Bisk

Bisk: Moonstruck Parade

by AAJ Staff
April 1, 2001

Not one to sell short his greatest talent, Bisk (aka Naohiro Fujikawa) titled his 1996 debut release Time. It was a revolution in digital music. Bisk treated the sampler and the sequencer with healthy disrespect, building up richly textured counterpoint only to tear it apart with a smirk and head on off elsewhere. His rhythms reflected as much hip-hop spunk as jazz swing.

Five years and three records later, Bisk still offers the same signature quirkiness and attention to detail. ...

Bassist / Composer Matthew Golombisky Releases 12 Aural "Short-Stories" With Close Music Cohorts / Improvisers On This Cassette Release

Source: Matthew Golombisky
September 28, 2017

All About Jazz writer Jakob Baekgaard recently called Matthew Golombisky a modern “renaissance man”. He is a forward moving, fast acting, and busy artist. Between his acoustic/electric bass performing, commissioned compositions (including his work on Australian singer/songwriter Via Tania’s latest album, featuring his Tomorrow Music Orchestra, his film scoring contributions to Argentine director Alejo Domínguez’s feature film, La Soñada, or creating improvisation teaching supplements for the Institute for Creative Music), directing, filming and editing music videos and/or release trailers (ie. ...
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Andy Biskin's Ibid "Act Necessary" (Strudelmedia) Out May 20

Source: Fully Altered Media
May 29, 2014

With An All-Star Quartet, Featuring Cornetist Kirk Knuffke, Trombonist Brian Drye, & Drummer Jeff Davis “It’s hard to find gentle humor in jazz but the clarinetist Andy Biskin has perfect radar for it. ...it’s a sweet-tempered [music] that doesn’t take itself too seriously but has a lot of hidden virtues.” —Ben Ratliff, The New York Times Clarinetist-composer Andy Biskin is up to his old tricks again on Act Necessary (strudelmedia), the debut release by his new quartet, Ibid. Mashing up ...
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