Tag: John Hollenbeck

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As swiftly as she has ascended the ranks of our most exciting composers, the vibraphonist Patricia Brennan's work as a leader has until now displayed an inflationary bent. Her debut Maquishti was a solo affair on vibraphone and marimba while More Touch, her acclaimed breakthrough as a composer, added a lively rhythm section through Kim Cass on the double...

Showing marked synergy, the lyrist Sokratis Sinopoulos and pianist Yann Keerim infuse folk music, including the six Romanian Folk Dances of Béla Bartók, with a dark and sometimes glacial kind of grandeur on their new album Topos, the first outing by the Greek musicians as a duo. Amplified by their four sylvan original compositions, this sense of careful stone-turning imbued...