SKNAIL - Newsletter October / November 2016

SKNAIL played a glitch jazz concert / performance September 23rd 2016 at Klub Attack in Zagreb (Croatia) during FUBAR glitch art Expo, linking up with 3 Croatian jazzmen especially for the occasion. Here's the video presentation

Ozma - Welcome Home (CRISTAL RECORDS 2016)

"Depuis leurs débuts, OZMA nous fait voyager. On pense à un Coltrane invité en guest d’un Rage Against The Machine, à un Ray Anderson "jamant" avec Radiohead, ou encore à un Frisell s’accoquinant aux meilleurs fanfares de la Nouvelle Orléans. Car l’improbable est l’essence d’OZMA ; une mixture généreuse, créative, jubilatoire, excitante et surtout aventureuse, risquée et captivante, autant pour les connaisseurs avisés que les néophytes curieux. (www.muvdb.com) 

A la plume, le batteur Stéphane Scharlé et le bassiste Edouard Séro-Guillaume livrent des mélodies serrées et nerveuses auxquelles font échos des hymnes pop et des grooves redoutables. De leurs partitions aux formes riches s’échappent des improvisations en duo, trio ou en tutti, habitées des feulements sauvages du trombone de Guillaume Nuss et du saxophone de Julien Soro, des confidences soufflées par la guitare de Tam de Villiers, le tout pulsé par un réacteur à groove, ce basse - batterie complice de dix ans de tournées à travers le monde. 

Par moments apaisants, par moments puissants, ces cinq jazzmen chevronnés mettent leurs sens du drame et du timing au service d’une musique neuve et narrative. Oscillant entre risque et tradition, entre culot et amour du son, OZMA présente un 5ème album très revigorant.

01 - Krefeld Mon Amour * 4'40

02 - Magnus Effect ** 5'40

03 - Electric Lament * 3'46

04 - Concerto For Sharks ** 6'16

05 - Cashmere Weekend * 6'05

06 - Goldi Boldi * 4'06

07 - Flat Tire At Durban Market ** 4'58

08 - My Favorite Regret ** 6'34

09 - He Saved The Girl (Once Again) ** 3'47

10 - Cousin Howard ** 5'35

TOTAL / 51’27

*  Composed par Stéphane Scharlé

** Composed par Édouard Séro-Guillaume

Tam de Villiers: guitar

Julien Soro: saxophone

Guillaume Nuss: trombone

Stéphane Scharlé: drums

Edouard Séro-Guillaume: electric bass

CONCERTS

01 Novembre 2016 OZMA quintet / B-Flat / Berlin "Welcome Home" release party (Allemagne) 

04 Novembre 2016 OZMA quintet / Die Pumpe / Kiel (Allemagne) 

08 Novembre 2016 OZMA quintet / Altes Pfandhaus / Köln (Allemagne) 

13 Novembre 2016 OZMA quintet / Brotfabrik / Bonn (Allemagne) 

15 Novembre 2016 OZMA quintet / Jazzdor Festival / Strasbourg "Welcome Home" release party (67) 

13 Décembre 2016 OZMA quintet / New Morning / Paris "Welcome Home" release party (75) 

26 Février 2017 OZMA quintet / Abbaye de Neumunster résidence (Luxembourg) 

01 Mars 2016 OZMA quintet / Abbaye de Neumunster "Welcome Home" release party (Luxembourg)

Ozma Website

Monash Art Ensemble - Histories (JAZZHEAD RECORDS 2016)

"Histories. For each of us they represent narratives within which we find navigable timelines, chains of causation, explanations. Sometimes teleologies, sometimes songlines, they represent attempts to structure time and place, identity, and to imagine destiny. What history is not is a single truth. Andrew Harrison's piece in this collection memorialises his grandfather's traumatic experiences in the trenches of Flanders in 1916-18. Mary Finsterer has us gaze down from a great height. Eugene Ball intrudes into his own strange and magical sound world, and Joseph O'Connor brings worlds of notation and improvisation into a nuanced dialogue. Narrative, dialectic, panorama and testimony are all represented in this collection of Histories." Paul Grabowsky

Track 1 - Aerea

John Rodgers, violin

Tristram Williams, C trumpet

Niran Dasika, Bb trumpet

Jordan Murray, trombone

Lachlan Davidson, soprano saxophone

Robert Burke, soprano saxophone

Stephen Byth, alto saxophone

Paul Cornelius, tenor saxophone

Jack Beeche, baritone saxophone

David Griffiths, bass clarinet

Jonathan Skourletos, guitar

Anthony Barnhill, piano / celeste

Dennis Vaughan, bass with extension

Peter Neville, percussion

Robert Mercer, drums

Track 2 - Intrusions

Lizzy Welsh, violin

Eugene Ball, trumpet

Niran Dasika, trumpet

James MacAulay, trombone

David Griffiths, clarinet / bass clarinet

Paul Cornelius, tenor saxophone

Lachlan Davidson, flute / alto flute / alto saxophone / piccolo

Mirko Guerrini, alto saxophone

Jonathan Skourletos, guitar

Joe O’Connor, piano

Marty Holoubek, double bass

Peter Neville, percussion

Niko Schauble, drums

Track 3 - Gassed Shell (Severe)

