A Bi-Polar Review
Showing posts with label jazz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jazz. Show all posts
Sunday, December 25, 2011
Monday, December 12, 2011
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Monday, September 5, 2011
Review: Calomito - Cane Di Schiena (AltrOck, 2011)
Out on the outskirts of Rock, right near the border with Jazz, there lurks an Italian band who along with others of its ilk, tears down the fences marking the separations between genres and brings with it yet more influences in, forming a new musical landscape.
Monday, August 15, 2011
Recommendation: Fugato Orchestra - Noe
Stop whatever music it is that you're listening to and play this!
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Review: Fractale - Suranné (2010)
Julian Julien composes and plays music with his band, Fractale. Here he releases a live album (which I presume is his first Fractale release), called "Suranné", which was recorded in Paris at "Zebre de Belleville". Aside from shows in Paris, Julian says they travelled in the USA in 2009 (Baltimore, NYC, Chicago and Atlanta).
Monday, May 2, 2011
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Review: Poutatorvi - Poutatorvi (2009, Lusti Music)
Not long ago I was contacted by Markus Pajakkala regarding his project, Utopianisti (which I’ve also reviewed). Markus was also kind enough to offer me to listen to two other projects he’s involved in, one of which is Poutatorvi, a band that draws its influences from varied sources but produces a coherent and accessible output.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Live Webcast: The Celestial Septet (The Nels Cline Singers and the ROVA Saxophone Quartet)
From New World Records newsletter:
On February 22, Ars Nova Workshop is presenting a concert by the Celestial Septet in Philadelphia, which will be available to non-Philadelphia audiences for free via live webcast. After only four concerts in 2008, this epic ensemble combining the Nels Cline Singers and the ROVA Saxophone Quartet returns for only five US appearances, beginning with this night in Philadelphia. Given the rarity of this celestial union, we've teamed up with a local webcast production crew in order to share the Celestial Septet experience with international audiences.
Ars Nova Workshop is thrilled to present the Celestial Septet, a massive ensemble featuring the Nels Cline Singers and the Rova Saxophone Quartet. After four concerts in 2008 and releasing The Celestial Septet (New World Records 80708-2) in 2010, the ensemble re-emerges for only five performances.
For those outside the Philadelphia area, we are offering a live webcast of this rare concert. Sign up here: http://arsnova.
The story of the Celestial Septet is that of two bands becoming one. On their own, the Nels Cline Singers and the Rova Saxophone Quartet have established themselves as the most forward-looking groups not only in their respective formats -- a trio of guitar, bass, and drums, and a quartet of saxophones ranging from baritone to sopranino -- but also in the area of music that has variously and inadequately been called "free," "avant-garde," "creative," and "improvised." The Septet is a vehicle for time and space travel through dense, narrow thickets and airy, wide expanses of boundary-blurred extrapolations of jazz, rock, late-20th-century European modernism and American minimalism, and 21st-century postmodern fusions. The trip is challenging, but the open-minded listener/traveler cannot help but come through the experience with new perspectives on sound and music. Perhaps most significantly, separately and conjoined, these units defy categorization by taking composition as seriously as they take improvisation, and by taking neither so seriously as to let one get in the way of the other.
Of related interest:
80708 ROVA Saxophone Quartet & Nels Cline Singers - The Celestial Septet
80708b An Interview with Larry Ochs (Free Download)
80574 Jon Raskin Quartet - The Bass & The Bird Pond
80553 Quintet for A Day - What We Live
Free live webcast with The Celestial Septet
On February 22, Ars Nova Workshop is presenting a concert by the Celestial Septet in Philadelphia, which will be available to non-Philadelphia audiences for free via live webcast. After only four concerts in 2008, this epic ensemble combining the Nels Cline Singers and the ROVA Saxophone Quartet returns for only five US appearances, beginning with this night in Philadelphia. Given the rarity of this celestial union, we've teamed up with a local webcast production crew in order to share the Celestial Septet experience with international audiences.
Ars Nova Workshop is thrilled to present the Celestial Septet, a massive ensemble featuring the Nels Cline Singers and the Rova Saxophone Quartet. After four concerts in 2008 and releasing The Celestial Septet (New World Records 80708-2) in 2010, the ensemble re-emerges for only five performances.
For those outside the Philadelphia area, we are offering a live webcast of this rare concert. Sign up here: http://arsnova.
The story of the Celestial Septet is that of two bands becoming one. On their own, the Nels Cline Singers and the Rova Saxophone Quartet have established themselves as the most forward-looking groups not only in their respective formats -- a trio of guitar, bass, and drums, and a quartet of saxophones ranging from baritone to sopranino -- but also in the area of music that has variously and inadequately been called "free," "avant-garde," "creative," and "improvised." The Septet is a vehicle for time and space travel through dense, narrow thickets and airy, wide expanses of boundary-blurred extrapolations of jazz, rock, late-20th-century European modernism and American minimalism, and 21st-century postmodern fusions. The trip is challenging, but the open-minded listener/traveler cannot help but come through the experience with new perspectives on sound and music. Perhaps most significantly, separately and conjoined, these units defy categorization by taking composition as seriously as they take improvisation, and by taking neither so seriously as to let one get in the way of the other.
Of related interest:
80708 ROVA Saxophone Quartet & Nels Cline Singers - The Celestial Septet
80708b An Interview with Larry Ochs (Free Download)
80574 Jon Raskin Quartet - The Bass & The Bird Pond
80553 Quintet for A Day - What We Live
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Dark Ambiances Series - Pt. 3: Bohren & der Club of Gore
By now a force to be reckoned with, Bohren & der Club of Gore started its way back in 1988 as the members, school friends, started playing together, having common passion for extreme music. They were: Thorsten Benning (drums), Robin Rodenberg (Bass), Reiner Henseleit (guitar), Morten Gass (guitar/piano).
More after the Jump...
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Recommendation: Hidden Orchestra (Scotland; electronica/jazz)
I've recently discovered a very pleasant surprise in the form of Scottish quartet Hidden Orchestra, formerly known as Joe Acheson Quartet.
Read more and listen after the jump
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
A band in the Spotlight: Naima (Spain)
Here is a band I was not expecting to "fall for". While I love various forms of Jazz and some bands and musicians in this vast "scene" have released albums that are favourites of mine, I was not prepared for the impact that Naima would leave on me.
I discovered them while browsing through CD Baby's jazz offerings when I encountered this album called Uno from a Spanish quartet.
More after the jump
I discovered them while browsing through CD Baby's jazz offerings when I encountered this album called Uno from a Spanish quartet.
More after the jump
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