guffond
Finnish musician Merja Kokkonen (Islaja), who improvised wordless vocals.
"...[T]he most beautiful thing about my burrow is the stillness. Of course, that is deceptive. At any moment it may be shattered and then all will be over. For the time being, however, the silence is with me." - Franz Kafka.
"The Burrow" takes its name from Franz Kafka's unfinished short story that was written only six months before his death. The tale, published posthumously in 1931, centres around a small creature who builds a burrow that's anxiously fortified in an attempt to protect against perceived attacks. This sense of fear of the outside world feels even more focused in 2020. Each track is named after animals that are either extinct or almost extinct, adding a sense of loss that hangs in the air, punctuated by screams and deep reverberating piano hits. As the world we thought we knew quickly retreats from view and the idea of safety shifts rapidly, Skodvin and Guffond explore the impulse to protect what we know with an emotionally charged sound that provides a foil with cautious, haunting spaces in between.
Released: October 30, 2020
Label: Denovali Records
Composer: Eugenio Caria
Composer: Paolo Fresu
The Saffronkeira project was established in early 2008 by Eugenio Caria in Sardinia.
Paolo Fresu Italian jazz trumpeter.
"It is time for man to set a goal for himself. It is time for man to plant the seed of his highest hope. His soil is still rich enough for it. But that soil will one day be poor and exhausted, and no lofty tree will any longer be able to grow on it. Alas. There will come a time when man will no longer launch the arrow of his longing beyond man - and the string of his bow will have unlearned to whir! I say to you: one must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star. I say to you: you still have chaos in yourself. Alas. There will come a time when man can no longer give birth to any star. Alas. There will come the time of the most despicable man, who can no longer despise himself." - excerpt of Nietzsche's "Thus Spoke Zarathustra".
«Пришло время человеку поставить перед собой цель. Пора человеку посадить семя своей наивысшей надежды. Его почва все еще остается достаточно богата для этого. Но эта почва однажды станет бедной и истощенной, и ни одно высокое дерево больше не сможет расти на ней. Увы. Придет время, когда человек больше не пустит стрелу своей тоски за пределы человека. - и тетива его лука разучится жужжать! Я говорю вам: нужно еще иметь хаос в себе, чтобы родилась танцующая звезда. Я говорю вам: у вас все еще есть хаос в себе. Увы. Придет время, когда человек больше не может родить ни одной звезды. Увы. Придет время самого презренного человека, который больше не сможет презирать себя» - отрывок из "Так говорил Заратустра" Ницше.
Этот отрывок из "Так говорил Заратустра" Ницше задает настроение последнему альбому сардинского исследователя звука Eugenio Caria. "In Origine: The Field of Repentance" - концептуальный альбом, посвященный происхождению человека и его влиянию на цикл творения и разрушения, который движет эволюцией Вселенной. На этот раз Eugenio Caria пригласил одного из крупнейших трубачей мира, плодовитого сардинского джазового исполнителя Paolo Fresu для совместной работы над альбомом. Уникальное звучание трубы Paolo Fresu признано одним из самых характерных на современной джазовой сцене, и на этом альбоме Caria и Fresu сумели идеально объединить свой вклад в единое целое.
Released: October 23, 2020
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
PHILIP GLASS, Les Enfants Terribles: Etude No. 17, Etude No. 20
Katia & Marielle Labèque - piano
The new recording captures the pianists’ special artistic relationship with Philip Glass – a follow-up to the Double Piano Concerto the composer dedicated to the sisters in 2015.
Released: October 23, 2020
Label: Arts Culture Europe
Marc Buronfosse ÆGN
Maxime Hoarau - vibraphone & electronics
Arnaud Biscay - drums & voice
Marc Buronfosse - Fender VI & electronics
Le nouvel album “AEGEAN NIGHTS” a été enregistré en trio vibraphone, batterie et Fender VI, rendant la matière instrumentale plus diaphane mais aussi plus nerveuse et plus réactive. Plus personnel et moins improvisé que le disque précédent, Aegean Nights est davantage ouvert sur des climats chill aux textures immersives, vers un style que l’on pourrait qualifier de jazz progressif.
