LOVELY AIRPLAY

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The mixcloud show AMBIENT LANDSCAPE, curated by Gene Bulmer, does it again. Here’s a beautiful episode that browses through a selection of our releases. Realy grateful, thanks Gene.

01 Fabio Perletta – 9_23_(excerpt)
02 Asmus Tietchens & Dirk Serries – Air Akkordeon
03 Goncalo Almeida – Monólogos a Dois I
04 Pierre Gerard – En Plein Rose D’un Bois Lisse
05 Serries-Vanderstraeten-Verhoeven – Stasis
06 Benedict Taylor & Anton Mobin – Minimal Muck
07 Dirk Serries – Factor
08 Arvind Gang & Riccardo Marogna – The Limp Leaves Waited for Rain,
……While the Black Clouds Gathered, far Distant, over Himavant
09 Alan Wilkinson & Dirk Serries – HYG 2
10 Kodian Trio – II, 4

BANDCAMP FRIDAY

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Today is bandcamp Friday so to join in this celebration, we’re offering you a stunning 50% discount on all digital and physical releases. The discount is valid through midnight by applying this code : bandcampfriday21.

Thank you so much for your ongoing support and enjoy the music.

PETER JACQUEMYN

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Apart from being an amazing improviser on the double bass, PETER JACQUEMYN is also a respected visual artist. Gallery Lineair currently runs an exhibition of his work (till September 19th, 2021). For those living in Belgium, definitely worth a visit.

PORTAMENTO JULY

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Here’s a new episode which aired last Thursday on the CONCERTZENDER. Enjoy.

PORTAMENTO 22.07.021
01. John Butcher / Dominic Lash / John Russell / Mark Sanders – Discerned (Discernment, Spoonhunt 2021).
02. Rodrigo Amado / Joe McPhee / Kent Kessler / Chris Corsano – Let The Free Be Men (Let The Free Be Men, Trost Records 2021).
03. Ma/ti/om – Trädet Och Skyn/The Tree and the Sky (Ashes, Raw Tonk Records 2016).
04. IST – Lodi II (Lodi, Confront Recordings 2020).
05. Gonçalo Almeida – Monólogos a Dois III (Monólogos a Dois, A New Wave Of Jazz 2021).

BROWSING THE ARCHIVE

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Here’s the third episode of our JOURNAL radioshow for Kool Kast on which we focus on our releases, older and new. Re-listenable on mixcloud.

1. BENEDICT TAYLOR & DIRK SERRIES –V from ‘Puncture Cycle’ (2019)
2. CHRISTOPH SCHILLER & ANOUCK GENTHON – Die Stille from ‘zeitweise lichter Schneefall’ (2019)
3. KODIAN TRIO – III from ‘I’ (2016)
4. RUSSELL/KEUNE/VANDERSTRAETEN – On Sunday 1 from ‘On Sunday’ (2020)
5. ANTOINE BEUGER performed by DANTE BOON – Excerpt from ‘Traces Of Eternity : Of What Is Yet To Be’ (2019)

WEBSTER/THOMPSON/TAYLOR

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Three of our favorite musicians : COLIN WEBSTER, DANIEL THOMPSON and BENEDICT TAYLOR are playing the mighty HUNDRED YEARS GALLERY tomorrow. An event that also brings STEVE NOBLE to the venue for a solo performance. Organized by Daniel Thompson’s own Empty Birdcage Records.

NWOJ RADIO FEATURE

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Krzysztof Pietraszewski’s excellent MUZYKOTEKA radioshow on the Polish Jazzkultura radiostation just broadcasted a lovely feature on a great selection of music from our label. You can listen to the show on mixcloud, even when you don’t understand Polish the selection is a worthwhile refreshment of what has already been released on A New Wave Of Jazz.

ALAN WILKINSON

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photo by Jef Vandebroek

British saxophonist ALAN WILKINSON is playing the fantastic HUNDRED YEARS GALLERY in London this upcoming Sunday, July 11th 2021. It’s a double bill with Olie Brice on double bass. For those living in London, one not to be missed. Also check his out his albums on our label, with ANDREW CHEETHAM here, with DIRK SERRIES here and the classic quartet/quintet at the Vortex Jazz Club (London) in 2017 here.

Go to the website of Hundred Years Gallery for all details.

ASMUS TIETCHENS

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Check out this lovely interview with legendary electro-acoustic composer ASMUS TIETCHENS. He talks about his early recordings in the sixties, his life-long collaboration with Okko Bekker and about ‘AIR’, his album with Dirk Serries on A New Wave Of Jazz. Read it here.