Bo’Weavil Recordings Releases

February 19, 2009 — Mike

From Bo’Weavil Recordings:

Anacoreta – Victor Hererro – CD
I Grew From A Stone To A Statue – Black Flowers – CD
Live at Cafe Oto – Alan Wilkinson / John Edwards / Steve Noble – CD
School & Rivers- Tom James Scott – CD

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AMN Podcast: Stinking Lizaveta – Sacrifice and Bliss

February 19, 2009 — Mike

Sacrifice and BlissStinking Lizaveta
“A Day Without a Murder” (mp3)
from “Sacrifice and Bliss”
(Monotreme Records)

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John Zorn Scores Richard Foreman’s Astronome

February 19, 2009 — Mike

A review of this show is available.

Richard Foreman has a stimulus package for those who’ve missed the Ontological-Hysteric Theater‘s sensory overload the last few years. The director-playwright-designer founded his pioneering theater in 1968, mounting total-environment stagings of his own mind-plays. But in 2006, he embarked on the Bridge Project, a series of smaller video-performance hybrids exploring—among other things—the deadening of the Western mind. His new piece, Astronome, is a bit of a break from that experiment—it doesn’t use film, but it’s not formally a Foreman play either. The subtitle calls it “A Night at the Opera,” and the composer is none other than genius noisemaker John Zorn.

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Fred Anderson’s 80th Birthday

February 19, 2009 — Mike
Henry Grimes, Roy Campbell, Fred Anderson
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Chicago’s Velvet Lounge will be the place for Anderson’s upcoming birthday celebrations.

There will be a series of gala celebration concerts for the great Chicago master tenor saxophonist Fred Anderson‘s 80th birthday (which is on March 22nd).

The dates for the festivities are Sunday, March 15th; Wednesday-Sunday, March 18th-22nd; and Wednesday, March 25th.

All the concerts will take place at Fred’s Velvet Lounge, 67 East Cermak Rd. betw. S. Michigan & S. Wabash Ave’s, Chicago, 312-791-9O5O
http:://www.velvetlounge.net

Except that the program on March 25th is at the Hideout, 1354 West Wabansia, 773-227-4433.

Musicians participating on the various nights will include: Fred Anderson / Harrison Bankhead / Hamiet Bluiett / Mwata Bowden / Billy Brimfield / Ari Brown / Richard Davis / Ernest Dawkins / Hamid Drake / Kahil el’Zabar / Douglas Ewart / Henry Grimes / Edward “Kidd” Jordan / Nicole Mitchell / Dushun Mosley / Jeff Parker / Avreeayl Ra / Chad Taylor / Ed Wilkerson, Jr. / Corey Wilkes / Francis Wong / the star-studded AACM Great Black Music Ensemble, and many more throughout the festivities.

Times and ticket prices vary; advance tickets are recommended and available from the Velvet Lounge; and all proceeds benefit the Velvet Lounge. A local map is available at

http://maps.google.com/maps?oi=map&q=67+E+Cermak+Rd,+Chicago,+IL+60616.

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Brian Eno Movie Released Online

February 19, 2009 — Mike
Brian Eno
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A 1989 movie on Brian Eno, called Imaginary Landscapes, is now available for free online.

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