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Eyal Hareuveni

@eyalh.bsky.social
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Freelance journalist and music reviewer for the Free Jazz Collective blog, Salt Peanuts and Percorsci Musicali

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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 7h
Swedish quintet We Float, augmented by Vindla String Quartet, offers a new cycle of songs that reflect on the inevitable, quiet awareness of time passing and the wish to inhabit the moment we are given. Jan Granlie and my reviews for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/we-fl...
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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 13h
Australian violinist Anna Mcmichael & double bass player-vocalist Helen Svoboda find an intimate, poetic, and compassionate language with the Antarctic Weddell Seals' vocalizations. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/10/15/a...
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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 20h
Experimental guitarist Dirk Serries uses the studio to sculpt and layer expansive and highly resonant ambient architectures that radiate an optimistic, warm, and bright light. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/dirk-...
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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Norwegian pianist and composer Ingfrid Breie Nyhus offers solo piano music inspired by slåtter folk music from Hallingdal, where Nyhus’ mother’s family has roots and where Nyhus spent much of her time. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/ingfr...
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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Percussionist Sofia Borges & sax player Yedo Gibson suggest a series of postcards from an eventful journey within an imaginary forest + Borges' sOnic alchemy with bassist Klaus Janek & vocal artist Natalie Peters. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/10/14/s...
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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Swiss rabeca player Thomas Rohrer & Portuguese hyper-guitarist Abdul Moimême suggest unknown yet timeless, haunting and cinematic landscapes in post-Cagean, mysterious, mythical sonic universes. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/10/14/t...
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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Trumpeter Franz Hautzinger, hyper-pianist Philip Zoubek, turntable wizard Ignaz Schick & drummer Tony Buck focus on the free-improvised process, allowing the sound to blend into an enigmatic sonic organism. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/hautz...
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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
One of the best albums of 2006 - the piano duo of Tania Giannouli & Nik Bärtsch, weaving folk-tinged melodies with a modern, spiritual-ritualistic rhythmic dimension, making it ascetic and ecstatic at the same time. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/tania...
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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The 18th duo album of New York-based tenor sax player Ivo Perelman & pianist Matthew Shipp and they still inspire, provoke, and enrich each other’s musical universe in the most intimate and unpredictable manners possible. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/ivo-p...
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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Polish trio RGG – pianist Łukasz Ojdana, double bass player Maciej Garbowski & drummer Krzysztof Gradziuk - celebrates its 25th anniversary with insightful interpretations and arrangements of Chopin's compositions. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/rgg-5/
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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
American alto sax player Tim Berne & drummer Tom Rainey - in 1st free-imrov meeting with generation-younger Italian baritone sax player Giuseppe Doronzo & Greek guitarist and live-electronics artist Jannis Anastasakis. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/10/09/b...
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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Guitarists Claus Boesser-Ferrari & Elliott Sharp's most beautiful homage to American Jewish artist Boris Lurie + Sharp's live solo acoustic guitar performance + Sharp's reworking of his work with the Croatian Aperion collective. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/claus...
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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Swedish trumpeter Goran Kajfeš and his Subtropic Arkestra's 2nd EP with guest vocalist, this time Amanda Werne, offering sensual, ethio-jazz and Brazilian music-tinged psychedelia. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/goran...
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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Space - pianist Lisa Ullén, double bass player Elsa Bergman & drummer Anna Lund - in a stromy, poetic, and exploratory free improvised performance, stressing that it is a way of thinking and creating. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/10/08/s...
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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Clarinetist Kai Fagaschinski's quadrupled, 33 ⅓-minute piece The Evil of Banality is a deeply immersive composition that allows the listener to dive and disappear into a lush cloud of multiphonics and their overtones. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/10/08/k...
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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Guitarist Brandon Seabrook says his new album Utility Modern is a homage to the guitar and the guitarists whose music shaped his artistic voice, especially Bill Frisell. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/brand...
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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Violinist-vocalist Maria IJ Reich's cycle of songs, Care Works, focuses on her recent experience of the definite care work – giving birth and motherhood from an insightful, feminine perspective. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/maria...
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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Vocal artist, composer, and improviser Juliana Venter's 1st solo album faithfully reflects Venter’s poetic, idiosyncratic qualities as a performer and as an outspoken artist who deeply cares about the evils of this world. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/julia...
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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Norwegian free jazz and free-improv pioneer Frode Gjerstad unites with avant-guitarists Karl Bjorå & Håvard Skaset, bringing the gospel of free music in intense, thorny, and volatile, tune-like collisions. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/frode...
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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The free-improv electro-acoustic quartet of signal-processing instrumentalist Lawrence Casserley, microtonal guitarist Pascal Marzan, vocal artist Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg & violinist Philipp Wachsmann. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/10/05/c...
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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Free improvising violinist Alex Cunningham focuses on the most intense, uncompromising, raw, and noisy sonic palette of his instrument, calling it “American fiddle music linking hands to fall down the stairs”. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/10/03/a...
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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
SQUANDERERS - guitarist and songwriter Wendy Eisenberg, guitarist David Grubbs & bassist Bonner Kramer - fly into mysterious deep space on a sacred mission to spread their beautiful mermaid shit. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/squan...
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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Black Sea Songs is the trio of imaginative, travelling storytellers – Turkish vocalist-cellist Sanem Kalfa, Romanian guitarist George Dumitriu & Belgian clarinettist Joachim Badenhorst - now turning inward to its original songs. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/sanem...
