jazz – Music for Watermelons

Devin Gray & Gerald Cleaver – 27 Licks (Rataplan Records, 2020)

By Marcello Nardi May 15, 2021 0

Notwithstanding a drum duet, 27 licks is all about motivic and thematic movement, despite no melodic instrument is involved. Well, not exactly no melodic instrument involved, as both Devin Gray and Gerald Cleaver manipulate their drum kit to create flowing melodies, sometimes clearly hearable and distinct, or rather implicit, otherworldly and almost perceptible. That’s an array of subleties, a meeting of uncoscious depths that has been honed through the multiple years of mentorhip and complicity between the two, rendered through deceiving elegance and swift interplay

The Aristocrats – FREEZE! Live in Europe 2020 (BOING! Music, 2021)

2021 Bryan Beller fusion Guthrie Govan jazz Marco Minnemann prog The Aristocrats

By Marcello Nardi May 2, 2021 0

The Aristocrats’ method is not just fastest playing and ripping solos, but complex song structures that sit between rock and fusion, hiding complex rhythms and progressions, balancing microimprovisations, beneath catchy hooks that fish in basically any possible genre

Ghost Rhythms – Imaginary Mountains (2020)

2020 Ghost Rhythms jazz postminimal prog

By Marcello Nardi Apr 24, 2021 0

Few bands can move so comfortably between the lines of progressive rock, fusion and minimalism and yet retain a versatile and homogeneous orchestral line-up like the French Ghost Rhythms. It’s easy to expect that their new release Imaginary Mountains could all but not show all those aspects and provide some exhilarating moments.

Krononaut, She’s Analog, NERATERRÆ

2020 ambient Arve Henriksen Auand fusion jazz Leo Abrahams Luca Sguera Martin France Matana Roberts Neraterrae post-rock She's Analog tak:til Tim Harries

By Marcello Nardi Dec 17, 2020 0

Krononaut – Krononaut (tak:til, 2020), She’s Analog – What I Bring, What I Leave (Auand, 2020), Neraterræ – Scenes from the Sublime (2020)

Schwalm/Henriksen, Levin/Peyghambari/Nyman, MeVsMyself

2019 2020 ambient Arve Henriksen ethnic J.Peter Schwalm jazz prog

By Marcello Nardi Nov 27, 2020 0

J.Peter Schwalm, Arve Henriksen – Neuzeit (RareNoise, 2020)
Stefan Levin, Soheil Peyghambari, Hans Nyman – Småland Project – SCAPES (2020)
MeVsMyself – Mictlàn (2019)

Rypdal, Torn/Berne/Smith, Feliciati

2020 Ches Smith David Torn ECM fusion jazz Lorenzo Feliciati Screwgun Terje Rypdal Tim Berne

By Marcello Nardi Nov 21, 2020 0

Terje Rypdal – Conspiracy (ECM, 2020), David Torn / Tim Berne / Ches Smith – Sun of Goldfinger (Congratulations to You) (Screwgun Records, 2020), Lorenzo Feliciati – Rumble (2020)

Markus Reuter, Michael Manring, Japanese Garden

2020 Asaf Sirkis David Cross Fabio Trentini Federico Carnevali Japanese Garden jazz Mark Wingfield Markus Reuter Michael Manring prog Robert Rich

By Marcello Nardi Aug 22, 2020 0

Markus Reuter Oculus – Nothing is Sacred (MoonJune, 2020), Michael Manring – Small Moments (2020), Japanese Garden – Roji (WoW Records, 2019)

Sonar with David Torn, Samuel Hällkvist, Thor de Force

2020 BoogiePost David Torn electrojazz jazz Katrine Amsler Manuel Pasquinelli postminimal prog RareNoise Ropeadope Samuel Hällkvist SONAR Stephan Thelen Thor de Force

By Marcello Nardi Jul 28, 2020 1

Sonar with David Torn – Tranceportation Vol. 2 (RareNoise, 2020), Samuel Hällkvist – Epik, Didaktik, Pastoral (BoogiePost Recordings, 2020), Thor de Force – The Build (Ropeadope, 2020)

Parks, Luft, Norris

2020 Aaron Parks ears&eyes Records Edition Records jazz Luke Norris Mike Baggetta Rob Luft Ropeadope

By Marcello Nardi Apr 18, 2020 0

Aaron Parks – Little Big II: Dreams of a Mechanical Man (Ropeadope, 2020)
Rob Luft – Life is the Dancer (Edition Records, 2020)
Luke Norris – Northernsong (ears&eyes Records, 2020)

Raffaele Matta Trio – Sounds of Human Activities [2020]

2020 Andrea Parodo fusion jazz Nicola Vacca Raffaele Matta Sanjay Kansa Banik

By Marcello Nardi Mar 19, 2020 0

Raffaele Matta crafts a world of multiple influences, like jazz, fusion, Indian classical music, in Sounds of Human Activities, where his vision of a collective creation is still predominant. His style is clear, refined and his voice is very undistinguishable. Yet he always strives for playing music for the others and with the band in mind. The listener benefits from that, no matter the travel is fourteen or two minutes long. Still the music retains a ritual aspect, subly combined with the intensity of the moment, that catches the attention