AMN Podcast: Balmorhea – All Is Wild, All Is Silent

March 4, 2009 — Mike

All Is Wild, All Is SilentBalmorhea
“Harm & Boon” (mp3)
from “All Is Wild, All Is Silent”
(Western Vinyl)

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Meredith Monk’s Big Week

March 4, 2009 — Mike

Ms. Monk has a big event tomorrow.

A small army of performers, including 25 dancers and nearly 100 choristers, will occupy the spiral ramp of the Guggenheim Museum in New York on Thursday. The ad hoc troupe will assemble to perform “Songs of Ascension,” a ritualistic work by avant-garde composer and choreographer Meredith Monk, who has been inspired by religious symbols shared across cultures. Meredith Monk Vocal Ensemble, the Stone Wall Chorus and the Montclair State University Chorus will perform “Songs of Ascension” at 6:30 p.m. and 9 p.m., March 5, at the Guggenheim Museum, on Fifth Ave and 89th Street. Tickets are $50 general admission and $20 for students. Call (212) 423-3587 or visit guggenheim.org.

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Weasel Walter Events

March 4, 2009 — Mike

A bunch of stuff coming up from Weasel Walter.

Drummer/composer/improviser Weasel Walter is visiting Bard College Thursday (3/5) to give a video lecture on “the NYC No-Wave sound, complete with rare footage and audio from bands involved in the movement.” (Walter wrote an introduction to Marc Masters’s book on the subject, No Wave.)

He then comes to Zebulon in Brooklyn on Saturday (3/7) for a jazz improv gig with NYC guitarist Mary Halvorson. The pair played together during Walter’s last NYC stint in September. Expect a disquieting, dynamics-filled set that touches on both Halvorson’s melodic debut CD, Dragon’s Head, and Walters’s tension-heavy drums.

Among the releases coming from WW’s ugEXPLODE label is a possible Walter/Halvorson/trumpeter Peter Evans CD-R, out this summer. From MySpace: “i’m toying with the idea of putting out some stuff of that trio from our previous gigs, but haven’t discussed it with them formally yet. there was a lot of video shot of two of the sept. shows, and we may release some of that as well.”

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Ethnic Heritage Ensemble in Chicago

March 4, 2009 — Mike
Kahil El'Zabar
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From Delmark:

Friday, March 6, 2009, 9pm -

Kahil El’ Zabar‘s Ethnic Heritage Ensemble – live performance

“Urban Rituals” – The Magic of Music in an “Inspired Terrain”

Featuring Kahil El’Zabar, Corey Wilkes, Ernest Dawkins & DJ Madrid, $15 donation

Flatfile Galleries, 217 N. Carpenter, Chicago – 708-280-0414

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AccuJazz.com Launches Free Jazz Radio

March 4, 2009 — Mike

AccuJazz.com has launched a radio station featuring free jazz from the last 50 years.

Jazz outside the box, from Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane‘s early free jazz to modern sounds from Ken Vandermark and William Parker.

Thanks for Improvised Communications for the heads up.

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