Ojai Music Festival – Timo Andres in Recital
The 8:00 AM Sunday morning concert featured pianist Timo Andres in recital. His first set was from the cycle titled I Still Play, and consisted of several piano pieces written…
Peter Garland – Three Dawns and Bush Radio Calling
A new CD of solo piano music by Peter Garland has been released on the Cold Blue Music label. Two pieces comprise the album: Three Dawns, inspired by the poetry…
Ian Pace Plays Ferneyhough and Yeats (CD Review)
Brian Ferneyhough Complete Piano Music Ian Pace, piano (Ben Smith, piano on Sonata for Two Pianos) Metier CD Marc Yeats The Anatomy of Melancholy Ian Pace, piano Prima Facie…
Video: Musical Interludes – The Vexations
The Pasadena Conservatory of Music has recently produced The Vexations, a new YouTube video that is an overview of the life of Erik Satie as based on the novel by…
Alvin Lucier – Music for Piano XL
Grand Piano Records, a Naxos recording label, has released Music for Piano XL, a CD premiere of experimental music by Alvin Lucier performed by award-winning French pianist Nicolas Horvath. Music…
The Fall – Dennis Johnson’s ‘November’ Deconstructed
Lustmord Nicolas Horvath The Fall – Dennis Johnson’s November Deconstructed is a recent vinyl release from the Sub Rosa label featuring the combined talents of Lustmord, the film and video…
Best of 2020: Matthew Shipp
Matthew Shipp The Piano Equation Tao Forms CD Jazz pianist Matthew Shipp turned sixty this year and celebrated in part with the solo release The Piano Equation. Shipp is an…
Album Review – Nightflower
On January 25, 2019, Long Echo Records released composer Elliot Cole’s debut solo album, Nightflower. This album occupies the vague space between the generated and constructed, and lives up to…
Piano Drop at Seattle’s Jack Straw
Destruction and reclamation, gimmick and avant-garde One of the odder fads bequeathed to us by the 1960s is the ritual destruction of musical instruments. It’s a custom most famously associated…
Fred Hersch Trio Live at the Village Vanguard (concert review)
Fred Hersch Trio Village Vanguard January 5, 2019 Sequenza 21 By Christian Carey NEW YORK – Beginning the new year with a six-night long residency at the Village Vanguard,…