Incoming documents an intense, free-improvised meeting of American guitarist Jeff Platz with the Cologne-based Colombian tenor sax player Pacho Dávila, and Portuguese drummer Vasco Furtado. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/jeff-...

The quartet of double bass player Fridolin Blumer, trombonist Robert Morgenthaler, drummer Heinz Geisser & vibes player Christopher Dell offers elaborate, liquid-like architectures, with fascinating, ever-evolving lines. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/09/25/b...

YODOK III - drummer Tomas Järmyr, (amplified) tuba player Kristoffer Lo & guitarist Dirk Serries, augmented by organist Petra Bjørkhaug - perfects its ritualistic and cathartic, massive post-rock meets ambient drones. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/yodok...

Amsterdam-based pianist Marta Warelis & sax player Ada Rave go for a free improvised, often surprising journey through the surprising forking paths of that magical, capricious garden. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/09/23/m...

American pianist-vocalist-composer Robin Holcomb and Canadian cellist Peggy Lee offer a set of beautiful. intimate pieces and songs in an organic, introspective, and conversational interplay. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/robin...

Lovers is the duo of vocalist Linda Oláh and guitarist Giani Caserotto, offering genre-defying songs that borrow the format of pop, inspired by the poetry of Baudelaire, and flirt with the centuries-old tradition of serenade. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/lovers/

German concept, visual and sonic artist, turntablist (and saxophonist), and composer Ignaz Schick's arresting and ambitious attempt to sonify the Indian city of Kolkata suggests a memory of a city listening to itself. My review for Salt peanus salt-peanuts.eu/record/ignaz...

Boston-based reed player, composer, and educator Jorrit Dijkstra formed BLINK as a conceptual unit, opting for collective improvisations and responses over individual solos, and was inspired by group behavioral patterns. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/blink/

Multidisciplinary drummer-composer (and painter) Katharina Ernst expands her extrametric aesthetic, referring to polyrhythm as a political issue, as they represents a non-hierarchical system. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/katha...

The most beautiful, poetic album of Danish guitarist Jakob Bro & Japanese legendary percussionist and environmental musician Midori Takada. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/jakob...

The debut album of the Viennese Valentin Duit Quartett offers a collective exploratory ensemble, interpreting Duit’s complex compositions through collective and individual improvisations. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/valen...

Italian, Bristol-based electronic media musician and percussionist Luigi Marino's exploratory and intriguing sonic journey with four bowed Wuhan cymbals. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/09/16/l...

An arresting collection of minimalist composer Jürg Frey's solo piano compositions, fragile yet persistent, highly intimate and poetic, performed masterfully by Reinier van Houdt. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/09/16/r...

Lisbon-based bass clarinetist Ziv Taubenfeld has a new label and a new album of his Full Sun ensemble, which cements its passionate, soulful, and uplifting sonic vision as a collective and strong-minded, creative individuals. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/ziv-t...

American super-trio Fieldwork – alto sax player Steve Lehman, pianist Vijay Iyer & drummer Tyshawn Sorey - again, after 17 years, offering labyrinthine, thought-provoking music with many sonic wonders. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/field...

Norwegian architect-sound artist Gisle Nataas & double bass master Håkon Thelin let 2 iconic buildings of Sverre Fehn sound and sing + Thelin's solo album with new works embracing modern playing techniques. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/09/14/h...

American master trumpeter Dave Douglas’ Alloy offers a sonic equivalent is the alchemical sound of three distinct and strong-minded trumpeters playing together - Douglas with Alexandra Ridout and Dave Adewumi. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/dave-...

The Norwegian Goose Green trio - pianist Joakim Rainer Petersen, reed player Klaus Ellerhusen Holm & double bass player Bjørn Marius Hegge - has democratic dynamics, which contribute to the trio’s diversity. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/goose...

Hyper-pianist Katia Pesti sculpts collisions between lyrical, melodic themes with otherworldly and disorienting resonant and tension-filled noises, percussive sounds, polyrhythms, and electronic-like abstract environments. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/09/12/k...

Sound artist-composer Marja Ahti offers enigmatic pieces that explore and enhance the elemental qualities of sound in nature, or by acoustic instruments, and how these sounds can create their own organic sonic ecosystem. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/09/12/m...

The Belgian duo Poor Isa - Ruben Machtelinckx & Frederik Leroux, both play prepared banjos - expands its introspective, minimalist sonic universe with sax legend Evan Parker and innovative percussionist Ingar Zach. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/09/11/p...

The 2nd album of Treen - sax player Amalie Dahl, pianist Gintė Preisaitė & drummer Jan Philipp - offers minimalist, fragmented pieces that stress its organic and collective dynamics and its patient, imaginative timbral searches. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/treen...

The free-improvising quartet of vocal artist-pianist Luisa Muhr, reed legend Daniel Carter, double bass player Kenneth Jimenez & drummer Alfred Vogel, capturing the stimulating magic of the art of the moment. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/luisa...

A super-intense, high-velocity, and visceral free improvised meeting of Japanese vocal artist Ayako Kanda & American guitarist-electronics player Elliott Sharp. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/09/10/a...

Pianist-composer Pandelis Karayorgis' microtonal piano suite Capricious Nocturnal Variations with composed by Julia Werntz + a new trio with double bass player Brittany Karlson & sax player Noah Campbell. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/.../09/pande...

