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Mike — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:09:47 +0000

Image via Wikipedia Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society plays the Galapagos Arts Space April 10th. Also, they have posted MP3s from a recent live performance. The Montreal Jazz Fest provides us with Avant Garde 101. Anthony Braxton now has a blog which promises a full website launch this summer. In other news, I recently received a copy of [...]

Classical Music Listings From the New York Times

Mike — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:17:44 +0000

From NYTimes.com: BARGEMUSIC (Friday through Thursday) This is a busy week at this floating concert hall, with lots of new music and plenty of central European Romanticism as well. On Friday, in the first of two Hear and Now programs, the Flux Quartet plays music by Giacinto Scelsi, Conlon Nancarrow, Elliott Sharp, David First and Annie [...]

Sonomu Reviews

Mike — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:14:13 +0000

From Sonomu: Náhvalur, Aboideau (CDR Mystery Sea) A perfectly amphibious album – splashing about in and around the water – harmoniously constructed by Alexandre Rito and Matthew Ellis as Náhvalur, “narwhal” in Icelandic and Faroese. ”Roth Ramach” achieves admirable aquatic stillness with nothing but a low rumble disturbed only by the… [read] Posted by Stephen Fruitman at 03:18, [...]

Jazz Listings from the New York Times

Mike — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:10:22 +0000

From NYTimes.com: MICHAËL ATTIAS AND RENKU +2 (Saturday) Mr. Attias, a saxophonist, develops compositional fragments into compact expeditions in Renku, a working trio with the bassist John Hébert and the drummer Satoshi Takeishi. Here he adds two alert interlopers, the trumpeter Kirk Knuffke and the pianist Russ Lossing. At 9 and 10:30 p.m., Cornelia Street Café, [...]

Free Jazz Blog Reviews

Mike — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:03:23 +0000

From Free Jazz: THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 2010 Sabir Mateen & Frode Gjerstad – Sound Gathering (Not Two, 2010) *** Sabir Mateen – URDLA XXX (RogueArt, 2010) **** WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 2010 Jean-Marc Foussat & Sylvain Guérineau – Aliquid (Leo, 2010) ***½ Tasos Stamou & Ilan Manouach (Absurd Records, 2009) **** MONDAY, MARCH 8, 2010 Barre Phillips – Portraits (Kadima, 2010) **** Related articles by [...]

Little Women Announces Spring Tour Dates

Mike — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:54:01 +0000

From Improvised Communications: The Brooklyn-based quartet Little Women will be touring both North America and Europe this spring in support of its full-length debut, Throat, coming April 13th on AUM Fidelity. North American tour dates: 04/01 :: King Street Manor (Northampton, MA) 04/02 :: Venue TBA (Montreal, QC) 04/03 :: Teranga (Toronto, ON) 04/04 :: East Village Arts Co-Op (East London, [...]

DOWNTOWNMUSIC.NET Photos

Mike — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:47:11 +0000

From DOWNTOWNMUSIC.NET: March 10, 2010 Kris Davis Quartet, Barbes Kris Davis, Tony Malaby, Eivind Opsvik, Tom Rainey March 09, 2010 Jenny Scheinman & Mary Halvorson, Barbes Mary Halvorson, Jenny Scheinman Related articles by Zemanta Winter Jazz Fest 2010 in pics & words ++ LPR jazz Haiti Benefit (with some of the same people) tonight (brooklynvegan.com) Music Review: A Master Improviser [...]

Anthony Braxton @ Wesleyan in April

Mike — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:40:16 +0000

From Wesleyan: Friday, April 23rd, 2O1O – 8 pm – FREE ANTHONY BRAXTON SMALL ENSEMBLE “Saxophonist, composer and professor Anthony Braxton, known for his ground-breaking jazz and experimental music, performs in an intimate, small-ensemble setting.” Thursday, April 29th, 2O1O – 8 pm – FREE ANTHONY BRAXTON LARGE ENSEMBLE Professor Braxton’s student ensemble performs his music. Both at Crowell Concert Hall Wesleyan University 283 [...]

Newsbits

Mike — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:38:04 +0000

Image via Wikipedia Ornette Coleman turns 80. The New York City Opera will feature pieces by John Zorn and Morton Feldman this season. Nate Wooley will play the Brooklyn Lyceum on April 4th. Matthew Shipp’s latest effort garners a review. Related articles by Zemanta FONT Music’s Forward Flight Begins Tonight (improvisedcommunications.com) Dysrhythmia’s Kevin Hufnagel Makes Dark Music With One Instrument (noisecreep.com) [...]

Robert Rich on Tour

Mike — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:37:00 +0000

From Robert Rich: Sunday April 25 Toronto, ONT Canada St. George the Martyr Church . 197 John St., Toronto (North of Queen St. W. behind the AGO ) Map & complete info at http://www.THEAMBiENTPiNG.com Doors open at 6:30pm . Concert at 7:30pm Tickets: $20 advance . $25 door Advance tickets are available onine now at TicketWeb: Saturday, May 1 Philadelphia, PA The Gatherings St. Mary’s Hamilton Village, [...]

