Sylvie Courvoisier - ChimaeraChimaera is the newest ensemble of pianist and composer Sylvie Courvoisier. The virtuoso band brings together key musical personalities from the New York jazz scene in Wadada Leo Smith, Nate Wooley, Drew Gress and Kenny Wollesen, and features Austrian artist Christian Fennesz, whose ambient textures can be considered Chimaera's wildcard. Inspired by the fantastic, enigmatic hallucinatory paintings of symbolist Odilon Redons, the sextet creates an

modernism: all the prevalent styles of his time were assimilated and absorbed within a personal idiom that advanced the work of notable predecessors such as Albeniz and Granados in establishing a distinctively Spanish idiom for art music

having entered the concert programmes of guitarists worldwide

King Of The Hill 10

But when she tries to leave

The Escalators were formed by two ex-members of the Meteors

Collecting a thrilling array of vocal tracks from artists including Essenger

Garfein's music effectively envelops Hall's verses like a glove

Thirty-five years on it remains an extraordinary record

this package builds upon The Residents' ongoing pREServed re-issue project

Guitarist Julian Lage discovers new possibilities with orchestration on the follow-up to his acclaimed 2021 Blue Note debut

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Back Door - The Impulse Session