Violinair (Violipiano) I like the way Luca Ciarla’s mind works. Music, the Italian seems to suggest, is a game in which one toys with idiom and mood, while appropriating whatever makes it more fun, whether that’s his own superlative facility on the violin, electronic gadgetry, compositional diversity or improvised interaction.…
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Old Time Sing Song Man (Pound) When Tom Waits first emerged in the 1970s he sounded about 30 years older than he was. Archer somehow doubles that, sounding like his own grandfather, and he writes songs you’d swear were first aired before the recording industry was even born. The weird…
This Time (Which Way) As fascinating as the expansion of Slava and Leonard Grigoryan’s musicianship beyond the classical guitar domain has been, it is always a pleasure when they return to this core discipline. Superbly recorded in Oslo’s illustrious Rainbow Studios (with famed engineer Jan Erik Kongshaug), this album nods…