Archive: January, 2007

anamnesis

Monday, January 29th, 2007

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Pedro Chambel / guitar

Cover layout may have industrial ressemblances and some of the sounds Pedro Chambel’s guitar produces may have, to certain extent, conotations with the so called “industrial music” but the actual cultural pot where this work is to be placed at is quite a different one, namely “Silent Improvisation” the way Sealed Knot or IST produces it.

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23 exposures

Monday, January 29th, 2007

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23 exposures | cs003

Ernesto Rodrigues / violin, viola. Marco Franco / soprano saxophone. José Oliveira / percussion, acoustic guitar.

This is the third album released by violinist Ernesto Rodrigues on his own label Creative Sources Recordings and his third trio session involving percussionist José Oliveira. Getting back to the format of «Multiples», «23 Exposures» presents just that many freely improvised snapshots.

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sudden music

Monday, January 29th, 2007

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sudden music | cs002

Ernesto Rodrigues / violin, viola. António Chaparreiro / electric guitar. José Oliveira / percussion, inside piano.

These three releases reveal that the language of free improvisation has found a home in Portugal in the hands of string player Ernesto Rodrigues and multi-instrumentalist José Oliveira. Over the course of the three CD’s at hand, the two round out a trio with different partners to explore differing dialects of non-idiomatic, collective playing. With «Sudden Music», the strategy moves from gathering together accumulated fragments to building improvisations from the foundation of expansive reductivism; gestures distilled down to their barest essences.

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multiples

Sunday, January 28th, 2007

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multiples
Creative Sources CS001

Ernesto Rodrigues / violin, viola, soprano saxophone. Guilherme Rodrigues / cello. José Oliveira / percussion, acoustic guitar.

The Portuguese string trio of Ernesto Rodrigues, Guilherme Rodrigues and José Oliveira reconfigures itself into a reed/string trio or a string percussion trio or variations thereon during the course of their 28 vignettes, and the result is music that is always stimulating and unpredictable. Their program is totally unstructured and spontaneous, and the wealth of sounds they develop carries it into the outer reaches of sonic development. It has touches of modern classical at its roots (or as suggested in the liner notes “false chamber music”), but it is imaginative and improvised music created in the moment through the close interaction of the three.

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“the hugest work of art ever”.

Sunday, January 28th, 2007

The Stockhausen Affair by Jorge Lima Barreto

Karlheinz Stockhausen, german composer, born in 1928, is one of the major figures of the whole music history; he has been in the vanguard of the contemporary music through the second half of the XXth Century.

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i’ll meet you half way out in the middle of it all

Sunday, January 28th, 2007

i’ll meet you half way out in the middle of it all
thollem

Rick Rivera /trap set
Thollem McDonas /voice and piano

From the fringes of the various musical genres comes great music; that is a fact of common experience. It is not less true that, when the artists are talented, the results are able to exceed our highest expectations. Our anticipation that this is true for the present case is based on two factors.

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creative sources

Saturday, January 20th, 2007

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dave soldier | chamber music

Saturday, January 20th, 2007

Composer/performer Dave Soldier, who has challenged the boundaries of composed music in projects including the Thai Elephant Orchestra, and The People’s Choice music: The Most Wanted and Unwanted Songs offers a collection of his work for classical musicians on the double CD Chamber Music on Mulatta Records.

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