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Erika Dagnino Quartet: Signs

Read "Signs" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


Italian poet Erika Dagnino runs a transatlantic- bilingual career. In Europe she works with avant-garde and free jazz musicians as Italian violinist stefano Pastor}] and English saxophonist {{George Haslam. In the States she recorded with avant-garde composer and pianist Chris Brown and leads her own New-York based free jazz quartet comprised of reed player Ras Moshe, double bassist Ken Filiano and percussionist John Pietaro. The setting of fiery free jazz fits the uncompromising temper of Dagnino's poetry ...

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Erika Dagnino / Stefano Pastor / George Haslam / Steve Waterman: Narcéte

Read "Narcéte" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


This Anglo-Italian quartet presents its version of improvised jazz with poetry. The Italian side comes from poet and writer Erika Dagnino--who recites her poems in English--and violinist and double bassist Stefano Pastor. Their English partners are veteran improvisers and frequent collaborators, saxophonist George Haslam and trumpeter Steve Waterman. This recording features a happy marriage between the serious, orderly and expressive reciting of the poems and playful, instrumental improvisations. None is being subjected to the other--there is enough ...

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Signs

Slam Records
2013

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Narcéte

Slam Records
2013

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Narcéte

Slam Records
2012

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Cycles

Traumton Records
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