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Spring 2017 CD releases from Clean Feed and Rogue Art
Once upon a time I ran a record label called Metalanguage with guitarist Henry Kaiser, and for that brief time-span (1978-85, plus a few CD releases more recently), I had total control over the process of producing a CD. But working as a guest artist with a label can be very... Read more
Mining Songs From The Wild Cave
In spring 2014, I received an email from Alban Jacques in Toulouse, France. He had recently explored a “privately owned cave” near Toulouse at the invitation of the owner, a cave that held some 150 prehistoric man-made cave paintings. Would I be interested to record... Read more
Ochs – Nels Cline – Gerald Cleaver play 4 concerts plus...
December 8-11 was a musical high note for me. First I got to play 3 concerts with Cline and Cleaver for at least one long set each night. Read more
Rova's homage to Butch Morris — No Favorites! — release by New World on CD
Rova and the 2015 version of Orkestrova recorded a CD’s worth of music at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley on July 1, two days after a fantastic concert in San Francisco. Orkestrova 2015 – a power trio, string quartet and Rova, all playing together – recorded three long pieces... Read more
Latest Release
Rova :: Orkestrova: No Favorites! for Lawrence 'Butch' Morris
New World 80782 (2016) Read more..
Commendation Quotes
Rova, with its inspired Orkestrova, engages Coltrane's uncompromising compositional attitude and boundaries, pushing with its own sense of informed and masterful improvisation. This marrying of great minds and souls is what makes Electric Ascension such a great triumph. This time Coltrane's music not only heats the nearby atmosphere but also chills out your mind.
Ochs’s long welcoming speech on (the Sax & Drumming Core piece) ‘Across from Over’ is one of the best available representations on record of his remarkable post-post-Coltrane style, an ironclad line that ripples with harmonic potential.