July at the IBeam

July 3, 2009 — Mike

From Brooklyn’s IBeam:

Ibeam Calendar for July 2009
All Shows are $10 Suggested Donation
168 7th St. Brooklyn NY 11215 (bet 2+3rd ave)
www.ibeambrooklyn.com

July 10
$10 suggested
9:00 pm
Andrew Drury’s Content Provider
Peter Evans, trumpets
Briggan Krauss, alto saxophone
Chris Speed, tenor saxophone
Andrew Drury, drums & compositions
www.andrewdrury.com

10:00 pm
Kristen Berardi Group
Kristen Berardi – Vocals
Sean Wayland – Piano
Miles Okazaki – Guitar
One of Australias best jazz vocalists and composers Kristen won last years Montreaux jazz vocal composition . She is performing in New York courtesy of the prestigous Freedman Fellowship. She will be performing a mixture of contempory influenced songs and standards.

July 11th ($10 Suggested)
9:00 pm
Nate Wooley and Peter Evans Duo
Nate Wooley – Trumpet/Effects
Peter Evans – Trumpet/Effects
You could refer to Nate Wooley and Peter Evans as trumpet extremists. No matter how they wield their horns, both tend toward the boundary-straining end of the spectrum. (Shaun Brady)

10:00 pm
Dan Peck Trio
Dan Peck (tuba)
Tom Blancarte (bass)
and Brian Osborne (drums)
Come hear the soundtrack to the end of the world as the trio explores the lowest thresholds of human hearing. Combining compositions that evoke Doom metal and improvisations that suggest Braxton, the trio focuses on the tuba and bass as a sub-sonic duo, with the percussion adding punctuation to their down sounds.

July 17th
Travis Sullivan and George Dulin
Travis Sullivan – Saxophone
George Dulin – Piano

July 24th
Ohad Talmor/ Miles Okazaki / Dan Weiss
Hindustani Music
Ohad Talmor – Saxophone
Miles Okazaki – Guitar
Dan Weiss – Drums

August 1st
9:00 pm
Monastics
Jeremy Hurewitz – coustic guitar
Don Chase – bass and sampler
EJ Fry – percussion
Special guest Shane Rettig on keys and laptop.
Monastics bring fresh sounds to the abstract folk scene with deft skill and sincerity. With influences as varied as James Blackshaw, Boards Of Canada, Animal Collective, and Sun Ra, they conjure new music that thrives on collaboration and improvisation without falling victim to banality. www.myspace.com/monasticsband

10pm – Slow To Wake
Topu Lyo – cello
Bryan Teoh – cello
Ben Gallina – basses
Shane Rettig – keys and laptop
EJ Fry – drums and laptop
Slow To Wake conjure images of grainy ’60s film through the use of instrumental rock, other-worldly jazz & ambient soundscapes. They shamelessly juxtapose lush strings & edgy electronics to provide a modern soundtrack to pristine beauty and urban decay.
www.slowtowake.com
www.myspace.com/slowtowake

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Sonomu Reviews

July 3, 2009 — Mike

From Sonomu:

Celer, Cantus Libres (2 CDR self-released)
Though they only started releasing music in 2004, this husband and wife duo of multidisciplinarians has been so prolific, and are so obviously talented and imaginative, that it has quickly garned respect and admiration from all corners of the ambient listening (and performing) community. Note for… [read]
Posted by Stephen Fruitman at 06:20, 02 Jul 2009

Pocka, Uhrwerk (CDR The Hand Work Press)
A beauty of a private, letterpress edition made in only thirty copies by fellow electronic artist Matt Borghi. Brad “Pocka” Mitchell is an enthusiastic, if now maybe crestfallen, supporter of small music, which he released in a steady stream on his now-defunct Kikapu netlabel. Uhrwerk is as… [read]
Posted by Stephen Fruitman at 09:23, 01 Jul 2009

Max Richter, Songs From Before (Fat Cat)
This album has been out for a while and praised to the skies by just about all and sundry, but it´s worth reminding oneself about in the midst of the summer steam. A new breed of young, non-conventional minimalist composers – with (just names off the top of my head) Sylvain Chaveau, Nico Muhly,… [read]
Posted by Stephen Fruitman at 06:53, 01 Jul 2009

Rachel Unthank and The Winterset, The Bairns (Rough Trade)
For hundreds of years, rural England has bred balladry which reads like news reports from the soul, describing death, loss, longing, and wavering faith, and featuring a cast of remorseful murderers, lovers joined only by the roots entwining their buried bones, wives all along the coast pacing their… [read]
Posted by Stephen Fruitman at 06:26, 28 Jun 2009

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Eli Keszler, Ashley Paul, Silvum at Sonic Circuits

July 3, 2009 — Mike

From DC’s Sonic Circuits:

Tuesday July 7
Doors 730pm Music 8pm SHARP
$7
PYRAMID ATLANTIC
8230 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring MD 20910
301.608.9101
located three blocks south of the silver spring metro station (red line)
Free parking in gated lot out front
DIRECTIONS: www.pyramidatlanticartcenter.org
INFO: dc-soniccircuits.org

Eli Keszler

Using drums, along with crotales, bells, bowed metal, strings, Eli creates a unique whirlwind of sound that balances sparse droning harmonics with intense, fast, free rhythms. He has performed, recorded or collaborated with artists such as Jandek, Phill Niblock (performed a new work of his for bowed crotales and saxophone), Roscoe Mitchell, Loren Connors, Charles Cohen, Anthony Coleman (appearing on his New World Records Release), Aki Onda, Bryan Eubanks, David Linton, Steve Pyne (Redhorse), Greg Kelley, Ashley Paul. Eli has performed at venues like The Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston), Irving Plaza, Merkin Hall, Issue Project Room, The Stone and The Knitting Factory (NYC and LA), and countless bookstores, basements, and small galleries around the US and Europe. He has released solo CD’s and cassettes on REL as well as labels such as Rare Youth (debut solo LP, Livingston), Reverb Worship and Something on The Road.

