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Peter Lenz: Breathe

by Angelo Leonardi
September 10, 2025

Dopo aver espresso ottime doti di strumentista e leader col quintetto Silent Flow e col quartetto Lithium, il batterista austriaco debutta con successo nel campo dell'orchestrazione, scegliendo di operare con tre differenti organici: una big band di 17 elementi (nei brani “Enclouded" ed “Eleanor"), una big band ampliata a un quartetto d'archi (in “Between Lines" e ...

Breathe

By Peter Lenz

Label: ART
Released: 2024
Track listing: Between Lines, Breathe, Von Inneren Grenzen, Enclouded, Eleanor.

stranded

By Marike van Dijk

Label: Bjurecords
Released: 2023
Track listing: Prelude to Stranded; Fever Dream; Changes; Sun; Stranded; 25 Notes; Island Time; Island Time Afterlude; Landed.

Marike van Dijk Nonet: stranded

by Angelo Leonardi
December 15, 2023

Come �� accaduto ad altri colleghi, la sassofonista e compositrice olandese Marike van Dijk ha fatto tesoro delle restrizioni di spostamento imposte durante la pandemia per concentrarsi sul lavoro musicale. Il risultato �� questo quarto disco da leader, progettato mentre era isolata a Brisbane (Australia) per frequentare il dottorato di ricerca in tecniche di composizione astratta. ...

Moers Festival Interviews: Sana Nagano

by Martin Longley
June 4, 2022

Right place, right time, your scribe caught Smashing Humans playing a late night set at the original Nublu club in NYC's Alphabet City, 19th April 2019. Intensity ensued, via a serrated prog-jazz extremity, sharply sculpted in its dynamic schizoid turning of sharp bends, its abrasive surface causing exciting distress. Smashing Humans were assembled by the Japanese ...

Smashing Humans

By Sana Nagano

Label: 577 Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Strings & Figures; Loud Dinner Wanted; Dark Waw; Humans In Grey; The Other Seven; Chance Music; Heavenly Evil Devil; The Other Humans.

Moers Festival 2021

by Martin Longley
June 22, 2021

Moers Festival Eventhalle/Rodelberg Moers, Germany May 21-24 2021 Just a few days before the start of this 50th anniversary festival, the local governmental authorities suddenly switched their virus regulations, allowing a crowd of 500 to attend each evening's outdoor park gig on the Rodelberg stage. During the daytimes, ...

Sana Nagano: Smashing Humans

by Hrayr Attarian
March 15, 2021

Violinist Sana Nagano is an idiosyncratic and accomplished artist who is immersed in New York's avant-garde scene. Her sonic experiments are an end in themselves, thrilling and provocative as well as quite intimate. Nagano's debut with her new quintet, the electrifying, Smashing Humans, expresses this singular vision to its fullest, creating a wholly absorbing work of ...

Brilliant Corners 2020

by Ian Patterson
March 31, 2020

Brilliant Corners 2020 Various Venues Belfast, N. Ireland February 27 to March 7, 2020 Maybe it's global warming, for just as the first bloom of spring in these strange times appears in February, so too, Brilliant Corners starts ever earlier. From its first, modest edition over three days ...