improv

Just checked this HQ video of Fieldwork live on stage at Padova. Fieldwork consists of the hottest three names in today’s free / improv jazz Vijay Iyer, Tyshawn Sorey and Steve Lehman. Very good wish the camera wasn’t static but anyways.

Here’s an alternative start to the week, a smorgasbord, no a storm of wild styles by two master musicians, the prolific guitarist Keiji Haino and Ruins drummer Yoshida Tatsuya. Released on Tzadik “Uhrfasudhasdd” is the follow up to New Rap and it’s only for experienced noise/improv heads.

Asheville, NC power trio Ahleuchatistas‘ (pronounciation tip : the name comes from the Charlie Parker song “Ah-leu-cha”) fifth full length called Of the Body Prone is hands down the best mathcore/improv album this year to grace your speakers..

Fred Frith presents Mondays Skronking Mondays!

Brooklyn Free jazz / noise rock / improv duo Talibam! will be performing at Peyote Istanbul tomorrow night as part of their 9th European Tour.

Van Wissem’s influences span the centuries, from Dowland to Deleuze, Tennyson to Sacher-Masoch. He also waxes lyrical about Lacan’s mirror stage theory. “Lacan describes the formation of the ego as a process of identification with one’s own specular image; the mirror leads to tension between the subject and the image. I wanted to find a musical parallel to that. Hence palindromes.”

Collection of a few months of promo material that materialized in our inbox. Otto, Omo, Seams’ Bibio remix, Nutrition on Tape EP, Bluermutt, Aldo Vanucci’s new beats & breaks release on Bastard Jazz and Brooklyn improv jazz combo Father Figures.

Bela belongs to this new creed of daring musicians like Fennesz & Aidan Baker who take their instruments further by processing it with an array of loops and effects. On Hespera she succeeds in creating experimental yet organic soundscapes with her cello and multiple pedals.