Norwegian vocal artist and electronics player Stine Janvin & synth and tapes player Morten Joh offer an evocative cycle of funeral-processional music as if they are summoning choirs of mysterious, expressive ghosts. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/stine...
04.03.2026 15:19 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The Czech experimental trio of Petr VΓ‘lek, Jara Tarnovski & Ondrej Merta makes music with whatever junk objects are loosely strewn silently around the venue, playing alone and with SunDog (Isabelle Duthoit & eRikm). My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/03/04/v...
04.03.2026 09:24 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Pianist and composer Katya Sourikova returns after a decade with new compositions that reflect her long fascination with J.S. Bachβs contrapuntal thinking, translated into a modern, chamber piano jazz trio format. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/katya...
04.03.2026 06:46 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Emmeluth's Amoeba's 4th album relies on the distinct voices of sax player Signe K. Emmeluth, pianist Christian Balvig, guitarist Karl BjorΓ₯ & drummer Ole Mofjell and its exploratory aesthetics. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/emmel...
04.03.2026 04:30 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Norwegian experimental quartet Oker - trumpeter Torstein Lavik Larsen, double bass player Adrian Myhr, guitarist Fredrik Rasten & percussionist Jan Martin Gismervik - explores meteorological and planetary phenomena. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/oker-2/
03.03.2026 06:02 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1
Swiss experimental duo Diatribes - vibes player Cyril Bondi and electronics player D'incise + French violinist Clara Levy resurrect a medieval Sephardic song as a minimalist, sparse, and melancholic drone-like texture. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/diatr...
02.03.2026 15:12 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
The Swiss experimental trio Omnivore - vocal artist Vera Baumann, cellist Silvan Jeger & electronics player Lua Jungck - attempts to sketch a musical image of our complex, endangered world. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/03/02/o...
02.03.2026 06:28 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The one and only, vocal artist Shelley Hirsch, with the ever-inventive rhythm section of double bass player Christian Weber and drummer Alfred Vogel in a 54-minute βlet it allβ. My review for the @Freejazzblog: www.freejazzblog.org/2026/02/shel...
01.03.2026 13:58 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Slovenian double bass player and sound artist TomaΕΎ Grom's electroacoustic composition Ko Bo presents the urban atmosphere as a threatened and vulnerable sonic setting, constantly disturbed by distracting, arbitrary noises. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/03/01/t...
01.03.2026 12:40 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Norwegian guitarist HΓ₯vard Skaset & drummer-percussionist StΓ₯le Liavik Solberg enjoy a chaotic and anarchistic free-improvised meeting at a local barn, corresponding with imaginary and twisted elements of blues, folk, and jazz. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/havar...
01.03.2026 05:14 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Canadian tenor sax player and composer Quinsin Nachoffβs Patterns from Nature converges music, film, and physics, inspired by Canadian physicist Stephen Morris' research on emergent patterns. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/quins...
28.02.2026 15:06 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Intuitive, intimate free improvised duos, one trio, and solos curated by vocal artist Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg, with pioneer of signal processing instrument Lawrence Casserley, at Hans Mittendorfβs Gallery in Seesen. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/02/27/i...
28.02.2026 05:45 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The free improvised, conversational meeting of Illinois-based academics - guitarist Adam Larison & drummer-percussionist Richard Gilman-Opalsky. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/adam-...
27.02.2026 03:51 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Japanese alto sax player Masayo Koketsu & American percussionist (who was born in Japan) Nava Dunkelman's second free improvised meeting, stressing their immediate, profound, and emphatic camaraderie. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/masay...
26.02.2026 15:10 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Drummer and composer Devin Gray matches free jazz, electronic processing, and extended instrumental techniques with his experimental, inquisitive, and sound-oriented trio with Andrea Parkins and Frank Gratkowski. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/02/26/g...
26.02.2026 09:05 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Paal Nilssen-Love Large Unit with Japanese sax legend Akira Sakata performs a Japanese anti-war poem with a Japanese folk theme + Nilssen-Love's composition for Large Unit's drummer, sax player, accordionists, and tuba players. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/large...
