New CD and Book from Graham Collier

May 28, 2009 — Mike

From Graham Collier, a new book and a double CD (samples available).

The comment by Gill Fisher, a friend of a friend who attended the 2004 concert, that I was directing 14 Jackson Pollocks is a concise and aware description of how I see my role as a jazz composer: to work with a group of brilliant musicians to create something which, while respecting what is written, changes from performance to performance as all good jazz should. This concept is the philosophical core of my new book the jazz composer, moving music off the paper, published simultaneously with this album by Northway Books.

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New Releases From Ambiances Magnetiques

May 28, 2009 — Mike
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Out recently on Ambiances Magnetiques:

John Geggie – Geggie Project / Ambiances Jazz | AM 179 | 2008
Using John Geggie’s compositions as a point of departure, this creative trio covers much terrain with its lyrical and sonic landscapes. …

Normand Guilbeault Ensemble Mingus – Live at Upstairs 2008 / Ambiances Jazz | AM 185 | 2009

Mingus’s music is controversial, politically engaged, generous, warm, and passionate. It is not for the lukewarm and the undecisive. …

Antoine Berthiaume, Elliott Sharp – BASE / Ambiances Magnétiques | AM 178 | 2008

Matt Brubeck, Nick Fraser, Marilyn Lerner – Ugly Beauties / Ambiances Magnétiques | AM 187 | 2009

Isaiah Ceccarelli, Michel F Côté – Vulgarités / Ambiances Magnétiques | AM 180 | 2008

This meeting is the audible result of being overworked. What comes out of it is a sullen form of grace, an elegy for the destruction of things.This CD features the sound of a plethora of objects being struck and stroked. …

Charity Chan – Somewhere the Sea and Salt / Ambiances Magnétiques | AM 188 | 2009

Sébastien Cirotteau, Brigitte Lacasse, Catherine S Massicotte, Éric Normand – Face à la dérive / Ambiances Magnétiques | AM 183 | 2008

Instrumental documentary: a travel along the St Lawrence river. Winds, animals and peoples becoming instrument too… …

Ensemble SuperMusique – Y’a du bruit dans ma cabane / Ambiances Magnétiques | AM 182 | 2008

All its instrumentalists are exceptional soloists highly regarded for their unique playing style. These six performers are musique actuelle masters with a huge palette of sounds. …

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A proper birthday for Sun Ra’s successor

May 28, 2009 — Mike
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Marshall Allen‘s birthday is celebrated:

Celebrating the Germantown transplant, who died in 1993 at age 79, has become a preoccupation of labels like Atavistic and Evidence, which are bringing out previously unreleased recordings from Ra’s own Saturn imprint. While Ra and his merry men, the Arkestra, played themselves in the 1974 film Space Is the Place, recent documentaries like Brother From Another Planet and local director Ephraim Asili’s new Points on a Space Age flourish. Philly’s ICA even has a Sun Ra Arkestra exhibit running until August.

Yet for all this acclaim, little has been allocated to Ra’s eventual successor and Arkestra leader, saxophonist Marshall Allen.

Sunday’s sold-out Ars Nova Arkestra concert and 85th birthday party for Allen at Johnny Brenda’s helped rectify that.

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Anthony Braxton Concerts

May 28, 2009 — Mike

Upcoming Anthony Braxton shows:

2009:
Sun, Jul-12
North Sea Jazz Festival, Rotterdam, HOLLAND
Anthony Braxton Diamond Curtain Wall Trio [AB reeds, elec, Taylor Ho Bynum brass, Mary Halvorson g]

2010:
Fri, Jan-29
Christ Church Cathedral, Vancouver, CANADA
Anthony Braxton 12 1tet [AB reeds, Taylor Ho Bynum cor, Jessica Pavone vla, Jay Rozen tba, Carl Testa b, Aaron Siegel perc, Mary Halvorson g, Steve Lehman reeds, James Fei reeds, Andrew Raffo Dewar reeds, Reut Regev tb, Sara Schoenbeck bsn, Nicole Mitchell fl]

