The free-improv trio of guitarist Eyal Maoz, reed and electronics player Piero Bittolo Bon & drummer Zeno De Rossi brings elements from avant-rock, free jazz, and Middle Eastern Jewish resonances into its own language. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/eyal-...
Pianist-composer Quentin Tolimieri distills his music to the most minimalist, reductive form, closer in spirit to pure sound-in-and-of-itself or sound sculpture, but offers immersive, hypnotic resonances and overtones. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/04/21/q...
Trombonist Matthias Muche's BONECRUSHER ensemble and his solo album explore the endless sonic possibilities of the trombone, allowing the bone to ring in completely different ways. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/04/21/m...
Canadian reed master and composer Jean Derome & the Somebody Special quintet return with a second tribute to Steve Lacy's multifaceted, poetic, and literary compositions. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/jean-...
Italian drummer-percussionist Paolo Sanna & synth and sampler player Andrea Sanna's intense, confrontational, chaotic, and abrasive improvisations exhaust the sonic timbres of such a unique meeting. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/04/18/p...
A brilliant free improvised set by three long-time collaborators, masters of the art of the moment - baritone sax player Daunik Lazro, double bass player Joëlle Léandre & drummer Paul Lovens. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/04/18/l...
South Korean, Seoul-based jazz guitarist, composer, and producer Jin Soo Kim is well-versed in jazz history, has a confident melodic sound, carefully structured improvisation, and emphatic interplay with his colleagues. My review for Salt Peanuts:
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Pianist Marta Sánchez' brilliant, first solo prepared piano album matches her music’s vulnerability with an eloquent sonic vision, and is performed with masterful elegance. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/marta...
French experimental electroacoustic ensemble Le Un's 25 pièces sans vide is a three-disc box set that provides an overview of the UN’s 25-musician ensemble work in different acoustics. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/04/16/l...
Hardcore free-improv of alto sax player Makoto Kawashima, guitarist Riuichi Daijo & tenor sax player Mathias Preuß, dedicated to the late founder of the legendary Japanese underground P.S.F. label, Hideo Ikeezumi. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/04/16/k...
MAN EATING TREE is the first solo album of the classically-trained, free jazz and free-improvising pianist Jonas Cambien, suggesting minimalist textures and oscillating rhythms that reference pioneer minimalist composers. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/jonas...
Guitarist Han-earl Parks' series of irreverent, raw and immediate, improvised studies on the electric guitar demands a fresh way of listening to the guitar's sonic possibilities and the sensibilities of time and space. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/04/14/h...
Norwegian guitar hero Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen's 2nd super-trio Weejuns album feels more improvised and is less obsessed with Mollestad’s killer riffs. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/hedvi...
Italian Alessandro Ciccarelli & Arianna Granieri's four-hands play on a prepared grand piano, making it a dynamic site of methodical sonic investigation as well as an intimate, imaginative, and highly resonant playground. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/04/13/a...
David Åhlén's Impartation was composed in the wake of a personal burnout and a subsequent period of inner reflection, and offers an ambient sonic tapestry shaped by grief, stillness, and renewal. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/david...
San Francisco Encuentro documents a rare meeting – Encuentro in Spanish – of two American, idiosyncratic free improvisers – free jazz reed player Blaise Siwula & experimental guitarist Ernesto Diaz-Infante. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/blais...
3 enigmatic sound works of composer, sound artist, and visual artist Christina Kubisch that transform sonic phenomena originally considered as “non-music” into compositions. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/04/11/c...
Guitarist Olaf Rupp's solo electric guitar album suggests his own musical universe, an immersive listening experience, completely free, unpredictable, and risk-taking, but coherent, and always exploratory and insightful. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/04/11/o...
A cycle of evocative, enigmatic, and deep conversations of the long-time collaborators and dedicated improvisers - double bass player James Ilgenfritz and baritone vocal artist Thomas Buckner. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/04/11/i...
Valencia-based free-improv trio of sax player-composer Josep Lluís Galiana, drummer-percussionist Jesús Gallardo & cellist Matías Riquelme exhausts the sonic possibilities of such unconventional instrumentation. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/josep...
ITERAE features Joseph Branciforte & Jozef Dumoulin playing the vintage Fender Rhodes with electronics, in a layered and looped suite of post-minimalist, post-ambient, post-drone, post-noise, and post-glitch sounds. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/josep...
Flutist Manuel Zurria's brilliant interpretations of composer Adrián Demoč's austere, almost weightless sonic architectures, stressing their harmonic beauty and experimental timbral fragility. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/04/08/m...
Tenor sax player Ivo Perelman's masterful sets of duos with guitarists Marc Ribot, Elliott Sharp & Joe Morris, and equally great, first duo with double bass player Damon Smith. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/04/08/i...
Tachube is a new Novi-Sad-based trio featuring electroacoustic, and noise artist, alto sax and fluteophone free improviser Ilia Belorukov, bassist Marko Curcic & drummer-percussionist Nemanja Tasić. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/tachu...
Austrian trio SWEDEK - guitarist-electronics player Wernfried Lackner, bassist Dieter Mattersdorfer & drummer Helmut Kaplan - presents itself as "a container for experimental music activities in the field of free improvisation". My review for Salt peanuts
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Italian jazz quartet Siphonoforo and its guitarist-composer Marco Pasinetti adapt the aesthetic allure typical of jellyfish to its self-titled debut album. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/sipho...
irenjaw documents the first meeting of 3 prolific improvisers - double bass player Vinicius Cajado, pianist Kit Downes & drummer Lukas Koenig, using sound as physical material and never settling into familiar narratives. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/04/05/c...
The Swedish trio of guitarist-electronics player Nils Wohlrabe, hyper-pianist Karin Johansson & double bass player Hasse Westling evokes mysterious, cinematic images of real, stubborn movement of ocean waves. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/nils-...
3 idiosyncratic improvisers - signal processing instrument player Lawrence Casserley, vocal artist Viv Corringham & pianist Yoko Miura in a poetic, dream-like texture that navigates through unpredictable events and scenes. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/04/04/c...
Chicagoan sax hero Dave Rempis reincarnated his Outskirts trio (with double bass player Ingebrigt Håker Flaten & drummer Frank Rosaly) for a European tour, including a set with brilliant pianist Marta Warelis. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/04/04/t...