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Mulo Francel: Crossing Life Lines
by Geno Thackara
Mulo Francel clearly believes in life imitating art. The endlessly versatile saxophonist is happy to demonstrate here how music reflects the wider world, but more importantly, Crossing Life Lines offers a determined reminder of how it can go both ways. The concept is simple yet expansive: while touring through parts of Europe that had been in conflict during the second World War, and aware of the ways different powers still try to turn nations against each other 75 years after ...
read moreIzabella Effenberg: Crystal Silence
by Ian Patterson
Many musicians play a second instrument, though rarely do they venture to record an entire album with it. Such a commitment would likely require complete technical command of the secondary instrument, or failing that, courage in spades. Izabella Effenberg has both. For her third release on Unit Records, following her sextet debut Cuentame and the trio outing IZA (2017), the Polish-born, Germany-based musician not only switches from her habitual vibraphone to array mbiraa modern variant of the African mbirabut she ...
read moreIzabella Effenberg Trio: IZA
by Ian Patterson
The vibraphone seems to be enjoying something of a renaissance of late, with any number of outstanding exponents of the instrument popping up in all corners of the world. Izabella Effenberg may be a new name for many, but the Polish vibraphonist has already collaborated with the likes of Tony Lakatos, Magnus Ostrom, Nippy Noya and Nicole Johanntgen. Based on Iza--her second outing as leader, it mightn't be long before Effenberg becomes better known internationally, for there's much to admire ...
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