Sun, Jan-31
Roundhouse Festival Hall, Vancouver, CANADA
Anthony Braxton Sonic Genome Project

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Free Jazz Blog Reviews

May 27, 2009 — Mike

From Free Jazz:

Monday, May 25, 2009
Avram Fefer Trio – Ritual (Clean Feed, 2009) ****

Sunday, May 24, 2009
Rob Mazurek – Sound Is (Delmark, 2009) *****

Friday, May 22, 2009
Gato Barbieri – In Search Of The Mystery (ESP, 2009) ****

Thursday, May 21, 2009
Franz Koglmann – Lo-Lee-Ta (Music on Nabokov) (Col-Legno, 2009) ****

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Musique Machine Reviews

May 27, 2009 — Mike

From Musique Machine:

Vice Wears Black Hose – Part 2
Vice Wears Black Hose is harsh noise/wall noise project that brings together two respected US noise mongers in the form of Sam McKinlay of The Rita and Richard Ramirez of Werewolf Jerusalem & Black Leather Jesus. This cdr takes in one long 40 minute track of unforgiving harsh static texturing and suffocation.

Die Rote Form – Grass Breaks Concrete
Die Rote Form make very stern yet grimly atmospheric licked power electronics meets old school industrial sonics. Grass Breaks Concrete is the band second full length cdr release packed in a nice professional manner in a glossy paper oversized sleeve.

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Coming up at the ISSUE Project Room

May 27, 2009 — Mike

From the ISSUE Project Room:

05/27 @ 8pm – Ha Yang Kim
Cellist, composer and improviser Ha-Yang Kim was born in Seoul, Korea. Ha-Yang made her professional solo debut at age 16 with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Hailed as “phenomenal” and playing with “brilliant technique full of energy, concentration, musicality and expression” (Mainpost, Germany), she performs new music as a soloist and with ensembles and artists in [...]

05/28 @ 8pm – Angie Eng, Okkyung Lee & Satoshi Takeishi
Live video artist, Angie Eng revives cinepoetry with miniature cameras, object manipulation and a light table with cellist Okkyung Lee and percussionist Satoshi Takeishi. A garden of digital improvisational delights, a cross between music for silent film, a surrealist appetizer and a magic act. Angie Eng- Live camera, video effects, object manipulaiton Okkyung Lee-Cello Satoshi Takeishi-drums, [...]

05/29 @ 8pm – Angela Jaeger, Byron Coley Gary Panter, Devin Flynn & Ross Goldstein
THE RIDICULOUS NO A running quest for word slap ingénue, songstress/ poet Angela Jaeger joins forces with underground textsmith extraordinaire Byron Coley for an evening of sporadic talk – to no one, to each other, to you. A collection of psychedelic chants, words, sights and sounds will bounce between these 2 college buddies in what might [...]

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David S. Ware Health Update / AMN Donation

May 27, 2009 — Mike

A rough translation from David’s blog:

The May 12 operation went well. David is home taking anti-rejection medication and will be closely watched over the next 3 months. It has been impossible for him to work since September 2008, so there has been a call for donations to help David out financially at
http://www.aumfidelity.com/david-s-ware-health.html. We will wait for David to stabilize before organizing any future tours.

Please note the following: Avant Music News is going to donate advertising proceeds from the second quarter of 2009 to David’s health. We don’t make a lot on this site, but every little bit helps, and all of our revenue from April-June will go to David. If you don’t want to donate directly (which you should since its easy and anyone can afford a few bucks), you can do so indirectly through us. Thanks.

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Monsieur Délire

May 27, 2009 — Mike

Monsieur Délire is a new blog from veteran music reviewer Francios Couture. The focus is on left-of-center music and consists mainly of his daily listening diary. Good stuff.

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Free Music Archive

May 26, 2009 — Mike

The Free Music Archive is a relatively new site dedicated to providing free music to all. As such, it is loaded with free downloads. Although I haven’t tried any out just yet, it does have an “experimental” section which is linked to here. Feel free to provide feedback if any of the downloads are particularly strong.

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