Open Ears Music, in New Orleans, features some great live jazz and experimental shows. And if you can’t make it to town, you can listen to most for free.
Upcoming Events
* 13 January:
o Ed Barrett’s United Postal Project (9:30 pm)
* 20 January:
o Contemporary String Ensemble (9:30 pm)
* 27 January:
o Apotheosis (9:30 pm)
* 3 February:
o James Westfall and the Bionic Dream (9:30 pm)
* 10 February:
o Brian Prunka w/Tim Green & Helen Gillet (9:30 pm)
* 17 February:
o Will Thompson Group (9:30 pm)
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Out on Ayler Records:
New download-only releases
Bengt Frippe Nordström – Creative Addition
Recorded on March 19, 1987 and March 6, 1988.
With Lars Svanteson, violin – Björn Alke, b -Peeter Uuskyla, dr
An excellent example of free improvisation at its best, the music is from 1986-87, when the band was doing some short tours in Sweden. Some cuts were made, but otherwise the music is the same as when it was played – just like Bengt wanted his records to be.Anders Gahnold Trio
Live at Glenn Miller Café
Recorded on July 4, 2008.
With Erik Ojala, b – Johan Ståhlgren, dr
Anders Gahnold’s way of building up to a swinging crescendo in each track fascinates. A crescendo reached by his unique phrasing and his structured energy, that we, lucky owners of this recording, can play again, and again!New CD release
Abdelhaï Bennani Trio – There Starts the Future
Recorded at Les Instants Chavirés on June 6, 2007. A. Bennani, ts – B. Duboc, b – E. Perraud, dr.
Bennani is a player of great restraint, working on melodic fragments and «low overtones» with an odd tormented and dark tone made of plaintiff almost painful mutterings, that can swell up with rage and determination when the rhythm section heats up.
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New York’s Roulette is offering a handful of events this month.
ROULETTE
20 Greene St btwn Canal & Grand
www.shinkoyo.com/circus/
www.roulette.orgJANUARY 22-24
CIRCUS JERKUS (Curated by Doron Sadja)CIRCUS JERKUS is a 3 day restructuring of chaos: music, video, film, performance, experience. Roughly 2 hours each evening, Circus Jerkus runs the gamut from improvised solo/ensemble performances and simultaneous overlapping projects to live film projections, light shows, ventriloquism and towers of tv surveillance monitoring. Open up your bio-port and come into CIRCUS JERKUS.
PERFORMERS INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO: Doron Sadja, Zeljko McMullen, Mario Diaz de Leon, MV Carbon, Brown Wing Overdrive, Nickel Emmet, Freddy Nightliker, Amrita Dang, Twisty Cat, Alfredo Marin, Jay King, Fern Silva, Jessie Stead, Shiraishi Tamio, Anastasia Osipova, Sergei Tcherepnin, Carla Rhodes, True Primes, a few secrets, and a few more TBA….
Doron Sadja = founder of the Shinkoyo Collection/Records and the Paris London West Nile performance space in Williamsburg – both donations based explorations of experimental media and performance. Doron performs in the ensemble Symbol as well as working solo in sound, photography, and video.
www.shinkoyo.com & www.doron.sadja.com & www.shinkoyo.com/symbol/JANUARY 27-29
IMPROV:COMP (Curated by Matthew Mehlan)Wild groupings of some of the most intense players in the city and beyond, from the fringes of all genres! Duos, trios, quartets by people who often play on the same bill… but rarely make music together. Including members of Zs, Excepter, Skeletons, Extra Life, Talibam, Lake, Skint, Dynamite Club and many more… Plus world premiers of new pieces written for each night’s ensemble.
FEATURING:
Clare Amory, Peter Blasser, Nathan Corbin, Emily Dufour, Ben Greenberg, Sam Hillmer, Darius Jones , Sam Kulik, Travis Laplante, Okkyung Lee, Jonathan Leland, Charlie Looker, Matt Mehlan, Jason McMahon, Cyrus Pireh, Mike Pride, Kevin Shea, John Fell Ryan, And a few special guests…Matt Mehlan was born in 1982. He sings and plays instruments in the band Skeletons, video tapes things, and goes to work. Skeletons most recent album “Money” is out now on Tomlab.
http://skeletons.tv
SHINKOYO is the ectoplasm connecting a diverse group of composers, visual artists, improvisers, instrument builders, thinkers, scholars and healers exploring new syntheses of sound and art. We operate on terms of collectivity and collaboration, while supporting the individual voices of all Shinkoyos. Shinkoyo has launched its SHINKOJUKO free jukebox and donation-based online music store, showcasing our catalog of music releases from 2002 to the present. www.shinkoyo.com
PARIS LONDON WEST NILE is Shinkoyo’s donation-based center for experimental performance and art located in NYC. Click on ParisLondonWestNile for more info, upcoming shows, and archived recordings/videos/photos. www.shinkoyo.com/parislondon/
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All About Jazz profiles interesting music coming out of Denmark.
There’s an often-quoted phrase by Shakespeare saying that ”something is rotten in the state of Denmark” but when it comes to jazz, the environment of the country is indeed very fertile, and at this point, the many sounds of Danish jazz are reaching across the borders and finding new listeners everywhere in the world. The homogeneity of a local scene that welcomed visitors from the outside has given way to a great global community with many genres and scenes. Nowadays, young Danish jazz musicians are tearing down the walls that separated high and low culture, avant-garde and popular music. A keen understanding of tradition blends into a daring exploration of the new. If one were to pick just one word to characterize new Danish jazz, the word would be “curiosity.”
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From Musique Machine:
People go on and on about how prolific Aidan Baker is, and, of course that’s correct. With over forty releases with which he has been associated since 2000, it’s undeniable. As with any artist who puts forth a seemingly endless stream of material, it’s easy to take for granted the overall quality of his work. And while it’s hard to maintain a wide degree of variety for any artist, regardless of the volume of their catalog, Aidan Baker has proven time and again that he’s got plenty of tricks up his sleeve.
The Terminals – Touch
Touch is a remaster of this early nineties album by this underrated New Zealand Band. It’s not what you would call poorly recorded, but it’s still quite grimy in that Xpressway DIY vein. It wasn’t recorded in a bedroom on a four track though; it was done in a real studio, with overdubs even. The devil-may-care, casual, yet spiky and endearingly unprofessional approach shouldn’t work so well under such conditions. Lest we forget the first two Velvet Underground LP’s, also recorded in such environs, and very much a blueprint which these folks follow with great enthusiasm.
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From All About Jazz:
Cecil Taylor / William Parker / Masashi Harada
CT: The Dance Project (FMP Records)
Reviewed by Henry Smith
07-Jan-09 Gianluigi Trovesi All’Opera
Profumo Di Violetta (ECM Records)
Reviewed by John Kelman06-Jan-09 CODONA
The CODONA Trilogy (ECM Records)
Reviewed by Marcus O’Dair06-Jan-09 Alexander von Schlippenbach
Alexander von Schlippenbach’s 70th Birthday Year
Reviewed by John Eyles06-Jan-09 Arve Henriksen
Cartography (ECM Records)
Reviewed by John Kelman
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