Eyal Hareuveni
@eyalh.bsky.social
Freelance journalist and music reviewer for the Free Jazz Collective blog, Salt Peanuts and Percorsci Musicali
Vocalist and electronics player Sanem Kalfa initiated the genre-bending Televizyon as a band inspired by the infectious, simple, and easily recognizable melodies from Turkish television commercials from the 80s. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/telev...
November 27, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Vocalist and electronics player Sanem Kalfa initiated the genre-bending Televizyon as a band inspired by the infectious, simple, and easily recognizable melodies from Turkish television commercials from the 80s. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/telev...
Talk Show is the American duo of trumpeter Steph Richards (who also plays on resonating surfaces) & drummer Qasim Naqvi, referring to the horrors of 80s daytime reality talk shows and suggesting cinematic collisions of sounds. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/talk-...
November 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Talk Show is the American duo of trumpeter Steph Richards (who also plays on resonating surfaces) & drummer Qasim Naqvi, referring to the horrors of 80s daytime reality talk shows and suggesting cinematic collisions of sounds. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/talk-...
OMRUM is a new Copenhagen-based collective quartet - trumpeter Erik Kimestad, trombonist Mads Hyhne, double bass player Richard Andersson & drummer Jakob Høyer - offering intimate, reserved dynamics. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/omrum/
November 25, 2025 at 6:20 AM
OMRUM is a new Copenhagen-based collective quartet - trumpeter Erik Kimestad, trombonist Mads Hyhne, double bass player Richard Andersson & drummer Jakob Høyer - offering intimate, reserved dynamics. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/omrum/
Tak For Dit Brev (Thank You For Your Letter) is the playful, clever, musical project of Danish pianist Simon Toldam that suggests fictional correspondence, including a poem by Tomas Tranströmar. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/tak-f...
November 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Tak For Dit Brev (Thank You For Your Letter) is the playful, clever, musical project of Danish pianist Simon Toldam that suggests fictional correspondence, including a poem by Tomas Tranströmar. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/tak-f...
Portuguese experimental cellist Joana Guerra & violinist Maria Do Mar De Brito Lopes collaborate with Dutch Frisian poet Jan Kleefstra and guitarist Romke Kleefstra in a poetic meditation on humans and nature. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/11/23/r...
November 24, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Portuguese experimental cellist Joana Guerra & violinist Maria Do Mar De Brito Lopes collaborate with Dutch Frisian poet Jan Kleefstra and guitarist Romke Kleefstra in a poetic meditation on humans and nature. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/11/23/r...
FWWU (Fire Walk With Us) is the exploratory guitar duo of hyper guitarists Christian Vasseur & Steve Gibbs, re-imagining their album Jungle Gentle Jig, and teaming with young guitarist Nicolò Vivi. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/11/23/c...
November 24, 2025 at 6:59 AM
FWWU (Fire Walk With Us) is the exploratory guitar duo of hyper guitarists Christian Vasseur & Steve Gibbs, re-imagining their album Jungle Gentle Jig, and teaming with young guitarist Nicolò Vivi. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/11/23/c...
Belgian reed player Joachim Badenhorst's Youran is a site-specific, electroacoustic composition, inspired by Japanese Noh theatre, reflecting on the uncertainties of the present moment as we persist in the vibration of possibilities. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/joach...
November 22, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Belgian reed player Joachim Badenhorst's Youran is a site-specific, electroacoustic composition, inspired by Japanese Noh theatre, reflecting on the uncertainties of the present moment as we persist in the vibration of possibilities. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/joach...
The Italian quartet Ü - percussionists Filippo Abrate & Thomas Canna, Giovanni Falascone on prepared piano, and clarinettist Alessandro Luppi - explores the concepts of circular time, suspended reality, and stillness. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/11/22/u...
