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The music of Finnish pianist Iiro Rantala can sometimes be difficult to place within the canon. Equally at home tearing it up in a small intimate jazz club as performing with an orchestra in a prestigious concert hall, he will [...]
The Leipzig-based trio of Olga Reznichenko (piano), Lorenz Heigenhuber (bass) and Maximilian Stadtfeld (drums) turned my head with their wonderfully nuanced 2022 debut Somnambule (Traumton). Conceived as a series of imaginary dream sequences, the classically leaning and melodically rich music [...]
Velvet Revolution (Daniel Erdmann, Théo Ceccaldi and Jim Hart) At a certain point in the life of most working groups, things can suddenly click into place. That’s not to say that Velvet Revolution’s first two albums, “A Short Moment Of [...]
