Acoustic Ladyland: Living With a Tiger

July 8, 2009 — Mike

The latest from Acoustic Ladyland garners a review.

A claim to be London’s preeminent jazz/punk band may be met with derision in some quarters – until, that is, you hear the work of Acoustic Ladyland. Their brand of taught, energetic jazz has taken the city by storm – recognised by such luminaries as Ornette Coleman who asked them to play at the recent Meltdown Festival on the South Bank.

Now on their fourth album – following debut Camouflage in 2004 and subsequent Last Chance Disco and Skinny Grin – the group appears poised on the verge of wider exposure – bringing to the mainstream a secret the insular jazz world has long cherished.

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Jasper TX, Anduin, Extremities in DC

July 8, 2009 — Mike

From Washington DC’s Sonic Circuits:

Sunday July 12
Doors 630pm Music 7pm 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

Jasper TX
Gothenburg, Sweden http://myspace.com/jaspertx

Miasmah, Kning Disk, Fangbomb, Fenetre, SMTG Limited

Besides being one half of the post-rock duo De La Mancha, Jasper TX’s Dag Rosenqvist has released a number of carefully drafted and very well received solo recordings with labels such as Miasmah, Kning Disk, Fangbomb, and Lampse. His work is primarily guitar driven soundscapes covered in layers of drums, voices, organs, toy pianos, field recordings, and effects. Comparisons have been made to artists such as Fennesz, Aidan Baker, and Machinefabriek, with whom Rosenqvist has done two collaborations. In 2009, he followed 2008’s “Black Sheep” album on Miasmah with a new record titled “Singing Stones” on Fangbomb and the collaboration with Anduin on SMTG Limited. This will be Jasper TX’s first ever US dates.

Anduin
Richmond, Virginia http://smtgltd.com/anduinore

SMTG Limited

Anduin’s Jonathan Lee creates dark, pulsating ambient electronics soaked in layers of synths, samples, and field recordings. He has collaborated with a number of international artists including Svarte Greiner, Jasper TX, Stephen Vitiello, Noah Saval, Xela, Gareth Davis, and his own experimental band Souvenir’s Young America. His live shows and gallery instillations include a variety of self-made sets, collected props, and hidden lights. In 2009, he has 3 new releases: a live collaboration EP with Svarte Greiner, “The Bending Of A Light” LP with Jasper TX, and a new full length titled “Abandoned In Sleep,” all of which are on SMTG Limited.

Extremities is a new group composed of Pat Gillis (TL0741) and Scott Feeney (Scrap Heap). They make noise. http://www.hc3music.com/tl0741.html http://oceanbase.org/scrap/

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Floating Points Festival at the ISSUE Project Room

July 8, 2009 — Mike

From New York’s ISSUE Project Room:

A month-long program experimenting with and utilizing ISSUE Project Room’s custom-built 15 channel hemispherical speaker system, the Floating Points Festival returns this year with a line-up of luminary sound artists including Hisham Bharoocha, Morton Subotnick, Stephen Vitiello, Zeena Parkins, Suzanne Thorpe, C. Spencer Yeh, and Tony Conrad.

Also on display throughout the month, Kaffe Matthews’ multichannel sound installation “Sonic Bed Marfa” will be on display before each performance starting at 7 pm.

Wed Jul 8
See Hear Now (David and Gisele Gamper)

Fri July 10
Lesley Flanigan w/ Luke Dubois

Wed Jul 15
Mari Kimura

Thurs Jul 16
MV Carbon + Okkyung Lee

Fri Jul 17
C. Spencer Yeh + John Wiese

Wed Jul 22
Ha Yang Kim

Thurs Jul 23
Thomas Ankersmit + Tony Conrad

Fri Jul 24
Lavalier

Wed Jul 29
Suzanne Thorpe + Zeena Parkins

Thurs Jul 30
Dan Senn + Stephen Vitiello with Molly Berg

Fri Jul 31
Morton Subotnick

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Bagatellen Reviews

July 8, 2009 — Mike
Image of Nate Wooley from Facebook
Image of Nate Wooley

Bagatellen:

Jeph Jerman and Tom Cox — if/when

if/when comes housed in a compelling handmade box containing mushroom prints, the cd itself, and various organic matter. A profitable collaboration that involved Tom sending various recordings to Jeph who then reconstituted and playfully juggled them into their individual selves. I highly recommend looking inside this box as the [...]

Mary Halvorson, Reuben Radding & Nate Wooley – Crackleknob

In Brooklyn, as with Chicago, improvising enembles are comparable in number to tadpoles teeming in a pond. It’s a condition of the creative explosion that continues to sustain both communities. Nate Wooley, Reuben Radding and Mary Halvorson are poster people for the idea that diversification staves off artistic stasis. A thick chunk of the [...]

Alexander Hawkins Ensemble – No Now is So

Though only on his third recording and first as a leader (the other two – Convergence Quartet and Barkingside – are cooperative groups), it’s safe to say that English pianist Alexander Hawkins is coming into his own as a “young lion” of contemporary improvisation. His other projects feature a semi-typical horn-and-rhythm lineup, but [...]

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 [...]

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PdxNewMusicSociety 3-Year Anniversary in Portland

July 8, 2009 — Mike

From Portland Eye and Ear Control

Portland New Music Society Presents: PdxNewMusic 3-Year Anniversary Party!
—Come out and Celebrate with friends and peers—

Friday, July 17th @ 8pm
@Boxlift Bldg (333 NE Hancock)

*w/ sound installation by:

Dan Senn

& music by:

Prehistoric Horse (NY)
David Grollman (drums), Valerie Kuehne (cello), Lucio Menegon (sounds)

The Hand Quartet (name pending) Jordan Dykstra (viola), Bob Jones (bass), Mary Sutton (violin), and Jonathan Sielaff (bass clarinet)
performing collaborative compositions by Branic Howard and Brandon Conway (PdxNewMusicSociety founders)

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Avant Fairfax on August 22 in Washington DC

July 8, 2009 — Mike

From Black Plastic Bag

This afternoon, organizers Andrew McCarry and Chethan Kenkeremath unveiled the initial details for the next installment of their Avant Fairfax festival. Currently set to run on August 22 from 5pm until 1am, the first three acts announced are Max Ochs (check out a December 2008 interview with Ochs by BPB’s Cole Goins), Scarcity of Tanks and Moon Pie. Ochs needs little introduction; Moon Pie is an interesting ambient/psych duo from D.C., and Scarcity of Tanks is based in Ohio but otherwise might as well be called Scarcity of Information for all that I can find out about them.

The venue for this Avant Fairfax episode is the Point In Space Gallery. Check out Avant Fairfax at Myspace for all the details available to date.

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