Umbrella Music Through April 30

April 27, 2009 — Mike

From Chicago’s Umbrella Music:

Tuesday, 28 April 2009
Elastic
9:00PM | The Engines
Dave Rempis – saxophones
Jeb Bishop – trombone
Nate McBride – bass
Tim Daisy – drums
two sets

Wednesday, 29 April 2009
The Hideout
10:00PM | de Joode Solo
Wilbert de Joode – bass
11:00PM | de Joode/Vandermark
Ken Vandermark – reeds
Wilbert de Joode – bass
$7 cover
PLUS | DJ Sets: Ken Vandermark spins Africa
Cross-continental Sounds 1950-1979

Thursday, 30 April 2009
Elastic
10:00PM | Jim Baker Solo
Jim Baker – solo piano
11:00PM | Rempis/Lux/Daisy
Dave Rempis – saxophones
Matt Lux – electric bass
Tim Daisy – drums

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In Portland Tonight: Cherry & Rei

April 27, 2009 — Mike

From Portland Eye and Ear Control:

4/27/09:
INNERSPACE
Music exploration, creation, moments

David Ornette Cherry performs with Tah Rei at the Jade Lounge on Monday April 27th. 7-9:30pm

The beginning of Monday nights live music at the Jade Lounge. 24th and Ankeny located in Southeast. From 7-9:30 we gather with to create musical moments. Sounds afro-jazz to astral funk and everything connected.

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Sonomu Reviews

April 27, 2009 — Mike

From Sonomu:

Insect Factory, Air Traffic Control Sleep (Insect Field)
Out of the recently-fumigated American capital come guitar textures courtesy of Jeff Barsky. Conservatory trained on his instrument, as Insect Factory he wafts colourful sound as intangible as perfume toward the listener. The heft of the first of three extended tracks, “Air Travel (In Sleep)”,… [read]
Posted by Stephen Fruitman at 07:21, 27 Apr 2009

Hum, Flesh of the Soul (Quag Twenty Two)
For Dmitry Chistov, this is apparently his first “factory” CD, consisting of nine long-form pieces wrought between 2001 and 2003. The cover features three tone-setting black-and-white photographs by one Cranio Bart of absolutely ordinary, everyday, ugly utilitarian urban landscapes, the… [read]
Posted by Stephen Fruitman at 07:16, 27 Apr 2009

Mirko Uhlig, The Nightmiller (CDR Mystery Sea)
A favourite among the recent generation of innovators in the ambient and drone genres, often partnering up with the equally imaginative Tobias Fischer. In the spirit of the ostensibly aquatic remit of Mystery Sea, Mirko Uhlig keeps it dark and dank, with only a few pale shafts of light winnowing… [read]
Posted by Stephen Fruitman at 07:07, 27 Apr 2009

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Eighth blackbird strives to be both avant-garde and entertaining

April 27, 2009 — Mike

From the Kalamazoo News:

Some people fear the contemporary classical, modern chamber group called eighth blackbird.

“There is a huge fear” among potential audiences, eighth blackbird pianist Lisa Kaplan told Bloomberg TV. “They think that it will be all squeak-fart music and that they’ll hate it.”

The group’s flutist, Tim Munro, in an interview from eighth blackbird’s home base in Chicago, also spoke about the fear.

“Yeah, my stepfather always used to call it ‘orchestra tuning up’ when I used to be bashing away at the piano. But it’s interesting because what we’re trying to do, obviously, is reach out to general audiences of all types so we can draw them into this weird and wonderful world.”

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NewEar to embark on a György Ligeti odyssey

April 27, 2009 — Mike

From the Kansas City Star:

As a modernist composer, György Ligeti famously stated his predicament: “I am in a prison: one wall is the avant-garde, the other wall is the past, and I want to escape.”

Perhaps more than any other contemporary composer, Ligeti was able to “escape” such confinement by paying tribute to both.

NewEar Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, now in its 16th year here, pays its own tribute to the Hungarian composer on Saturday at All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church.

Determination and sometimes humor mark Ligeti’s musical offerings from the Bartok-influenced Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet (1953) to the post-modern whimsy of Poeme Symphonique for 100 Metronomes (1962) — yes, a piece for ticking timekeepers. A lot of them.

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DMG Newsletter April 24th, 2009

April 27, 2009 — Mike

From DMG:

NEW! Halvorson/Radding/Wooley! Evan Parker/John Wiese! Marc Edwards/Weasel Walter! Dorner/Lehn/Minton! DeJohnette/Patitucci/Perez!

