The Nashville City Paper has reviewed three new releases by Michael Davis, Chicago Underground Trio, and Craig Taborn, respectively.
The Nashville City Paper has reviewed three new releases by Michael Davis, Chicago Underground Trio, and Craig Taborn, respectively.
A tribute to a number of modern composers who performed music at the Kitchen in New York is reviewed.
The latest Perfect Sound Forever has a pretty good overview of The Cardiacs.
From Rich’s site:
The concert schedule in 2004 will be lighter than usual, as I intend to stay home and work on new material. However, with the piano album “Open Window” due out soon, I have agreed to perform a short solo piano set to open the following event:
The 1st Annual Sacred Music Concert
AN EVENING OF ABSOLUTE DEVOTION
Saturday – July 31st – 2004
at Saint Aidan’s Church
101 Goldmine Drive – Diamond Heights – SF
$20.00 at the Door – $15.00 Seniors/Students
Doors open at 8:00pm
Robert Rich – Improvisational Solo Piano
Mark Deutsch – Electric Sitar and the “Bazantar”
Sukhawat Ali Khan & Riffat Sultana – Ecstatic Sufi Singing
Avant Music News turns one year old today! Our first post was submitted on April 29th 2003 and covered the new (at that time) batch of Cuneiform releases.
Since then we’ve posted almost 500 articles on a wide variety of offbeat music topics. We’re currently averaging slightly over 2 posts per day, and between 100-200 site visits per day. We have several regular contributors sending us links.
Our recent change of domain name and software is just a first indication of the constant improvement that we plan on undertaking for the site. In the mean time, stay tuned and keep linking us up with quality information.
Crispell’s latest release, Storyteller, is reviewed by the BBC.
The Norfolk and Norwich Festival will take place in England May 5-15th. Featured artists and performers include Astor Piazzolla and Hermeto Pascoal.
Northwestern Univ in Chicago is offering a free concert series “Performing Imaginations” featuring, among other things, Virgil Moorefield compositions and modern music from other Northwestern faculty and students.
