Finnish guitarist Heikki Ruokangas has a new trio and an album os story-like instrumental pieces inspired by the world of ghosts. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/heikk...

Tres Hongos - trumpeter Jacob Wick, pianist Marc Riordan & drummer Frank Rosaly - offer subversive and disruptive journey that flirts with Dadaist chaos. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/tres-...

Norwegian pianist and composer Kjetil A Mulelid is a romantic who is well-versed in the solo piano legacy within classical music and jazz, but has already developed his distinct, mature, elegant, and thoughtful voice. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/kjeti...

Polish trumpeter Olgierd Dokalski's solo album, Preludes to the Universe, is a set of seven immersive yet abstract stories "about order taking shape, about forms emerging from chaos, about sounds finding their place". My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/olgie...

Poet, pianist, and composer Eliot Cardinaux' solo album, The Furries, was inspired by Russian dissident poet Osip Mandelstam, and its centerpiece is dedicated to composer Daniel Levine. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/eliot...

Percussionist and electronics player Tom Teasley & master trumpeter Dave Ballou's 2nd volume of spontaneous, story-like, and often poetic melodic improvisations. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/tom-t...

The Norwegian Møster!, led by reed player and composer Kjetil Traavik Møster, returns with Bolts to its primal, dirty, loud, and fierce sound, letting its sound vibrate within your body long after the album is over. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/moste...

Portuguese master trumpeter Luís Vicente Quartet's 2nd album, Spirits Moving, highlights the role of free music as an uplifting, thought-provoking art. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/luis-...

The Slovenian free-improvising Sunday Sextet’s sophomore album, Meander is a six-movement exploration of six experimental, exploratory voices working as a collective, genre-defying sonic entity. My review for Salt peanuts salt-peanuts.eu/record/sunda...

An intimate, poetic duo of sax player Jorge Torrecillas & pianist Mario Mocho, reflecting on seasonal phenomena + free-improv trio of Torrecillas, bassist Pablo Vazquez & drummer Marcelo von Schultz. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/mario...

A masterful and poetic, free-improvised conversations of German vocal artist Lars Süß & Swiss double bass master Daniel Studer. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/07/27/s...

Experimental sound artist Agile Opium Serpents (aka Pere Xirau), violinist Xiang & bassist Alex Reviriego in an enigmatic, reductive piece + Reviriego’s solo electronics work, searching soulless pirates. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/07/27/p...

Danish flugelhorn player and composer Jakob Buchanan's chamber jazz Mols: The Mols Booklet of Melodies is dedicated to its new home and its fairy-tale-like and Tolkien-esque atmosphere. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/jakob...

Tenor sax and electronics player Zack Moir & double bass player Roberto Cassani's Anaglyph explores their individual musical voices as they converge into intimate, story-like textures. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/zack-...

The London Experimental Ensemble uses the live painting of painter Gina Southgate as a graphic score, and she responds in real time to the Ensemble’s free improvised playing. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/07/25/t...

Violist Ernesto Rodrigues and cellist Guilherme Rodrigues in 2 completely different free-improv 4tets - with guitarist Olaf Rupp & pianist Roman Stolyar + reed player Chris Heenan & percussionist Stephen Flinn. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/07/25/e...

My choices for The Annual Francis Davis Jazz Critics at Mid-Year, in no particular order: hullworks.net/jazzpoll/26m...

The Barcelona-based ensemble La Interdimensional Discordiana was founded by multi-instrumentalist and conductor El Pricto, using an astronomical system based on the birth charts of its musicians as graphic scores. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/la-in...

Danish pianist Christian Rønn & legendary American free jazz drummer Pheeroan Aklaff dive into spontaneous, intuitive, and intense spiritual free jazz terrains. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/chris...

Soprano sax player Michel Doneda & alto sax player Philippe Lauzier use their instruments as poetic sound generators, like metal tubes that channel streams of air. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/07/22/m...

British tenor sax players Tom Challenger & Evan Parker have a deep listening, contemplative, and profound acoustic dance “about our playing”, in the best Ornette Coleman's Dancing in Your Head meaning. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/07/22/t...

Australian ex-pats and experimental sonic explorers – guitarist Oren Ambarchi & drummer Will Guthrie - are possessed in their own mysterious, circular dance of freedom. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/oren-...

The free-improv trio of pianist Rieko Okuda, trombonist Matthias Müller & percussionist Samuel Hall interlocks its sonic palettes within exploratory yet coherent, and often spiraling, complex architectures. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/okuda...

3 intriguing pieces by Irish composer and sound artist Fiona Merivale (using electronics and field recordings) and sax player Catherine Sikora, reflecting on different angles of the idea of home. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/07/19/f...

Vocal artist Marcela Lucatelli, bassist John Andrew Wilhite, & guitarist-synth player Elliott Sharp produce an intense and merciless atmosphere that matches ritual destruction and generative sonic expansion. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/marce...

Prolific tenor sax improviser Ivo Perelman in a new trio with guitarist Elliott Sharp & percussionist Cyro Baptista + 3rd album of the quartet with pianist Matt Shipp, bassist William Parker & drummer Bobby Kapp. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/perel...

Violist Joanna Mattrey, tenor sax player Camila Nebbia, flutist Camilo Ángeles & cellist VIOLETA GARCÍA offer intricate resonances and multiphonics, focus - and are often possessed by - the materiality of each sound. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/07/19/m...

Reed player Phillip Greenlief & double bass player Amanda Irarrazabal offer surreal, free-associative, and open-to-negotiation textures that exhaust their rich sonic palettes. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/07/18/p...

Guitarist Florian Stoffner acts like a sound painter or sonic explorer who struggles with a spacious canvas or a tangible, physical space, suggesting the imaginative architecture of his bold, economic sonic strokes. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/07/18/f...

Chicagoan sax and electronics player Randy Trubitt's (Peace Is Not) An Awful Lot To Ask offers a protest and a proposition: that resistance is not only necessary, but possible. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/randy...