Category: Reviews

Source: The Stone Calendar. 8/1 Thursday 8:30 pm TRIO Matana Roberts (saxophone) Fay Victor (voice) Rebekah Heller (bassoon) 8/2 Friday 8:30 pm TRIO Matana Roberts (saxophone) Pauline Roberts (vibraphone) Brandon Lopez (bass) 8/3 Saturday 8:30 pm TRIO Matana Roberts (saxophone) Tomas Fujiwara (drums) and a special guest 8/7 Wednesday 8:30 pm FOR LIVING LOVERS PLUS…

Source: Jazz Album Reviews. Meandering Demons Peter Van Huffel’s Callisto Oblongata Rob Brown Quartet Gateway John Abercrombie, Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette Frush Houtkamp / Tramontana / Beresford / Blume So Far So Good Welf Dorr, Elias Meister, Dmitry Ishenko, Kenny Wollesen Higher Lever Levitations Vol 1 Unearthed John Butcher / Eddie Prevost Six Hands Open…

Source: Gapplegate Classical-Modern Music Review. Charles Ives, Sonata No. 2, “Concord Mass, 1840-1860,” Donald Berman Lewis Gill, Parochial Chamber Works, Music Inspired by Warrington, Volume One Nova Pon, Symphonies of Mother and Child, Turning Point Ensemble

Source: a closer listen. Jashiin ~ Ten Poems by Birhan Keskin NFNR ~ Fragility KMRU ~ Natur The Temple | Jack Woodbury | Alter Natural ~ Vastness Vastness Ukrainian Field Notes XXXV The Electric Nature ~ Plastic Mind

Source: Noise Not Music. Review: Rie Nakajima – Unshaping (ato.archives, Jun 23) Review: Marsha Fisher – Postures (Hectare, Jun 10) Review: Human Adult Band – The Movers Brought Rainbows (sPLeeNCoFFiN, Jun 7)

Source: Jazzword. Sewelson/Moses/van Dijk/Holtje Orca Uprising Matt Lavelle The Crop Circles Suite Mahall-Rupp-Tom Live in Stockholm Jackson/Serries/Vanderstraeten Dandelion Jason Stein/Marilyn Crispell/Damon Smith/Adam Shread Spi-raling horn Ava Mendoza/Dave Sewelson Of It But Not Is It

Source: Bandcamp Daily. Renewed interest in the work of Dorothy Ashby and Alice Coltrane has brought the jazz harp back into the spotlight, with contemporary artists like Brandee Younger and Alina Bzhezhinska paying tribute to their work while developing their own sound. Today, jazz is home to numerous harp virtuosos, including Edmar Castañeda, Carol Robbins,…

Source: Dusted. Urs Leimgruber — AIR Vol. 1 (Creative Works) Chris Corsano — The Key (Became the Important Thing [and Then Just Faded Away​]​) (Drag City) Pat Thomas —كنز القلب [KANZA AL QALB] (scatterArchive)

Source: The Quietus. From the limbo of publication week for her new book, Jennifer Lucy Allan returns to Rum Music with a selection of chaotic harmonica incursions, frantic recorder flourishes, raw and serrated hurdy gurdy, and much much more

Source: Vital Weekly. REVERSE IMAGE & THOMAS BEY WILLIAM BAILEY – TOKOKAWA (CD by Fourth Dimension) * INNOVATIVE LANDSCAPES LABORATORY – SPONTANEOUS DIMENSIONS (CD by Sublime Retreat) * KAKERLAK – OBDORMITION (CD by DaDa Drumming) * KAZUMOTO ENDO – AT THE CONTROLS (CD by DaDa Drumming) * KASPER T. TOEPLITZ & ENSEMBLE PHOENIX BASEL –…

Source: The Free Jazz Collective. Die Like A Dog – fragments of music, life and death of Albert Ayler (Cien Fuegos, 2024) Editions Redux – Better a Rook than a Pawn (Audrographic, 2023) Luís Vicente – Sunday Interview Matthew Shipp – The Data (RogueArt, 2024) Monheim Triennale II: The Prequel – July 2024 Two from…

Source: Touching Extremes. MICHÈLE BOKANOWSKI – Cirque Kythibong The circus portrays one of the numerous contradictions in human history. In its rituals of popular amusement there is an interdependence between the components that often risks escalating into the dramatic, both from a purely physical point of view (the risk of injury or death of acrobats…

Source: Musique Machine. Niku Benki – Later Summer Forest Altar – God Of Leeds Jon Rose – Aeolian Tendency

Source: Fringes of Sound. PEIRIANT – DYCHWELYD SAKARI – WE MET AT THE PARK NONLETHAL WEAPONS – ALL THE UNIVERSITIES HAVE BEEN DESTROYED ZHENG HAO – HARMONIUM II

Source: Jazz Album Reviews. AfterdogPandemic Solution AloftSatoko Fujii & Natsuki Tamura Duologues 1 Turning PointIvo Perelman + Tom Rainey Sax QT (Lorraine) 2022Anthony Braxton Saxophone Quartet To March Is To LoveJanel Leppin, Ensemble Volcanic Ash Chicken Shit BingoPeter Brötzmann & Paal Nilssen-Love Breath AwarenessDerek Bailey, Sabu Toyozumi

Source: Burning Ambulance. When I finally did hear Spy vs. Spy, I was blown away by it. The album consists of 17 Ornette Coleman compositions arranged by Zorn and performed by himself, fellow alto saxophonist Tim Berne (Berne is in the left speaker, Zorn in the right), bassist Mark Dresser, and drummers Joey Baron and…

Source: a closer listen. Salt of the Sound ~ Meditations Vol. 6 Lilacs & Champagne ~ Fantasy World estle ~ It’s Always Been You / galen tipton & Holly Waxwing ~ keepsakeFM Arrowounds ~ Burial Trances of the Tentacled Set KASHIWA Daisuke ~ Ice

Source: Bandcamp Daily. The Best Sound Poetry on Bandcamp is back and here to greet the summer heat! Here you’ll find eight of the best releases available from Bandcamp in the genre and its sibling forms. This month’s column features everything from straight-ahead poetry readings to free improv vocal madness; from whirlwinds of human (and…

Source: The Elite Extremophile. Band: Абстрактор (Abstraktor) | Album: Мать (Mat’, Eng. Mother) | Genre: Progressive folk | Bandcamp Band: Agusa | Album: Noir | Genre: Progressive rock, Space rock | Bandcamp Band: Ulls | Album: Cripta nau | Genre: Progressive rock | Year: 2024 Band: April 1830 | Album: The Adventures of Space Pig…

Source: Jazzword. Schubert/Pilz/Scheib/Kugel Live at FreeJazzSaar 2019 Glod/Ramond/Kugel No Toxic Michael Musillami Trio Block Party Plurism Umhlangano Steve Swell/Matthew Shipp Space Cube Jazz Matthew Shipp Trio New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz

Source: Dusted. Danny Paul Grody Duo — Arc of Night (Three Lobed) Head of Wantastiquet/Marble Dust — Marble Dust (Wooden Finger) Guilherme Rodrigues, Ben Bennett & Ernesto Rodrigues — This Full Mouth (Creative Sources)