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Looty Trio: Boxer Rebellion
by Vincenzo Roggero
Diffonde una piacevole e imprevista nota elettrica, questo bel disco del Looty Trio pubblicato dalla sempre attenta AUT Records. Perché Boxer Rebellion non emana scosse ma una sorta di sfrigolio carsico alquanto curioso, visto che di elettrico non c'è proprio nulla. Piuttosto una insolita combinazione di batteria (assai incisiva Valeria Zangger), basso tuba (metronomico ma anche fantasioso Marc Unternahrer), sassofono tenore (Sebastian Strinningil più spregiudicato del trio svizzero) e un gran bel lavoro di Timo Keller al mixer. Con la ...
read moreBarry Guy Blue Shroud Band: all this this here
by John Sharpe
Bassist and composer Barry Guy combines a number of his passions on All This This Here in a stunning act of synthesis. For the third major work for his Blue Shroud Band, following its eponymous debut (Intakt, 2016) and Odes And Meditations For Cecil Taylor (Not Two, 2018), Guy sets to music Nobel winning playwright Samuel Beckett's last poem What Is The Word (in two versions, both the original French and the English translation, which bookend the program).
read moreLe Rex: Escape of the Fire Ants
by Glenn Astarita
This young charismatic Swiss ensemble surges forward by melding modern sounds with New Orleans-based traditional jazz and hip groove-building pulses and perpetual motion, executed with manifold time signatures and soaring unison choruses. On its fourth album and second for Cuneiform Records, the musicians' sense of purpose transfers into your listening space as you can detect lots of smiles and conviction emanating from the band's memorable hooks, shifting themes and forceful overtones. Essentially, their seamless integration of trad jazz ...
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