The all-female chamber quartet hilde's Timbre is a cycle of fifteen poetic and highly melodic songs and arresting, focusing on fragile relationships. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/hilde/

The free improvising trio of Portuguese sax hero and composer José Lencastre, Spanish pianist Clara Lai & Catalan electronics player Alex Reviriego explores enigmatic and haunting timbral possibilities. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/06/01/l...

The debut album of Norwegian modern jazz Røed Quartet led by young and in-demand sax player and composer Aksel Øvreås Røed. My - and Jan Granlie's - reviews for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/roed-...

Kiri Ra! - the experimental sound artist Lau Nau (aka Laura Naukkarinen), tenor sax player Linda Fredriksson & pianist and live electronics player Matti Bye, blurs the distinction between post-classical, ambient folk, and spiritual jazz. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/kiri-...

Norwegian sound artist Jonas Howden Sjøvaag experiments with human-machine improvisation with AI and tape delay systems, but proves that humans still have superior, spontaneous creativity and sonic imagination. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/jonas...

Composer & double bass player Dario Calderone's The Infinite Garden questions the relationships between different spaces and dimensions, between humans and the environment, and the vibrating air, the musicians’ bodies. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/05/28/d...

Norwegian drummer and electronics player Terje Evensen's Reclusive Mountain's five pieces suggest dramatic, nuanced stories, always propelled by a strong sense of exploration and driving rhythmic motion. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/terje...

Finnish chamber jazz Quartet Ajaton's Fin is enigmatic, deeply emotional, a bit dark, and sometimes even strange, but it clearly sets the listener’s blood in motion. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/quart...

Percussionist Etienne Nillesen employs the anare drum’s sound as a spatial and sculptural phenomenon, using this elusive and disorienting sonic entity to fill a room with its diverse tonal and harmonic shapeshifting intricacies. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/etien...:

Per Johansson's Orkester Omnitonal plays complex and ambitious music by violinist Josefin Runsteen, Johansson, contemporary composer Andrea Tarrodi, and its own pianist, Rasmus Borg. My - and Jan Granlie's - reviews for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/per-t...

Klotski documents the live, free-improvised performance of Chinese tenor sax and traditional flute player Lao Dan with three of the most important figures from the Chicago free music scene. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/lao-d...

American pianist, improviser, and composer Phillip Golub's Partisan Ship is a suite of "utopian micronational anthems for the internet age", suggesting a wild ride on a colorful, psychedelic rollercoaster. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/phill...

Brunhild Ferrari's sound work, which collects the incidental and unpredictable acoustic landscape of a coastal town, is abstracted into an immersive, dreamlike reflection of this town by Eiko Ishibashi & Jim O'Rourke. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/05/23/b...

The أحمد [Ahmed] quartet began with reimagining the music of innovative American double bass player Ahmed Abdul-Malik, now tracing his work as a key member in Thelonious Monk quartets in the late fifties. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/%d8%a...

Mexico City’s psychedelic jazz-rock powerhouse A Love Electric & Austrian soprano sax player Lisa Hofmaninger in a live, genre-transcending, psychedelic, and spiritual sonic journey. or a "sonic remedy for the modern era". My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/a-lov...

Norwegian experimental composer and instrument builder Jo David Meyer Lysne's five works for string players and pianist "unlock a crepuscular underbelly of string behavior” and trigger playful and inventive sonic environments. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/05/20/j...

The Norwegian Hytta Trio is led by innovative Hardanger fiddler Anne Hytta, and features double bass player Jo Fougner Skaansar & percussionist Ulrik Ibsen Thorsrud, exploring traditional music. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/hytta...

Paal Nilssen-Love's Extra Large Unit's most ambitious and quite wild 75-minute piece plays with his and ours – the listeners’ – perception about what is really a performance or music and what is imagined. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/extra...

Sound artist Xopher Davidson & Jacob Felix Heule's Resolution sounds and acts like an organic organism that fills the space, both physical and mental, with its massive, raw, disruptive, and shapeshifting presence. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/05/19/x...

Still Life with Lemons is pianist Marta Warelis’ first attempt to lead a sextet as a composer and bandleader, recorded live at the sextet's first-ever gig, and featuring her rich, poetic, and ever-expanding musical language. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/05/19/m...

Israeli tenor sax player Albert Beger took his time before responding to the Israeli collective trauma of Oct. 7, processing the trauma of endless loss, pain, and grief into a most compassionate, spiritual statement. My review for the Free Jazz Blog: www.freejazzblog.org/2026/05/albe...

Drummer John Hollenbeck's George quartet salutes real and honorary, forward-thinking and thought-provoking Georges, including Lebanese diva Fairouz and Cuban singer-songwriter-guitarist Silvio Rodriquez. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/georg...

Elliott Sharp confesses that he is “not a pianist, just a composer with intermittent access to a piano", but, still, he is a restless, experimental musician and composer, and he uses the piano as a resonant sound generator. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/05/17/e...

Double bass master Håkon Thelin's new solo album plays with elements of light and darkness and consonance and dissonance, with uncompromising sonic imagination, poetic brilliance & commanding technique. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/05/17/h...

The debut solo album of Iranian, Belgium-based clarinetist Ghazal Faghihi reflects her desire to move beyond the limits of a single instrument, to experiment with different materials, objects, and instruments. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/05/16/g...

