Tag: Kedr Livanskiy

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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...

From her breakthrough outpouring January Sun to the suggestively titled K-Notes in the summer of 2023, a run of about seven and a half years which brought forth three albums, one soundtrack project and a couple of extended plays, the formula for Kedr Livanskiy's music remained broadly the same, one of woozy electronics which splayed out over a glacial...

Benjamin Lackner plays the piano with a plangent grace at the head of a new ensemble on his latest album Spindrift for ECM Records. Only the trumpeter Mathias Eick remains from his debut ECM offering Last Decade, while the pianist also reconnects with Matthieu Chazarenc on drums who was a member of his earlier trio. Eick with the tenor...