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antiMUSIC News discusses Trevor Dunn‘s new group, featuring Trevor on bass of course, Sunny Kim on vocals, Hilmar Jensson on guitar, keyboard player Erik Deutch and drummer Ches Smith. Tom Wilkes, the designer of Captain Beefheart‘s Safe As Milk cover has died. Some experiments with fractal music can be found here.

Finally, if you’re in Chicago and want to help out with the Hyde Park Jazz Festival, call 773-834-3534 or email hpjf@interculturaltalk.com to volunteer.

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Free Jazz Blog Reviews

Louis Sclavis
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From Free Jazz:

Saturday, July 25, 2009
Carl Maguire – Sided Silver Solid (Firehouse 12, 2009) ****½

Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Dennis González – Renegade Spirits (Furthermore, 2009) ****½

Monday, July 20, 2009
Louis Sclavis – Lost On The Way (ECM, 2009) ****

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Cuneiform Artists on Tour Through August

From Cuneiform Records:

BIRDSONGS OF THE MESOZOIC (special tour to promote “Dawn of the Cycads”, so founding member Roger Miller (Mission of Burma) is performing with the group in place of current member Ken Field, and all material will be vintage – 1988 or earlier)
July 30 – Johnny D’s – 17 Holland St. – Somerville, MA 02144

DJAM KARET
August 6 – Hip Kitty Jazz and Fondue Lounge – 502 West First St. – Claremont, CA. 91711 (909) 447-6700 (with Ukab Maerd)
August 22 – Crescendo Festival – Saint Palais-sur-Mer, France

LED BIB [2009 Barclaycard Mercury Prize-Album of the Year!]
August 2009 – London date to be announced imminently

MATS/MORGAN BAND (Mats Öberg and Morgan Ågren with former Meshuggah bassist Gustaf Hilem)
August 16 – 20 – Zaapanle – Germany (with Denny Walley)

REVOLUTIONARY SNAKE ENSEMBLE
August 15 – Salem Jazz & Soul Festival – Salem, MA

UPSILON ACRUX
July 25 – The Ruby Room – Giant Robot post ComicCon show! – 1271 University Ave, San Diego, CA 92103 – $5.00 – (with Flattbush,Binges + giant robot artshow)
July 31 – The Center for Arts, Eagle Rock – 2225 Colorado Blvd. LA, CA 90041 – $8.00 (with Horse the Band, All Leather, + 1 more)
August 2 – The Smell – Los Angeles, California 90012 – $5.00 (with Ancestors, Nu Sensae, Random Cuts)

ZEVIOUS (our latest signing! Come out to see them now as they preview music from their fantastic new release “After the Air Raid”!)
August 14 – Yippie Cafe – 9 Bleecker St – Brooklyn, NY (with Third Space)
August 15 – Avant Gentleman’s Lodge – 4028 Filbert St – Philadelphia, PA 19104 (with Make A Rising, Hume)
August 16 – Galaxy Hut – 2711 Wilson Blvd Arlington, VA 22201 (703) 525-8646 (with DCIC)
August 17 – Nara – 1309 W. Main St – Richmond, Virginia (w/ The Wayward)
August 18 – DIVEbar – 3 Glenwood Ave – Raleigh, North Carolina – (Free show)
August 19 – BoBo Gallery – 22 Lexington Ave – Asheville, NC (with Shane Perlowin, King Tut)
August 21 – Dada Dollhouse – Winston Salem, NC (with St. Peter Pocket Veto)
August 22 – Hexagon – 1825 N. Charles St – Baltimore, MD (with Expanding Man, others tba)

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Musical Meditations in Portland

From Portland Eye and Ear Control:

7pm , august 2nd and august 16th
donation based
bamboo grove salon
134 SE taylor st

Musical Meditations:
a combination of music / poetry / movement that portrays and facilitates meditation

www.bamboogrovesalon.com
www.myspace.com/eugeneslee (sound video more info)

Eugene Lee is a free jazz musician from boston; recently moved to Portland.

William Parker / Samir Chatterjee Duo & Samir Chatterjee / Dan Weiss Duo

From New York’s Rise Up Creative Music & Arts:

Start: 07/28/2009 – 7:30pm
End: 07/28/2009 – 10:00pm

7PM
WILLIAM PARKER/SAMIR CHATTERJEE DUO
William Parker, bass
Samir Chatterjee, tablas

8PM
SAMIR CHATTERJEE/DAN WEISS DUO
Samir Chatterjee, tablas
Dan Weiss, percussion

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Umbrella Music Through July 30

From Chicago’s Umbrella Music:

