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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 13h

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:
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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 4d

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 · 6d

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 · 6d

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 · 7d

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 · 7d

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 · 7d

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 · 7d

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 · 8d

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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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 8d

Norwegian ambient composer and sound artist Kjetil Husebø turned 20 years old in May 2025 and celebrates 20 years as a recording artist of his own music with a new solo, experimental-ambient trilogy, Interiors. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/kjeti...

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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 9d

Burnt Pages brings together, remotely, Slovenian guitarist Samo Salamon on acoustic guitar, with American guitarist and educator Kevin Miller, on electric guitar, and tenor and soprano sax player Daniel Blake. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/samo-...

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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 10d

Swedish reed player-composer Anna Högberg returns with a new, double sextet Attack and a masterful, compassionate, and life-affirming suite dedicated to her late father. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/09/29/a...

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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 10d

NarrSteidle is the duo of guitarist and electronics player Steffi Narr and drummer Oli Steidle, offering powerful, nervous, dense, stubborn, and fast-shifting free improvised conversations – or electronics-laden collisions. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/narrs...

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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 11d

Tomas Fujiwara’s Percussion Quartet's Dream Up is an engaging celebration of storytelling, freedom, interaction, and rituals through the transformative power of rhythm, inspired by Max Roach’s iconic percussion ensemble M’Boom. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/tomas...

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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 11d

Greek sound artist Spyros Polychronopoulos & percussionist-electronics player Yorgos Dimitriadis focus on the organic manner in which sound manifests itself and has its own inner logic and its own rhythmic flow. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/09/28/s...

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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 12d

Trio Atlântica connects Portuguese alto sax hero José Lencastre and Brazilian drummer and electronics player Wagner Ramos & and guitarist Luiz Eduardo Galvão for a powerful and intense session. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/trio-...

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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 13d

Three American veteran masters – soprano sax player Dave Liebman, drummer Billy Hart & percussionist Adam Rudolph in two live free improvised performances at the small club The Stone in New York. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/dave-...

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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 13d

French experimental sax player Michel Doneda & hyper-pianist Frederic Blondy offer a cycle of rituals, made of unorthodox sonic architectures, exploring and molding sound at Église Saint-Merry in Paris. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/09/26/m...

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