Ashley Paul

Ashley Paul plays reeds, unique string instruments, electronics and sings. Her dream-like music juxtaposes aggressive, sustained high pitched blasts, floating vocals, clattering strings and bells, cry-like saxophones and is somehow tied together by oddly melodic songs. In the past year she performed with Loren connors, Aki Onda, Joe Morris, and Greg Kelley, premiered a new work by Phill Niblock for soprano saxophone and bowed crotales (written for her and Eli Keszler), performed as part of the US premiere of Mauricio Kagel’s masterpiece ‘Der Schall’ at Merkin Concert Hall in New York and was heard in a live feature on wzbc’s Rare Frequency. Additionally, Ashley performs regularly with Anthony Coleman in duo, trio and on his recent New World Records release, plays duo with Eli Keszler and has recently begun performing solo, sharing the stage with Thurston Moore, Mats Gustaffson, Chris Corsano and others.

links/sounds: http://www.myspace.com/elikeszler http://www.myspace.com/ashleygpaul http://www.relrecords.net/catalogue.html http://www.relrecords.net http://www.myspace.com/elikeszler

Silvum

“I’m always trying to focus and clarify where I am going with my sound works to generate the most honest creations possible. Like anyone, I am inevitably influenced by many things (to view that as negative is utopian), but never want those influences to overcome my expression. In the spectrum of my goals, there’s no point in recreating what has already been done (I have no problem with stylistic explorations of established styles or approaches in other artists / genres), and I am always realizing that my works can be easily classified (I’m not destroying any boundaries). While sound revolution is not the point, I do want to create something as “true” and refined as possible, something that is me, or more practically a part of me: a mood a sensation, a memory. An alchemy where I take the standard elements and generate something unique.”

http://www.myspace.com/silvum

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Bagatellen Reviews

July 3, 2009 — Mike

From Bagatellen:

rossetto. rossetto.

Further activity from Vanessa Rossetto, who, including the production of three recordings last year on her Music Appreciation label, has developed a distinctive, recognizable voice within a field of music that is hyper-productive, to put it lightly. She’s an interesting (and rewarding) musician to follow, and it deserves mention that, for many, both in [...]

Graham Halliwell & Lee Patterson — Terrain

When I first listened to Terrain (Confront), we were in the midst of an unexpected second snow in North Carolina. There was something alien and unpredictable about this circumstance, and it seemed to suit this lovely recording from Graham Halliwell and Lee Patterson. Halliwell’s stunning saxophone feedback seems perfectly apposite here, a presence in [...]

Henry Kaiser/Damon Smith/Weasel Walter – Plane Crash

Bay Area percussionist Weasel Walter has helmed a number of powerful, overdriven sessions of free music during the last few years, often in tandem with bassist Damon Smith. Most of these aggregations have featured saxophonists or brass players – people like Elliott Levin, Paul Hartsaw, or Peter Evans. Walter’s adage is that, to [...]

Jamie Coleman/Grundik Kasyansky/Seymour Wright — Control and Its Opposites (Another Timbre)

Finally, some rapid turnaround from inception to release. Recorded in April of this year, Control and Its Opposites is among the latest in the “B” cd-r series on Another Timbre, and one of seven recent and upcoming releases from the label. The disc captures the London-based trio of Jamie Coleman (trumpet, objects), Grundik [...]

Keith Rowe – erstwords ErstLive007

In the occasion of the “AMPLIFY: Light” festival, held in Tokyo in September 2008, Keith Rowe decided, 24 hours prior to his gig, to go fully introspective with the music he’d play, with particular regard to artistic influences and, especially, sounds that have influenced him. Without a doubt, the people who attended the concert – [...]

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Avant Rock Show in Paris

July 3, 2009 — Mike

Short notice, as this show is scheduled for July 4th, but a great lineup nonetheless.

Schizophonic Cabaret – autour de Pascal Comelade
www.myspace.com/musiquescomeladiennes

— Faust (www.myspace.com/faustpages)
— Richard Pinhas (www.myspace.com/richardpinhas)
— David Fenech / Jac Berrocal / Ghedalia Tazartès (www.myspace.com/davidfenech)
— Général Alcazar (www.myspace.com/generalcazar)
— Kawaii (www.myspace.com/kawaiimusic)
— My Favourite Sideburns Orchestra (www.myspace.com/myfavoritesideburnsorchestra)
— Lionel Fondeville (www.myspace.com/touslesfilms)
— Tycho Brahé (www.myspace.com/tychobraheband)
— Chapi Chapo & les petites musiques de pluie (www.myspace.com/chapichapooo)
— Orso Jesenka (www.myspace.com/orsojesenska)
— Witold Bolik Project (www.myspace.com/dewitoldbolikprojekt)
— Yeepee (www.myspace.com/yeepee)

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