PNL's Circus
Pairs of Three
PNL Records
““Pairs of Three” is the debut album of Paal Nilssen-Love’s new band: Circus. Of course, in the area of music that Nilssen-Love (freely) moves in having a new act isn’t always big news (however good the music is), and at first glance this new act could look like a smaller scale off-shot from the now well established Large Unit flagship – perhaps a spontaneous side-project to explore some ideas discovered within the mothership – it certainly wouldn’t be wrong to assume this, as the majority of the members in Circus have served or currently serve time within the ranks of Large Unit. And that would have been a totally welcome and enjoyable addition to the ever-expanding world of Large Unit.”
Chris Corsano & Massimo Pupillo
Via Combusta
Trost Records
“"Massimo Pupillo (of italian jazznoise monsters ZU) and Chris Corsano - drummer of Rangda (with Sir Richard Bishop), Chikamorachi (with Akira Sakata & Darin Gray), and in kicking projects with Joe McPhee, Evan Parker, Okkyung Lee, Bill Orcutt, team up for an overwhelming heavy drum&bass Improv studio-session…". -Trost Records”
Paul Flaherty / Chris Corsano
The Hated Music
Feeding Tube Records
“"The Hated Music is one of the best extended drum/sax forays you’ll ever hear. If we could have done it on vinyl back then, we would have, but no one was buying the stuff much right then. Jerks. That has changed a bit now. For the good. And we got the great Gary Panter to do new cover, since the old one was CD sized and weird. But everything else is the same. And it totally rips a hole in the universe. Now and forever. Amen." -Byron Coley, 2018”
Baldrian Quartett
Frieda Bertelsohn Martholdy: Streichquartette – Entschlummern Sollst Du, Sollst Entschlummern
bRUit
“"the Baldrian Quartett is not a chamber string quartet as the cover art suggests. It matches two like-minded duos - the Swiss duo of electronics player Gaudenz Badrutt and accordion player Jonas Kocher, that has been working since 2009 and are the artistic directors of the bRUit label, together with the duo of German clarinetist Kai Fagaschinski, known from The International Nothing duo, and Viennese Christof Kurzmann who plays on the ppooll software, both released a duo album in 2006 under the moniker Kommando Raumschiff Zitrone (First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, Quincunx Sound Recordings) and continued to collaborate in the Magic I.D. quartet." -Eyal Hareuveni, Free Jazz Blog”
From Wolves To Whales
Dead Leaves Drop
Dopa Disc
“"The improvisations are long, some almost as long as half an hour, but there's nothing too long or superfluous. The band's wonderful instrumental artistry combined with their shared coherent vision on their music makes you listen with full attention, captivated by the collective power of these four individual voices. The sound is raw, fierce, energetic, with some quieter moments or even gentler moments to create contrast and tension. There are moments of absolute madness, but the band manages to stay close to the core of its developing material, it evolves, and may change between land and water, but it keeps its inherent characteristics. They howl, they bark, they growl and whine, but above all, they sing. As a pack, as a pod. Free jazz at its best." -Stef, Free Jazz Blog”
Sylvie Courvoisier Trio
D'Agala
Intakt Records
“With her high-quality trio with Drew Gress and Kenny Wollesen, Sylvie Courvoisier presents her eleventh album on Intakt Records: Intakt CD 300. In both her playing and her composition she shows neoclassical influences mixed with European improvised music and the experimental nonconformismof the New York downtown scene.”
Dave Rempis / Tomeka Reid / Joshua Abrams
Allium
Aerophonic Records
“Allium is the second recording by this chamber trio, a follow-up to their critically acclaimed 2018 release Ithra. On that record they made a singularly powerful statement delving into non- soloistic group interaction and compositional development in a free-improvised context. Allium ventures even further down that fertile path.”
Ig Henneman
Outside The Rain Has Stopped
Wig
“"Pianist/improviser Cecil Taylor’s intuitive, energetic, loosely structured flow is an important source of inspiration for this composition. Endless, nearly exhausting variations, caused by material I often employ as an improviser. Open strings are an essential colour throughout the composition. The Luna String Quartet was a great sparring partner in developing the material. The title is a sentence taken from Nicole Krauss’s novel 'The History of Love', which stuck in my memory. 'Outside the Rain has stopped' will be released at the Wig label together with other pieces performed on my 75th birthday Composers portrait." -Ig Henneman”
