Avant Music News

Some US and Europe tour dates from Vijay Iyer:

My longstanding trio with Marcus Gilmore (drums) & Stephan Crump (bass) is playing a bunch of shows in the near future, starting tomorrow night in New York. Please mark your calendars or alert your friends in these various locales.

THIS SUNDAY, Jan 18, 10pm: The Stone, NYC (not a school night!)

WEDNESDAY, Jan 21: Modlin Center, Univ. of Richmond, NC
FRIDAY, Jan 23: Detroit Institute of Arts, MI
THURSDAY, Jan 29: Hopkins Center, Dartmouth University, NH (double bill with our buddy Dafnis Prieto)

European tour:
Feb 2 Teatro Metastasio, Prato, Italy
Feb 3 Nuovo Montevergini, Palermo, Italy
Feb 4 Porgy & Bess, Wien, Austria
Feb 6 Jazz-Institut Darmstadt, Germany
Feb 7 Musikschule Raab, Germany
Feb 8 Stadtgarden, Köln, Germany
Feb 9 Jazz Club Hannover, Germany
Feb 11 Moods, Zurich, Switzerland
Feb 12 Bimhuis, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Feb 13 Sunside, Paris, France
Feb 14 De Werf, Brugge, Belgium

Here’s a video of us playing in Brazil last summer.

From Jazz Police:

Twin Cities’ fans of avant garde percussion, as well as anyone interested in experimental music, have an exciting opportunity to hear and watch modern percussion master Tatsuya Nakatani twice this coming week, in the company of local sound explorers Milo Fine on January 20th at the Art of This Gallery in south Minneapolis, and Chris Bates and Adam Linz in the intimate, all acoustic space of the Rogue Buddha Gallery in Northeast Minneapolis on January 21st. On solo tour of the U.S. this winter, Naktani brings along a unique menagerie of sound devices, including some invented instruments as well as drumset, bowed gongs, cymbals, singing bowls, bells, metal objects and a variety of sticks and bowls. His organic creations infuse jazz, rock and noise with the space and beauty of traditional Japanese folk music.