A magical, free-improv meeting of the idiosyncratic vocal artist Savina Yannatou, double bass player Gonçalo Almeida & Costis Drygianakis on sound processing, offering immersive sonic rituals. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/05/16/y...

Norwegian pianist and composer Morten Qvenild's Lokalt Piano focuses on his own local neighbourhood, family, and nearby nature. and offers a beautiful cover of Don Henley’s "Boys of Summer", sung by Solveig Slettahjell. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/morte...

Finnish innovative electronics musician Vladislav Delay's Berlin-based, supposedly acoustic jazz quintet does not fit into any specific category, and is an adventurous, shape-shifting ensemble that acts left of any given timeline. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/vladi...

Composer & sound designer Matt Wright's Cracked Glaze attempts to “crack” its “glazed” notation, throwing the music in unpredictable directions, and blurring the distinction between the composed and the improvised. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/05/13/m...

Sound Artists Werner Dafeldecker & Lawrence English's Fathom Tides traces the cyclical, highly nuanced changes in nature and asks what impact we have on the world we inhabit. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/05/13/w...

Paal Nilssen-Love takes his Circus Band to the studio with The Ex Guitars, with a new arrangement for Circus' alternative hit "Pussy Pussy Cha Cha" and the most beautiful, heartfelt ballad, "Song for Joe" (McPhee). My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/paal-...

New York’s downtown late poet Steve Dalachinsky's 3rd free-improv collaboration (and one of his last readings) with jazz-metal power trio Eighty Pound Pug, inspired by Roland Kirk’s mysterious tonguesnatcher. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/steve...

Violist Ernesto Rodrigues' Suspensão free-improv ensemble's A Question Asked by the Empty Horizon offers poetic-cryptic, reductionist, and almost silent dynamics, and sustained or suspended treatment of notes. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/05/12/s...

Violinist, Swedish & nyckelharpa player Clément Janinet's new chamber jazz quartet, Garden of Silences, explores the intersection between modern, chamber jazz, Baroque and Renaissance, minimalism, and world music. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/cleme...

Three remarkable solo works of hyper-pianist Magda Mayas that extend and expand the sonic palette of the piano and the resonant language of playing inside the piano. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/05/11/m...

It Was Her Idea is a new Norwegian super-quartet that highlights the expressive vocal qualities of Juliana Venter, with Paal Nilssen-Love, double bass player Ole Morten Vågan & pianist Oscar Grönberg. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/it-wa...

The first-ever, free-improv meeting of recorder player and vocalist Teresa Hackel, pianist, and synth player Stefan Strasser & violinist, vocalist, and electronics player Mia Zabelka, celebrating Strasser's 60th birthday. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/05/09/h...

Vocal artist and sound poet Jaap Blonk in a cryptic, free-associative dialogue with trumpter-sound artist Birgit Ulher + a Dadaist and absurdist meeting with sound artist Ricardo Arias, who plays on balloons. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/05/09/j...

Lutenist and avant-garde composer Jozef van Wissem’s solo album This Is My Blood is a timeless sonic meditation, carefully structuring a spiritual, ascetic narrative that has an accumulative emotional impact. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/jozef...

Pianist Josep-Maria Balanyà in a powerful, free improvised solo piano, “an abstract interpretation of human feelings throughout its endless history of love and hate”. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/05/06/j...

Danish experimental electroacoustic trio - trumpeter-electronics player Emil Jensen, drummer-percussionist Victor Dybbroe & synth and keyboard player Anders Filipsen - traces local social, historical, and sensory sites. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/mesme...

Hebbex D’expectatio Expectata is a Norwegian experimental trio featuring vocalist Helge Thornes, turntablist and sound artist Kjetil Brandsdal & Thore Warland on electronic drums, offering merciless, absurdist textures. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/hebbe...

Free improvising, shaman percussionist Stuart Wilding in an imaginative debut album of his duo with like-minded pianist-accordionist Mike Adcock + with Longstone collective, tracing the history of Winchcombe Pottery. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/05/05/i...

The most beautiful album of Christian Wallumrød Ensemble, Non Sonnett, was inspired by Wallumrød’s solo performances, cross-disciplinary contexts, and work with dance groups (and Shakespeare's Sonnet). My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/05/05/c...

Portuguese sax hero Rodrigo Amado and his American super-quartet, This Is Our Language, with a free jazz statement of resistance, truth, and transformation, framed by a quote of poet and political activist Amiri Baraka. My review for the Free Jazz Blog: www.freejazzblog.org/2026/05/rodr...

Experimental sax player Albert Cirera & digital synthesis and field recordings player Wade Matthews use their instruments to explore chance events and deeper meanings about themselves as creative artists and human beings. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/05/04/a...

First-ever, free-improv meeting - a first dance- of contemporary music violinist-violist Marco Fusi & bassist-electronics musician Pierre Alexandre Tremblay, exploring enigmatic resonances and timbres. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/05/04/m...

Double bass player-composer Yoram Rosilio's Anti RuBer BrAiN FacToRy fuses blues, Arnold Schoenberg-ian twelve-tone technique & his obsession with North African rhythmic traditions. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/the-a...

Colyalcolor is a pan-European free jazz quintet featuring bassist & composer Francisco Morato, tenor sax player John Dikeman, alto sax player Hugo Costa, guitarist Julien Tassin & drummer Aleksandar Škorić. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/colya...

Australian woodwind specialist, reed instruments maker, and experimental composer Mark Cain explores and experiments with the soprano sax' outer boundaries. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/05/03/m...