One perhaps unusual compliment we ought to pay to Jon Hassell’s new Listening to Pictures (Pentimento Volume 1) is that, like all of his music, one grows impatient having to write about it while listening to it. This music — which I want to never end when I put it on — is too seductive to be looking at a computer screen while trying to come to terms with its intriguing charms. [Read more…]
Experimental Jazz From Sylvie Courvoisier Trio: “Bourgeois’s Spider (for Louise Bourgeois)”
On the heels of Riot Material’s review of Louise Bourgeois MoMa exhibition, An Unfolding Portrait, we complement that piece with some equally avant-garde sounds from pianist Sylvie Courvoisier, bassist Drew Gress and drummer Kenny Wollesen: Sylvie Courvoisier Trio. From their latest release, D’Agala.