"After eleven albums with a varying ensemble size, Martin Kuchen's Angles returns with The Death of Kalypso, its most ambitious statement to date: a jazz opera for our times. Joining forces with vocalist Elle-Kari and Angles pianist Alexand...

"After eleven albums with a varying ensemble size, Martin Kuchen's Angles returns with The Death of Kalypso, its most ambitious statement to date: a jazz opera for our times. Joining forces with vocalist Elle-Kari and Angles pianist Alexand...

"Mastery inhabits the borderlands of certainty and inexplicability. It erodes and then transcends the boundaries it spends lifetimes defining. As this album's title suggests, no one perceives this dichotomy with more clarity than Joel Fu...

"Master pianist, New York-based, originally from Argentina, Leo Genovese, recently won a grammy for 'Best Improvised Jazz Solo' - an award considered by many as 'mainstream'. Rather than blocking his innovative path, this well deserved ...

"ORD was formed a few years ago, and 'Hemligheter pa vagen' (Secrets on the way) is the band's first album.

There is a text of Transtromer's from the short memoir 'Memories Look at Me' that has inspired Karin particularly for ...

"ORD was formed a few years ago, and 'Hemligheter pa vagen' (Secrets on the way) is the band's first album.

There is a text of Transtromer's from the short memoir 'Memories Look at Me' that has inspired Karin particularly for ...

"Fine-veined Crinkle Weed, Wentletrap and The Two Lipped Door Snail are some of the poetically resonating titles on the pianist Karin Johansson and saxophonist Lisen Rylander Love's new album Arter (Species). The song titles are also na...

"in a rain forest of moments. the eye hears what the ear sees. through each moment of karin johansson's and finn loxbo's music runs the firm conviction that all points and layers of sound - in true democratic spirit, carry the same weig...

"in a rain forest of moments. the eye hears what the ear sees. through each moment of karin johansson's and finn loxbo's music runs the firm conviction that all points and layers of sound - in true democratic spirit, carry the same weig...

"I grunda vikar ar bottnarna mjuka" is inspired by August Strindberg's classic short story about a fortepiano being dropped into deep waters off an archipelago island, Stora grusharpan. The musical content is based partly on secret unde...

"Paratonnerre, the first album of duo Griffure , fixes in time some of the band's latest compositions. They have transformed into a string quintet, enhanced with an electroacoustic setup, and wander between composition, improvisation, a...

"Performed live on the 16th of November 2022 at Stadtgarten Koln / Europaisches Zentrum fur Jazz und aktuelle Musik, Cologne, Germany, as part of the series "In Between Spaces," curated by Thomas Glasser and organized by Zentrum fur Akt...

"November 9, 2019 was first day of Ftarri Festival 2019 Week One, held at Sonorium, Tokyo. The closing group that day was a quartet headed by Magnus Granberg (who had come to Japan for the first time). The other members were Toshimaru N...

""'Eventual' is the first album by double bass player Goncalo Almeida and 'knob twidler' Rutger Zuydervelt. It's not exactly their first collaboration though, having released two EPs, 'Doze Ruinas' and 'Jangadas', and being colleagues i...

Extending their initial collaboration "One Moment in Time", released during the pandemic and picked up by Apple Music's Pure Meditation playlist, the trio of Stijn Huwels on electric guitar & pedals, Cok van Vuuren on dobro & mando guitars, and Michel Banabila on keys, sampler, voice & granular fx, extend their catalog with "Across the Sky", a beautifully warm work of layered drones.

"for two musicians, or more

each musician should think about the other (or one of the others, if you are more tan two) and choose five sounds. these sounds - mainly simple, mainly short - should be chosen having the other musician ...

"Hal Russell deserves an entry in the dictionary under the word free, for how can the mindful listener feel anything else when steeped in the incendiary playing of the late Renaissance man. The Finnish/Swiss Tour, recorded during his fi...

Featuring works premiered at the ESM concert "Zigzague and Colore" in November 2022 in Montreal at Escape Orange - Edifice Wilder - Espace Danse, this exceptional concert of Montreal's premiere improvising Ensemble SuperMusique presents the works of three female composers--Elizabeth Millar, Laura Kavanaugh, and Danielle Palardy Roger--through a variety of graphic scores.

"corpos" is the first album by the Barcelona-based trio, formed by pianist Clara Lai, double bassist Alex Reviriego and drummer Oriol Roca. The music of this album explores collective construction in trio format, visiting different soun...