Sep 5, 2019 10:31 AM
Noncommercial Sounds Draw Crowds to Berlin’s A l’arme! Festival
From its very beginnings jazz has functioned like a stylistic blob, driven by its practitioners to absorb, assimilate…
Saxophonist Hanna Paulsberg (left), vocalist Rohey Taalah and bassist Ellen Andrea Wang perform as Gurls during A l’arme! Festival, which ran July 31-Aug. 3 in Berlin.
Sep 5, 2019 10:31 AM
From its very beginnings jazz has functioned like a stylistic blob, driven by its practitioners to absorb, assimilate…
Tom Zé was part of a Brazilian contingent at the Moers Festival—which ran June 7-10 in Moers, Germany—that also included Clube Da Encruza, Sambanzo and Absimu Curtu.
Jun 14, 2019 9:23 AM
The Moers Festival started in 1971, and its roots reach deep into the vortex of free improvisation. That’s still the…