Etceteral, Rhizome, tak:til ***

More Slovenian sounds and totally different from the Draksler approach given Etceteral's art synth skronking profile - the whole sound operates in another idiom entirely beyond borders. While a curate's egg of a record - good in parts, grandad look …

Published: 17 Oct 2022. Updated: 18 months.

More Slovenian sounds and totally different from the Draksler approach given Etceteral's art synth skronking profile - the whole sound operates in another idiom entirely beyond borders. While a curate's egg of a record - good in parts, grandad look away now - the Will Glaser-esque drumming of Marek Fakuč on 'Dunno' appeals. Baritone saxist Boštjan Simon's approach however pared back and relatively restrained is reminiscent of the punkish approach of Pete Wareham in another register especially when the King Gary sax maven teamed up with Polish geniuses Pink Freud in Shoreditch club Cargo at touring festival Fertilizer in 2009. The idea works. Give Rhizome a spin. Out on 11 November. Etceteral - Marek Fakuč, left, Lina Rica, Boštjan Simon. Photo: Žiga Palčar

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Kaja Draksler and Susana Santos Silva, 'Moonrise,' Intakt ****

Avant today in One luv - track of the day - drawn from Grow to be released on Friday. Slovenian pianist Kaja Draksler in recent years has become one of the most highly rated European improvisers and clearly, old news - for instance, listen to the …

Published: 17 Oct 2022. Updated: 18 months.

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Avant today in One luv - track of the day - drawn from Grow to be released on Friday. Slovenian pianist Kaja Draksler in recent years has become one of the most highly rated European improvisers and clearly, old news - for instance, listen to the pianist on Christian Lillinger's Open Form For Society Live - Draksler is a world class player. If you are into Kris Davis, Marilyn Crispell or Alexander Hawkins then certainly Draksler is in some kind of broad however general context idiomatically if not stylistically.

Draksler is in duo with a kindred spirit in Portuguese trumpeter Susana Santos Silva recording live in Copenhagen last year. Silva is a little Wadada Leo Smith like in the smears and fracturings delivered over the roiling ocean of sound from Draksler. The pair also worked together on 2015 album, This Love.