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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 45m

Prolific double bass player Gonçalo Almeida in a new free improvising trio with tenor sax player Camila Nebbia & drummer Sylvain Darrifourcq + exploratory, sound-oriented duo with pianist Bart van Dongen. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/10/13/g...

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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 6h

The free improvising quartet Earscratcher - sax player Dave Rempis, pianist Elisabeth Harnik, cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm & drummer Timothy Daisy - will caress your ears and teach you about emphatic, collaborative listening. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/10/13/e...

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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 11h

O.N.E Quartet claims to be Poland’s first all-female instrumental jazz band and suggests chamber, highly melodic, and lyrical jazz that corresponds with Nordic melancholia, and especially the ECM school of Nordic jazz. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/o-n-e/

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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 1d

Alto sax player Hayden Chisholm & pianist Philip Zoubek offer an irreverent but imaginative perspective on G. I. Gurdjieff’s music, with sixteen intimate, poetic, and concise interpretations. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/hayde...

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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 1d

Portuguese prepared guitar explorer Abdul Moimême in 2 sonic journeys - with the Dissection Trio (sax player Albert Cirera & double bass player Alvaro Rosso + electroacoustic improviser Wade Matthews & violinist Luz Prado. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/10/12/d...

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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 2d

Italian pianist & synth enthusiast Tonino Miano and flutist and live electronics player Emilio Galante in a series of free-improvised conversations—sometimes even arguments (but always respectful and polite ones). My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/10/11/e...

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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 2d

SJS - the Oslo-based duo of drummer-programmer of drum machine Jonas Sjøvaag & guitarist Juhani Silvola - offer two extended, richly textured, free improvised, cinematic and immersive soundscapes. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/jsjs/

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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 2d

Murasaki is the first album to document three gifted, free-thinking, and genre-defying musicians: trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith, guitarist Jakob Bro & drummer Marcus Gilmore. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/jakob...

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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 3d

Luca Collivasone and his DIY musique concrète sound generator, cacophonator, juggles with noise, otherworldly drones, and dramatic but ironic, cinematic scenes. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/10/10/l...

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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 4d

The 3rd album of the Swedish Sol Sol - sax player Elin Forkelid, guitarist David Stackenäs, bassist Mauritz Agnas & drummer Nils Agnas - is more spiritual, articulated in an organic manner, and shifts toward greater freedom. My review for Salt Peanuts:
salt-peanuts.eu/record/sol-s...

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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 5d

Master composer and reed player Henry Threadgill's latest masterpiece, a 17-movement suite for string ensemble - four guitarists, two bass guitarists, and two pianists - that highlights his idiosyncratic sonic architectures. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/henry...

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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 5d

Guitarist Lingyuan Yang's debut album offers his complex, layered practice and overflowing ideas, unorthodox guitar tuning, microtonal phrasing, and futurist, prog metal-tinged, and often Eastern-like, orchestral sound. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/10/08/l...

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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 5d

New York-based sax player Caroline Davis & guitarist Dustin Carlson offer a series of playful, eccentric, psychedelic avant-folk songs that extend Sun Ra’s intergalactic trips and induce visions of “zombie elephants”. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/10/06/c...

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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 6d

MOJNA is a Swedish-Norwegian trio playing newly composed, Nordic folk music featuring guitarist-composer Thomas Eriksson, clarinetist Anna Malmström & Hardanger fiddler Tuva Færden. My - and Jan Granlie's - review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/mojna...

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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 6d

Believe is an Australian, potent, free jazz quartet featuring the experienced double bass player Clayton Thomas, & drummer-percussionist Laurence Pike with younger alto sax player Peter Farrar & pianist Novak Manojlovic. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/belie...

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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 7d

After the Wildfire documents an edited, expanded version of an orchestral commissioned work of Norwegian live sampling and electronics player Jan Bang and trumpeter and vocalist Arve Henriksen for the Skopje Jazz Festival. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/jan-b...

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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 7d

Richard Barrett's intriguing and disorienting electronic composition first light is a musical contemplation of sixteen evocative texts by late English poet Simon Howard. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/10/05/r...

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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 7d

The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters - sax player Mette Rasmussen, turntablist Mariam Rezaei, piccolo trumpeter Gabriele Mitelli & drummer Lukas Koenig - redefines free music in the 21st century. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/10/05/t...

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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 10d

The Slovenian free jazz TiTiTi of reed player Jure Boršič, double bass player & drummer Vid Drašler became a quartet with Serbian pianist Marina Džukljev, and is more complex, restless, and searching for its own cosmic freedom. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/titit...

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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 10d

The Lisbon-based electroacoustic I/O trio - cellist Ulrich Mitzlaff, synth and sampler player Carlos Santos & clarinetist Ana Maria Santos - moves between chamber music to reductionist, almost static soundscapes. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/10/03/i...

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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 11d

Do yourselves a favor and listen to the great album of Norwegian drummer Gard Nilssen and his Acoustic Unity (reed player André Roligheten & bassist Petter Eldh) augmented by sax players Signe Emmeluth & Kjetil Møster. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/gard-...

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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 11d

Field recordist Peter Cusack & hyper-pianist and sound artist Anaïs Tuerlinckx offer a poetic, seductive but elusive soundscape that keeps reminding us that all phenomena - and sounds - are transient. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/10/02/p...

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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 11d

The free improvising trio of Lithuanian reed hero Liudas Mockūnas, fellow Lithuanian pianist-drummer Arnas Mikalkenas & Ukrainian bassist Mark Tokar has an immediate synergy that makes this trio larger than its parts. My review for the @Freejazzblog: www.freejazzblog.org/2025/10/liud...

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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 11d

Master free music guitarist Joe Morris has a new string trio with cellist Brad Barrett and double bass player Beth Ann Jones, which its deep listening, inventive dynamics feel “like a new arrival point” for him. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/10/01/j...

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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 12d

Electroacoustic composer Brunhild Ferrari's Errant Ear is an intimate and illuminating meditation on the act of listening, allowing her “to enjoy surprises, to rediscover my memories, to give them new life”. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/10/01/b...

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