Yann Tiersen :: Tribulations (E.C. Ball)
Yann Tiersen :: If You Listen (Françoise Hardy)
Yann Tiersen :: Piano Phase (Steve Reich)
There’s a lot happening in the collective works of Yann Tiersen. Initially inspired by Einstürzend Neubauten, Throbbing Gristle and other post-punk/industrial groups, Tiersen’s music would soon grow further nuanced, moving in more subtle directions. It’s this which makes the approach to his Lagniappe Session all the more interesting, in how he turns that very direction on its head.
Benjamin Faugloire (piano and composition), Denis Frangulian (double bass) and Jérome Mouriez (drum kit).
"L" is one of those albums that gives you chills, makes you cry and laugh.
"L" - один из тех альбомов, которые вызывают мурашки, заставляют плакать и смеяться.
Eple Trio:
Jonas Sjøvaag - drums
Andreas Ulvo - piano
Sigurd Hole - bass
The excellent performances captured on Ghosts were recorded in May 2018 at the unique venue Kulturkirken Jakob in Oslo, also called The St. James Church of Culture.
Released: October 16, 2020
Label: Injazero Records
France chamber duo Snowdrops sign to Injazero Records for the release of their graceful debut album Volutes on October 16th 2020, an eloquent miniature symphony of strings, piano and the notoriously challenging Ondes Martenot instrument.
Formed in 2015 by Mathieu Gabry and Christine Ott, the pair’s respective experience yields a freedom and spontaneity, and a deeply personal approach to composition and orchestration. Christine Ott has performed alongside celebrated film composer Yann Tiersen.
Released: October 16, 2020
Label: Unperceived Records
Himmelsrandt is a project by Koblenz-based pianist and violinist Peter Honsalek. We last heard from this musician back in 2017, when he released 4 Moments & Rain on Unperceived Records. Prior to that, in 2016, his debut Schneeland was selected by our Reader’s Poll as one of the best of the year records, so it’s no surprise that I have my keen eye on him... Meerland is at once more personal and neo-classical than Honsalek’s past releases.
Released: October 9, 2020
THE OUTLAW OCEAN MUSIC PROJECT
The Outlaw Ocean is a book everyone should read. Many of us think of the sea as an escape, a place of peace, but Ian reveals it can be the opposite. This kind of journalism is vital when raising awareness in our society and, as such, it’s important for us to draw attention to it... - Olivia Belli
Released: October 9, 2020
Label: Optical Substance Productions
The album is mixed by Kjetil Husebø. Recorded live at Nasjonal Jazzscene.
Live at Nasjonal jazzscene is the first live album from Kjetil Huseboe. The recording is from a solo concert at Nasjonal Jazzscene (The National Jazz Scene, Victoria) / Tape to Zero festival on April 22, 2016, Oslo.
TINGVALL TRIO:
Martin Tingvall - Piano
Omar Rodriguez Calvo - Bass
Jürgen Spiegel - Drums, Percussion
“Dance” is the title of this new album and the trio takes listeners along on a journey around the world, letting the widest variety of dance styles flash and flare as a vivid form of emotional expression.Martin Tingvall describes how it came about: “The idea for ‘Dance’ emerged while we were rehearsing ‘Cuban SMS’, one of the first new songs. All jokes aside: It was really hard for us to stay in one place as we worked. There was so much rhythm and energy in the music. As for me, I can’t dance to save my life, but it just grabbed us and carried us away. The idea for an album full of dances was born.”
Espen Eriksen Trio return with End of Summer, their fifth album. This time the Norwegian jazz trio are back by themselves, following a critically acclaimed album, Perfectly Unhappy, with Andy Sheppard. The album was recorded during lockdown when the band found themselves with no gigs to play and sees them striking a perfect balance between uplifting and melancholic.
Danny Keane’s long apprenticeship with some of the world’s greatest artists – Anoushka Shankar, Nitin Sawhney, Mulatu Astatke – has given him a profound musical grounding from which to create his own unique musical vision.
Drawing on a rich and and varied career, Roamin’ is a thrilling coming together of a lifetime’s worth of ideas and influences. Bursting with flavours of jazz, Indian folk traditions, African rhythms, European classical and contemporary dance music, Danny traverses many genres and geographies pulling them all together into a unifying, dizzying whole.
