Swedish electronics player, composer, and sound artist Pauline Hogstrand's Chants is a meditation on openness, co-creation, receptivity, and the clarity that emerges through presence, reflecting her pregnancy. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/11/05/p...

The pan-European free improvising trio of German sopranino and alto sax player Stefan Keune, Belgian guitarist Dirk Serries & British violist Benedict Taylor keeps challenging itself and never settles on familiar courses. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/keune...

The electro-acoustic, contemporary, austere compositions of composers Edwin Hiller and Hunter Coblentz. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/11/05/h...

A review of recent releases of sax player and sound artist Tom Soloveitzik, who researches the materiality and vulnerability of sound, in its most delicate aspects of resonance and decay. My review for the Free Jazz Blog: www.freejazzblog.org/2025/11/intr...

The trio Miman - clarinetist Andreas Røysum, violinist Hans Kjorstad & synth and double bass player Egil Kalman - re-imagines compositions of Hildegard von Bingen. and improvises with Fredrik Rasten and Mark Sanders. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/11/04/m...

Serbian sound artist, poet, curator, and researcher Manja Ristić offers a highly immersive and enigmatic triptych of works that calls for a poetics of attention that treats the world not as backdrop, but as a living score. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/11/04/m...

British master sax player John Butcher's intriguing dramaturgy for the ad-hoc Dragon 10 captures its urgent, spontaneous energy, enigmatic timbral textures, and surprises with touching, chamber-like segments. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/11/04/j...

Norwegian reed player, composer, and musical conceptualist Anders Lønne Grønseth & his Multiverse quintet's Tidskapsel#1 revolves around the concept of time. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/ander...

Catalan sax player-composer Albert Cirera & Tres Tambors juggle playfully between Cirera’s strong lyrical, touching themes, unleashing their stormy, driving power, and timbral, dissonant adventures. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/alber...

The exploratory, enigmatic, and free improvised journey of pianist Margaux Oswald, double bass player Aurelijus Užameckis & drummer Ivar Myrset Asheim. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/11/02/o...

Prolific tenor sax player Ivo Perelman in two masterful, exploratory duos - the fourth one with trumpeter Nate Wooley and the first one with trombonist Ray Anderson. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/ivo-p...

Canadian violinist-composer Jessica Moss' Unfolding reflects the inseparability of the personal and political with its intimate and touching emotional power. It is dedicated to "a free Palestine in our lifetime". My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/jessi...

Danish experimental double bass player and composer Asger Thomsen's RHIZOM faithfully captures his unique approach to sound, the improvisation-composition continuum, and form. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/11/01/a...

Pat Thomas' solo piano album Hikmah is a heartfelt, wise, and poetic journey that visits formative influences on Thomas' creative language and encourages compassion, hope, and spiritual transcendence. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/11/01/p...

Portuguese experimental electronics player, guitarist, and multi-instrumentalist Rafael Toral distills the minimalist, experimental ambient vision into radical interpretations of six iconic jazz standards. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/rafae...

The Norwegian power trio I LIKE TO SLEEP - band celebrates its tenth anniversary and psychedelic and prog-rock meets free jazz recipe with fresh ideas and guests - Mats Gustafsson and the Swamp String quintet. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/i-lik...

The exploratory, almost inseparable yet unpredictable sonic journey of Zeena Parkins with her one-of-a-kind electric harp and multimedia artist Cecilia Lopez and her equally one-of-a-kind RED electronic instrument. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/10/29/z...

Swedish Johan Lindström Septett returns with another great album and offers a singular, uncompromising musical universe, ignoring common genre or stylistic boundaries. My - and Jan Granlie's - reviews for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/johan...

The Norwegian guitar duo KÖök – Stian Larsen & Jørn Erik Ahlsen Alkanger - expands its ambient musical universe into an earthy, sensual folk music, modern ballads, and poetry with vocalist Sarah Camille & violinist Tuva Færden. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/kook-...

Finnish guitarist Jussi Reijonen offers an intimate, meditative journey on his solo album sayr: salt | thirst, faithfully reflecting his rich, poetic musical universe. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/jussi...

Live at the Hungry Brain documents an exceptional, profound, and insightful free improvised performance of pianist Marilyn Crispell, bass clarinetist Jason Stein, double bass player Damon Smith & drummer Adam Shead. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/jason...

Norwegian guitarist-composer Trond Kallevåg's Minnesota reflects his deep fascination with American musical and cinematic culture and its intersection with Norwegian culture and music. My - and Jan Granlie's - reviews for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/trond...

Portuguese trumpeter Luís Vicente delivers a brilliant solo set, with a commanding, poetic beauty and captivating elegance, at the Museu Nacional Machado de Castro in Coimbra. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/luis-...

Vocal artist Randi Pontoppidan in a 2nd duo with pianist Christian Rønn, informed by Tanizaki’s In Praise of Shadows, and with the vocal ensemble IKI, exploring the female human body, biologically, spiritually, and socially. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/randi...

The Greek label Defkaz celebrates Japanese reed hero Akira Sakata's 80th birthday with the double album Hyperentasis, featuring two performances of Sakata in Thessaloniki. My - and Jan Granlie's - reviews for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/sakat...

A first free improvised encounter of Portuguese drummer Sofia Borges & Argentine sax player Ada Rave, totally possessed in powerful rituals of their own, navigating the space between control and surrender. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/10/21/s...

