press

Press for Leftover Beats:

  • → Vic Albani, All About Jazz, 31 January 2022, Gabriel Zucker: Leftover Beats From The Edges Of Time
    • “From the second listening it reveals itself as an immensely coherent work, maniacally accurate, and the result of an internal balancing of artistic skill and attentive world observation... To make it even simpler, we could say Zucker’s work is a fascinating sound installation of the world around us. ★ ★ ★ ★ ½ ” [translated from the Italian]
  • → Roger Batty, Musique Machine, 23 February 2022, Gabriel Zucker - Leftover Beats From The Edges Of Time
    • “Leftover Beats From The Edge Of Time is daring, often heavily layered and at times chaotic record — which both challenges and entertains. I can’t say it’ll be a record that will work for everyone, due to its blending of the often harmonic and non-harmonic — but I found it a real revelation, that’s primed perfectly for when you want something multi-layered and unpredictable.”
  • → Mike Borella, Avant Music News, 3 January 2022, Avant Music News Best of 2021: Albums of the Year
  • → Dave Sumner, Bandcamp, 11 November 2021, The Best Jazz on Bandcamp: October 2021
    • “a music soundscape that has a massive presence, an eccentric personality, and the heart of a storyteller”
  • → Dee Dee McNeil, Musical Memoirs, 14 November 2021, The Changing Face of Jazz
  • → Mike Borella, Avant Music News, 22 August 2021, AMN Reviews
    • “There is so much to unpack over this album’s 90 minutes, that I can say no more than to grab this one as soon as it is out in late September. This is dense, modern orchestral music on steroids. Two thumbs way up.”

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Press for Spectrum Rzewski Festival 2018

  • → David Wright, New York Classical Review, 24 December 2018, Top Ten Performances of 2018
  • → David Wright, New York Classical Review, 7 November 2018, Composer’s arrows hit the target at Spectrum’s Rzewski Festival
    • “Five pianists participated in the event, instigated and hosted by Gabriel Zucker, who also gave the evening’s standout performance. On a night when technical proficiency and musical insight were in abundance, Zucker’s rendering of Rzewski’s Squares took things to the next level, creating the illusion of the music itself speaking, rather than a player interpreting a score.

    This despite Rzewski’s often-gnarly writing for the instrument, which any pianist would deserve a medal just for wading through. The fistfuls of notes that Zucker flung across the keyboard in this 1978 suite were always driven by the musical impulse, and artfully phrased amid the pandemonium.”
  • → Steve Smith, The New Yorker, November 2018, Rzewski Festival

Press for underorder:

  • → Mike Olinger, The Vinyl District, 30 October 2019, TVD Premiere: Underorder, ‘Never Quite There’
  • → Groundsounds, 27 September 2019, Premiere: underorder - Selling Rhymes
    • “For fans of larger, overarching concepts in music, look no further than NYC genre-blenders Underorder.”
  • → Nate Voss, Speak Into My Good Eye, 15 November 2019, Premiere: Underorder — Other Ways To Be Apart, Volume 2
    • “Underorder sonically imbues the sense of turning thoughts over and over in one’s mind with wild, acid-jazz inspired approaches to rhythms. As Zucker continues to look inward, twists and turns illuminate wondrously with Zucker’s ability and desire to circumvent and subvert genre norms.”
  • → Kaya Haskins, Impose Magazine, 19 September 2019, underorder - Heavy As You
    • “[a] thrilling, ambitious new single... ‘Heavy As You’ is a thrilling listen that rocks up and down like static waves crashing on the shores of purgatory”

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