Musique Machine Reviews

May 8, 2010 — Mike

From Musique Machine:

Various Artists – Brainkiller(boxset)
The ‘Brainkiller’ boxset brings together four c100 tapes worth of often thick & unchanging Harsh Noise wall matter, with the four acts involved offer up two fifty minute ‘walls’ a piece. The acts taking part here are Sarajevo based Smrznik, Croatian based Placenta Lyposuction, Italian based Fukte and last, but hardly least we have French based Vomir.

Hash – Self titled
Hash’s self titled debut album offers up one lengthy hour long track of tense, meshing & juddering Harsh Noise Wall matter, which keeps you nicely pined down & in-tranced through-out it’s running time.

Hour Of The Wolf – The Sun Became Black As Sackcloth Of Hair And The
This single sided 80 minute tape offers up two lengthy dwells in hope drenching, nasty & grim wall making from Norwegian based Hour of the Wolf- which is of course the HWN project of the highly prolific Andreas Brandal who is also in Flesh Coffin, Drevne Bolesti and many other projects.

Vomir / Ptomain – Split
This 12 inch vinyl split offers up a side a piece of thick ‘n’ nasty HNW from the French Wall master Vomir & the relatively new, but highly prolific German based HNW project Ptomain who first appeared last year & since has put out seventeen releases thus far.

Morgvir – Towards The Black Horizon
Morgvir are a one-man finish based black metal project who offer up mid-pace, ambient, lo-grade & horror licked synth Black mettlics. ‘Towards The Black Horizon’ is the projects forth released CDR album.

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Ratchet Series in Chicago Profiled

May 8, 2010 — Mike

Gapers Block has a piece about the Ratchet series in Chicago, and in the process gives a pretty good overview of the difficulties of getting gigs as a creative music artist.

Ratchet originally began as a bi-weekly gig in the summer of ’07 for the avant garde trio Princess Princess, with Rosaly on drums, Jaimie Branch on trumpet and Toby Summerfield on bass. The band was a rather challenging listen, especially in an unforgiving bar scene, and the group was eventually fired. But during the process, Rosaly took the reins and somehow convinced the management to let them try a weekly series, this time with different bands each week. “As long as it ain’t Princess Princess every week, we’ll try it out.” They gave Ratchet six months—and that was almost three years ago.

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Newsbits

May 8, 2010 — Mike
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The latest release from Mike Patton is reviewed here and here.

Speaking of Patton, he is interviewed about his long relationship with John Zorn.

Cyclic Law has released a 4CD compilation of the early releases of dark ambient artist Arcana.

Ellery Eskelin has launched a blog, Musings from a Saxophonist…

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Classical Music Listings from the New York Times

May 8, 2010 — Mike

In NYTimes.com:

ECLIPSE QUARTET (Saturday) The latest New York performance by this admirable Los Angeles ensemble is something of a family affair: featured on the program is the String Quartet No. 1 (“Persuasion”) by Zeena Parkins, a prominent New York harpist and the sister of two members of the quartet. Also included are John Cage’s String Quartet in Four Parts; “Ariadne’s Thread” by Roger Reynolds; and Morton Subotnick’s “Fluttering of Wings.” At 8:30 p.m., Roulette at Location One, 20 Greene Street, at Grand Street, SoHo, (212) 219-8242, roulette.org; $15; $10 for students, under 30 and 65+ (Smith)

EIGHTH BLACKBIRD (Saturday) As part of the low-cost Peoples’ Symphony Concerts series, this superb new-music ensemble offers recent works by Kati Agocs, Missy Mazzoli and Stephen Hartke and older scores by Dennis DeSantis, Franco Donatoni, Thomas Adès and Roshanne Etezady. At 8 p.m., Washington Irving High School, 16th Street and Irving Place, Manhattan, (212) 586-4680, pscny.org; $10. (Kozinn)

ENSEMBLE ACJW (Monday) John Adams conducts this vital, versatile young group in a concert linked to Carnegie Hall’s recent celebration of the Dutch composer Louis Andriessen. In addition “De Staat,” an important work by Mr. Andriessen, the program includes Stravinsky’s Concerto for Piano and Winds, with the puckish pianist Jeremy Denk as the soloist, and Mr. Adams’s own “Son of Chamber Symphony.” At 6 p.m., Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall, (212) 247-7800, carnegiehall.org; $22 and $37. (Smith)

LOOK & LISTEN FESTIVAL (Friday, Saturday and Sunday) Both eyes and ears are catered to at the annual Look & Listen festival, which offers new music in galleries. On Friday in the Chelsea Art Museum, against a backdrop of work by the abstract painter Jean Miotte, the terrific ensemble Eighth Blackbird will perform works by Missy Mazzoli and Carlos Sánchez-Gutiérrez, and the dynamic Jack Quartet will offer scores by Caleb Burhans and Hannah Lash. In the museum on Sunday the lineup includes pieces by Messiaen, Dan Visconti and Suzanne Farrin. On Saturday at Gary Snyder/Project Space, So Percussion performs works by Jason Treuting (a member of this innovative ensemble), Morton Feldman and John Cage. Friday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m., Chelsea Art Museum, 556 West 22nd Street; Saturday at 8 p.m., Gary Snyder/Project Space, 250 West 26th Street, Chelsea, (718) 622-3005, lookandlisten.org; $10. (Schweitzer)

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Stet Lab May 10th

May 8, 2010 — Mike

From Ireland’s Stet Lab:

The next Stet Lab will take place on Monday, May 10, 2010, upstairs @ The Roundy, Castle Street, Cork, Ireland.

The event will feature vocalist Juniper Hill and shape note singers, plus the The Real-Time Company (for the Ad-Hoc Association) of… Philip Guiton (guitar), Marian Murray (violin), Claudia Schwab (violin) and Kevin Terry (guitar).

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