Italian Alessandro Ciccarelli & Arianna Granieri's four-hands play on a prepared grand piano, making it a dynamic site of methodical sonic investigation as well as an intimate, imaginative, and highly resonant playground. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/04/13/a...

David Åhlén's Impartation was composed in the wake of a personal burnout and a subsequent period of inner reflection, and offers an ambient sonic tapestry shaped by grief, stillness, and renewal. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/david...

San Francisco Encuentro documents a rare meeting – Encuentro in Spanish – of two American, idiosyncratic free improvisers – free jazz reed player Blaise Siwula & experimental guitarist Ernesto Diaz-Infante. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/blais...

3 enigmatic sound works of composer, sound artist, and visual artist Christina Kubisch that transform sonic phenomena originally considered as “non-music” into compositions. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/04/11/c...

Guitarist Olaf Rupp's solo electric guitar album suggests his own musical universe, an immersive listening experience, completely free, unpredictable, and risk-taking, but coherent, and always exploratory and insightful. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/04/11/o...

A cycle of evocative, enigmatic, and deep conversations of the long-time collaborators and dedicated improvisers - double bass player James Ilgenfritz and baritone vocal artist Thomas Buckner. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/04/11/i...

Valencia-based free-improv trio of sax player-composer Josep Lluís Galiana, drummer-percussionist Jesús Gallardo & cellist Matías Riquelme exhausts the sonic possibilities of such unconventional instrumentation. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/josep...

ITERAE features Joseph Branciforte & Jozef Dumoulin playing the vintage Fender Rhodes with electronics, in a layered and looped suite of post-minimalist, post-ambient, post-drone, post-noise, and post-glitch sounds. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/josep...

Flutist Manuel Zurria's brilliant interpretations of composer Adrián Demoč's austere, almost weightless sonic architectures, stressing their harmonic beauty and experimental timbral fragility. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/04/08/m...

Tenor sax player Ivo Perelman's masterful sets of duos with guitarists Marc Ribot, Elliott Sharp & Joe Morris, and equally great, first duo with double bass player Damon Smith. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/04/08/i...

Tachube is a new Novi-Sad-based trio featuring electroacoustic, and noise artist, alto sax and fluteophone free improviser Ilia Belorukov, bassist Marko Curcic & drummer-percussionist Nemanja Tasić. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/tachu...

Austrian trio SWEDEK - guitarist-electronics player Wernfried Lackner, bassist Dieter Mattersdorfer & drummer Helmut Kaplan - presents itself as "a container for experimental music activities in the field of free improvisation". My review for Salt peanuts salt-peanuts.eu/record/swedek/

Italian jazz quartet Siphonoforo and its guitarist-composer Marco Pasinetti adapt the aesthetic allure typical of jellyfish to its self-titled debut album. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/sipho...

irenjaw documents the first meeting of 3 prolific improvisers - double bass player Vinicius Cajado, pianist Kit Downes & drummer Lukas Koenig, using sound as physical material and never settling into familiar narratives. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/04/05/c...

The Swedish trio of guitarist-electronics player Nils Wohlrabe, hyper-pianist Karin Johansson & double bass player Hasse Westling evokes mysterious, cinematic images of real, stubborn movement of ocean waves. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/nils-...

3 idiosyncratic improvisers - signal processing instrument player Lawrence Casserley, vocal artist Viv Corringham & pianist Yoko Miura in a poetic, dream-like texture that navigates through unpredictable events and scenes. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/04/04/c...

Chicagoan sax hero Dave Rempis reincarnated his Outskirts trio (with double bass player Ingebrigt Håker Flaten & drummer Frank Rosaly) for a European tour, including a set with brilliant pianist Marta Warelis. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/04/04/t...

Lebanese-Canadian producer, guitarist, and vocalist Radwan Ghazi Moumneh & French multi-instrumentalist Frédéric D. Oberland's intense and tortured outcry amidst the oceans of injustice flooding the world. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/radwa...

Innovative oud player-guitarist Gordon Grdina's 3 great albums with his Persian ensemble Qalandar, his Nomad Trio (with pianist Matt Michael & drummer Jim Black), and a duo with pianist Russ Lossing. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/gordo...

Norwegian violinist Hans P. Kjorstad leads an ensemble of five fiddlers, interpreting traditional folk tunes but expanding their tonalities with clever arrangements and production wizardry. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/hans-...

Trumpeter Anna Piosik's solo album, In The Absence of Gods, moves between the lyrical and reflective, suggesting poetic stories, and the exploratory, when she experiments with the full sonic palette of the trumpet. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/04/01/a...

Swedish composer Linnea Talp's Variations for Light Waves focuses on the breath and the hum of various pipe organs, pushing the instrument out of its familiar comfort zones and liberating its hidden characteristics. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/04/01/l...

American cellist and multi-instrumentalist Janel Leppin in a solo album, which is a "love letter" to a fuzzbox, and leading her Ensemble Volcano Ash, with a title and a motivating message about a radical change in our time. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/janel...

The inspiring collaboration between the trio Harriet Tubman (guitarist Brandon Ross, bassist Melvin Gibbs & drummer JT Lewis) and kindred spirit – soul vocalist and keyboard player Georgia Anne Muldrow. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/harri...

Composer Danya Pilchen and Kali Ensemble's Paper Braids was composed for the acoustics of the Orgelpark Hall in Amsterdam, and its four organs, suggesting the sensibility of time frozen but very much alive. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/03/29/d...

