Reed player Phillip Greenlief & double bass player Amanda Irarrazabal offer surreal, free-associative, and open-to-negotiation textures that exhaust their rich sonic palettes. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/07/18/p...

Guitarist Florian Stoffner acts like a sound painter or sonic explorer who struggles with a spacious canvas or a tangible, physical space, suggesting the imaginative architecture of his bold, economic sonic strokes. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/07/18/f...

Chicagoan sax and electronics player Randy Trubitt's (Peace Is Not) An Awful Lot To Ask offers a protest and a proposition: that resistance is not only necessary, but possible. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/randy...

Ballister - sax player Dave Rempis, drummer Paal Nilssen-Love & cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm, augmented by bassist Luke Stewart - in a powerful performance, equipped with fierce energy that can consume all in its path. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/balli...

Trio Sowari - Phil Durrant on semi-modular analog synth and electronics, tenor sax player Bertrand Denzler & percussionist Burkhard Beins - keeps searching for unpredictable sonic topographies. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/07/16/t...

Double bass player Reza Askari sees his acoustic, unamplified, improvising, and thought-provoking Roar Quartet as adapting to the logic and aesthetics of extreme metal bands. My review for the Free Jazz Blog: www.freejazzblog.org/2026/07/reza...

Spanish-Portuguese free-improv quartet of pianist Clara Lai, drummer Vasco Furtado, vocal artist Mariana Dionísio & guitarist Norberto Lobo tells intuitive, eccentric stories. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/clara...

Legendary drummer Hamid Darkes joins promising Israeli improvisers - pianist Milton Michaeli & double bass player Asaf Shchori, and the trio finds resonant musical universes in Sun Ra, Ras Michael, and Gershwin. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/milto...

Experimental sound artists and sonic explorers - Jim O'Rourke & Jos Smolders - focus on the materiality and the spectral character of sounds in 2 enigmatic, multilayered, and nuanced electroacoustic textures. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/07/15/j...

Portuguese reed and electronics player Filipa Santos & guitarist Miguel Moreira's New Swim seeks a peaceful, organic, and genre-defying complementary coherence, without unnecessary dramas. My review for Salt peanuts salt-peanuts.eu/record/filip...

Hungarian, Serbia-based violist Szilárd Mezei's Only In Movies does not refer to specific film music, but its playful, dramatic, openly emotional dynamics suggest cinematic and even theatrical, story-like narratives. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/szila...

Guitarist Luigi Archetti & cellist Bo Wiget offer austere and melancholic cinematic pieces that sound as part of a long, dream-like suite, filled with sudden, brief silences and minimalist sonic strokes. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/07/13/l...

ax player Jon Raskin free-improv meetings at Celeste in Vienna with synth player & bassist Matija Schellander + at Punctum in Prague with bassist George Cremaschi, reed player Martin Debřička & drummer @elia.moretti. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/07/13/j...

Danish keyboard player Anders Filipsen & The Black Nothing ensemble contemplate experiencing Alzheimer’s disease, suggesting "the sound of a time when what once was ceased to be". My review for the Free Jazz Blog: www.freejazzblog.org/2026/07/the-...

Welsh harpist Rhodri Davies takes the ancient beay harp on a psychedelic folk journey, tearing down geographical and cultural borders, as well as musical conventions. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/07/11/r...

Pianist Felix Hauptmann leads the Percussion trio, with double bass player Roger Kintopf & drummer Leif Berger, using skeletal compositional ideas and thoughtful economic gestures as a gateway to challenging free improvisations. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/felix...

Confusion Vessel - sax player Anouk Neyens, guitarist Mikael Szafirowski, drummer Stefano Grasso & violist-vocalist-sampler player Mona Creisson - is influenced by drummer Paul Motian and bt Marxist theorist Guy Debord. My review for Salt peanuts salt-peanuts.eu/record/confu...

Double bass player Pascal Niggenkemper, with sax player Sakina Abdou, keyboard player Liz Kosack & drummer Gerald Cleaver, attempts to decipher the ocean’s many secrets. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/07/11/n...

Master drummer Gerry Hemingway's imaginative poetic tribute to the owners of the Bau 4 art center in Altbüron, with pianist Izumi Kimura, reed player Frank Gratkowski & double bass player Christian Weber. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/07/10/g...

Experimental percussionist Luigi Marino & clarinetist Michael Thieke explore hidden, resonant timbres within their instruments and transform these sounds into abstract suspended landscapes. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/07/10/m...

Matt Choboter's Visceral Totems explores the microtonal prepared piano as a playground and sonic lab, bridging expansive territories between avant-jazz, contemporary experimental, and ambient music. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/matt-...

The experimental ensemble Futuro Ancestrale (reed player Giuseppe Doronzo, guitarist Andy Moor, drummer Frank Rosaly & electronics player Yannis Kyriakides) evokes dialogue between histories and cultures. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/futur...

Portuguese trumpeter Luís Vicente takes the free-improv trio Made of Bones (guitarist João Clemente, Waldorf Zarenbourg player Nuno Santos Dias & drummer Duarte Fonseca) into an introspective and lyrical journey. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/07/09/m...

落穂の雨 OchiboNoAme is the Japanese free-improvising trio of iconoclastic alto sax player Makoto Kawashima, bassist Inage Louis & drummer-percussionist Naoto Yamagishi. My review on its debut album for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/%e8%9...

