Leonel Kaplan
Leonel Kaplan has been part of the improvised music scene since the early 2000, performing and recording throughout South America, Europe and U.S. with musicians like Lê Quan Ninh, Michel Doneda, Axel Doerner, Xavier Charles, Ivar Grydeland, Diego Chamy, Bhob Rainey, Greg Kelley and Christof Kurzmann between many others. He is also part of groups like “Silo” (w/Nate Wooley & Audrey Chen), “Dog” (w/Tatsuya Nakatani), “Diasporas” (w/Ly Thanh Tiên & Didier Lasserre) and “ACK” (w/Tetuzi Akiyama & Edén Carrasco)
Translúcidas Criaturas Pulsantes
Colombian reed player María Valencia, on alto saxophone and clarinet, and Argentine cornetist Leonel Kaplan in an intimate improvised duo recorded in Belgrade in 2025, patient and full of textural invention.
Tocando fondo
Tocando Fondo is the result of a year’s deep collaboration between Vienna-based electronics artist Klaus Filip and Argentinian trumpeter Leonel Kaplan, recorded in Buenos Aires in 2014. The album gathers two extended improvisations, both unfolding at the intersection of air, sinewaves, and architectural space. Filip’s contribution is a world of tuned sinewaves - clear, oscillating, sometimes trembling at the edge of instability - while Kaplan’s trumpet weaves arcs of breath, attack, and fragile …
Stereo Trumpet
The first time I ever got a release with split channel audio was a 7" by John Duncan and Chris & Cosey. One was in the left speaker, and the other in the right speaker and if you would play it hearing both speakers simultaneously, you'd have a 'new' piece. I liked that idea a lot; although I never figured to what extent they planned the music, or whether this was a more or less random gathering of sounds. In the case of Leonel Kaplan (trumpet) and Birgit Uhler (trumpet, radio, speaker, ob…
Casa Corp
Second release for the accomplished trio of Leonel Kaplan, Christof Kurzmann and Edén Carrasco on the follow of last years brilliant Una Casa/Observatorio. Recorded in Buenos Aires, roughly a year after the two pieces that compose the first release, Casa Corp reveals both a continuity and a progession of the trios improvisation. Throughout the single pice, the most outstanding aspect of the record is the interplay between the musicians, up to a point, when several times the sound source becomes …
Absence
Then onto the trios, of which the first one has the well-known Axel Dörner (trumpet), Leonel Kaplan (trumpet) and Diego Chamy (percussion). As this was recorded (in 2003) in Buenos Aires, Argentinia, I have reasons to believe that Kaplan and Chamy are from Argentina. This is top of new improvisation. Dörner continues to explore his techniques of trumpet playing, which has nothing to do with the trumpet as such, but everything with the instrument as an object and Leonel Kaplan proofs to be a good…