Erik K Skodvin and electronic composer Jasmine Guffond
Finnish musician Merja Kokkonen (Islaja), who improvised wordless vocals.
"You know, hyenas aren't the bad ones... These days it's humans you should fear."
Erik K Skodvin's first solo film score evokes otherwordly dreamscapes that capture the atmosphere of the film Anbessa (2019), shot in Ethiopia by director Mo Scarpelli.
... The choice was made to mix field recordings from the film with the music, which creates a type of audio cinema that fully captures the atmosphere of Asalif’s world: Screaming hyena's, birds, animals, nature, Asalif repairing found electronic devices, talking and singing, seemlessly blend in with bowed guitars, electro-acoustic instruments, trumpets, long pipes and clay drums, played by Skodvin and by Volcano The Bear's Aaron Moore. The result is an affecting journey. An escape into something hopeful.
Released: September 18, 2020
Label: Jazzland Recordings
Rymden - Bugge Wesseltoft, Dan Berglund and Magnus Öström - have launched their second mission, "Spacesailors".
RYMDEN – The new super group of three major minds in European music history. The music of RYMDEN is based on 3 elements: melancholic & atmospheric songwriting, dramatically charged rhythms & virtuosity of jazz playing of the highest level.
Released: September 18, 2020
Label: One Little Independent Records
World renowned handpan player and composer Manu Delago returns with ‘Circadian Live’, recorded while promoting the acclaimed album during his European tour.
Released: August 28, 2020
Label: Nonesuch Records Inc.
Tigran Hamasyan – Piano / Keyboards / Vocals
Evan Marien – Bass
Arthur Hnatek – Drums
With pianist/composer Tigran Hamasyan, potent jazz improvisation fuses with the rich folkloric music of his native Armenia.
Composed and produced by Tigran Hamasyan, his new album The Call Within is an epic journey into the invisible inner world of the artist who despite having a physical body is living in a dreamlike inner world which is as realistic as the physical one. The artist lives in the world where the moment of the unconscious creation is the way to feel conscious.
Released: August 21, 2020
Label: Modern Recordings
How do you create an entire world from nothing but tones, sounds and rhythms? A world full ofwidth and depth, full of colors, movements and manifestations, with different temperatures and divergent courses of time. On “SulaMadiana”, it only takes two musicians to form such a world. Nils Petter Molvær and Mino Cinelu both came a long way until their meeting became inevitable.Cinelu gained international renown on Miles Davis’ albums such as “We Want Miles” or “Amandla”.
All compositions by David Kollar / Arve Henriksen. Except track 3 by Thomas Mutina / Kollar / Henriksen. Track 10 backgrounds sounds recorded by Pat Mastelotto
Call For Winter is an album with a sonorous beauty and majestic flow.
The album builds on the territory mapped in Mistral Noir, the opening track of Herskedal’s first album, Slow Eastbound Train, erecting layers of solo tuba and bass trumpet into an imposing edifice of sound...
In a contemplative exploration on solitude, Sergio Díaz De Rojas has delved into a nostalgic state of mind after moving from Peru to Spain, leaving friends and family behind for a new chapter of his life. Various late nights by the piano led to the creation of a softly sorrowful tribute to one of his favourite composers, Fryderyk Chopin.
Jean-Christophe Renault is an off-track pianist and composer. Neither a jazzman nor a world music musician, he could perhaps today be assimilated into the so-called neo-classical current, somewhere between Keith Jarrett and Erik Satie.
Das dreistündige Konzert zum 20sten Geburtstag versammelte sieben ECHO JAZZ Preisträger (Tingvall Trio, Omar Sosa, Caro Josée, Joo Kraus, Giovanni Weiss) auf der Bühne und geriet zu einem zwei Dekaden umspannenden Konzertereignis, welches dem Publikum die Vielfalt und Qualität des Labels präsentierte.
Released: May 29, 2020
Label: ECM Records, ECM 2659
Benjamin Moussay: piano
After three acclaimed ECM recordings with Louis Sclavis (Sources, Salt and Silk Melodies, and Characters on a Wall), each of them attesting his improvisational resourcefulness, French pianist Benjamin Moussay was invited to record a solo album. Promontoire is the result, a thoughtful, reflective and profoundly lyrical album that is both a strikingly original statement and an admirable addition to ECM’s distinguished solo piano series.
