10 Mar

[ March the 14th, 2025 release via Pyroclastic: Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson – Bone Bells ]

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Bone Bells, out March 14, 2025 via Pyroclastic Records, thrives on the pair’s bold instincts, improvisational daring and far-ranging compositional vision

“Courvoisier and Halvorson have a chemistry that brings out something new in both of them… [Searching for the Disappeared Hour] is a totally involving and, in its own warped way, beautiful session of music.” – Jerome Wilson, All About Jazz

“Courvoisier and Halvorson reach across the specifics of their approach to celebrate a mutuality of taste: of melodic shapes, of rhythmic structures, of harmonic colour.”– J.D. Considine, JazzTimes

29 Oct

[ Clean Feed’s AUTUMN 2023 RELEASES + NEW RELEASES – special promo ]

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For those who are not aware YET, Portuguese CLEAN FEED is one of those record labels which are working as a chronicles of the real changes taking place in the Jazz, and Creative music Avantgarde, in general. This is absolutely priceless work they do, similar to what Labels like, Swiss HAT HUT, (Hathut encompasses the labels hat ART, hatOLOGY, and hat NOIR) and INTAKT are doing. German ECM, JazzWERK or TRAUMTON. American TZADIK, CIMP, AUM Fidelity or Atavistic. French Label Bleu or NATO. British EMANEM, Leo Records, SLAM or INCUS. I can go on and on for long and still miss many who contributed into that titanic work. What matters is that, WE, listeners are aware of them and support them actively by buying their recordings and supporting artist which are going to be A Tomorrow TITANS!

22 Oct

[ October the 29th, 2021 release via Pyroclastic Records: Mary Halvorson & Sylvie Courvoisier – Searching for the Disappeared Hour ]

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release date: 29.10.2021 via Pyroclastic Records

Searching for the Disappeared Hour, due out October 29, 2021 via Pyroclastic Records, finds the two acclaimed artists exploring notions of time through evocative original compositions and thrilling improvisations

“[Courvoisier and Halvorson are] two of New York’s most idiosyncratic and distinctive improvisers… [Their debut recording] Crop Circles is deeply chamber-like in its deft, interactive intimacy.” – Peter Margasak, Downbeat

“This meeting of two of the brightest minds on the edgier side of jazz today produces music that’s astonishing both in its fluency and ceaseless ingenuity.” – S. Victor Aaron, Something Else!

To paraphrase the late Douglas Adams, “Time is an illusion. Pandemic time doubly so.” On their brilliant new duo album, Searching for the Disappeared Hour, pianist Sylvie Courvoisier and guitarist Mary Halvorson make up for lost time with an hour’s worth of kaleidoscopic beauty and startling invention.