Reminder: Los Angeles New Music Ensemble Presents Time, Minimalism, and Electronics This Week

August 6, 2009 — Mike

From the Los Angeles New Music Ensemble:

Los Angeles New Music Ensemble-Time, Minimalism, and Electronics

Friday, August 7, 8pm
Santa Monica Art Studios
3026 Airport Avenue, Santa Monica CA
$5 students, $10 adult
Website: LosAngelesNME.org
Phone: 505 270 4965

Program info:
This summer the Los Angeles New Music Ensemble is proud to present a summer series based on time, minimalism, and electronics. The program is centered around Terry Riley’s masterpiece of the minimalist movement, In C. In C has been lauded throughout the world as a seminal work in the history of contemporary music. Yet more importantly, the truly transcendent nature of the piece when heard live is something that we believe should be experienced by everyone. When played with skill, precision, and passion, Terry Riley’s visionary set of 53 musical cues becomes a transformative performance, and it is these attributes that we intend to bring to Southern California this summer.

We are also pleased to present two pieces especially commissioned for this series by Patrick Conlon and Dan Formidoni, and two older works by Evan Ziporyn and Dr. Marvin Lamb.

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Free Jazz Shows in Chicago

August 6, 2009 — Mike

Chicago Now announces free (in both senses of the word) jazz shows from Rudresh Mahanthappa (tonight) and Fred Anderson (August 20), among others, in Chicago.

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Music and More Reviews

August 6, 2009 — Mike

From Music and More:

Monday, August 03, 2009
Frank Morgan – City Lights: Live at the Jazz Standard (Highnote, 2004)

Saturday, August 01, 2009
Buffalo Collision – (duck) (Screwgun, 2009)

Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Trespass Trio – …was there to illuminate the night sky… (Clean Feed, 2009)

Sunday, July 26, 2009
Darren Johnston – The Edge of the Forest (Clean Feed, 2008)

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Eli Keszler & Ashley Paul at Metropolis 8/10

August 6, 2009 — Mike

From Syracuse’s New Thing Productions:

August 10th @ 8pm
Eli Keszler & Ashley Paul
$5-$10 Donation
Metropolis Underground
615 S. Main St (backside of bldg, first door on your left)
N. Syracuse, NY 13212

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 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.
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Phil Kline Daze DVD Praised at New York Times, Stereophile, New York Magazine

August 6, 2009 — Mike

New Music Reviews provides a rehash of a few reviews of the latest Phil Kline release.

The New York Times, Stereophile, New York Magazine, WNYC, and others have recently praised Phil Kline’s Around the World in a Daze (http://www.starkland.com/s2015/index.htm), a surround sound DVD released by Starkland.

In his New York Times review (http://starkland.blogspot.com/2009/07/new-york-times-reviews-starklands-daze.html), critic Allan Kozinn notes, “Mr. Kline, the electronic experimenter who deploys fleets of boomboxes to achieve his preferred textures, is hard at work.” He writes “the best pieces” include Pennies from Heaven, “an 18-minute tapestry of tactile, bell-like timbres and descending scales,” along with The Maryland Sample, “an appealingly harmonized vocal setting,” and Svarga Yatra, a “meditative string quartet score, played with an ethereal, plush tone by Ethel, that catches the ear.”

Stereophile’s Kal Rubinson also enthusiastically reviews Daze (http://starkland.blogspot.com/2009/06/stereophile-reviews-phil-kline-dvd.html). The “ear-opening adventures” range “widely from ambient recordings that are surprisingly musical, to complex constructions that emerge as lyrical.” Rubinson adds the Extras DVD contains “a fascinating interview with Kline.”

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Dusted Reviews

August 6, 2009 — Mike

From Dusted:

Artist: Jason Kahn
Album: Vanishing Point
Label: 23five, Inc.
Review date: Aug. 5, 2009

Artist: Six Organs of Admittance
Album: Luminous Night
Label: Drag City
Review date: Aug. 3, 2009

Artist: Tetuzi Akiyama
Album: The Ancient Balance to Control Death
Label: Western Vinyl
Review date: Jul. 31, 2009

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