Alex Louloudis - Words (2021 Off)

Alex Louloudis is a drummer in the field of free jazz and improvised music; a composer of contemporary and experimental music; and a percussionist in Afro-Cuban style music. He is a graduate from The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York City, has released two records and his work has been presented in various places all over the world, such as The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in NYC, Bern Jazz Festival in Switzerland, De Ruimte in Amsterdam.

His new album was recorded in New-York with some of the best jazz musicians of the moment. Alex wrote the music and the words of the 2vocal tracks. The music is definitively contemporary jazz but with a some reminders of the classic era of musicians like Coltrane or Monk! Enjoy

1. Surviving 05:25

2. Expedition in Nola 06:28

3. The Magic of 3 05:01

4. Ochun's Dance 05:04

5. I Hear You Eric 05:54

6. Words 07:10

Alex Louloudis- Drums

Rafael Statin- Tenor Saxophone

Dean Torrey- Bass

Rosdeli Marte- Vocals (#1, 6)

Kealean Ghandi- Tenor Saxophone (#1, 6)

Aaron Rubinstein- Guitar (#1, 6)

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Machine Mass Sextet - Intrusion (February 2021 Off)

MACHINE MASS started out in 2011 as an idiosyncratic MoonJune power duo made of longtime collaborators American drummer Tony BIANCO (Elton Dean, Paul Dunmall, Evan Parker) and Belgian guitarist Michel DELVILLE (The Wrong Object, Vegir). Hailed as a « feisty and rebel rousing exhibition that contains a surfeit of diametric contrasts and smoldering exchange » (All About Jazz), it has since then morphed into various forms and ventures involving guests such as Dave LIEBMAN (Inti, 2014) and Univers Zero and Wrong Object keyboardist Antoine GUENET (Machine Mass Plays Hendrix ; 2017).

Intrusion, Machine Mass’s fourth official album in a decade of existence, is a full-blown sextet extravaganza comprising eight live-in-the-studio tracks (six originals and two covers) featuring Wrong Object bassist Damien CAMPION alongside two seminal members of the Belgian and international jazz scene: Laurent BLONDIAU (Mâäk's Spirit, Andy Emler MegaOctet, Octurn) and Manuel HERMIA (Slang, Orchestra Nazionale della Luna, Hermia-Ceccaldi-Darrifourcq Trio).

Three years after the psychedelic fireworks of their acclaimed Jimi Hendrix tribute (which Brazilian producer Arnaldo de Souteiro described as « probably the best tribute to Hendrix since the legendary 1974 Gil Evans album ») Machine Mass’s Intrusion offers a set of steaming acoustic jazz laced with moderate yet significant amounts of electric and electronic guitar sounds.

The album builds as much on modern-day jazz structures and rhythms as it harks back to the relentless ostinati and horizontal intricacies of modal jazz (the CD opens with John Coltrane’s « Africa » and closes with Joe Zawinul’s « In a Silent Way »).

1. Africa (Coltrane) 10:48

2. Intrusion (Guenet) 14:17

3. This Is (Bianco, Blondiau, Campion, Delville, Guenet, Hermia) 2:19

4. Not Another Loud Song (Delville) 9:01

5. Intro (Campion) 2:12

6. The Roll (Delville) 9:02

7. ED (Delville) 6:16

8. In a Silent Way (Zawinul) 11:14

Laurent Blondiau: trumpet

Manuel Hermia: saxophones

Michel Delville: guitar, Roland GR09

Antoine Guenet: piano

Damien Campion: double bass

Tony Bianco: drums

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