"Adam Bohman, Sue Lynch and Adrian Northover, who work together in London as The Custodians Of The Realm, and Berlin double bassist Ulf Mengersen met in 2016 on the RARA Festival of Improvised Music in Sicily, where they all were perf...

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"[... Even shorter, and actually involving Mira (i.e. like Setubal, with which it shares some wave-like predilections...) is then Lluvia, including Emilie Skrijelj (accordion) and Tom Malmendier (percussion) to form a quartet around Rod...

"Ernesto Rodrigues is apparently tireless, whether recording projects for his Creative Sources label, organizing a multitude of permutating large ensembles or presenting a broad spectrum of the Lisbon improvising community in groups of a...

"This is music created in real time using extensive techniques, with the smallest details denoting an amazing capacity to create and raise tension (containment and organization) creating a universe of complex and unusual dynamics and or...

"Another recent release from European musicians, again featuring piano (appearance of the latter having skipped the previous entry), and before moving on to a handful of items from elsewhere, is The Book of Spirals from another quintet ...

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"...Setubal also projects a broad wave-like character, and evokes the ocean soon after it begins: The quiet opening sequence suggests static at first, then lapping waves, but what's most riveting on subsequent hearings is the emergence ...

"Sfumato" by Suspensao Ensemble is a live recording from November 2019 during the CreativeFest XIII. Mix, master and graphic design belong to Carlos Santos, while production by Ernesto Rodrigues. As an album it is similar to "Rayon Blan...

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"Born in the first half of the 70's in Ergoldsbach, a small village in the Bavarian countryside, Konrad Strumpfel attends the music laboratory of the local Gymnasium and begins to familiarize with keyboards, synthesizers and electronic ...

"Lisbon String Trio continues its recent trend of recording with more generally prominent Portuguese improvisers - as opposed to earlier albums featuring lesser known musicians - on Isotropy (their thirteenth album) with Luis Lopes on acous...

"[... The assertive Multiforms is played by a trio of Ernesto Rodrigues (viola), Fred Lonberg-Holm (cello) and Rodrigo Pinheiro (piano). And Pinheiro had appeared here again (and with Rodrigues) only last month with The Book of Spirals,...

"Jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player Herbert Joos was one of the most celebrated musicians in Germany's avant-garde scene. From 1968 to 1973, he was a member of the Modern Jazz Quintet Karlsruhe and Four Men Only, two free jazz bands wi...

"Never-before-issued music from three very different settings in upstate New York, all recorded in the period running up to Poughkeepsie multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee's Nation Time. From a year before that landmark LP, in the same ha...