Ganelin, Vysniauskas and Kugel are more than just plain avant-gardists that break up all connections behind them just to pay tribute to some future aesthetic. They make use of the method of American jazz in order to listen deeply into the European musical tradition...
few improvising artists can boast the stream of creative ideas that seem to bubble from gebhard ullmann. ullmann focuses on the fundamentals of improvised jazz: melody, sound, syncopation and technical excellence, but what makes his writing and playing so successful is his seemingly never-ending innovative nature: without grasping for neoteric straws, ullmann's performances are grounded in the past but plunge forward deliberately toward modernity. ullmann leaves the strong mark of a disciplined sculptor of sound, who speaks his own compelling language
Pianist Giancarlo Cardini is well known as one of the best interpreters of the new music. He rarely performed improvised music and the tracks here presented are a rare and exciting document.
Lately Andrea Centazzo did a substantial re-mixing and re-editing of all materials that now are enjoyable as fresh and interesting as never before.
Gianluigi Trovesi is one of the most respected Jazz musicians of our time: he recorded extensively for ECM, ENJA and other major labels in different combinations with the best Jazz players in the world. SHOCK was recorded in 1983 followed by a concert tour and many other recordings in different combinations. Here you'll find some new materials and the old ones re-mastered and re-organized as in the original sessions. Shock She Shook The Shock and Shot
In this music there is room for space and silence, contemplative and reflective moods, for beautiful and melodious sounds. You could call them dream landscapes. (Jazz Forum)
Karnas produced this CD. The instrumentation of the accompanying group is distinctive - although actually, it's not so much an accompanying group as it is musicians who, collectively, enable Karnas to better express his thoughts. Tenor sax, cello, synthesized sounds and percussion instruments - that's all...
Karnas' singing – regardless of whether it's lyrics, syllabics or scat – is never for show; it's always music. Vocalists are probably a bit more susceptible to the lure of “shining” at all costs than are other instrumentalists. Karnas doesn't care about shining. He wants to make music. This is audible in every composition, in every measure he sings.(Robert Buczek, Jazz Forum) Sny
I love composing improvised music and improvising composed music - improvising is something you can't improvise - the main thing is to evaluate the urgency of saying something as it is being said - the only difference between composition and improvisation is the sense of time. Sometimes I like to put more metaphysics in music, sometimes more music in metaphysics. Each tune "as the crow flies". (G.Mazzon )
The '70s in Italy (and Europe, in general) were times of extreme political tension charged with subversion, terrorism and bombings. In this climate of heightened emotions, fear and hope there came about an era of music of the left, dominated by the avant-garde which was associated with the cultural revolution taking place. Artists would show their commitment to the cause both by keeping up with current events in the world, and by translating these facts into their work, in an ever closer linking between thought and action: for the songwriters it was their lyrics, for instrumentalists through avant-garde composition or jazz...
To compose or to play is like writing on a "tabula rasa" (clean slate) where I draw sounds, emotions and create intimate relationships with my partners. To play music together is to live common experience; to express emotions is not necessarily to utter high concepts but simply to tell the stories. (Guido Mazzon) Movement #1
This 2-CD collection present tracks recorded in duo and trio with some of the premier guitarists on the improvising music scene since its inception in the late 70s.
Jewish-Jazz fusion band fronted by Greg Wall and Frank London recorded live this CD at the Bagatela Theatre, Cracow on June 30th, 1998 during The 8th Jewish Culture Festival in Cracow.
..duo's virtuosity , is not a sheer parade of technique but it serves the superior aim: creating unique music, atmosphere and mood... Audio Clip: After Five / Atternoon Nap / After Three
This beautifully realized set includes ten single CD's recorded or re-mastered and released by ICTUS Records in 2007; all albums housed together in elegant cardboard box, measuring 6 x 8.5 x 6. Each audio CD comes with its own DVD-type packaging, with extensive artwork, release information, and line notes . Each volume of the set has a specific and separate character reflecting the cultural influences of time and the place where the music was composed and recorded; many artistic soul, one artistic vision. ICTUS catalog and additional bonus CD complement the whole set.
ICTUS’ extremely limited, outstandingly lavish 12-CD Box set, further pushes limits of musical subject matter and boundaries of conceptual-package. This beautifully realized set includes 12 separate CDs, housed together in one-of-its-kind unique box. Each volume of the set comes with its own uniquely designed plastic-free package. Very comprehensive booklet with many personal insights by ICTUS creator, rare pictures and essays from critically acclaimed critics complement the whole set.
This 12-CD box-set, a part of ICTUS Records - Andrea Centazzo Complete Archives Series is a special endeavor. Each CD and DVD has a specific character reflecting the cultural influences of a time and place where the music and the images were composed and recorded: many artistic souls, one artistic vision.
This 10-CD box-set, a part of ICTUS Records - Andrea Centazzo Complete Archives Series is a special endeavor. Each CD and DVD has a specific character reflecting the cultural influences of a time and place where the music and the images were composed and recorded: many artistic souls, one artistic vision. Features drums and percussion masters: Andrea Centazzo, Pierre Favre, David Moss, Alex Cline, Steve Hubback, Jeffrey Daniel Jensen and Per Oliver Jorgens.
