VISIONARY HOURS – Footfalls Echo (Preserved Sound, 2016)* Acoustic instruments and tape recorders are sufficient for Hayden Berry to create a mysterious, austere, hypnotic ambience. This is the formula presiding over the fourth work of his personal ensemble Visionary Hours, which builds on the cosmic neoclassicism most recently proposed in “Still Point” (2013) and sublimates…
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SAVARAN FEATURING BARBARA DE DOMINICIS – Strandline (Somehow Recordings, 2012) After an intense collaboration with Julia Kent in Parallel 41, the vocal improvisations of Barbara De Dominicis continue to build sources of inspiration for the aural panoramas of important artists devoted to experimentation with electronic music. This time, the author of these compositions, to which this…
DANIEL BARBIERO – Not One Nor (Zeromoon, 2012) Mentre violino e violoncello sono strumenti ormai largamente impiegati nella creazione di musica sperimentale realizzata processandone i suoni, meno abituale è vedere il contrabbasso al centro di solitarie elaborazioni, più o meno improvvisate. Desta dunque naturale curiosità la proposta del musicista del Maryland Daniel Barbiero, che in…
SOPHIE HUTCHINGS – Night Sky (Preservation, 2012) Her debut “Becalmed” (2010) revealed Sophie Hutchings as a piano performer focused both on minimalism and deep emotional poignancy. On her second album, the australian poli-strumentist establishes herself not simply as inspired counterpart of “colleagues” as Dustin O’Halloran or Peter Broderick, but as sensitive crafter of warm melodic pieces. Still centered…
MY AUTUMN EMPIRE – II (Wayside And Woodland, 2012) British countryside dreamer together with Rob Glover in Epic45, Ben Holton also carries on his own solo project My Autumn Empire. His debut album “The Village Compass” (2010) was a collection of gentle acoustic sketches, only now and then shaped as real songs. Instead, the thirty-minutes…
TIDES OF THE BLUE MOON – Seasonal Call (Self Released, 2012) L’universo Bandcamp non cessa regalare piacevoli sorprese a chi abbia voglia di scandagliarne la pur dispersiva vastità. Tra le sue infinite proposte, capita che qualcuna più di altre catturi l’attenzione, meritando di essere segnalata; dopo Epilogues, è adesso la volta di Tides Of The…
PIANO MAGIC – Life Has Not Finished With Me Yet (Second Language, 2012) Despite a fifteen years career and ten albums behind him, Glen Johnson is always in search of new challenges and changes in his sound, still very recognizable and consistent with his sensibility. Having abandoned the thundering guitars of the latest “Part-Monster” and…
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