Gianluca Elia & Lorenzo Colocci – LSWR. Photo: Tobias Nicolai. By Macon Holt MINU is an annual festival for what it terms “expanded music”. That is music that simultaneously rejects the necessity of the conventions of the “Western musical tradition” and the commitment to vanguardist or inscent progressivism of a label like Avant Grade while pursuing new ways of music making. However, in ...

E/I – ”explicit isolation” (mappa, 2024) – anmeldelse af Kristoffer Møllegaard Den polskfødte perkussionist og komponist Szymon Gąsioreks har gennem de seneste år foldet sig ud i adskillige musikalske konstellationer såvel som solokunstner. Men selvom jeg tilbage i 2022 allerede stiftede bekendtskab med hans musik i form af soloudgivelsen Pozdrawiam, var det kollektive projekt E/I, hvori han også spiller en central rolle, ...

Szymon Gąsiorek By Simon Christensen The two Copenhagen-based Polish jazz/impro-players Kamil Piotrowicz and Szymon Gąsiorek present the first edition of the international Idealistic Festival, which take place in two parts in Copenhagen and Warsaw respectively next week. The festival focus is cross-cultural exchange of independent artists and labels from the new generation of freethinking musicians and could be viewed along the lines of similar initiatives like Multiversal ...