Mustapiste

Experimental art review

  • The TAKAKENO festival can be surmised by acknowledging the synthesis of the new with the ancient: Using archaic instruments as a starting point for something cutting edge. It’s become somewhat of a trope in new music circles recently, and frankly I’m all for it.

  • What’s the deal with jazz and cats? One can go down quite a rabbit hole to discover why musicians in the jazz world call each other “cats”, in my interpretation it’s something to do with the skill of improvisation – or maybe adaptation to an environment – or something along those lines.

  • Interbody is the sophomore release of Heli Hartikainen, following their extremely well received Chronovariations (September 2024). I’ll start this review with a question: Is the second step always harder than the first?