Reviews by Massimo Ricci

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on Moloko+ (Plus (095) The second recorded collaboration between Alfred 23 Harth and New Zealand’s John Bell – a conscious...

on Moloko+  (Plus 087) Subsequent to many years spent with Alfred 23 Harth’s output, I find myself in the same position of the pr...

on Moloko+  (Plus 078) The physiognomy of Five Eyes is as heterogeneous as the fusion of an inauspicious incubus with the realization o...

Re Records Hong Kong Alfred 23 Harth: all instruments & recordings, with brief ghost apparitions by Fabrizio Spera (drums), ...

Kendra Steiner Editions Alfred 23 Harth: reeds, kaoss pad, dojirak, samples, voice; Carl Stone: computer, Max/MSP, voice, samples; Ka...

on Al Maslakh Alfred 23 Harth: alto sax, clarinet, vocal, electronics; Şevket Akinci: electric guitar; Umut Çağlar: electric guitar,...

on  Kendra Steiner  Editions A meeting between two big names whose partnership would have been nearly unthinkable just a few years ag...

The late Frank Zappa was among the first composers that I know to apply the process of “xenochrony” to music: that is to say, juxtaposin...

The music on Entelechy was recorded in 2008 at the Open Circuit-Interact Festival in Hasselt, Belgium. That it remained unreleased for thr...

Kendra Steiner Editions Nobody stops Alfred Harth’s inventiveness, a perpetual whirlwind of activity and experimentation that – at 61 – ke...

Described by its inventor as “another kind of looking back into the last decade”, @ Blankies End is one of the best records that Alfred 23 ...

On a first listen, the connection between the above milestone and @ Eighties End doesn’t appear so easy (nothing is when this artist is inv...

In 2001, Alfred Harth was enduring a bit of physical trouble, related to the many years spent with a piece of reed around his neck. He deci...

Laub is an only apparently simpler specimen of Harthian creativity, yet it’s without a doubt the more enigmatic item of this pair (and, in ...

In 1983, ECM’s honcho Manfred Eicher “nominated” Alfred Harth as the musical director of This Earth!, with the chance of choosing the parti...

Heinz Sauer (1932) ranks among the most prominent German saxophonists, a career including a number of significant collaborations with ent...

Lindsay Cooper, Alfred 23 Harth and Phil Minton were members of the Oh Moscow venture, which – prior to this recording – had touched Volgo...

See also JUST MUSIC on ECM 1002 + selfproduction (1969) and 4.Januar 1970 (selfproduction) 2009 is a fundamental moment in Alfred Harth’s...

Just listening to the radiophonic excerpt which opens the CD, recorded at Hessischer Rundfunk in 1968 and featuring snippets of interview (i...

A few additional soldiers join the squad. Harth and friends are flanked in a couple of instances by other free-thinkers, responding to the n...

This instalment of the “Memories” is particularly important, despite the fact that E.M.T. belong to a very early period of Alfred Harth’s ar...

Man Or Monkey The Beauty And The Beast In a perfect world (pun intended), the finest music would result in a composition that sounds l...