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Freelance journalist and music reviewer for the Free Jazz Collective blog, Salt Peanuts and Percorsci Musicali
Belgian reed player Joachim Badenhorst's Youran is a site-specific, electroacoustic composition, inspired by Japanese Noh theatre, reflecting on the uncertainties of the present moment as we persist in the vibration of possibilities. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/joach...
22.11.2025 15:08 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The Italian quartet Γ - percussionists Filippo Abrate & Thomas Canna, Giovanni Falascone on prepared piano, and clarinettist Alessandro Luppi - explores the concepts of circular time, suspended reality, and stillness. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/11/22/u...
22.11.2025 14:01 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Italian cellist-electronics pioneer Walter Prati explores the 6-string electric bass augmented with electronics as an unbassale sonic entity and stripped of its conventional, common rhythmic or deep-toned roles. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/11/21/w...
21.11.2025 18:00 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The experimental Swiss duo of guitarist and electronics player Samuel Leipold and drummer & sound artist Martin Perret created their debut album, Barene, in a collaborative, free improvised process. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/samue...
21.11.2025 03:53 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Slovenian sax player-composer Igor Lumpert has a new, New York-based quartet featuring pianist Leo Genovese, double bass player Drew Gress & drummer Damion Reid. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/igor-...
20.11.2025 15:31 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
[AHMED] Ψ£ΨΩ Ψ― quartet offers an inspired cover of Ahmed Abdul-Malik's groundbreaking album Jazz Sahara in a way that corresponds with a Sufi spiritual and transformative ceremony. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/11/20/t...
20.11.2025 13:41 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The A Part - violist Marie Takahashi, drummer Thierry Waziniak & guitarist Baptiste Vayer - cultivates subversive dynamics that are βfree, off the beaten track, improvised, fresh, wild, and delicately organicβ. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/11/19/a...
19.11.2025 13:27 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
My impressions from another great and inspiring edition of the Festival Music Unlimited in Wels, Austria for the @Freejazzblog: www.freejazzblog.org/2025/11/fest...
19.11.2025 11:11 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Itβs All in Your Head is the debut album of young German reed player-composer Julius Gawlik, presenting him as a commanding soloist rich with ideas, and a confident bandleader always searching and pushing forward. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/juliu...
19.11.2025 03:11 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Israeli pianist, composer, and educator Anat Fort's The Dreamworld of Paul Motian is a heartfelt homage to Motianβs memory, his free spirit, and the enigmatic quality of his music. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/anat-...
18.11.2025 15:16 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Swiss composer Samuel Reinhard's enigmatic and austere composition For 10 Musicians blurs its own and the common listenerβs sensibility of time, and as Reinhard puts it, βrests in itselfβ. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/11/18/s...
18.11.2025 11:13 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Figures of Absence is an Italian experimental trio of vocal artist Barbara De Dominicis, electronics player Cristian Maddalena & guitarist Elio Martusciello, inspired by Dore O.βs cinematic, dream-like poetics. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/11/18/d...
18.11.2025 08:51 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Italian drummer-percussionist-composer Francesca Remigi created an ambitious, interdisciplinary concept album which combines feminist literature and experimental electroacoustic music with WITCHESS. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/franc...
17.11.2025 15:17 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Belgian hyper-pianist AnaΓ―s Tuerlinckx in two free improvised duets - an otherworldly with German alto sax player Jonas Engel and a more playful and eccentric one with Austrian sound artist Andrea Ermke. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/11/17/a...
17.11.2025 08:25 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
American double bass player Thomas Morgan's debut album features his own virtual string instrument WOODS in a series of duets with close friends, collaborators, and poet Gary Snyder. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/thoma...
17.11.2025 06:06 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
2 new trios of tenor sax player Camila Nebbia - a free improvised meeting with pianist Marilyn Crispell & drummer Lesley Mok + a new one relying on written pieces with bassist James Banner & drummer Max Andrzejewski. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/11/16/o...
16.11.2025 16:52 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The Norwegian experimental TEIP Trio - guitarist Arne Bredesen, clarinetist Jens-Jonas Francis Roberts & baritone guitarist Nicolas LeirtrΓΈ - in a free improvised meeting with experimental cellist-composer Lene Grenager. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/teip-...
16.11.2025 15:08 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Norwegian double bass player-composer Per Zanussi presents a new trio with sax player Kristoffer Alberts & drummer Per Oddvar Johansen, with a live recording from 2019 that sounds fresh and urgent. My - and Jan Granlie's - reviews for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/zanus...
15.11.2025 15:13 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
American trumpeter-vocalist-composer Amir ElSaffar's trio - tenor sax player Ole Mathisen & drummer Tomas Fujiwara - teams with Greek pianist Tania Giannouli for a deeply moving, spiritual and compassionate performance. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/amir-...
15.11.2025 05:10 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
A Few We Remember is the album by American sax player Jonah Parzen-Johnson & Finnish sound artist Lau Nau (aka Laura Naukkarinen), offering 8 mysterious, cinematic, and story-like improvisations of ambient music. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/jonah...
14.11.2025 17:43 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Danish avant-vocal ensemble Valby Vokalgruppe, led by Anja Jacobsen, returns after 13 years with hypnotic choral pieces calling for a clear state of mind, in recognition of an increasingly fragmented and incoherent reality. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/valby...
14.11.2025 06:59 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The debut album of HobbyHouse - sax player Mia Dyberg & drummer Axel Filip - explores a variety of sonic architectures and playgrounds, with a great focus on timbral nuance and variation, spontaneity, and storytelling. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/11/13/m...
13.11.2025 21:57 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The experimental ensemble, the Copenhagen Clarinet Choir & composer Anders Lauge Meldgaard's Jeux dβeau is composed of fluid forms and open notations mirroring natural ecosystems. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/11/13/c...
13.11.2025 11:57 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
American tuba player Ben Stapp's Uzmic RoβSamg highlights his technical mastery, creativity, and resourcefulness, as well as his gift for telling eccentric and colorful stories rooted in his original science fiction narrative. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/ben-s...
13.11.2025 04:09 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Australian pianist Alister Spence explores the alternative sonic history of the Fender Rhodes as a sound source, using sound-modifying guitar pedals, preparations, and feedback loops. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/alist...
12.11.2025 09:07 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Danish pianist-composer Rasmus Kjær Larsen returns to the chamber piano trio and reaffirms his deep roots in jazz improvisation, atmosphere, and exploratory composition. My review for Salt Peanuts:
salt-peanuts.eu/record/rasmu...
Will check it
05.11.2025 19:30 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Swedish electronics player, composer, and sound artist Pauline Hogstrand's Chants is a meditation on openness, co-creation, receptivity, and the clarity that emerges through presence, reflecting her pregnancy. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/11/05/p...
05.11.2025 18:14 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The pan-European free improvising trio of German sopranino and alto sax player Stefan Keune, Belgian guitarist Dirk Serries & British violist Benedict Taylor keeps challenging itself and never settles on familiar courses. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/keune...
05.11.2025 15:10 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The electro-acoustic, contemporary, austere compositions of composers Edwin Hiller and Hunter Coblentz. My review for Percorsi Musicali:
www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/11/05/h...
