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From DOWNTOWNMUSIC.NET:

March 10, 2010 Kris Davis Quartet, Barbes Kris Davis, Tony Malaby, Eivind Opsvik, Tom Rainey
March 09, 2010 Jenny Scheinman & Mary Halvorson, Barbes Mary Halvorson, Jenny Scheinman

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From Wesleyan:

Friday, April 23rd, 2O1O – 8 pm – FREE
ANTHONY BRAXTON SMALL ENSEMBLE
“Saxophonist, composer and professor Anthony Braxton, known for his ground-breaking jazz and experimental music, performs in an intimate, small-ensemble setting.”

Thursday, April 29th, 2O1O – 8 pm – FREE
ANTHONY BRAXTON LARGE ENSEMBLE
Professor Braxton’s student ensemble performs his music.

Both at Crowell Concert Hall
Wesleyan University
283 Washington Terrace
Middletown, CT O6459
86O-685-3355

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From Robert Rich:

Sunday April 25
Toronto, ONT Canada
St. George the Martyr Church . 197 John St., Toronto
(North of Queen St. W. behind the AGO )
Map & complete info at http://www.THEAMBiENTPiNG.com
Doors open at 6:30pm . Concert at 7:30pm
Tickets: $20 advance . $25 door
Advance tickets are available onine now at TicketWeb:

Saturday, May 1
Philadelphia, PA
The Gatherings
St. Mary’s Hamilton Village, 3916 Locust Walk.
Details at: http://www.thegatherings.org

Tuesday May 4
Hartford CT
University of Hartford, Wilde Auditorium
(Details pending)

Friday May 7
Burlington Vermont
Flynn Space, 8:00 PM, $28 ($20 students)
Flynn Center for the Performing Arts
153 Main Street
Burlington VT 05401
Box Office: 802-863-5966, www.flynntix.org

Saturday May 8
Sherbrooke QUE
Plymouth-Trinity United Church
380, Dufferin Street
Info: Erich Langlois (819-820-1357) <
email: erich_langlois (at) hotmail (dot) com

http://plymouthtrinitychurch.org

Saturday May 15
Woodcliff Lake, NJ – One Thousand Pulses house concert
Official site: www.onethousandpulses.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/One-Thousand-Pulses/193816200641
9 Edward Pl / Woodcliff Lake NJ 07677 USA / 201.316.5403
thousandpulses (at) verizo (dot) net

Tuesday May 18 (needs confirmation)
Chicago Cultural Center
78 E. Washington St., Chicago IL 60602

Sunday May 23
Louisville KY
Rauch Planetarium – Gheens Science Center, University of Louisville
108 W. Brandeis Ave. Louisville KY 40208
(502) 852-6664

Friday May 28
Kansas City MO
Gottlieb Planetarium at Union Station
$15, 8:00 PM
30 W. Pershing Rd., Kansas City, MO 64108
Tickets through http://www.unionstation.org

Saturday May 29, or Sunday May 30 (TBA)
Des Moines IA

Tuesday June 1 (or Wed. June 2)
Denver, CO
House concert with Jim Lanpheer

Friday June 4
Santa Fe, NM
The Santa Fe Complex
8:00 PM, $12 at door
624 Agua Fria Street, Santa Fe NM 87501
tel: 505-216-7562
email: info (at) sfcomplex (dot) org

Sunday June 6
Tucson AZ – Solar Culture
31 East Toole Avenue
Tucson, AZ 85701
(520) 884-0874
$10, doors 8:30, performance 9:15

Friday June 11
San Jose, CA – CET Soto Theater
8:00 PM, $20
701 Vine Street
San Jose, CA 95110

Saturday June 19
Pomona, CA
DA Gallery – free admission
252-D South Main Street, Pomona CA 91766

Wednesday June 18
Portland, OR
7:00 PM
Live in-store performance, free admission
Music Millennium
3158 East Burnside Street, Portland OR 97214-1995

Thursday June 24
Portland, OR
The Clinton Street Theater
2522 SE Clinton St.
Portland, OR 97202
Events Phone: 503.238.8899
Message/Contact Phone: 503.238.5588

Friday June 25
Portland, OR
Sleep Concert – sold out

Thursday July 1
Seattle, WA
8:00 PM
The Chapel Performance Space at Good Shepherd Center
4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., Seattle (SW corner of 50th)
Part of the Wayward Music Series (http://waywardmusic.blogspot.com)
$5-$15 sliding scale, door only
Info: gscchapel (at) gmail (dot) com
tel: 206-789-1939

From Bowerbird:

FREE EVENT
Nautical Almanac
Seijiro Murayama
ylwtr (Kurt Gottschalk + Phillip Gayle)
Weyes Blood

@ The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St
Friday, March 19, 8pm. Free.

BREAKING THEIR OWN MOLD
The experimental artist is one who is in a constant state of flux, renewing their vision and creative impulses over the course of a career, or even from performance to performance.

Seijiro Murayama (pictured) is a Japanese percussionist currently living in Paris. Active since 1982, he is a founding member of seminal noise/rock band A.N.P. (with KK Null) and Fushitsusha (with Keiji Haino). Currently he plays solo (with only a snare drum), in duo with Jean-Luc Guionnet, Eric Cordier, Stéphane Bank, Tim Blechmann, Didier Lasserre, and quartet “Off-cells” with Taku Unami (guitar), Uta Kawasaki (analog synth), Takahiro Kawaguchi (objects).

Since it’s founding in 1994, Nautical Almanac, the project of Baltimoreans James “Twig” Harper and Carly Ptak, has been hard to categorize. Using an ever changing array of hacked electronics, and sometimes (but just as often not) performing in costumes, jumping into the crowd, or not, Nautical Almanac is certainly never the same twice. “My motto is, ‘Remember how it felt not to be able to play music,’” Harper says.

In YLWTR, Kurt Gottschalk and Philip Gayle explore bright and quiet currents with acoustic strings, percussion, waterphone and accidental video. Kurt is most interested in what Anthony Braxton brilliantly termed the “post Ayler/Cage continuum.” His writings about music have appeared in All About Jazz, Signal to Noise, The Wire and Time Out-New York, among other publications.

Previously know as Wiseblood and more recently Weyes Bluhd, Weyes Blood (Natalie Mering) once made melancholy and lyric folk, but has more recently made dark psychedelic noisy songs with a collage of tape, guitar textures, and various other sounds. Mering says “I want to play an ancient song, but through the sonic elements of tape collage and electronics, accidental sounds that rejuvenate the melodic archetype while also thrusting it into the future.”

PREVIEW SOME SOUNDS

Seijiro Murayama: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mS_lZu8Qn8

http://www.mimaroglumusicsales.com/artists/seijiro+murayama.html

Nautical Almanac: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRA67ST0jS8

http://www.mimaroglumusicsales.com/artists/nautical+almanac.html

Phillip Gayle: http://www.myspace.com/philipgaylemusic

Weyes Blood: http://www.myspace.com/nataliewiseblood

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