This duo, with a fine release ‘Boskage’ under their arms on our label, will play HUNDRED YEARS GALLERY in London this Sunday, September 17 2023 to celebrate their new album ‘However, Forward!’ on Raw Tonk Records. If you’re in the neighborhood, join them. All info here.

On A NEW WAVE OF JAZZ there are two brand new releases set to be released on September 15th, 2023. Both are now in pre-order – if you order them together, you only have to pay 30 EUR (incl. worldwide shipping).  This pre-order offer is valid through September 15th. The pre-order you can find here.

CARLOS ‘ZINGARO’ / GUILHERME RODRIGUES / JOSÉ OLIVEIRA – ZWOSCH, ZWOSCH, ZWOSCH (cd)

CARLOS ‘ZINGARO’ : violin
GUILHERME RODRIGUES : cello
JOSÉ OLIVERA : percussion

“The intergenerational trio met each other during the Dias de Música Electroacústica Festival in 2021 and delivered a compact, unusually rich set. Hovering between prickly abstraction, a play of textures and tumultuous bursts of swooshing strings and tumbling percussion, the trio manages to carefully tread a fine line between nervous free explorations and the elegance and cohesion of small chamber ensemble playing. Despite the unpredictability of the music, they move harmoniously, like a flock of birds following a mysterious, shared course. This interplay is obviously about space. How to fill it, how to share it, and how to let it be. There’s an obvious understanding, an unwritten agreement about the depth and dynamics it should have and it is presented with a sweeping curve that shows how this combination of musicians transforms into a formidable unit over the course of half an hour” GUY PETERS

Click here to listen and order to the album 

HUNT AT THE BROOK / HUNT AT THE BROOK AGAIN WITH NEIL METCALFE
(2cd)

TOM JACKSON : clarinet
NEIL METCALFE : flute
BENEDICT TAYLOR : viola
DANIEL THOMPSON : guitar

“Verging from gnarled density to moments of delicate introspection, the musicians maintain a striking balancing act that is as fickle as it is flowing, rife with extended techniques and moments where you catch them in the act of hypnotic collective sound painting.” GUY PETERS

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BANDCAMP FRIDAY is also among us today. For this occasion we’re offering you a stunning 80% discount on the full digital catalogue, valid through today only. Go here.

Ken Waxman of JAZZWORD (Canada) just wrote a truly lovely review of KODIAN PLUS’ Disengage album. The cd was released early this year and is available here.

“Despite the massive mistake that was Brexit there’s still a place for collaborations between enlightened folks from the United Kingdom and the European Union. Nowhere is it reflected more profoundly than in this set of improvised music from a mixed UK/Belgian crew. Representing HRH are trumpeter/flugelhornist Charlotte Keeffe , alto saxophonist Colin Webster and drummer Andrew Lisle. Hailing from the Lowlands are pianist Martina Verhoeven and guitarist Dirk Serries. Except for Keeffe, who plays with Martin Archer and others, the remaining four have worked together in various combinations as well as if with others in Europe and elsewhere. Unlike most politician coalitions however the trumpeter’s portamento runs, half-valve squeaks and soaring triplets bring welcome new textures to already distinctive synergy. This begins as early as the first track where after an introduction of electronic crackles, key stops and tongue slaps, the group burst into a polyphonic exposition of brassy flutters, unbroken reed doits, percussion smacks and pressurized piano comping. This ricochet between miasma and multiphonics continues throughout the session with the guitarist occasionally adding splattering frails and upward treble clanks. “The Five-Headed Anomaly” ascends to the tonal crescendo emanating from Verhoeven’s key pounding, Webster’s yelps and tongue stops, Keeffe’s bugling rips and plunger tones and Lisle’s press rolls. After the explosion subsides the horns suck and kiss their way down to sighs and stutters, exposing a hidden swing section which has peeked throughout the program as it evolves. As toneless air and string stops throb throughout the concluding “Kind Of Things” spittle encrusted sax smears, piano cross pulses and brass grace notes give way to near-replication of the clipped tones that began the improvisation. The completed circle references both continuum and the timbral variations that have taken place. The quintet members may claim to be disengage (d), but their engagement is how international politics should evolve.” Jazzword – Canada