"The latest project by the composer Jan Liljekvist. Born in Stockholm (Sweden) in 1962. Started out learning to play woodwind instruments (flute, clarinet, saxophone) at an early age. Continued with percussion, guitar, violin and viola. Played in big bands, chamber and ...
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Feat. Mattin, Eddie Prévost, Mark Wastell, Margarida Garcia, Rhodri Davies, recorded 3 May 2003 at Conway Hall, London, UK. "For London's Freedom of the City Festival Mattin's Sakada materializes in a big band incarnation. Unexpectedly, the larger the group, the ...
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""Gästhamnar" ("Guest harbours") is about one of the most obvious things of summer: the life of people in small boats. The coastline and the archipelago are embellished with white sails on the horizon. This record paints, through its quotations from the Swedish ...
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"Rüdiger Carl is one of the most important figures to have emerged from European free jazz. Musicians Oliver Augst and Christoph Korn, who are a generation younger, work at the cross-roads of improvisation, installation, electronics, and theory. Oliver Augst, Rüdiger ...
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warehouse find "'eaRLy W 4' is actually a compilation of previously unissued material or even the couple of tracks in it that saw the daylight were included in such obscure compilations that were actually 'lost'. compared to the more bizarre explorations of #1 or the ...
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"platte" consists of: the image: 10 artists of various disciplines have been asked, to work on one or more records. the results will be shown in an exhibition at the frankfurt bookfair this october then go to berlin, hamburg, vienna, geneva, munich and zürich./ the ...
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"The debut ALBUM from Plastic Crimewave Sound, a monster excessive concept piece that wraps your head around devotional drones, snarling biker punk, scuzzed out sewer dirges, blasts of power electonix, even some lilting shoegazer-new wave moves, and then topped off with ...
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"Palm Fronds (David Greenhill and Jeff McLeod) is a compelling listen on a number of levels. The songs themselves could be described as singer-songwriter in scope; I hear echoes of mid-to-late period Smog and even "Horse With No Name"-era America (especially on ...
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Peter van Bergen, Gert-Jan Prins, Thomas Lehn & Petra Dolleman (video), live recording at Jazzgalerie Nickelsdorf 2002 with bonus material: Interviews and Information, appr. runningtime: 100 minutes, NTSC, region: 0
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"Themes is a classic exercise of variations on a theme. Basic the idea, essential, almost primal, the elaboration. The Linguido's challenge (as in the first CD "West Mantra") is that of fascination by mean of "habit". The rhythms and throbbings of percussive sounds ...
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"This proposal of the duo Degrassi/Lenoci is strictly linked to a form of electroacoustic improvisation, strongly characterized in a "materic" sense. Lenoci's "traditional" instrumentation (piano and saxes) produce the sound and Degrassi "treat it" in real time. The ...
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