
MUSIC
Nora McCarthy Music Various CDs
REVIEW: "THE LIFE" Priceless musical treasures with these musicians entirely in their art and the urgency to say the madness of men, to sing the world in what it has good and bad. Life movement, life energy, cosmic forces boiling, revitalizing electric charges emerge from the golden pavilions of the saxophones of Jorge Sylvester and Johannes Schleiermacher and the bass clarinet of the great and late Gunter Hampel, / The voice of the singer and vocalist Nora McCarthy round by round birds, bulls, lioness, then voices shadows and light, clouds, soap bubble. Voice stories without words, voice sung that rocks, vocabulary with humor, with tenderness, screams its blues with strength, creative imagination, ventures into unknown land. Childhood voice found that plays with everything, marelle voice, one two three sun. Voice of water, voice of fire, voice of air that does not lack breath, this is the exit. Life as a celebration, life always restarted to feel even more alive! . Improvised music or instant compositions, ways to be poetically in the world. Vibraphone stars, drum drum, drums beating the measurement of linear time for another time closer to the mystery of being in the world. P.G/Y Patrick Geffroy Yorffeg
Improvised Sketches, Solo, Duos

Jorge Sylvester Spontaneous Expressions Octet
Live Recording
New York City's Baha'i Center
Jorge Sylvester Alto Saxophone Solo
Performance + Spontaneous Expressions Improvisations
Featuring the Improvisations of:
Nora McCarthy - Voice
Vincent Chancey - French Horn
Waldron Mahadi Ricks - Trumpet
Marvin Sewell - Electric Guitar
Jose Dávila - Tuba**
Kuba Cichocki - Piano
Tony Moreno - Drums
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The Session: A memorable afternoon in NYC at the 13th Street studio, recording session with Gunter Hampel and his European Quartet with Jorge Sylvester and Nora McCarthy, 2010. Gunter's compositions, the outstanding musicianship, and the on the spot poetic improvisations, and vocal expressions made for an unforgettable session. The absolute amazing creativity was an incredible experience as was working with the pioneer and master of modern avant-garde music - a one of a kind treasure.
credits released May 30, 2026
German multi-instrumentalist Gunter Hampel (vibraphone, bass clarinet, flute, and piano), was a pioneering figure in European free jazz who founded Birth Records. Hampel is highly celebrated for his impressionistic vibraphone work and probing bass clarinet performances.
Gunter Hampel - vibrafon-bass clarinet-flute
Johannes Schleiermacher - tenor saxophone
Bernd Oezsevim - drums
Andreas Lang - bass
Jorge Sylvester - alto saxophone
Nora McCarthy - voice, words
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