Tony Hicks, clarinet

Lachlan Davidson, alto saxophone

Paul Cornelius, tenor saxophone

Jack Beeche, tenor saxophone

Robert Burke, bass clarinet

Mirko Guerrini, baritone saxophone

Tom Sly, trumpet

Niran Dasika, trumpet

Jordan Murray, trombone

Matthias Schack-Arnott, percussion

Lizzy Welsh, violin

Dimity Shepherd, voice

Craig Fermanis, guitar

Joe O’Connor, piano

Philip Rex, double bass

Kieran Rafferty, drums

Track 4 - Confluence

Lizzy Welsh, violin

Lachlan Davidson, flute

Tony Hicks, clarinet

Jack Beeche, clarinet

Paul Cornelius, saxophone

Robert Burke, bass clarinet

Tom Sly, trumpet

Niran Dasika, trumpet

Jordan Murray, trombone

Craig Fermanis, guitar

Joe O’Connor, piano

Philip Rex, double bass

Matthias Schack-Arnott, percussion

Kieran Rafferty, drums

Recorded at the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music Auditorium, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria.

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Ross Cockle.

1800 802 061 Phone Orders Australia

+61 3 9537 7155 Overseas Orders

Playlist for Tom Ossana / Dane Brewer – The Thin Edge – October 26, 2016 MST 7:00 to 9:00p.m.

http://www.kzmu.org/listen.m3u ~ Use this link to access the show online.

Franco Piccinno - Migrations (AUAND RECORDS 2016)

Il pianista Franco Piccinno sulle infinite strade di Migrations

Sound mainstream e un solido interplay per il lavoro in trio 

con Aldo Vigorito (contrabbasso) e Giuseppe La Pusata (batteria)

che segna il debutto nella Piano Series di casa Auand

Cittadino del mondo e sempre a suo agio con il dialogo e il confronto, il pianista Franco Piccinno fa il suo esordio nella Piano Series di casa Auand con un l’album “Migrations”, alla testa di un trio che schiera Aldo Vigorito al contrabbasso e Giuseppe La Pusata alla batteria. 

Le danze frenetiche di ‘Late Night Joke’ e la leggerezza solare di ‘Lido’, entrambe composte da Piccinno come la maggior parte delle tracce, sono due cartoline da un viaggio a bordo di idee melodiche che arrivano da ogni parte del pianeta, accarezzate da sfumature timbriche che di volta in volta colorano gli avventurosi percorsi e gli incroci di Migrations. Su tutto, un forte senso dello swing che i tre musicisti hanno maturato sia insieme che in altre esperienze.

Quasi a distaccarsi dal contesto, la traccia che dà il titolo all’album è un volo in solitaria, una sorta di riflessione malinconica sulla distanza e le mille dimore toccate in una vita di continua ricerca, come quella che lo stesso pianista ha condotto negli ultimi quindici anni, dalla provincia di Napoli fino a metropoli come Londra, Parigi e Barcellona. «Pur dando il titolo al disco, questo brano non racchiude l'essenza stilistica del progetto – spiega Piccinno – bensì rappresenta l'esatto contrario, a testimonianza del desiderio di percorrere un sentiero distinto, un desiderio di evasione, nondimeno espresso in maniera del tutto discreta, a tratti intimista».

Ma è nell’interplay che il lavoro mette in evidenza i suoi punti forti, grazie anche a un rapporto consolidato negli anni: pur mantenendo l’intero quadro sonoro su un territorio molto vicino al mainstream, il trio si diverte a riprendere una gemma del jazz contemporaneo come “Four Winds” di Dave Holland, che si sviluppa in un crescendo senza tregua. 

Dopo una serie di dischi per piano solo, collaborazioni con artisti italiani ed internazionali e incisioni in formazioni europee più o meno estese, Piccinno arriva così al suo debutto in casa Auand.

1 Smoothie

2 Late Night Joke

3 Esperame en el cielo

4 Lido

5 Migrations

6 Delice

7 Four Winds

8 Scalinatella

Franco Piccinno piano

Aldo Vigorito double bass

Giuseppe La Pusata drums

Produced by Marco Valente

Executive Producer: Marco Valente

Recording: Officina Musicale, Castellana Grotte (BA) – Italy

Engineer: Giuseppe Saponari & GiuseppeMariani

Cover Photo: Francesco Cusa