Tuesday, 28 July 2009

Elastic
9:00PM | The Frame Quartet
Ken Vandermark – reeds
Fred Lonberg-Holm – cello
Nate McBride – bass
Tim Daisy – drums

two sets
Wednesday, 29 July 2009

The Hideout
10:00PM | Vox Arcana
Tim Daisy – drums, marimba, compositions
James Falzone – clarinet
Fred Lonberg-Holm – cello
11:00PM | Halvorson/Pavone
Mary Halvorson – guitar, vocals
Jessica Pavone – viola, vocals

$7 cover
PLUS | DJ Sets: John Corbett spins Radio Dada, Side B
Thursday, 30 July 2009

Elastic
10:00PM | Jackson/Pfammatter/Roebke
Keefe Jackson – reeds
Hans-Peter Pfammatter – piano
Jason Roebke – bass
11:00PM | blink.
Greg Ward – alto saxophone
Dave Miller – guitar
Jeff Greene – bass
Quin Kirchner – drums

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Musique Machine Reviews

From Musique Machine:

Hoor-Paar-Kraat – In Eros Veritas
In Eros Veritas stands as some of most musically based, noise tinged and dense material released thus far by this project- that’s best described as surreal soundscape making that mixes in elements of drone matter, field recordings, and various other genre traits to make something that is difficult to define in one genre but is very distinctive and highly heady stuff.

Halo Manash – Am Kha Astrie
This is the new ritual based occultic ambient work from Halo Manash and the Finnish label/occult collective Aural Hypnox. It sees a denser & more percussive based feel arising with in the collectives sound; through there’s still that very distinctive atmospheric, timeless, other and creepy air running through the release that all Aural Hypnox releasers have.

KK Null/ John Wiese – Mondo Paradoxa
Mondo Paradoxa is an heated ,atmospheric and rollercoaster like meeting of KK Null’s pulsing & dense Sci-fi electronica and Wiese’s searing noise storms and ear burns.

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New Keith Rowe and Sachiko M on Erstwhile Records

From Erstwhile Records:

Keith Rowe and Sachiko M are two of the most pivotal and crucial musicians in experimental music today. Contact marks their first meeting as a duo, consisting of their complete unedited sessions, both live and studio. Rowe and Sachiko have primarily travelled parallel paths over the last decade, occasionally intersecting. They both recorded crucial duo CDs with Toshi Nakamura in 2000-2001, first Sachiko with Do, then Keith soon after with Weather Sky. In 2004, they both took part in the 230 minute long quartet set documented on ErstLive 005, along with Nakamura and Otomo Yoshihide. In September 2008, Rowe played four sets in three nights in the AMPLIFY 2008: light festival in Tokyo. The festival marked Rowe’s fourth trip to Japan in his 40+ year career, and the primary purpose behind his visit was to record in duo for the first time with Sachiko. Contact contains the full unedited sessions from these two widely admired musicians who have deeply respected each other for the last decade.

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Sonomu Reviews

From Sonomu:

Various Artists, Great Speeches (CDR Chain Tape Collective)
With the new American president being considered an expert orator (gosh what a change), the art of public speaking is enjoying a renaissance. Though a couple of years old, the somewhat misleadingly titled Great Speeches (some should rather be called “infamous”) is timely and instructive listening…. [read]
Posted by Stephen Fruitman at 05:34, 26 Jul 2009

L. Pierre, Dip (Melodic)
L is for “Lucky”. Maybe it should also be for “loop”. Regardless, this is the fifth solo effort of Aidan Moffat, once half of Arab Strap. The opening “Gullsong” delivers on its promise; the cries of sea gulls do feature, above a bed of ebbing and flowing ocean waves; like the leftfield… [read]
Posted by Stephen Fruitman at 04:57, 25 Jul 2009

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Rhys Chatham Will Produce the Sound of 200 Guitars Wailing

Cover of "A Crimson Grail"
Cover of A Crimson Grail

From NYTimes.com:

THE scene at Damrosch Park last August promised something spectacular: amplifier setups for 200 guitarists and 16 bassists, configured in a horseshoe that stretched along the south end of Lincoln Center, across the front of the park’s band shell, and curved up alongside the Metropolitan Opera House. The rehearsals for “A Crimson Grail,” an epic-scale work by the experimental composer Rhys Chatham, had gone exceedingly well — first at the nearby Church of St. Paul the Apostle, then, at 1 p.m. on the day of the event, in the park.

On Aug. 8, in another of the city’s remarkable season of free concerts, the plan is to try it all again. But this time there will be risers for the musicians, tenting and a different electrical plan. In addition to the opportunity to bask in a highly unusual concert, the United States premiere of “A Crimson Grail” will offer a chance to witness the homecoming of a prodigal son of New York Minimalism, an art-music composer who has had a tremendous, if underappreciated, impact in the world of rock. After last year’s washout, which received a lot of blog attention, word is getting out; if the weather is good, Lincoln Center is expecting a crowd of more than 10,000.

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