Marina Hasselberg —Red (out October 21st, 2022) on Redshift Records LP/DL

Genre(s): Solo cello, Modern Composition, Free Improv

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The full-length debut of award-winning Vancouver-based cellist Marina Hasselberg, Red (Redshift Records) is an ambitious and unconventional proposition built on the foundation of Hasselberg’s diverse musical experience and boundless inquisitiveness.  Over the past decade, she’s traveled a distinctive route, part of which is revealed over the course of the album. She’s worked in early music, free improvisation, on the fringes of pop songcraft, electronic music, contemporary chamber music, as well as an array of interdisciplinary collaborations that resist classification. 

Red takes works by composers Domenico Gabrielli, Linda Catlin Smith, Martin Reisle, and Craig Aalders and folds them into a series of colourful ensemble improvisations. Hasselberg’s approach as an improviser demonstrates a thorough and personal understanding of her instrument and just how to travel through its extensive palette. She is heard here alongside John Zorn collaborator and Tzadik alumnus Aram Bajakian (guitar) and Kenton Loewen (Dan Mangan, Gordon Grdina), revered multi-hyphenate Giorgio Magnanensi (providing a blend of custom-made hardware electronics and Max/MSP). Jesse Zubot (Tania Tagaq, Gordon Grdina, Fond of Tigers) performs on violin and also produced, mixed and mastered the disc.

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Year-End — 22 Favourites from 2022, The Moderns
Year-End — Best of 2022, Radiohoerer
Year-End/ Podcast— The Moderns, Episode 243
Feature — Stuart Derdeyn, Vancouver Sun
Feature — Alexander Varty, Stir
Feature — Mike Unsinger, Georgia Straight
Review — Vanessa Ague, Musicworks
Review — Stuart Broomer, The WholeNote
Review — Jon Davis, Exposé
Review — Jan Granlie, salt peanuts* (in Norwegian)
Review — Grego Applegate Edwards, Gapplegate Music Review
Review — Will Chernoff, Rhythm Changes
Review — Daniel Barbiero, Avant Music News
Review — OutsideLeft
Review — nitestylez.de
Track Review — Irregular Dreams
Roundup — Staff Picks October 2022, The Attic
Roundup — Outside Left, 5 Hearts For November
Roundup — Peter Hollo, Utility Fog, FBI Radio
Roundup — Outside Left, Week In Music: Dry Cleaning Or Laundromat
Roundup — A Closer Listen, Fall Music Preview — Modern Composition
Roundup — Frank P. Eckert, Motherboard October 2022, Groove.de
Roundup — Steve Smith, For The Record (August 19th, 2022)
News — Exposé
News — Radio Hoerer
List — Friday Five, The Moderns (October 21, 2022)
List — FYI Music News Upcoming Releases (September 1, 2022)
List — Best Of Jazz New Releases
List — Wartajazz
List — Endaural Anticipation List
Podcast — Wir Und Elane #41 (November 13, 2022)
Playlist — Night After Night (October 10, 2022)
Radio — Vocal Cords, CJSW (March 13, 2023)
Radio — Hexon Bogon, CKCU (March 3, 2023)
Radio — Alternative To What?, CJSW (March 2, 2023)
Radio — Pushing The Envelope, WHUS (February 11, 2023)
Radio — Noise, CJSW (February 9, 2023)
Radio — Vocal Cords, CJSW (January 30, 2023)
Radio — Jazz Today, CJSW (January 26, 2023)
Radio — Breaking the Tethers, CJSW (January 2, 2023)
Radio — Situation Fluxus, WGXC (December 23, 2022)
Radio — Liminal Scores, CJSW (December 21, 2022)
Radio — Breaking the Tethers, CJSW (December 5th, 2022)
Radio — 13Melek, Açık Radyo (December 4th, 2022)
Radio — North By Northwest, CBC (December 3, 2022)
Radio — Esoterica etc., WPKN (November 4, 2022)
Radio — Lux Obscura, KCSB (October 29, 2022)
Radio — Humanoid Radio, CFRU (October 25, 2022)
Radio — Utility Fog, FBI Radio (October 23, 2022)
Radio — Humanoid Radio, CFRU (October 18, 2022)
Radio — Don’t Trip with Margarita, NTS (October 17, 2022)
Radio — Jazz Disturbance, WGXC (October 16, 2022)
Radio — Humanoid Radio, CFRU (October 11, 2022)
Radio — Esoterica Etc., WPKN (October 7, 2022)
Radio — Electric Sense, CIUT (October 5, 2022)
Radio — Humanoid Radio, CFRU (October 4, 2022)
Radio — UNDAE! #242, Radio Circulo (October 3, 2022)
Radio Interview — Situation Fluxus, WGXC (September 30, 2022)
Radio — Outside The Lines, CJSW (September 26, 2022)
Radio — New Edge, WOMR (September 15, 2022)
Radio — New Edge, WMBR (September 13, 2022)
Radio — Jimmy Tamborello’s Dying Songs, Dublab (August 25, 2022)
Radio — Quid Novi, CHUO (August 25, 2022)
Podcast — Song Surfing, Episode 71
Podcast — Redshift Radio, Episode 11
Podcast — The Moderns, Episode 233