Avant Music News

The New Languages Festival takes place in New York this June.

The Living Theatre
21 Clinton Street
New York, NY 10002
(212) 792-8050

$10 Nightly Admission
$25 All-Festival Pass

For three nights in June, a stage on the Lower East Side of Manhattan will be a window onto the future of Jazz. For the fourth year, New Languages will unite some of the most original voices of a generation that grew up breathing the air of postmodernity. The lineup includes Miles Okazaki, Tyshawn Sorey, Tony Malaby, Darcy James Argue, Bruce Eisenbeil, Chris Speed, Eric Mcpherson, Aaron Ali Shaikh, Jim Black, and many others.

This generation grew up in the midst of a civil war between classicism and the avant-garde — so it is all the more astounding that the staggering panoply of voices, affinities, and approaches has become more commensurable and less fragmented with each passing year. But until now there has never been such an intense compression of talent from every corner of the Jazz scene. Sparks will fly.

FULL SCHEDULE

Thursday June 12

8 pm – The Color Now
9 pm – Miles Okazaki: Mirror
10 pm – Tyshawn Sorey: Wu-Wei (Chapter Three)

Friday June 13

9 pm – Jackson Moore with Eivind Opsvik and Eric McPherson
10 pm – The Tony Malaby Trio featuring Matt Brewer and Gerald Cleaver
11 pm – Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society

Saturday June 14

9 pm – Aaron Ali Shaikh, Michael Formanek, and Randy Peterson
10 pm – TOTEM> Bruce Eisenbeil, Tom Blancarte and Andrew Drury
11pm – Chris Speed, Skuli Sverisson, and Jim Black

From Robert Rich:

Next Saturday, May 31 at 5 PM, I will participate in an event called “24 Hours of Live Drone” at our wonderful local college radio station KFJC, 89.7 FM. From Midnight until Midnight, all day Saturday, a different artist will perform drones at the station every hour. I am scheduled to play from 5-6 PM. Because of the chaotic nature of such events, I won’t have any time to set up complex gear, so I’ll probably just use a laptop. Anyway, it should be fun. You can listen to KFJC over the internet from links here: http://www.kfjc.org/netcast/

And here is a preliminary schedule of participating artists not all confirmed :

12am Fluorescent Grey, Nommo Ogo, Dimentia
1am Phillip Ringler, Aaron Emery
2am Travis Johns
3am Exillon, Eustachian
4am Barry Threw
5am Sarah Palmer, Ellery Royston
6am Build128, Reverend Micah
7am Pink Canoes
8am Patrice Scanlon, Yoko Solo, Ben Sandoval, Mochipet
9am
10am Phillip Greenlief
11am Nux Vomica
12pm Gregg Kowalski, Ben Bracken, Marielle Jakobsons, Michael
1pm Mr. Harbour, LS-TTL
2pm Die Elektrischen, Anon Day, Dan Voss, Sote
3pm Polyglot Horde
4pm irr.app. ext. , RKF, Xambuca
5pm Robert Rich
6pm Agnes Szelag
7pm Beytah
8pm Ayako Kataoka, Suzanne Thorpe, Chuck Johnson
9pm Joshua Churchill, Wet Gate, ex-Crones, Oaxacan
10pm Zachary Watkins
11pm The Norman Conquest, Preshish Moments, Travis