Reviews

ARTIST Nugara ALBUM TITLE "The Last Question" LABEL GleAM ______________________________________________________________ With their second album, the trio of Francesco Negri, Viden Spassov and Francesco Parsi confirms its status as one of the...

ARTIST Lena Bloch ALBUM TITLE "Marina" LABEL Fresh Sound ______________________________________________________________ Lena Bloch – Russian-born, later Israeli, and now American – dedicates this suite to the poet Marina Tsvetaeva (1892–1941). The immediate...

ARTIST Gianni Gebbia ALBUM TITLE "Petrichor" & "Bhakti" LABEL Objet-a ______________________________________________________________ Micro-sonic variations: calm, dreamlike and undulating, yet invariably serene, whether under daylight or in the stillness of the night. This...

ARTIST Pieranunzi / Polga / Fonnesbaek / Beggio ALBUM TITLE "Perspectives" LABEL Red Records ______________________________________________________________ A group built around perspectives. This quartet speaks through a cohesive collective voice, propelled by a...

ARTIST Aaly Trio ALBUM TITLE "Sustain" LABEL Silkheart ______________________________________________________________ After nearly a quarter of a century, it seemed that the story of the AALY Trio had reached its definitive conclusion, despite...

ARTIST Alfa Mist ALBUM TITLE "Roulette" LABEL Sekito ______________________________________________________________ On his sixth album, Roulette, Alfa Mist continues to refine the distinctive musical language that has made him one of the most...

ARTIST Roberto Bonati Madreperla Trio ALBUM TITLE "Parfois la nuit" LABEL Parma frontiere ______________________________________________________________ “Sometimes the night is difficult. Its colours, its lights, its joyful darkness defy understanding. Sometimes the night...

ARTIST Irreversible Entanglements ALBUM TITLE "Future Present Past" LABEL Impulse! ______________________________________________________________ This is a kind of sonic geology in which time settles in layers – like red dust on forgotten records,...

ARTIST Anouar Brahem ALBUM TITLE "After the Last Sky" LABEL ECM ______________________________________________________________ If the Lebanese Rabih Abou-Khalil, with his fiery temperament and extraordinary technical command, represents for the oud what John...

ARTIST Thomas Strønen ALBUM TITLE "Off Stillness" LABEL ECM ______________________________________________________________ We have followed Thomas Strønen with great interest ever since the early days of Food, his duo with Iain Ballamy, long...