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Pat Thomas – The Bliss of Bliss

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Loitering with intent in the vicinity of a stool, Pat Thomas begins to pull sawing shapes out from the insides of his piano. Steep clusters make it sound like his instrument is tumbling wholesale down a ravine, and at times his keys and their hammered strings conjure images of a tumultuous violin section, as though the musicians were playing...

Tracks of the Week 19.01.25

Tracks of the Week
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...

Tracks of the Week 20.07.24

Tracks of the Week
On the opening song 'Stella Maris' from his debut long play, the artist and composer Allan Gilbert Balon offers a cloistered procession of organ and voice which feels both evocative and utterly self-contained. The music of the piece bears comparison with the sustained notes and partial tones of works for organ and carillon by Charlemagne Palestine, but where the...