Rozanne Levine/Mark Whitecage/Perry Robinson! Braxton/Oxley/Roidinger! Magnus Broo! Luciano Berio! Douglas Ewart!

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New Lucky 7s Out

April 27, 2009 — Mike
Image of Jeff Albert from Facebook
Image of Jeff Albert

A new Lucky 7s CD is out on Clean Feed. Samples are available aswell.

Lucky 7s – Pluto Junkyard

Jeb Bishop, trombone (guitar on “The Dan Hang”) / Jeff Albert, trombone, bass trombone / Josh Berman, cornet / Keefe Jackson, tenor saxophone / Jason Adasiewicz, vibraphone /Matthew Golombisky, double bass (electric bass on “The Dan Hang”) / Quin Kirchner, drums

Recorded July 19 & 20, 2007 at Strobe Recording, Chicago, IL by James Wagner assisted by Gary Schepers / Additional recording by Matthew Golombisky / Mixed by Jeff Albert and Jeb Bishop Mastered by Jeff Albert / Produced by Jeff Albert and Jeb Bishop / Executive production by Trem Azul / Photo by Laurie Herbert / Design by Travassos

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Sound Sculptures Recording Available for Free

April 27, 2009 — Mike
Pierre Boulez in 2004
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From UbuWeb:

Published by Wergo in 1985, Sound Sculptures is a gorgeous, state-of-the-art overview of Austria and West Germany’s instrument builders and sculptors curated by composer and music critic Klaus Hinrich Stahmer. A German equivalent to Bart Hopkins’ Experimental Musical Instruments compilation CDs, though the concept here being that composers/interprets will use someone else’s sculpture or sound construction to create their soundwork. The title’s double-entendre is perfectly maintained throughout the album: sound producing actual sculptures and soundcrafting as an artform. Particularly striking is the variety of sonorities emited, from angklung-like metallophones to interactive electronic sensors, from industrial bleak soundscapes to subtle microtonal nuances, from improvised free music to drone-a-thon. This is rather un-classifiable music only occasionaly sounding like Stockhausen or Boulez solo percussion pieces.

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Darcy James Argue Featured In Newsweek

April 26, 2009 — Mike

From Improvised Communications:

Composer Darcy James Argue is featured in the May 4th issue of Newsweek.

“For a wholly original take on big band’s past, present and future, look to Darcy James Argue, a 33-year-old Brooklynite who has composed a batch of manifestoes that draws on past legacies, and adds a little postpunk energy to boot,” writes Seth Colter Walls.

“Argue’s tunes can command your attention anywhere—no small feat in our media-saturated world. He and his 18-piece Secret Society band pull off the trick by pairing electro-influenced rhythms with fuzzed-out guitars, fearsome horns and chamber-music voicings in the woodwinds. For all this panstylistic erudition, though, Argue’s music still swings hard whenever it wants.”

Infernal Machines (New Amsterdam Records), the debut studio release from Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society, will be released May 12.

The official CD release party will be May 8th at Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn, to be followed by live dates at the Bimhuis in Amsterdam (May 28th), Domicil in Dortmund, Germany (May 29th), the Moers Festival in Moers, Germany (May 31st), and the International House in Philadelphia, PA (June 5th) as part of the Ars Nova Workshop series.

Argue, a Vancouver native, will also premiere a new, specially commissioned work at Canada’s National Jazz Awards on May 14th to be performed by the all-star Darcy Hepner Jazz Orchestra.

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Scott Amendola on Tour in May

April 26, 2009 — Mike

From Scott Amendola:

May 5, 2009
American River College
San Francisco, CA Lovely Builders Improv Workshop
Ross Hammond – guitar
Scott Amendola – drums
w/ Kairos Quartet

May 9, 2009
American River College
Music Building
San Francisco, CA
Lovely Builders
Ross Hammond – guitar
Scott Amendola – drums
w/ Kairos Quartet

May 14, 2009
21 Grand Gallery
Oakland, CA
Larry Ochs, Mark Dresser, Lisle Ellis, and Scott Amendola

May 15, 2009
Starry Plough
Berkeley, CA
Bottesini Project
Paul Riola: saxophones/electronics, Fred Frith: guitar, Carla Kihlstedt: violin Glenn Taylor: pedal steel, Keenan Wayne: bass Scott Amendola: drums/electronics

May 17, 2009
Cafe Du Nord
San Francisco, CA
Scott Amendola Trio w/ Jeff Parker and John Shifflett
Jeff Parker Trio w/ John Herdon (of Tortoise), and Chris Lopes

June 12, 2009
Starry Plough
Berkeley, CA
Skerik, Scott Amendola, Wil Blades, and Will Bernard

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