In a remarkable example of uncanny group-think, pianist-keyboardist and RareNoise regular Jamie Saft (Metallic Taste of Blood, Slobber Pup, Plymouth, Saft, Swallow and Previte, Wadada Leo Smith) joins with longtime collaborators Trevor Dunn on bass and Balázs Pándi on drums and master trombonist Roswell Rudd on […]
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Rudd, Victor, Harris, Filiano
For his follow-up to 2016’s purely improvised studio recording Strength & Power (a cooperative quartet album featuring pianist Jamie Saft, bassist Trevor Dunn and drummer Balazs Pandi), the ever-adventurous trombonist-composer Roswell Rudd made a decided shift in direction on his […]
Saft, Swallow and Previte
Over a career now spanning nearly thirty years, Jamie Saft has established himself as one of the visionaries of contemporary American music. As a composer, pianist and keyboard innovator, and collaborator of music icons such as Bad Brains, […]
Sean Noonan Pavees Dance
A drummer and composer whose music enthusiastically defies category, Sean Noonan prefers the title Rhythmic Storyteller – an apt description for a modern-day sonic griot who spins imaginative yarns in the ancient tradition of wandering minstrels while […]
Slobber Pup
Jamie Saft’s, Joe Morris’ and Balazs Pandi’s artistic relationship has been steadily developing on RareNoise since late 2012 : Saft and Pandi both played on Metallic Taste Of Blood; all three played with Wadada Leo […]
Somma
Somma (“Sacred Order of Music, Magic and Art“) is the lifelong project of Eraldo Bernocchi and Petulia Mattioli. Somma is at heart a live audiovisual event involving juxtapposing tibetan monks to more modern performers in the space of […]
Spin Marvel
Spin Marvel is originally the brainchild of drummer Martin France in conjunction with Norwegian sound sculptor Terje Evensen and british bassist Tim Harries. For their third release, Infolding (after Spin Marvel (2006) and The Reluctantly Politicised Mr James (2010)), they are joined by celebrated […]
The Spanish Donkey
The sound of Joe Morris’ electric guitar, with distortion pedal set on stun and wah-wah pedal fully engaged, colliding with Jamie Saft’s droning, microtonal organ and Mike Pride’s thunderous free drumming approach to the kit creates a mind-numbing […]
Wadada Leo Smith, Saft, Morris, Pándi
Fueled by the urgent high note blasts and expressive muted trumpet work of avant-garde icon Wadada Leo Smith and underscored by an uncanny group-think of RareNoise stalwarts Jamie Saft (Metallic Taste of Blood, Slobber Pup, Plymouth, Saft, Swallow and […]