A recording of piano and vibraphone duos? I’m not sure how it gets any better. I’ve mentioned my love for “malleted instruments” many times before, and I’m starting to think there’s something in the tones […]
Satoko Fujii and Natsuki Tamura’s Pentas (website) is a companion piece to Prickly Pear Cactus, the Ikue Mori album I reviewed a few weeks ago. Both CDs arrived the same day in the same package […]
I’ve reviewed plenty of experimental albums, both jazz and electronica, that sound like little more than a collection of recorded noises. The real trick in evaluating such recordings is to find the weave of music […]
There’s free jazz, and then there’s experimental jazz. Sand Storm from Kaze and Ikue Mori is definitely in the latter group. Free jazz is about an explosion of ideas and feelings, chaos with an underlying […]
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