Quark is the debut album of the Berlin-based experimental trio of American percussionist Stephen Flinn, French alto sax player and flutist Sylvain Monchoce, and South Korean tenor sax player Jung-Jae Kim. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/steph...

Burial Tree is the experimental project of Bay Area-based guitarist, keyboard player, and vocalist Monte Cimino, navigating between post-rock, experimental ambient music, and metal. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/buria...

Swiss experimental accordionist Jonas Kocher with a new quartet Tepih (with electronics player Gaudenz Badrutt, double bass-electronics player Tomaž Grom & hurdy-gurdy player Samo Kutin) + a solo album. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/09/07/j...

The Monkious - guitarist Marcelo Dos Reis, double bass player Gonçalo Almeida & drummer Philipp Ernsting - is dedicated to iconic pieces of Thelonious Monk, but suggests free improvised versions of these pieces. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/the-m...

The duo of veteran Dutch reed player Luc Houtkamp and British pianist Alex Maguire used to perform regularly in the eighties and nineties, but At Khoen’s is the first album documenting their work as a duo. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/luc-h...

Brazilian experimental harpist Marina Mello's debut solo album offers an insightful and compelling sonic journey, rich in invention and imagination, contrast and texture, transcending the familiar palette of the harp. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/09/06/m...

Norwegian Liv Andrea Hauge Trio inhabits on its 3rd album the liminal space between structure and freedom, consciousness and dream, echoing the uncertainty and introspection of our times. My - and Jan Granlie's - reviews for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/liv-a...

Ongon - Italian bassist + multi-instrumentalist Antonio Bertoni's solo project - offers hypnotic rituals, consisting of simple, repetitive motifs, but always with a surprising sonic twist and great imagination. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/09/05/o...

The new Norwegian Einmal Immer trio - electronics player Espen Sommer Eide, guitarist Stephan Meidell & drummer Øyvind Hegg-Lunde - opts for intuition and magic over reason and intellect, and creates sexy, hallucinogenic music. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/einma...

Double bass player-composer-arranger Omer Govreen's All Things Equals with his quartet employs sophisticated harmonic structures not only as an aesthetic but also as a statement. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/omer-...

Larum - electronic player-sound artist Micah Frank & reed player Chet Doxas + 12k's sound artist Taylor Deupree - introspective interpretation of Cornelius Cardew's seminal graphic score Treatise. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/09/03/larum-treatise-by-cornelius-cardew/

Alessandro Bosetti's radial rewriting, destruction, or reconstruction of Robert Schumann’s iconic piano solo Carnival, performed and dedicated to Reinier van Houdt. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/09/02/a...

2 minimalist but highly immersive free improvised duos of clarinetist Michael Thieke - with cellist Anil Eraslan and drummer-electronics play Yorgos Dimitriadis, both blurring the sensibility of time. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/09/01/m...

Japanese sound artist-composer Aki Onda highly evocative, enigmatic, and deeply hallucinatory soundtrack for American experimental filmmaker Ken Jacobs' Nervous Magic Lantern. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/08/31/a...

he first-ever recorded meeting of two pioneers of free improvisation - Norwegian reed player Frode Gjerstad and German pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach, connected by Norwegian drummer Dag Magnus Narvesen. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/08/31/g...

The enigmatic, brilliant, free improvised rituals of Lava Quartet - vocal artist Almut Kühne, pianist Jordina Millà Benseny, double bass player Gonçalo Almeida & drummer-percussionist Wieland Möller. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/lava-...

British experimental composer Bryn Harrison's Towards a slowing of the past for 2 pianists - Mark Knoop (who adds electronics) & Roderick Chadwick - offers a disorienting, paradoxical atmosphere. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/bryn-...

Sax player & turntables wizard Ignaz Schick in first recordings with double bass player Ben Lehmann & drummer Michael Griener, with guitarist Olaf Rupp, and with visual artist and radio maker Ernst Markus Stein. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/ignaz...

Phenomenal World is a new Viennese trio of Michael Fischer on feedback saxophone, and gibberish vocals, Philipp Quehenberger on synthesizer & drummer Didi Kern. My review of the trio's debut album for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/pheno...

Berlin-based percussionist, visual artist, and sound artist Michael Vorfeld with the trio Sawt Out (Mazen Kerbaj & Burkhard Beins) + the 20th anniversary for his Glühlampenmusic (Light Bulb Music). My review for the Free Jazz Blog: www.freejazzblog.org/2025/08/mich...

American experimental bass clarinetist-composer Katie Porter's Conversation No. 1/ Collecting Rocks from the Places We’ve Been embraces change and impermanence, in ourselves as individuals, or about global climate change. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/katie...

First, free improvised album of the trio of alto and baritone sax player Ignaz Schick, guitarist Christian Kühne & drummer Joe Hertenstein, who used to call their hot and spicy music Free Punk Jazz Goulash. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/ignaz...

Norwegian trumpeter-composer Didrik Ingvaldsen releases 4 albums, with his long-standing Pocket Corner, an irreverent interpretation of Leoš Janáček’s Sinfonietta, and performances with two more ensembles. My - and Jan Granlie's - reviews for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/didri...

The sophomore album of Hand to Earth traces notions of home, belonging, and displacement, moving back and forth between past, present, and future, employing the legacy of the songlines as a living tradition. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/hand-...

Hyper-pianist Magda Mayas & reed player Jim Denley's One Another sketch enigmatic, almost electroacoustic textures, and often act like otherworldly sonic magicians who perform mysterious, emotional rituals. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/magda...