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Multiple sources are reporting that free jazz drummer Rashied Ali, who played on many seminal Coltrane recordings, has passed on.
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Conversation with Brian Eno and Jon Hassell in Minneapolis
August 13, 2009 — Mike
- Jon Hassell via last.fm
The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis will host Eno and Hassell next month.
Legendary musician/composer/producer Brian Eno (Roxy Music, Talking Heads, U2, David Bowie, Devo) and renowned trumpeter/composer Jon Hassell (La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Peter Gabriel) continue a 30-year free-ranging dialogue—“making the world safe for pleasure/control and surrender/kinds of abstraction sickness/transcendence and intoxication: what sex, art, religion, music, and drugs have in common”—a discourse and collaboration, a lively conversation between two friends, between two brilliant minds.
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Telluric Currents at Brooklyn’s IBeam
August 13, 2009 — MikeFrom the IBeam:
Continuing the new concert series curated by Brooklyn-based composer/clarinetist Jeremiah Cymerman, the second installment of the Telluric Currents series will take place September 25th and 26th at Brooklyn’s I-Beam. Future installments will occur once every three months for three nights, three sets per night.
Celebrating the diversity and creativity of New York’s underground musicians, each night of the series will present different groups of musicians who masterfully blur the lines between composition and improvisation, acoustic and electronic music, subtlety and extremity. The current experimental music scene in New York is as vibrant as ever and the Telluric Currents Concert Series seeks to pay tribute to the richness of the current musical landscape.
Friday, September 25th
8p Jessica Pavone Solo
9p Anthony Coleman/Jeremiah Cymerman/Christopher Hoffman
10p Matthew Welch’s “Looking at Mondrian” performed by Shawn OnsgardSaturday September 26th
8p Mario Diaz de Leon/Doron Sadja Duo
9p Ches Smith Solo
10p Jon Irabagon/Mike Pride Duo
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Coming to the ISSUE Project Room
August 13, 2009 — MikeFrom New York’s ISSUE Project Room:
08/13 @ 8pm – Eran Sachs Lary 7
Eran Sachs works as composer, improviser, sound-artist and curator in Jerusalem and Jaffa. Originally coming from a classical background, he turned his attention towards Metal and Modern music, and started performing at the age of 14. As an improviser Sachs has collaborated with Philip Jeck, Keith Rowe, Jerome Noetinger, Daniel Padden, Oren Ambarchi, Mattin, C. Spencer Yeh, Thomas Koener, [...]08/14 @ 8pm – Dougie Bowne
I’m a musician/composer/producer. I’ve worked with a ton of people you might know, among them- Iggy pop, John Cale, Chris Whitley, Marrianne Faithfull, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Jack Bruce, Brian Eno, Arto Lindsay, Casandra Wilson, Laurie Anderson, Marissa Monte, Caetano Velosa, Tom Verlaine, Marc Ribot, John Zorn, Dave Douglas, Cibo Matto, I was a member of the [...]
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Dusted Reviews
August 13, 2009 — Mike
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From Dusted:
Artist: Robert Wyatt
Album: Radio Experiment Rome, February 1981
Label: Rai Trade
Review date: Aug. 13, 2009Artist: John Butcher Group
Album: somethingtobesaid
Label: Weight of Wax
Review date: Aug. 12, 2009
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Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music – Ambition Abounds in an Exultation Over Contemporary Works
August 13, 2009 — MikeNYTimes.com reviews this recent festival.
A stray orchestral work, Helen Grime’s Clarinet Concerto (2009), opened the Sunday evening concert, which was otherwise devoted to chamber music. Ms. Grime, an English composer born in 1981, seems drawn to melody and textural luxuriance, but she also has an ear for counterpoint and rhythmic complexity that gives her music an appealing edge. The concerto’s most entrancing section is a clarinet cadenza in which a combination of trills and sustained tones creates the illusion of several clarinet lines intertwined. Brent Besner was the superb soloist.
Ms. Grime’s work was a world premiere, as was Elliott Carter’s “Poems of Louis Zukofsky” (2009), on the same program. Lucy Shelton, the soprano, and Thomas Martin, the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s associate principal clarinetist, are sufficiently expert in Mr. Carter’s music to round off its difficulties, but this one needed little help: its soprano line, though chromatic, is warm-hued and melodic, and the clarinet writing darts around it in a way that brings out the humor in some of Zukofsky’s quirky, aphoristic texts.
Also on Sunday evening the guitarist Oren Fader presided over a lively account of Mario Davidovsky’s invitingly pointillistic “Festino” (1991), and Ryan McAdams conducted a suitably brash, pulsing performance of Tansy Davies’s “neon” (2007), a septet rooted in a Zappaesque raucousness.
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Tzadik To Release Jessica Pavone’s New CD In October
August 13, 2009 — MikeFrom Improvised Communications:
On October 27th, Tzadik will release violist/composer Jessica Pavone’s Songs of Synastry and Solitude (TZA-CD-7719) as part of the Oracles series, which celebrates “the diversity and creativity of women in experimental music making.” Inspired by the simple beauty of American folk songs, and singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen’s Songs of Love and Hate (Columbia), this recording features 11 of Ms. Pavone’s original compositions for string quartet (violin, viola, cello and double bass) being performed by members of the Toomai String Quintet. The group will celebrate the release of the record on Tuesday, November 10th with a live performance at Roulette in New York.
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