Avant Music News

From the Bohemian in Exile:

Wed., May 5: BoxDeserter (Thollem McDonas, Skeeter Shelton, Jeff Marx, Joel Peterson, Marko Novachcoff and more!) at Le Petit Zinc
Our buddy Thollem McDonas is back in town for two shows. Night number one features the Bay-area based pianist with the improvising collective that is his Detroit “house band,” BoxDeserter. The trio version of BoxDeserter with Shelton and Peterson toured the east and near-west last year and this will be the first reunion of it’s members. Also on hand will be the members of BoxDeserter that released the CD, “Two Revolutions,” on California’s Edgetone Records.

Doors at 8 pm; $5-10 suggested donation. Food will be available at Le Petit Zinc during the show!

Thurs. May 6: Tsigoti (Thollem McDonas with Italian Musicians, Dark Red at The Old Miami
The second night of Thollem’s visit is the Detroit debut of his group with three Italian musicians, Tsigoti. It finds Thollem in an unusual role- singing protest tunes in a prog/punk rock band that uses his protean piano technique in a visceral direction. Their new CD is on the revived, legendary ESP-Disk label.

Doors at 9:30, Music approximately at 10 pm; $5 min.

From Seattle’s Wayward Music:

THU. 5/6, 8 PM – Washington Composers Forum 25th anniversary concert: Icicle Creek Piano Trio premieres a new work by Wayne Horvitz, Pacific Rims Percussion Quartet plays Cage and Stockhausen, Melia Watras plays Diane Thom, Seattle Phonographers Union improvise with field recordings, + electro-acoustic music by Christopher Bailey and Huck Hodge

FRI. 5/7, 8 PM – Seattle Composers’ Salon, music by Gavin Borchert, David Mesler, Tim Huling, Simon Fiset Competition Winners

SAT. 5/8, 8 PM – Nonsequitur presents Shelley Hirsch (NYC), avant vocals and narratives with electronic song drapes by the late, great Jerry Hunt

THU. 5/13 – Seattle Occultural Music Festival presents EQlateral, Honey Moon Tree, Christopher Greenchild, Count Constantin’s “Voronets Blue”

FRI. 5/14 – Seattle Occultural Music Festival & Nonsequitur present vocalist Anna Homler w/ Susie Kozawa, Lori Goldston, Amy Denio, Byron Au Yong, Doug Haire, maybe others

SAT. 5/15 – Pilot Books presents An Evening of Paper – multimedia event with poems, music, projections, books, visuals, etc.

FRI. 5/21 – Richard Webb – lullabies and other dreamy melodies for small chamber orchestra (think Rachel’s)

FRI. 5/28 – Nonsequitur presents vocalist Jessika Kenney with Eyvind Kang (viola), Parvaneh Daneshvar (tar, voice), and Dawn Clement (piano, voice)