Tag: Camila Nebbia

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For roughly half of the year I listened to everything, almost or near enough. Then I wilted, or the opposite of that, for come the summer I perked up in my stool and began to listen to summer ambiances like the chirping of birds, the splashing of hose pipes and water pistols or the sizzling of a barbecue. As...

There's a punishing tenor to the new trio album by Camila Nebbia, Kit Downes and Andrew Lisle which stretches beyond the brassy and gruff yet still resonant tone of the topline saxophone. The musicians are no strangers to the format. Nebbia's penchant for collaboration includes several diverse trio albums over the past couple of years, for instance on Diminished Borders...

Playing tenor saxophone and effects, on her latest album rastro o vacío the Argentinian improviser Camila Nebbia blends short squalls and bluesy passages with more sustained tones and a circular breathing technique whereby the winnowing pulses of her instrument achieve eerie and spectral ends. It is that eerie quality on 'El color de un río desconocido' - with its whimpering...