Norwegian experimental guitarist and electronics player Ivar Grydeland investigates the sonic characteristics of waves, how they curve and refract, and the myriad unpredictable ways in which they react to one another. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/10/21/i...

Vocalist-lyricist Jelena Kuljić remembers the Bosnian with her text and poets from former Yugoslavia and a brilliant band in an arresting, life-affirming collective project. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/jelen...

The Necks' 20th studio album, Disquiet, offers more than three hours of hypnotic, labyrinthine, patient intensity, and it is a bold, disquietening statement about today’s short attention economy. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/the-n...

Portuguese sax hero Rodrigo Amado's supergroup The Bridge - pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach, double bass player Ingebrigt Håker Flaten & drummer Gerry Hemingway - masterful, sophomore album. My review for the Free Jazz Blog: www.freejazzblog.org/2025/10/rodr...

The French trio TOC - Fender Rhodes player Jeremie Ternoy, guitarist Ivann Cruz & drummer Peter Orins - & sax player Jean-Luc Guionnet in a raw, merciless, and disruptive meeting, inspired by Noam Chomsky. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/10/19/t...

Senso di Voce - vocal artist Esin Gunduz & classical wind instrumentalist Megan Kyle - offers an intimate chamber work that draws inspiration from the mystical Andalusian revolutionary Islamic-Sufi thinker İbn ‘Arabî. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/senso...

Berlinde Deman's debut solo serpent album hovers gently over fragile and mysterious, almost transparent, deep-toned, and heavily resonating atmospheres and offers an arresting, poetic beauty. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/10/18/b...

Japanese, London-based violinist, composer, and sound designer Midori Komachi offers a sonic journey of the Chashitsu (茶室), the traditional Japanese architectural space designed to be used for tea ceremony. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/midor...

Experimental composers Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard and Michael Pisaro-Liu contemplate the notion of a place, real and hyper-real, with a simple melody and field recordings, later edited and processed. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/10/18/n...

The debut album of Norwegian pianist Sondre Moshagen's Lightning Trio features a mature, working band that has established a strong affinity and its identity, which refuses to be associated with the clichés about Nordic jazz. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/sondr...

Swiss trombonist Samuel Blaser’s solo album 18 monologues élastiques was inspired by Swiss-born modernist novelist and poet Blaise Cendrars (1887-1961) and his collection of poems Dix-neuf poèmes élastiques. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/samue...

American prolific polymath Elliott Sharp experiments with an electric guitar sextet, analog and digital synths and processing, and with an avant-rock free-improvising power trio. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/10/16/e...

A fantastic free jazz quartet documenting the last European tour of the late, great trumpeter Herb Robertson with the trio of vibes player Christopher Dell, double bass player Christian Ramond & drummer Klaus Kugel. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/10/14/r...

The Dwarfs of East Agouza - keyboard and electronics player Maurice Louca, guitarist Sam Shalabi & sax player-guitarist-vocalist Alan Bishop - offer psychedelic, hallucinogenic groove-based textures. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/the-d...

Prolific double bass player Gonçalo Almeida in a new free improvising trio with tenor sax player Camila Nebbia & drummer Sylvain Darrifourcq + exploratory, sound-oriented duo with pianist Bart van Dongen. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/10/13/g...

The free improvising quartet Earscratcher - sax player Dave Rempis, pianist Elisabeth Harnik, cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm & drummer Timothy Daisy - will caress your ears and teach you about emphatic, collaborative listening. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/10/13/e...

O.N.E Quartet claims to be Poland’s first all-female instrumental jazz band and suggests chamber, highly melodic, and lyrical jazz that corresponds with Nordic melancholia, and especially the ECM school of Nordic jazz. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/o-n-e/

Alto sax player Hayden Chisholm & pianist Philip Zoubek offer an irreverent but imaginative perspective on G. I. Gurdjieff’s music, with sixteen intimate, poetic, and concise interpretations. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/hayde...

Portuguese prepared guitar explorer Abdul Moimême in 2 sonic journeys - with the Dissection Trio (sax player Albert Cirera & double bass player Alvaro Rosso + electroacoustic improviser Wade Matthews & violinist Luz Prado. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/10/12/d...

Italian pianist & synth enthusiast Tonino Miano and flutist and live electronics player Emilio Galante in a series of free-improvised conversations—sometimes even arguments (but always respectful and polite ones). My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/10/11/e...

SJS - the Oslo-based duo of drummer-programmer of drum machine Jonas Sjøvaag & guitarist Juhani Silvola - offer two extended, richly textured, free improvised, cinematic and immersive soundscapes. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/jsjs/

Murasaki is the first album to document three gifted, free-thinking, and genre-defying musicians: trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith, guitarist Jakob Bro & drummer Marcus Gilmore. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/jakob...

Luca Collivasone and his DIY musique concrète sound generator, cacophonator, juggles with noise, otherworldly drones, and dramatic but ironic, cinematic scenes. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/10/10/l...

The 3rd album of the Swedish Sol Sol - sax player Elin Forkelid, guitarist David Stackenäs, bassist Mauritz Agnas & drummer Nils Agnas - is more spiritual, articulated in an organic manner, and shifts toward greater freedom. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/sol-s...