November 22, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The Italian quartet Ü - percussionists Filippo Abrate & Thomas Canna, Giovanni Falascone on prepared piano, and clarinettist Alessandro Luppi - explores the concepts of circular time, suspended reality, and stillness. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/11/22/u...
Italian cellist-electronics pioneer Walter Prati explores the 6-string electric bass augmented with electronics as an unbassale sonic entity and stripped of its conventional, common rhythmic or deep-toned roles. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/11/21/w...
November 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Italian cellist-electronics pioneer Walter Prati explores the 6-string electric bass augmented with electronics as an unbassale sonic entity and stripped of its conventional, common rhythmic or deep-toned roles. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/11/21/w...
The experimental Swiss duo of guitarist and electronics player Samuel Leipold and drummer & sound artist Martin Perret created their debut album, Barene, in a collaborative, free improvised process. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/samue...
November 21, 2025 at 3:53 AM
The experimental Swiss duo of guitarist and electronics player Samuel Leipold and drummer & sound artist Martin Perret created their debut album, Barene, in a collaborative, free improvised process. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/samue...
Slovenian sax player-composer Igor Lumpert has a new, New York-based quartet featuring pianist Leo Genovese, double bass player Drew Gress & drummer Damion Reid. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/igor-...
November 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Slovenian sax player-composer Igor Lumpert has a new, New York-based quartet featuring pianist Leo Genovese, double bass player Drew Gress & drummer Damion Reid. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/igor-...
[AHMED] أحمد quartet offers an inspired cover of Ahmed Abdul-Malik's groundbreaking album Jazz Sahara in a way that corresponds with a Sufi spiritual and transformative ceremony. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/11/20/t...
November 20, 2025 at 1:41 PM
[AHMED] أحمد quartet offers an inspired cover of Ahmed Abdul-Malik's groundbreaking album Jazz Sahara in a way that corresponds with a Sufi spiritual and transformative ceremony. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/11/20/t...
The A Part - violist Marie Takahashi, drummer Thierry Waziniak & guitarist Baptiste Vayer - cultivates subversive dynamics that are “free, off the beaten track, improvised, fresh, wild, and delicately organic”. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/11/19/a...
November 19, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The A Part - violist Marie Takahashi, drummer Thierry Waziniak & guitarist Baptiste Vayer - cultivates subversive dynamics that are “free, off the beaten track, improvised, fresh, wild, and delicately organic”. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/11/19/a...
My impressions from another great and inspiring edition of the Festival Music Unlimited in Wels, Austria for the @Freejazzblog: www.freejazzblog.org/2025/11/fest...
November 19, 2025 at 11:11 AM
My impressions from another great and inspiring edition of the Festival Music Unlimited in Wels, Austria for the @Freejazzblog: www.freejazzblog.org/2025/11/fest...
It’s All in Your Head is the debut album of young German reed player-composer Julius Gawlik, presenting him as a commanding soloist rich with ideas, and a confident bandleader always searching and pushing forward. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/juliu...
November 19, 2025 at 3:11 AM
It’s All in Your Head is the debut album of young German reed player-composer Julius Gawlik, presenting him as a commanding soloist rich with ideas, and a confident bandleader always searching and pushing forward. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/juliu...
Israeli pianist, composer, and educator Anat Fort's The Dreamworld of Paul Motian is a heartfelt homage to Motian’s memory, his free spirit, and the enigmatic quality of his music. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/anat-...
November 18, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Israeli pianist, composer, and educator Anat Fort's The Dreamworld of Paul Motian is a heartfelt homage to Motian’s memory, his free spirit, and the enigmatic quality of his music. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/anat-...
Swiss composer Samuel Reinhard's enigmatic and austere composition For 10 Musicians blurs its own and the common listener’s sensibility of time, and as Reinhard puts it, “rests in itself”. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/11/18/s...
November 18, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Swiss composer Samuel Reinhard's enigmatic and austere composition For 10 Musicians blurs its own and the common listener’s sensibility of time, and as Reinhard puts it, “rests in itself”. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/11/18/s...