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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Pianist and composer Philipp Rüttgers takes the stately music of Eric Satie and adds some twists – subtle swinging pulses and a touch of irony – and places it within the context of a modern jazz piano trio. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/phili...
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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Swiss pianist Gisela Horat's Trio Solo - with double bass player Simon Iten & drummer Samuel Büttiker - explores insightful meeting points between modern jazz, minimalism, and free improvisation. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/gisel...
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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The experimental duo of clarinettist Rebecca Minten & live electronics player Luz González' Ruins of a non-existent place moves between deconstructed and layered architecture and abstract, unstable landscapes. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/10/01/m...
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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Double bass player Jordan Sand meditates on death as she strips her instrument's palette to its core bowed elements and explores how her fragile voice can blend into it, erupting in dissonance. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/10/01/j...
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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Alto sax player Ilia Belorukov & hyper-pianist Marina Džukljev's Shuttling of Shadows is an intense, uncompromising, and heated argument between two opinionated and articulate improvisers. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/10/01/i...
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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The first-ever and, so far, the last free improvised performance of the ad hoc trio of Finnish drummer Olavi Louhivuori, Norwegian trumpeter Eivind Lønning and guitarist Kim Myhr. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/louhi...
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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Two Dogs - vocalist and wizard turntablist Joke Lanz & feedbacker guitarist Beat Keller - suggest what we already suspected: People Do Strange Things, and offer insightful observations about the culture-conscious Earthlings. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/two-d...
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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Norwegian master guitarists and string instrumentalists Knut Reiersrud and Geir Sundstøl transform Henry Purcell's stately music into tasteful, openly emotional, folk-like musical food for the soul. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/knut-...
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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Pianist-keyboard player-vocalist-percussionist Faith Coloccia & guitarist Tashi Dorji's And Their Power Was Alive is an urgent yet fragile and poetic response to the worldly chaos and a world full of excessive force. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/faith...
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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Historic performances of the short-lived free-improvising trio of late visionary German reed player Wolfgang Fuchs, and generation-younger American double bass master Damon Smith & drummer Jerome Bryerton. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/09/28/f...
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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Amalie Dahl's Dafnie unique and stimulating collaboration with pianist Lisa Ullén on Live at Kafé Hærverk calls for more expansions. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/amali...
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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Swedish bassist and multi-instrumentalist Mauritz Agnas' Flowers Were His Bones sketches a mysterious musical universe that shifts between the thoughtful and orchestral, the tense and the unsettling. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/mauri...
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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Norwegian free jazz trio Sulida - reed player Marthe Lea, double bass player Jon Rune Strøm & drummer Dag Erik Knedal Andersen - in an inspired performance with German experimental trumpeter Axel Dörner. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/09/25/s...
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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Norwegian Espen Eriksen Trio keeps refining its commanding, elegant, and articulate aesthetic with Almost There, a set of eight lyrical songs, often spiced with a Nordic, melancholic vibe. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/espen...
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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Los Angeles-based tenor sax player Patrick Shiroishi & Brooklyn-based drummer Jason Nazary dedicate their album to the late trumpeter Jaimie Branch, and it is charged with her life-affirming, positive energy. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/patri...
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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Free improvising cellist Julia Biłat demonstrates a deeply physical and uncompromising practice and a fearful way of pushing her cello into dark, fragile, and unsettling terrains, with a commanding, poetic voice. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/09/23/j...
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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Norwegian composer and electronic musician Kjetil Husebø's Contours of Texture is informed by the loss of his younger brother and is shaped by loss, grief, absence, and transformation. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/kjeti...
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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Pendulum is a singular piano trio featuring French pianist Benoit Delbecq with Danish double bass player Jonas Westergaard and drummer Peter Bruun, exploring new approaches to musical time. My review for the Free Jazz Blog: www.freejazzblog.org/2026/09/pend...
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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Greek experimental guitarist Jannis Anastasakis & Australian trumpeter Peter Knight's 1st free improvised meeting offers layered and nuanced, suggestive cinematic journeys. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/janni...
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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Clarinettist and composer John McCowen's composition, based on spectral analysis of the contrabass clarinet multiphonics + trombonist Weston Olencki's subversive compositions for the experimental ensemble Bascaille. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/09/21/a...
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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Composer-sound artist Hannes Strobl offers an immersive sonification of Innsbruck as a network of acoustic and processed sounds that overlap, shift, and recombine within a dynamic field of resonance. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/09/21/h...
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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Colombian alto sax and clarinettist Maria Valencia & Argentinian trumpeter Leonel Kaplan in a yin-tang, deep listening ethereal conversation, balancing restraint and spontaneity in equal measure. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/09/22/m...
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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Drummer Valentin Schuster's WOBBLE8 plays music for a world that has become stranger, galloping from doom-metal attack to dramatic, prog-rock flight, to fiery, cathartic free jazz eruptions, moving in and out of place. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/wobbl...
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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Swedish experimental guitarist Finn Loxbo's Lummernikt captures his free spirit and imaginative sonic vision and takes him to unpredictable territories that suggest evocative and dramatic musical stories. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/finn-...
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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Calum Builder uses his self-built (Re)Constructed Pipe Organ to perform a reconstructed hymn for our unstable times and deconstructive policies. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/09/19/c...
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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Swedish vocalist, composer, and songwriter Lina Nyberg's 25th album offers some offers wise, compassionate, and sober perspectives on the passage of time and the mood swings between joy and sorrow. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/lina-...
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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
American cellist and composer Janel Leppin-Pirog has a new trio, and its debut album is a love letter to her lifetime home of Washington, DC. My review for Salt peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/janel...
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