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Nils Petter Molvaer: Presence

January 2, 2013 By guillaume

Nils Petter Molvaer - NP3

Presence is a beautiful track from Norwegian trumpeter Nils Petter Molvaer's 2002 recording NP3. While the video clip was superbly crafted, I can't dissociate the track from the album's cover featuring life-size figures on a beach staring at the horizon. The cover is a photograph of an existing installation called "Another ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Contemporary Tagged With: ambient, electronic, trumpet

Dave Brubeck: Piano Blues

December 27, 2012 By guillaume

Piano blues

Dave Brubeck (1920-2012) will of course be remembered as a brilliant musical explorer, a virtuoso improviser, a prolific composer with a fondness for odd time signatures and a great ambassador for jazz music in general. Yet, Dave Brubeck still regarded himself simply as "a composer who plays the piano". The pianist is also often ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Folk, Jazz Tagged With: blues, piano

Jon Hopkins: Monsters theme

December 17, 2012 By guillaume

Monsters

Monsters is a 2010 British independent science fiction film written and directed by Gareth Edwards with a wonderful soundtrack by Jon Hopkins.  Monsters chronicles the journey of an American journalist and her fellow citizen from alien-infected and quarantined Mexico to the American border. Filmed on a shoestring budget with ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Contemporary, OST Tagged With: ambient, cinema, electronic

Martin Hayes and Mary MacNamara: John Naughton’s/Tommy Coen’s

December 6, 2012 By guillaume

Featuring Martin Hayes on the fiddle and Mary MacNamara on the concertina, this is a vintage clip dating back to 1981 from the RTE TV archives. In the Irish traditional music context, musicians from East Clare tend to play jigs, reels and hornpipes at a slower pace and with minimal ornamentation while putting more emphasis on ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Ireland, Traditional Tagged With: concertina, fiddle

Sam Jackson: The Gramophone

November 28, 2012 By guillaume

Sam Jackson is a Dublin based pianist, but when I heard "The Gramophone" for the first time on the radio, I mistook it for what could have been a track from an early recording from the Esbjörn Svensson Trio.  Sam Jackson's music is of the same calibre. "The feeling I have something to say, the great difficulty ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Contemporary, Ireland, Jazz, Modern Classical Tagged With: piano

Brad Mehldau: River Man

November 16, 2012 By guillaume

Brad Mehldau Live in Tokyo

Any version of Nick Drake’s River man will always stop me in my tracks.  The unusual time signature and the eerie contemporary classical arrangements to the original song make it such a rich ground for covers. If Norma Waterson’s version introduced me to the song, it is Brad Mehldau’s cover I keep coming back to. The American ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Folk, Jazz Tagged With: piano

Ibrahim Maalouf: Will soon be a woman

November 13, 2012 By guillaume

Ibrahim Maalouf Diagnostic

Born in Lebanon and now based in France, Ibrahim Maalouf is a young jazz trumpet player whose sound can truly be described as unique.  Ibrahim Maalouf plays a "hybrid" trumpet fitted with a fourth valve, allowing him to play the quarter tones specific the Arabic melodic modes and scales. The instrument was designed in ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Jazz Tagged With: electronic, fusion, trumpet

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