Tag: Sylvie Courvoisier

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The vibraphonist Patricia Brennan says that she first heard Sylvie Courvoisier play 'long before I ever imagined we might share a bandstand. What struck me immediately was that she approached the piano not simply as a harmonic instrument, but as an entire physical world'. Courvoisier's piano playing certainly refutes the adage, but when it comes to physical proximity the contemporary...

Sylvie Courvoisier has had a busy couple of years with To Be Other-Wise her long anticipated return to the solo format swiftly followed by a couple of outstanding collaborations, including the duo albums Bone Bells with the guitarist Mary Halvorson and Angel Falls with the trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith. Yet last February over a series of dates in Germany...

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...