Cecilie Strange: saxophone
Peter Rosendal: piano
Thommy Andersson: bass
Jakob Høyer: drums
All compositions by Cecilie Strange
Hearing Cecilie Strange’s new album “Blue” makes you feel like “meeting an old friend for the first time”. With her very soulful, passionate and deeply rooted tenor saxophone sound she plays yearning and longing melodies and out of the blue comes this melancholic yet joyful music, that encircles you in warmth and solace.
Henrique Gomide | piano
Jean Cammas | double bass
Antoine Duijkers | African drum-set
The three musicians based in Cologne present compositions blending rhythmic jazz and captivating melodies. The South American musical influences of Henrique Gomide from Brazil and Jean Cammas from Chile, together with the “African drumming” of Dutch drummer Antoine Duijkers form the basis of their compositions and improvisations.
Carlos Cipa is a Munich-based classically trained pianist, composer and producer in the contemporary classical field.
For 'Correlations (on 11 pianos)' Carlos Cipa returned the focus to the piano and recorded on 11 different ones – 6 Grands, 3 Uprights, a Square, and a Fender Rhodes – for which he chose three very different settings: his own studio in Munich, Germany and two cultural centers called "Die Villa" in Pinswang, Austria and the "Prinzenpalais" in Wolfenbüttel, Germany.
MATER
composed, recorded and mastered by Olivia and Enrico Belli in their studio in Le Marche (Italy) – is based on themes taken from the Stabat Mater of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, who was native to their same region.Released for the Memory Recordings Label as a tribute to the 50° Anniversary of the Earth Day (April 22nd, 2020)...
What Belli is able to create on the album is some of her finest work. There is a sense in the pieces that a lot of deep thought and consideration has been engaged in so as the music fits in with its themes with the most impact that it can. Belli is not just a pianist as evidenced by her lunar inspired album "Four Moons" (2019) which showed her talents as a composer of soundscapes as well as piano...
Released: April 25, 2020
Recorded at Hovering Horse studio, Corvallis, Oregon, USA
John R. Campbell: piano, guitar, electronics, field recordings
Juan Ramon Rodriguez: double bass
Dean Andersen: drums
John R. Campbell's progressive music explores landscape / soundscape dynamics via jazz, new roots, and contemplative textures. He produces music from his Hovering Horse studio in Corvallis, Oregon.
Luke Howard piano, electronics
Jonathan Zion bass
Daniel Farrugia drums
The Luke Howard Trio’s minimalist aesthetic blends elements of improvised and popular music, featuring compositions by both Luke and bassist Jonathan Zion. This is their third album.
The Obradović-Tixier Duo is the intriguing partnership of Lada Obradović, a Croatian jazz drummer and David Tixier a French pianist. Together, they swept the board with a host of ‘first prize’ and ‘best band’ awards at last year’s summer festivals, including the RéZZo Focal prize at Jazz à Vienne and a soloist prize for Lada at the 2019 La Défense Jazz Festival.
Anna Cochrane, violin/viola
Andreas Thurfjell, alto/baritone saxophone
Anna Malmström, clarinet/bass clarinet
Erik Dahl, piano/electronics
Tove Brandt, double bass
William Soovik, drums/percussion
Gethenian Suite is a musical interpretation of the novel The Left Hand of Darkness
A musical tribute to Ursula K Le Guin. Composer Erik Dahl has written a musical suite with inspiration from Ursula K Le Guin's classic novel "The Left Hand of Darkness"
Можно ли перевести книгу в звук? На основе классической фантастики Ursula Le Guin «Левая рука тьмы» композитор Erik Dahl создал музыкальную сюиту. Это путешествие во вселенную книги. Четкие и запоминающиеся проекции добавляют визуальное измерение. Кинематографический концерт на стыке камерной музыки, джаза и космической поп-музыки.
Chris Abrahams (piano)
Lloyd Swanton (bass)
Tony Buck (drums/percussion)
Three, the 21st album from legendary Australian instrumental trio The Necks, is a winding, textural, and visceral musical exploration through three individual, contrasting tracks that each delve into separate tenets of their sound.
