Marble/Sielaff/Jones/Dykstra/Reese in Portland

March 19, 2009 — Mike

From Portland Eye and Ear Control:

Saturday March 21st, 8 pm
Eliot Chapel, Reed College, free, 18

Matt Marble
Jonathan Sielaff Bob Jones Jordan Dykstra
Adam Reese

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Sonomu Reviews

March 19, 2009 — Mike

From Sonomu:

Harold Budd & Clive Wright, A Song for Lost Blossoms (Darla)
As a whole, this is a middling album for Harold Budd. Then again, Harold Budd´s “middle” is usually of higher quality than most everybody else´s beginning, middle and end put together. Here is a collection of recordings made over the course of two or threee years by Budd and his friend Clive… [read]
Posted by Stephen Fruitman at 07:41, 18 Mar 2009

Secret Archives of the Vatican, Babylon Halt (Broken Drum Records)
A trio of English- and Welshmen which considers itself a collective “powered by chickpeas” releases its first “factory” CD. Vince Millet plays guitar, Peter Sharpe bass and Louis Counter (good name for a percussionist) tabla. All fiddle with other things as well and are joined by about a dozen… [read]
Posted by Stephen Fruitman at 07:41, 16 Mar 2009

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Dusted Reviews

March 19, 2009 — Mike

From Dusted:

Artist: Mary Halvorson & Jessica Pavone
Album: Thin Air
Label: Thirsty Ear
Review date: Mar. 18, 2009
Artist: Tetuzi Akiyama Kevin Corcoran Christian Kiefer
Album: Low Cloud Means Death
Label: Digitalis
Review date: Mar. 17, 2009

Artist: Loren Connors & Jim O’Rourke
Album: Two Nice Catholic Boys
Label: Family Vineyard
Review date: Mar. 12, 2009

Artist: Six Organs of Admittance
Album: RTZ
Label: Drag City
Review date: Mar. 11, 2009

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All About Jazz Reviews

March 19, 2009 — Mike

From All About Jazz:

19-Mar-09 Original Silence
The Second Original Silence (Smalltown Supersound)
Reviewed by Andrey Henkin

18-Mar-09 Jim Pugliese
Live @ Issue Project Room NYC (improvvvisatoreinvolontario)
Reviewed by Francis Lo Kee

18-Mar-09 Mike Osborne
Force Of Nature (Reel Recordings)
Reviewed by Martin Longley

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Jazz Cerkno Event in Slovenia

March 19, 2009 — Mike

From Jazz Cerkno:

This year’s Jazz Cerkno festival program is boasting with quite some names that were seminal in forming the European and global free jazz. On the very first festival day (Thu., 14. May) we will listen to the legendary Schlippenbach Trio (Alexander von Schlippenbach, piano, Evan Parker, saxophone, Paul Lovens, drums). On the same day there are also concerts by Powertrio from Portugal, and Slovenian/international Jure Pukl High Interaction Group.

Friday (15. May) wll bring the first festival meeting with the famous French double bass player Joëlle Léandre (she will also play at the Saurday afternoon solo concert at the Music School); on the Friday concert she will be accompanied by Carlos Zingaro (violin) and Sebi Tramontana (trombone). The festival covered arena at the Old Square will continue to be well shaken by Peter Brötzmann free-jazz-core trio Full Blast and Slovenian trio Lolita. The last festival day wil bring (apart from Léandre’s solo concert) four more bands, none of which ever played in Slovenia before: Mike Reed’s Loose Assembly (USA), Tiziano Tononi Quartet (ITA), ESS (S) and Push The Triangle (F). There will also be two workshops: photographing musicians (Žiga Koritnik) and „wild food“ (Dario Cortese), at the City Museum Cerkno will be also photograph exhibition „Jazz in Cerkno“ (Photo Club Cerkno).

Quite soon, there will be more information at our 14 th Jazz Cerkno festival website, where we will prepare files with musicians’ biographies and press quality photographs. All these and more will soon be available at our address jazzcerkno.si. You are invited to visit it now, so you can check up what other events did we prepare apart from our main event / fourteenth festival Jazz Cerkno.

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Weirding Module, Trigal, Heavy Hymns, March 23 in Syracuse

March 19, 2009 — Mike

From Metropolis Underground:

Weirding Module is former Wolf Eyes housemate Michael Troutman’s solo project made during every available moment of time when he’s not playing bass in the Detroit/Brooklyn psych-rock band, Awesome Color (on Thurston Moore’s Ecstatic Peace label) or skateboarding. The music is a heady delay-drenched mix of synthesizers and samples, heavily influenced by repetition (Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Tony Conrad, Throbbing Gristle, et. al.) and seasoned with some Tangerine Dream and dub reggae. Weirding Module’s first release was an American Tapes bootleg cassette for the No Fun Festival (NYC) in 2004. Other releases have followed on Troutman’s own Senseless Empire label, Ozonokids (Spain), Scumbag Relations (US) and Silver Ghosts (Netherlands). Since a recent European tour with UK noise icon, Family Battle Snake, Weirding Module has been back in the studio recording new material for a killer new year. Future releases are due on: Night People (US) and an LP on Ultra Eczema (Belgium).

Trigal (Juan A. D’Amico) is a solo artist from Barcelona, Spain. After playing for the last decade in hardcore punk bands, both in Spain and in Argentina, he has decided to now focus his energy on psychedelic music. Signs of both his South American roots and more recent, experimental German and Japanese influences can be heard throughout the soundscapes invoking images of madness.

Heavy Hymns is the solo projcect of New Thing Productions founder and American Sphinx’ Michael Hentz.

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