The 3rd album of hyper-pianist and composer Magda Mayas and her Filamental ensemble, inspired by and applying the coordination and elegance of a flock of birds, and carries a deeply humane lesson. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/02/15/m...

BEAM SPLITTER – vocal artist and electronics player Audrey Chen & trombonist and electronics player Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø - collection of DEDICATED PLAY performances, with many artists of diasporic backgrounds. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/beam-...

Hyper Elastic Jinx is the free improvising, working power quartet of Danish alto sax player Signe K. Emmeluth, tenor sax player Nana Pi, Japanese guitarist Keisuke Matsuno & Korean drummer Halym Kim. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/hyper...

Lisboa is a fascinating, deeply immersive sound art by Serbian violinist, sound artist, curator, and researcher Manja Ristić, dedicated to the capital of Portugal. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/manja...

The Copenhagen-based trio of trumpeter Anne Efternøler, vocal artist Maria Laurette Friis & hyper-pianist Johanna Borchert offers compassionate, non-hierarchical, and exploratory, wordless conversations about life. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/anne-...

Cellist Hannah Marshall's Grazing offers two solo, free-improvising pieces, moving between the immediate and playful, and the experimental and exploratory, highlighting her deeply physical relationship with the cello. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/02/14/h...

Mexican sound artist, poet, and composer Jorge Solís Arenazas' philosophical sonic journey explores the notion of uncertainty and vulnerability in the face of uncontrollable events and the sense of apparent stability. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/02/13/j...

The brilliant 1984 - sax player Sakina Abdou, turntables wizard Mariam Rezaei & guitarist Kobe Van Cauwenberghe - was inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin’s sci-fi classic The Dispossessed & Henry Threadgill's intervallic system. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/02/13/1...

Australian quartet Asteroid Ekosytem's Sounds Have Dreams pushes its sonic vision into experimental, uncompromising territories, where refined modern jazz collides with avant-rock and psychedelia. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/aster...

The 4th album of Tomeka Reid Quartet (with Mary Halvorson, Jason Roebke & Tomas Fujiwara) may surprise you with its uplifting spirit and its strong sense of groove that is guaranteed to make your limbs involuntarily. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/the-t...

The labyrinthine, insightful dialogues - or mysterious, poetic haikus - of the late double bass master Barre Phillips and electronic music composer Kurtag György Jr. (the son of). My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/02/12/b...

Belgian guitarist Nicolas Van Belle's Einde Were is a genre-defying suite that navigates freely between traditional and ancient, lyrical and melancholic, song-like sonic landscapes and experimental, sound-oriented soundscapes. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/nicol...

wedish poet and sound artist Pär Thörn & Norwegian bassist, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Magnus Skavhaug Nergaard's Hur skapas en formel? (How is a formula created?) question the very possibility of form and structure. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/par-t...

Media artist and composer Arnold Dreyblatt's Descendants composition for four historic and reconstructed organs of Orgelpark in Amsterdam transforms this space into a vivid, vulnerable entity. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/02/09/a...

Concrete Sun - sound artist Evelyn Ficarra, synth and kinetic objects player Heather Frasch & hyper-pianist Myra Melford - encourage imaginative listening and increased agency in facing the climate emergency. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/02/09/c...

Experimental guitarist Dirk Serries' Zonal Disturbances III employs the electric guitar as an abstract and atonal sound generator, weaving carefully layered and nuanced, effects-laden, complex drone-tinged textures. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/dirk-...

3 albums of Portuguese, Lisbon-based experimental guitarist Manuel Mota, with long-time musical partner, experimental bassist Margarida Garcia, and two solo electric guitar albums. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/marga...

Cellist and composer Emily Wittbrodt's Wearing Words deepens her fascination with language and poetry, radiating the themes of uncertainty and chaos of our current times. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/emily...

The Helsinki-based, free-improvising trio of Colombian cellist Sergio Castrillón, Finnish electronics player Taavi Kerikmäe & Argentine guitarist Gon Muruaga Olguin matches European contemporary and avant-noise. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/castr...

Joachim Nordwall (of Skull Defects) & Aaron Turner (of SUMAC) juggle with glacial slabs of white noise rippling with roiling beds of distortion, electronic storms, and drones that summon spirits from the void. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/joach...

The Italian trio of cellist Antonio Bertoni, flutists Massimo De Mattia & Stefano Leonardi, searches for a mythic Alpine creature and a sonic passage where memory and imagination intersect, and seeks the unknown. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/02/04/a...

Israeli guitarist Menachem Zibziner's first album as a bandleader since 1999 reflects an innocent attempt to find comfort and refuge in music during the current turbulent times. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/menac...

The free improvising trio of legendary vocal artist Phil Minton Music, percussionist Luigi Marino & trumpeter Matt Davis in two completely different sets - with clarinetist Michael Thieke and with vocal artist Audrey Chen. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/02/04/d...

Violist and sound artist Maya Felixbrodt's Travelling Viola project explores the relationship between the body, sound, movement, and nature through site-specific works that combine music, video, and performance. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/02/03/m...

talian prolific reed player Marco Colonna, with a new free improvising trio inspired by the song "Strange Fruit" and quoting protest songs and spirituals, and in a second duo album with guitarist Enzo Rocco. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/bitte...