Free Event in Philadelphia

Mike — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:34:40 +0000

From Bowerbird: FREE EVENT Nautical Almanac Seijiro Murayama ylwtr (Kurt Gottschalk + Phillip Gayle) Weyes Blood @ The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St Friday, March 19, 8pm. Free. BREAKING THEIR OWN MOLD The experimental artist is one who is in a constant state of flux, renewing their vision and creative impulses over the course of a career, or even from performance to [...]

Dusted Reviews

Mike — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:32:05 +0000

Image via Wikipedia From Dusted: Artist: Xiu Xiu Album: Dear God, I Hate Myself Label: Kill Rock Stars Review date: Mar. 10, 2010 Artist: Ulaan Khol Album: III Label: Soft Abuse Review date: Mar. 10, 2010 Artist: David S. Ware Album: Saturnian (Solo Saxophones, Volume 1) Label: AUM Fidelity Review date: Mar. 8, 2010 Related articles by Zemanta AUM Fidelity To Release David S. Ware’s Saturnian March 9th (avantmusicnews.com) New Cadence [...]

Don Preston and Bunk Gardner on Tour

Mike — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:30:40 +0000

From the Don and Bunk Show: Don Preston and Bunk Gardner, both original members of the the legendary Mothers of Invention with Frank Zappa, are gearing up for an exciting east coast tour called The Don & Bunk Show. The duo will be playing a full range of Zappa’s music from Freak Out to Zoot Allures. [...]

AMN Picks of the Week

Mike — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:33 +0000

Here is where I post, at a frequency of about once a week, a list of the new music that has caught my attention that week. All of the releases listed below I’ve heard for the first time this week and come recommended. Samuel Sighicelli – Caravaggio (2005) Kronos Quartet – Kevin Volans – Hunting: Gathering (2005) Miriodor [...]

Firehouse 12 To Present Myra Melford’s Happy Whistlings April 9th

Mike — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:56:38 +0000

From Improvised Communications: On Friday, April 9th, New Haven’s Firehouse 12 will present an exclusive two-set performance by eminent pianist/composer Myra Melford and her newest ensemble, Happy Whistlings. The two year-old group performs Ms. Melford’s 12-part suite of the same name inspired by Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano’s 1982 book, Genesis, the first in his Memory of [...]

Varèse: (R)evolution at the Lincoln Center Festival 2010

Mike — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:44:58 +0000

From the Lincoln Center: Part I Monday, July 19 at 8:00 pm Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) Steven Schick, conductor So Percussion Anu Komsi, soprano Alan Held, bass baritone Mikka Rännäli, piano Jonathan Golove, cello theremin Natasha Farny, cello theremin Claire Chase, flute Musica Sacra Kent Tritle, chorus master Part I Program: Poème Électronique, Un Grand Sommeil Noir, Hyperprism, Offrandes, Integrales, Ecuatorial, Dance for Burgess, Etude [...]

Musique Machine Reviews

Mike — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:39:25 +0000

From Musique Machine: Fukte – ??????? [ '??????? [Siberia]‘ finds Italian based HNW project Fukte offering up a single one hour long track of walled noise, thats made purportedly from unedited digital recordings of a plane flight over Siberia using digital recorder with stereo microphone. Iron Curtain – Wall ‘n’ Brick ‘Wall ‘n’ Brick’ offers up 10 tracks [...]

Other Minds Festival Review

Mike — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:54:00 +0000

From Classical-Drone: This past weekend, my wife and I flew to San Francisco, where we attended two of the three concerts from the 15th Other Minds festival. Focussing primarily on new chamber music, the concerts also featured electroacoustic composer Natasha Barrett and an ecstatic jazz performance by Kidd Jordan with William Parker and Warren Smith. But [...]

Aaron Siegel Interviewed at Ten Thousand Hours

Mike — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:53:15 +0000

From Ten Thousand Hours: Composer and percussionist Aaron Siegel discusses his acoustic experimental work, raising questions about the relationship between performers, audience members and the space they occupy together. Unique instrumentation and experimental notation systems are discussed as Siegel and James Ilgenfritz read through a compositional sketch for glockenspiel and double bass that includes some extremely [...]

Roulette in April

Mike — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:45:07 +0000

From New York’s Roulette: 20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St) Admission $15 Students/Seniors/Under 30s $10 MEMBERS FREE TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242 http://www.roulette.org/ Byron Westbrook – Works for Improvised Guitar Feedback Thu Apr 1 – 8:30 PM Byron Westbrook (b. 1977) is an artist working with the dynamic quality of physical space using multi-channel sound and images. His audio/video performances under the name [...]