Cory Smythe

This Is Water

By Reinier Baas

Label: DoYouMind? Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: This Is Water, Skull-Sized Kingdoms, Freeze (ft. Jeff Ballard), Brother's Keeper (for Gideon), Recess, Miniatures (ft. Cory Smythe), Fan Fiction (ft. Jeff Ballard), Glass, Skull-Sized Kingdoms II, Love and Strife (ft. Marta Warelis, Han Bennink), Harmonious

Ascending Primes

By Joshua Modney

Label: Pyroclastic Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Ascender; Lynx; Everything Around It Moves; Fragmentation and the Single Form 1. Source; Fragmentation and the Single Form 2. Vox; Fragmentation and the Single Form 3. Song; Fragmentation and the Single Form 4. Call; Event Horizon 1. Serrated Scream; Event Horizon 2. Passacaglias; Event Horizon 3. Ascenders.

Talking the Groove: Jazz Words from the Morning Star

by Duncan Heining
October 12, 2024

Talking the Groove: Jazz Words from the Morning Star Chris Searle (foreword by Mike Westbrook) 394 pages ISBN: #978-1-9163206-7-3 Jazz in Britain 2024 Talking the Groove collects Chris Searle's more recent reviews, articles and interviews from the British socialist daily paper, the Morning Star, acting as a follow-up to ...

Modney: Ascending Primes

by Vincenzo Roggero
October 7, 2024

"Ascender" ti investe con la forza di un uragano. Poco pi�� di sette minuti dove il solitario violino di Joshua Modney, collegato ad un pedale distorsore, scatena un'onda d'urto di emozioni che stordisce. Ingannati da un inizio che ha le cadenze di una ballata folk improvvisamente il suono si stratifica, ruggisce, deborda in rumore, rende lo ...

Ascender

August 11, 2024

Album: Ascending Primes
By Joshua Modney
Label: Pyroclastic Records
Released: 2024
Duration: 7:49

Anna Webber: Shimmer Wince

by John Sharpe
February 29, 2024

There is often an underlying rigor to the work of Canadian saxophonist and flautist Anna Webber, be that inspiration from the digital world on Binary (Skirl, 2016), her investigation of multiphonic intervals on Idiom (Pi, 2021) or contemporary classical percussion repertoire on Clockwise (Pi, 2020). On Shimmer Wince, she derives her compositions from ...

The Rite of Spring: Spectre d��un songe

By Sylvie Courvoisier

Label: Pyroclastic Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Le Sacre du Printemps, Pt.1; Le Sacre du Printemps, Pt.2; Spectre d��un songe.

The Living Collection

By Lesley Mok

Label: American Dreams
Released: 2023
Track listing: It Wants; Its Furious Place; Again, All; Floral And Full; Of Appearance; Full Of Its Fourth Wall; Its Silvery After-Tomorrow; And Ramping-Up Now; Quite A Spectacular Dusk.

Yelena Eckemoff And Cory Smythe: Imagination Unbound

by Doug Collette
September 4, 2023

Yelena Eckemoff and Cory Smythe have configured mirror images in music that reflect global mindsets of race, gender and class in the wake of COVID lockdowns and in the midst of climate change (among other controversies). The former postulates an insular existence populated only by a single individual and a sole figure with whom he finds ...