Norwegian pianist Espen Berg's free improvised, live solo album radiates immediate, emotional impact and is performed with arresting beauty and elegance. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/espen...

La Otra Band is a Barcelona-based, experimental collective of five improvisers who run chaotic and quite ecstatic jam meetings with many guests. My review for Salt Peanuts: autrecords.bandcamp.com/album/la-otr...

Vocalist Marianne Schuppe & cellist Deborah Walker question the perception of language in a musical context and interpret Éliane Radigue's composition, which suggests deep listening as a means to shift our perception. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/03/27/m...

Interdisciplinary artist John Roach investigates the resonances of the wind, its frequent and indiscriminate, borderless nature, in social and political contexts, but as a wind section of an imaginary orchestra. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/03/27/j...

LDL trio - soprano sax player Urs Leimgruber, pianist and keyboard player Jacques Demierre & German EMS analogue synth and sound processing player Thomas Lehn - in a masterful, free improvised sonic journey. My review for the @Freejazzblog: www.freejazzblog.org/2026/03/ldl-...

Québecoise double bass player and composer Hugues-Olivier Hugo Blouin serves a cycle of nourishing and delicious songs about favourite recipes and childhood food memories. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/hugo-...

Celliacus is a Barcelona-based experimental quartet, featuring guitarists Diego Caicedo & Juanma Trujillo, bassist Juan Pablo Egúsquiza, and drummer Jordi Pallares, juggling with free jazz, punk, metal, and ambient. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/celli...

Violinist and composer Maya Bennardo offers two austere, serene pieces that reflect her walks in the Swedish nature, and her unique way of sculpting the violin's sound as tactile, vulnerable, and transparent material. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/03/25/m...

Experimental cellist Isidora Edwards and percussionist and electronics player Luigi Marino investigate how the acoustic, amplified, and processed cello can correspond with the bowed cymbals and DIY circuits. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/03/23/i...

Norwegian electric guitar duo of Ferdinand Bergstrøm and Håvard Nordberg Funderud celebrate the 7th animal in the Chinese zodiac, the horse, promising rapid change, intense energy, bold action, and independence. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/bergs...

Shrew, the album, is the work of highly creative Norwegian women – the Norwegian duo Propan of experimental vocalists Ina Sagstuen & Natali Abrahamsen Garner - with fellow vocalist Stina Stjern. My review for Salt peanuts salt-peanuts.eu/record/propa...

The experimental Re-Ghoster Extended re-broadcasts the future program from a radio station whose frequency has been long-forgotten (if it ever existed). My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/03/23/r...

The Dietrichs are American, legendary tenor sax player Don Dietrich & his daughter, powerhouse cellist Camille Dietrich, who leave no stone unturned in their lung-shaking, roaring storm. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/03/23/d...

American, Bloomington-based sound poet, improviser, and trumpet player Kyle Quass' 2 completely different duos with soprano sax player Marty Belcher and percussionist Julian Douglas. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/03/23/t...

Swiss transdisciplinary drummer & sound artist Simon Berz's Tectonic geological sound explorations project uses basalt stones with electronic components, and is genre-binding, playful, seductive, and quite addictive. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/simon...

Barcelona-based guitarist and composer Yeonathan Shachar's debut full-length album as a bandleader marks him as a musician with a sound of his own and creative force worth following. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/yeona...

Iranian kamancheh master Saba Alizadeh's Rituals Of The Last Dawn offers a much-needed musical food for the soul in bitter times. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/saba-...

Norwegian-Greek vocalist and percussionist Marianna Sangita A Røe & the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra offer an inclusive musical vision that believes that differences - cultural or geographical - feed and benefit strength. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/trond...

Vocal & sound artist Nichola Scrutton suggests blue-tinged, surreal, dream-like, and cinematic sonic “scenes", exploring liminal, ephemeral experience that encourages transformation or where healing might take place. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/03/20/n...

Swedish guitarist Anton Toorell plays two acoustic guitars simultaneously, exploring their full resonant sonic palette and suggesting its own conceptual sonic architecture, comprised of minimalist variations. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/anton...

The Chicagoan experimental trio Haptic – drummer, percussionist, and electronics player Steven Hess, sound artist Joseph Clayton Mills & sound artist and pianist Adam Sonderberg - in 2 different, free improvised extended pieces. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/haptic/

Free-improvising duo HANDSPEAK - Marcel Bataillard on 2 Kaoss Pads & pianist Henri Roger - attempts to sketch invisible, elusive sonic architectures, or as the duo puts it: “searching for their place in the air”. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/03/18/h...

Goal Weight - the experimental duo of double bass player Maggie Cox and violinist Jennifer Gersten - offer left-of-center improvised songs with no-holds-barred sonic imagination, sharp instincts, and a sense of humor. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/03/18/g...

Norwegian double bass player Nicolas Leirtrø's new power quartet Action Now! channels The Thing and FIRE! Trio cathartic storms and hypnotic grooves into Leirtrø's visual concepts and graphic scores. My review for the Free Jazz Blog: www.freejazzblog.org/2026/03/nico...

This House - singer-songwriter G.W. SOK & guitarist and producer Ignacio Córdoba's 2nd album uses rhythm as architecture and addresses issues of destructive politics, identity, relationships, and belonging. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/this-...