Articles by Glen Hall

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  Alan Licht, Aki Onda & Michael Snow

  Music Gallery, Toronto ON December 12

  PUBLISHED Dec 16, 2008

  Five years since their first collaboration, NYC guitarist Alan Licht and cassette tape/effects magician Aki Onda continue their musical rel...

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  Blah Blah 666

  It's Only Life!

  PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2008

  If Roberto Benigni was Mexican and a musician, he may have recorded this CD, or something cheerful like it. Coming as it does from some of...

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  Jacques Demierre / Isabelle Duthoit

  Avenues

  PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2008

  This duo from France explore the outer reaches of sonorities that live within the piano, clarinet and voice. Demierre’s piano is tapped, st...

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  Bernhard Gal

  Relive

  PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2008

  Austrian sound artist Bernhard Gal is an "ear camera.” His listening is so acute, so sensitive that the field recordings that form the basi...

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  John Roney

  Silverbirch

  PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2008

  Montreal pianist/composer John Roney is a seriously accomplished musician. On Silverbirch, he places his lyrical playing in a classical-ish...

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  Natasha Barrett

  Trade Winds

  PUBLISHED Aug 23, 2008

  British composer Natasha Barrett (now living in Norway) has created a suite of sensuously subtle, eerily evocative works of acousmatic magi...

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  Domancich / Avenel / Gouvert

  DAG

  PUBLISHED Aug 23, 2008

  This is a quintessential jazz trio. Pianist Sophia Domancich, Steve Lacy’s long-time bassist Jean-Jacques Avenel and drummer Simon Gouvert...

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  Various

  Justin Time 25th Anniversary Collection

  PUBLISHED Aug 23, 2008

  Canada’s granddaddy jazz label, Montreal-based Justin Time, has released a remarkable number of recordings for an admittedly niche market....