A first-ever vinyl version of the classic album from 1990 of the legendary Schlippenbach Trio – pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach, sax player Evan Parker & drummer Paul Lovens. 75 minutes of masterful, blissful freedom. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/schli...

The Chemical Expansion League, with sound artist Sophie Sleigh-Johnson. offer a mixture of scratched strings and objects, ethereal wind instruments, alien electronics, and eccentric samples. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/02/02/t...

A brilliant, historic performance from 1982 (and the only one) of visionary sax player Julius Hemphill and his protégé, multi-reed player and composer Marty Ehrlich. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/02/02/m...

Woodwind player and composer Frank Gratkowski with his In Cahoots quartet, augmented with sax player Ingrid Laubrock, and with Japanese guitarist, daxophone player Kazuhisa Uchihashi. My review for the Free Jazz Blog: www.freejazzblog.org/2026/02/fran...

Não confundir com (Do not confuse with) is a Portuguese free improvising trio with vocal artist Nazaré da Silva, alto sax player João Gato & double bass player Zé Almeida, captured live at Porta Jazz and Penhasco in Lisbon. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/nao-c...

Master trumpeter Dave Douglas reminds us that improvisation, like freedom, is a necessary, life-affirming skill that we all need to continuously practice. My review about his new album Four Freedoms for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/dave-...

The collaboration of guitarists Joe Harvey-Whyte & Geir Sundstøl flows organically in a contemplative, cinematic fusion of Americana with touches of Nordic melancholia. My - and Jan Granlie's - reviews for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/joe-h...

Portuguese label Profound Whatever's introduction to composer Vítor Rua and his highly original, bold, and risk-taking approach to music-making, sound, silence, and space. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/01/29/v...

REX is cellist Christopher Hoffman's soulful, loving tribute to painter, ornithologist, and poet Rex Brasher, echoing a great person, an inspiring place, and suggesting a fresh, life-affirming way of seeing the world. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/chris...

Live At Teater Tribunalen is the long-overdue official debut album of the Swedish free jazz meets free improvisation trio of alto sax player Niklas Persson, double bass player Patric Thorman & legendary drummer Raymond Strid. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/nikla...

No one plays the electric guitar like Terrie Ex Hessels, and only very few can offer such an arresting, risk-taking, spontaneous, and free sonic journey like him. My review on his debut solo album for the Free Jazz Blog: www.freejazzblog.org/2026/01/terr...

2 duos of Portuguese sax player José Bruno Parrinha - with 4DaRECORD head, double bass player João Madeira and the working duo Two with fellow alto sax player João Gato. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/joao-...

Singular pianist Pat Thomas & XT - Seymour Wright, on actual and potential saxophone, and Paul Abbott, real and imaginary drums, redefining free improvisation in the 21st century. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/01/27/p...

Cindytalk's That We Must Pass Through This Life offers carefully layered, expressionist, minimalist ambient poems that swing between abstract emotion and distant, nuanced noises. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/cindy...

DDK - pianist Jacques Demierre, trumpeter Axel Dörner & accordionist Jonas Kocher - set a collaborative, free improvised setting for the Québécois GGRIL - improvisers orchestra Rimouski, Quebec. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/01/26/l...

Two free improvised meetings of American sax player Jon Raskin (of Legendary Rova:Arts) - with Swedish pianist Sten Sandell & electronics player Tim Perkis + with drummer-percussionist Jon Bafus. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/01/26/t...

Austrian Free Improvising The Thunks - pianist Elisabeth Harnik and drummers Martin Brandlmayr & Didi Kern - sound like a well-coordinated yet anti-authoritarian swarm of imaginative improvisers. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/the-t...

John Butcher's set of eight masterful solo sax pieces, including dedications to Derek Bailey, Keiji Haino, Eliane Radigue and Lester Young (in one piece) and Joe McPhee. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/01/24/j...

Norwegian violinist-composer Tuva Halse asks what happens when you return to the music, places, and feelings that formed you in an attempt to reconnect, only to discover they cannot sound the same way twice. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/tuva-...

Witness Wounds is the explosive fusion of Tomorrow I Feel Wrong of drummer-guitarist Sarah Trawöger & percussionist-guitarist Kristin Gerwien + P/O Massacre - sax player Anton Ponomarev & electronics player Anton Obrazeena. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/witne...

Double bass player and composer Pascal Niggenkemper's thought-provoking and poetic suite that warns about the demise of the archipelago nation of Tuvalu contemplate on human relationship with nature. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/01/22/p...

SATT - Beatdenker (aka Joachim «Jo» Wespel), a sampler player and guitarist, bassist Christian Weber & powerhouse drummer Alfred Vogel, offering raw and intense free improvised music that flirts with psychedelic rock. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/satt/

The Portuguese power unit Made of Bones teams with sax hero José Lencastre for a free improvised suite, serving as the musical plants that have grown, or may grow, in the rich garden of the jazz legacy. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/made-...

A new trio of idiosyncratic, fearless improvisers - cellist Isidora Edwards, violinist Biliana Voutchkova & hardanger d'amore player Zosha Warpeha - explore meditative, almost dream-like, ethereal textures. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/01/21/e...

Experimental composer David Shea's Meditations distills his own experiences, seeking internal quiet, increased listening, and sensory focus. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/david...