25.02.2026 05:43 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
American polymath Elliott Sharp & singer-songwriter Eric Mingus use blues as a relevant and useful antidote to the current ills of America + E# remastered duo free improvised album of acoustic guitars with Nels Cline. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/eric-...
24.02.2026 15:16 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The 4th album of the Tuscany-based ensemble TMR β Tuscany Music Revolution free improvising ensemble, recorded live under the stars of the Chapel of the Madonna di Vitaleta in San Quirico dβOrcia, Tuscany. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/02/24/t...
24.02.2026 14:02 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Italian drummer and electronics player Francesca Remigi & Swiss reed player and sound artist Fabian MΓΆsch explore and experiment with slow-shifting, non-structured sonic environments in a pendulum movement. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/02/24/f...
24.02.2026 11:47 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Italian pianist Nicola Guazzaloca in a masterful, poetic, free improvised duo with cellist Francesco Guerri + leading his quintet Tell No Lies, inspired by the vitality of South African jazz, My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/02/23/n...
23.02.2026 12:56 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Palestinian singer-songwriter Amal Murkus Ψ§Ω Ω Ω Ψ±ΩΨ³ & Italian pianist Alessandro Sgobbio's beautiful Breathing ΨͺΩΩΒ»Ψ³ reflects their belief in the power of art and music to suggest a better, just, and compassionate world. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/amal-...
23.02.2026 05:45 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Paper Masks captures the first collaboration between two singular, experimental artists β Japanese vocal artist and electronics player Phew & Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist, poet, and vocalist Danielle De Picciotto. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/phew-...
22.02.2026 15:09 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
British vocal and sound artist Viv Corringham and Italian soprano sax player Gianni Mimmo offer a set of intimate, sensual, and surreal wordless conversations, evocative stories, and enigmatic spells. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/02/22/v...
22.02.2026 08:25 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Danish sax player Amalie Dahl expands her Dafnie free jazz quintet into a 12-member ensemble, takes it to Moldejazz festival, and lets it swing freely between chamber-music-like stillness and massive free-jazz energy. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/02/21/a...
21.02.2026 10:11 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Portuguese sax hero JosΓ© Lencastre in the debut album of free-improv trio with bassist JoΓ£o Hasselberg & drummer Kresten Osgood + Smoop, his debut album with a new free-improv quartet with Greek Musicians. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/lenca...
21.02.2026 06:09 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The Setting, the trio, and The Setting, the album, is the debut of the New York-based new trio of double bass player and composer Eivind Opsvik, pianist and keyboard player Elias Stemeseder & guitarist Will Graefe. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/the-s...
20.02.2026 15:10 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
倩θ€δΈΈ Ten-Toh-Maru is the most experimental ensemble that Japanese pianist-composer Satoko Fujii plays in, with incomparable voice artist Tenko (倩ιΌ) & no-input mixer board explorer Toshimaru Nakamura (δΈζ δΏδΈΈ). My review for the Free Jazz Blog: www.freejazzblog.org/2026/02/ten-...
20.02.2026 11:58 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Stephen OβMalley's composition for pipe organs at Γglise Saint-FranΓ§ois in Lausanne is a deeply immersive, minimalist, and surprisingly reverent drone, corresponding with hypnotic metal guitar textures of Sunn O))). My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/02/20/s...
20.02.2026 11:24 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Pianist Georg Grawe's Sonic Fiction Special (with Frank Gratkowski, Laura Strobl & Gerry Hemingway) in a masterful performance with Earl Howard, cementing the notion that improvisation is a discipline of composition. My review for Percorsi Musical: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/02/19/s...
19.02.2026 16:32 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Passepartout Duo - pianist Nicoletta Favari & percussionist Christopher Salvito - suggests dream-like, cinematic sonic journal for the occasional tourist, featuring a vintage-atmospheric, analog synth sound. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/passe...
19.02.2026 04:42 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0