Release: March 13, 2020
Label: Jazzland Recordings
Jazzland is proud to present the brand new opus from two of the brightest luminaries on the Norwegian scene. "Snow Catches on her Eyelashes" emanates musical authority, a hyperconscious layering of textures and musicality, at once evocative of some otherworldly space, yet familiar at a deep human level that resonates with each sonic flourish.
Bang's manipulation of field recordings, samples, found sounds, and of Aarset's playing provides a musical and textural continuity and coherence to the album. His skilful interweaving of a huge array of disparate sonic material into new soundscapes and auditory artefacts, densely layered without obfuscation, whether like nebulous visions or vivid hallucinations, gives clarity to the overarching spirit of the album.
Featuring contributions from Nils Petter Molvær (trumpet), Hilde Norbakken (piano), Anders Engen (drums/percussion), Audun Erlien (bass), and a vocal sample from Sidsel Endresen, there is an endless diversity to the tonal characteristics of each piece while maintaining the consistency of the musical language the duo have created and evolved during their many years of collaboration.
THE MOVIE NARCISSUS AND GOLDMUND, directed by Academy Award-winner Stefan Ruzowitzky, hits cinemas on 12th MARCH.
THE OFFICIAL SOUNDTRACK RELEASE follows one day later on physical on CD as well as digitally on 13th MARCH. The score features oustanding soloists such as David Kuckhermann (Handpans) and Julla von Landsberg (Soprano) as well as the wonderful Haydn Orchestra Bolzano and Trento and the Ensemble Vocale Continuum.
Per Oddvar Johansen drums, vibraphone
Helge Lien piano
Torben Snekkestad tenor & soprano saxophone, bass clarinet
Guest: Hedvig Mollestad guitar on tracks 3 and 6
All compositions by Per Oddvar Johansen
In Norwegian mythology the cormorant is seen as a good omen, a strong, powerful bird that listens, and knows when the time is right. Maybe what we discover here is that Per Oddvar himself is the Quiet Cormorant of the title.
Christophe Waldner (piano et claviers) Cyril Billot (contrebasse et synthé basse) et Kevin Borqué (batterie et effets)
Christophe Waldner (piano et claviers) Cyril Billot (contrebasse et synthé basse) et Kevin Borqué (batterie et effets) Erik Truffaz (trumpet)
Released: March 13, 020
Label: Piano and Coffee Records
All instruments performed by Manos Milonakis except:
Violin: Christina Georgeli, David Bogorad
Cello: Thodoris Papadimitriou
Thessaloniki-based composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist Manos Milonakis debuts on piano and coffee records with "The Seagull", a synopsis of his original score for Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov’s play of the same name, directed by Yiannis Paraskevopoulos for theatres of Greece and Romania.
Improvisation is the core of Bugge Wesseltoft's and Henrik Schwarz's collaboration... For "In Spite Of Everything" the duo plays on two opposite grand pianos. One is driven by Wesseltoft's emotional piano playing and the second is a so-called player piano, in which the keys are driven by motors and which Schwarz controls in real time with a computer program written especially for this piece.
Released: February 06, 2020
Label: Ronin Rhythm Records
Maja Nydegger, piano, comp
Nils Fischer, saxophone, bass clarinet
Claudio Von Arx, saxophon
Simon Iten, double bass
Philippe Ducommun, drum
Composer: Maja Nydegger
Produced by Maja Nydegger and Nik Bärtsch
Mathieu Bélis, piano
Nicolas Carpentier, violoncelle
Thomas Ostrowiecki, percussions
Né de la rencontre du pianiste Mathieu Bélis, du violoncelliste Nicolas Carpentier et du percussionniste Thomas Ostrowiecki, le groupe Yeliz Trio nous conduit à la croisée des musiques urbaines, classiques et orientales, influencé par des artistes comme le trio E.S.T., Chick Corea, Anouar Brahem mais également par des compositeurs tels que Ravel, Bartok ou encore Shostakovich.
THE CONCERT-20 Years Skip Records - Live At Laeiszhalle Hamburg
Benjamin Moussay - Promontoire
Cecilie Strange - Blue
Erik Dahl Ensemble - Gethenian Suite
