Eyal Hareuveni

New York-based sax player Caroline Davis & guitarist Dustin Carlson offer a series of playful, eccentric, psychedelic avant-folk songs that extend Sun Ra’s intergalactic trips and induce visions of “zombie elephants”. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/10/06/c...

MOJNA is a Swedish-Norwegian trio playing newly composed, Nordic folk music featuring guitarist-composer Thomas Eriksson, clarinetist Anna Malmström & Hardanger fiddler Tuva Færden. My - and Jan Granlie's - review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/mojna...

Believe is an Australian, potent, free jazz quartet featuring the experienced double bass player Clayton Thomas, & drummer-percussionist Laurence Pike with younger alto sax player Peter Farrar & pianist Novak Manojlovic. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/belie...

After the Wildfire documents an edited, expanded version of an orchestral commissioned work of Norwegian live sampling and electronics player Jan Bang and trumpeter and vocalist Arve Henriksen for the Skopje Jazz Festival. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/jan-b...

Richard Barrett's intriguing and disorienting electronic composition first light is a musical contemplation of sixteen evocative texts by late English poet Simon Howard. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/10/05/r...

The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters - sax player Mette Rasmussen, turntablist Mariam Rezaei, piccolo trumpeter Gabriele Mitelli & drummer Lukas Koenig - redefines free music in the 21st century. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/10/05/t...

The Slovenian free jazz TiTiTi of reed player Jure Boršič, double bass player & drummer Vid Drašler became a quartet with Serbian pianist Marina Džukljev, and is more complex, restless, and searching for its own cosmic freedom. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/titit...

The Lisbon-based electroacoustic I/O trio - cellist Ulrich Mitzlaff, synth and sampler player Carlos Santos & clarinetist Ana Maria Santos - moves between chamber music to reductionist, almost static soundscapes. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/10/03/i...

Do yourselves a favor and listen to the great album of Norwegian drummer Gard Nilssen and his Acoustic Unity (reed player André Roligheten & bassist Petter Eldh) augmented by sax players Signe Emmeluth & Kjetil Møster. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/gard-...

Field recordist Peter Cusack & hyper-pianist and sound artist Anaïs Tuerlinckx offer a poetic, seductive but elusive soundscape that keeps reminding us that all phenomena - and sounds - are transient. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/10/02/p...

The free improvising trio of Lithuanian reed hero Liudas Mockūnas, fellow Lithuanian pianist-drummer Arnas Mikalkenas & Ukrainian bassist Mark Tokar has an immediate synergy that makes this trio larger than its parts. My review for the @Freejazzblog: www.freejazzblog.org/2025/10/liud...

Master free music guitarist Joe Morris has a new string trio with cellist Brad Barrett and double bass player Beth Ann Jones, which its deep listening, inventive dynamics feel “like a new arrival point” for him. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/10/01/j...

Electroacoustic composer Brunhild Ferrari's Errant Ear is an intimate and illuminating meditation on the act of listening, allowing her “to enjoy surprises, to rediscover my memories, to give them new life”. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/10/01/b...

Norwegian ambient composer and sound artist Kjetil Husebø turned 20 years old in May 2025 and celebrates 20 years as a recording artist of his own music with a new solo, experimental-ambient trilogy, Interiors. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/kjeti...

Burnt Pages brings together, remotely, Slovenian guitarist Samo Salamon on acoustic guitar, with American guitarist and educator Kevin Miller, on electric guitar, and tenor and soprano sax player Daniel Blake. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/samo-...

Swedish reed player-composer Anna Högberg returns with a new, double sextet Attack and a masterful, compassionate, and life-affirming suite dedicated to her late father. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/09/29/a...

NarrSteidle is the duo of guitarist and electronics player Steffi Narr and drummer Oli Steidle, offering powerful, nervous, dense, stubborn, and fast-shifting free improvised conversations – or electronics-laden collisions. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/narrs...

Tomas Fujiwara’s Percussion Quartet's Dream Up is an engaging celebration of storytelling, freedom, interaction, and rituals through the transformative power of rhythm, inspired by Max Roach’s iconic percussion ensemble M’Boom. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/tomas...

Greek sound artist Spyros Polychronopoulos & percussionist-electronics player Yorgos Dimitriadis focus on the organic manner in which sound manifests itself and has its own inner logic and its own rhythmic flow. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/09/28/s...

Trio Atlântica connects Portuguese alto sax hero José Lencastre and Brazilian drummer and electronics player Wagner Ramos & and guitarist Luiz Eduardo Galvão for a powerful and intense session. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/trio-...

Three American veteran masters – soprano sax player Dave Liebman, drummer Billy Hart & percussionist Adam Rudolph in two live free improvised performances at the small club The Stone in New York. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/dave-...

French experimental sax player Michel Doneda & hyper-pianist Frederic Blondy offer a cycle of rituals, made of unorthodox sonic architectures, exploring and molding sound at Église Saint-Merry in Paris. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/09/26/m...

Christof Kurzmann's El Infierno Musical masterful and inspiring (second) tribute project for the poems of the late Argentinian poetess Alejandra Pizarnik. My review for the Free Jazz Blog: www.freejazzblog.org/2025/09/el-i...

Incoming documents an intense, free-improvised meeting of American guitarist Jeff Platz with the Cologne-based Colombian tenor sax player Pacho Dávila, and Portuguese drummer Vasco Furtado. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/jeff-...

The quartet of double bass player Fridolin Blumer, trombonist Robert Morgenthaler, drummer Heinz Geisser & vibes player Christopher Dell offers elaborate, liquid-like architectures, with fascinating, ever-evolving lines. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/09/25/b...

YODOK III - drummer Tomas Järmyr, (amplified) tuba player Kristoffer Lo & guitarist Dirk Serries, augmented by organist Petra Bjørkhaug - perfects its ritualistic and cathartic, massive post-rock meets ambient drones. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/yodok...

Amsterdam-based pianist Marta Warelis & sax player Ada Rave go for a free improvised, often surprising journey through the surprising forking paths of that magical, capricious garden. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/09/23/m...

American pianist-vocalist-composer Robin Holcomb and Canadian cellist Peggy Lee offer a set of beautiful. intimate pieces and songs in an organic, introspective, and conversational interplay. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/robin...

Lovers is the duo of vocalist Linda Oláh and guitarist Giani Caserotto, offering genre-defying songs that borrow the format of pop, inspired by the poetry of Baudelaire, and flirt with the centuries-old tradition of serenade. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/lovers/

German concept, visual and sonic artist, turntablist (and saxophonist), and composer Ignaz Schick's arresting and ambitious attempt to sonify the Indian city of Kolkata suggests a memory of a city listening to itself. My review for Salt peanus
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