A free-improv trio with objects that only loosely agree to be instruments - the percussive devices of Ben Bennett, hyper-pianist Philipp Eden & feedback guitarist Beat Keller. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/07/08/b...

Swiss soprano sax master Urs Leimgruber returns to music-making after a long transplant, with a free-improv quintet with old and new comrades, and a poetic exploration of his instrument's sonic architectures. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/07/08/u...

Sirius is the duo of veteran percussionist and object manipulator Francisco da Trindade (aka Monsieur Trinité) & trumpeter and electronics player Yaw Tembe, suggesting cosmic cinematic textures. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/sirius/

Aldrig i Livet is a Danish-Swedish free-improv supergroup featuring sax player Jesper Zeuthen, guitarist Martin Nilsson, and drummers-percussionists -Thomas Præstegaard & Michala Østergaard-Nielsen. My review on its debut album for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/aldri...

Texan free jazz meets free-improv FireLife Trio - sax player Danny Kamins and Brothers - double bass player Aaron Gonzalez & drummer Stefan Gonzalez - most promising debut album. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/firel...

Portuguese experimental guitarist Jorge Nuno's A Ilha Revisitada forced Nuno to face silence, solitude, introspection, and isolation, a natural outcome of living on Terceira Island in the Azores archipelago. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/jorge...

Double bass player Sean Ali's 2nd solo harmonica album evokes a spiritual-mystical ritual and suggests a minimalist piece that pays respect to the seminal work of Morton Feldman. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/07/03/s...

Kr-Krr - virtuoso Ondes Martenot player Nathalie Forget & sound artist Gilles Aubry - contrast the vintage-sounding and the physical, hand-played with its virtual algorithmic reconstruction. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/07/03/k...

Guitarist Miles Okazaki's Boomtown focuses on 'ugly beauty' polarity, pairing discipline and unpredictable spontaneity, drama and subtle, introspective passages. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/miles...

Guitarist Henrik Olsson’s Antumbra Ensemble offers a boundary-pushing, sonic jigsaw puzzle comprised of disparate ideas with distinct inner logic and powerful grooves. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/henri...

The Italian multidisciplinary, electroacoustic Nea Ensemble explores disruptive, peripheral sonic territories in a horizontal approach - absence of hierarchies and authoritarian positions. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/07/02/n...

Italian clarinetist Giancarlo Nino Locatelli most beautiful and exploratory homage to experimental poet and friend Tom Raworth (and Steve Lacy). My - and Jan Granlie's - Review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/tom-r...

Alto sax player Audrey Lauro, trumpeter Christian Pruvost & drummer Peter Orins improvise, experiment and explore the ever-changing process of becoming in mercurial, capricious sound. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/07/01/l...

Double bass player Alexander Frangenheim & sax player Stefan Keune sound as if they insist on leaving no aspect of their free-improvised musical relationship untraced, processed, and fully explored. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/07/01/f...

The Icelandic quintet Mógil's 5th album was inspired by the life of Sölvi Helgason, one of Iceland’s most fascinating cultural figures, an autodidact painter, wanderer, poet, and philosopher. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/mogil/

Swedish trumpeter-composer Goran Kajfeš and his Subtropic Arkestra finally return after nine long years, but only with a Bandcamp-only EP featuring the great Kurdish-Swedish vocalist Avin Omar. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/goran...

American, Vienna-based eric arn's Over Maribor offers 2 extended solo electric guitar improvisations, suggesting how he immerses himself in the art of the moment. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/eric-...

The 2nd album Other:M:other (drummer Judith Schwarz, hyper pianist Jul Dillier & synth player Arthur Fussy) offers electroacoustic futuristic, experimental polyrhythmic synthesis + Schwarz's new duo with Fussy. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/other...

Radical, intense, and resonant sonic conversations, or heated arguments, of trumpeter Greg Kelley & ajaeng (Korean traditional bowed zither) player Yoona Kim. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/06/27/g...

Prolific sax player Camila Nebbia, in an explosive duo album with drummer Chris Corsano, and free-improv with guitarist Gon Muruaga Olguin, double bass player Jonathan Bäckström & drummer Teemu Mustonen. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/06/27/c...

The Nest Duo features the Italian cornetist, electronics player, and vocalist Graziano Gatti Quadri & guitarist and electronics player Massimo Betti, playing music using fragments of folk music from Lombardy. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/the-n...

Elliott Sharp continues to explore the sonic possibilities of his custom-made 8-string fanned-fret guitarbass, now with a tuning system derived from Just Intonation or Prime Numbers. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/06/26/e...

Sax player Christoph Erb, vibes player Jason Adasiewicz & double bass player Jason Roebke explore delicate timbres and conversational dynamics with deep listening and imaginative vision. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/06/24/a...

Daliyah is the artistic vessel of Bolivian-Danish vocalist, flutist, lyricist, and composer Flavia Huarachi, who uses music to process her personal history and for healing from violence and intergenerational trauma. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/daliy...

Egyptian oud player and composer Aly Eissa is willing to walk on eggs – literally – by transforming the structured, classical Arabic music with free-associative, spontaneous improvisations. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/aly-e...

Sound artists David Velez & Bruno Duplant employ field recordings and electroacoustic sounds in an attempt to listen to what presses from elsewhere, what holds, what resists without appearing. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/06/23/d...