Figures of Absence is an Italian experimental trio of vocal artist Barbara De Dominicis, electronics player Cristian Maddalena & guitarist Elio Martusciello, inspired by Dore O.’s cinematic, dream-like poetics. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/11/18/d...
November 18, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Figures of Absence is an Italian experimental trio of vocal artist Barbara De Dominicis, electronics player Cristian Maddalena & guitarist Elio Martusciello, inspired by Dore O.’s cinematic, dream-like poetics. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/11/18/d...
Italian drummer-percussionist-composer Francesca Remigi created an ambitious, interdisciplinary concept album which combines feminist literature and experimental electroacoustic music with WITCHESS. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/franc...
November 17, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Italian drummer-percussionist-composer Francesca Remigi created an ambitious, interdisciplinary concept album which combines feminist literature and experimental electroacoustic music with WITCHESS. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/franc...
Belgian hyper-pianist Anaïs Tuerlinckx in two free improvised duets - an otherworldly with German alto sax player Jonas Engel and a more playful and eccentric one with Austrian sound artist Andrea Ermke. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/11/17/a...
November 17, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Belgian hyper-pianist Anaïs Tuerlinckx in two free improvised duets - an otherworldly with German alto sax player Jonas Engel and a more playful and eccentric one with Austrian sound artist Andrea Ermke. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/11/17/a...
American double bass player Thomas Morgan's debut album features his own virtual string instrument WOODS in a series of duets with close friends, collaborators, and poet Gary Snyder. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/thoma...
November 17, 2025 at 6:06 AM
American double bass player Thomas Morgan's debut album features his own virtual string instrument WOODS in a series of duets with close friends, collaborators, and poet Gary Snyder. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/thoma...
2 new trios of tenor sax player Camila Nebbia - a free improvised meeting with pianist Marilyn Crispell & drummer Lesley Mok + a new one relying on written pieces with bassist James Banner & drummer Max Andrzejewski. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/11/16/o...
November 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM
2 new trios of tenor sax player Camila Nebbia - a free improvised meeting with pianist Marilyn Crispell & drummer Lesley Mok + a new one relying on written pieces with bassist James Banner & drummer Max Andrzejewski. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/11/16/o...
The Norwegian experimental TEIP Trio - guitarist Arne Bredesen, clarinetist Jens-Jonas Francis Roberts & baritone guitarist Nicolas Leirtrø - in a free improvised meeting with experimental cellist-composer Lene Grenager. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/teip-...
November 16, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The Norwegian experimental TEIP Trio - guitarist Arne Bredesen, clarinetist Jens-Jonas Francis Roberts & baritone guitarist Nicolas Leirtrø - in a free improvised meeting with experimental cellist-composer Lene Grenager. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/teip-...
Norwegian double bass player-composer Per Zanussi presents a new trio with sax player Kristoffer Alberts & drummer Per Oddvar Johansen, with a live recording from 2019 that sounds fresh and urgent. My - and Jan Granlie's - reviews for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/zanus...
November 15, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Norwegian double bass player-composer Per Zanussi presents a new trio with sax player Kristoffer Alberts & drummer Per Oddvar Johansen, with a live recording from 2019 that sounds fresh and urgent. My - and Jan Granlie's - reviews for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/zanus...
American trumpeter-vocalist-composer Amir ElSaffar's trio - tenor sax player Ole Mathisen & drummer Tomas Fujiwara - teams with Greek pianist Tania Giannouli for a deeply moving, spiritual and compassionate performance. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/amir-...
November 15, 2025 at 5:10 AM
American trumpeter-vocalist-composer Amir ElSaffar's trio - tenor sax player Ole Mathisen & drummer Tomas Fujiwara - teams with Greek pianist Tania Giannouli for a deeply moving, spiritual and compassionate performance. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/amir-...