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Details are emerging of the New Atlantis Festival , which is to take place in Washington, DC, July 23-34.

Friday, July 23 @ The Fridge – 516 8 St SE (Rear Alley), Washington DC
Sonny Simmons
New Atlantis IVtet w/Steve Swell
Weasel Walter + Darius Jones + Tom Blancarte
Ras Moshe Trio

Saturday, July 24 @ The Fridge (DC)
Charles Gayle Solo + Trio + Big Band
Joe Morris + Luther Gray + Petr Cancura
Nate Wooley
Susan Alcorn
Ches Smith‘s Congs for Brums
Vattel Cherry’s Soulstation
James Ilgenfritz + Chris Welcome + Jonathan Moritz
Ed Ricart + Ches Smith + Jason Ajemian
New Loft
Many Arms
Mothguts
Grasshopper
Wasteland Jazz Unit

The upcoming Victoriaville fest is previewed:

Off the beaten track is the way music fans like to describe both this city and the music festival it’s been hosting since 1983. The four-day Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville – Canada’s oldest and best-known showcase of experimental music – kicks off tomorrow with its usual eclectic mix. The festival, which acquired a worldwide reputation after humble beginnings in an automobile vendor’s showroom for bold and imaginative programming, once again presents a broad palette of musical styles, from free jazz to electronica and Inuit throat singing. This year’s series of 20 concerts returns follows a one-year sabbatical, during which festival boss Michel Levasseur firmed up financial commitments, expanded with free outdoor events and concentrated more of the concerts in the main venue, the hockey Colisée. Among innovations are three sound installations, one indoors with the intriguing title, Concrete Music Solo for six Pianos Without a Pianist – the music being a repeating 30-minute collage of samples from such luminaries as Sun Ra and Duke Ellington.

Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/entertainment/Victoriaville+music+fest+back+with+broad+palette+styles/3044814/story.html#ixzz0oTAPZOHj

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From NY’s ISSUE Project Room:

05/20 @ 8pm – Paul Flaherty & Chris Corsano & Okkyung Lee + James Ferraro
Paul Flaherty (tenor & alto sax ) Paul Flaherty has been playing free improv music for the past 40 years. His music is an attempt each time to release to whatever sounds or improvised themes that need to emerge. There are no written tunes , pre-arranged outlines , or group leaders once the music begins. The influences [...]

05/21 @ 8pm – Paul Metzger + Amen Dunes
Paul Metzger In 1979, Paul Metzger drilled a few innocent holes into a Yamaha acoustic guitar. A self taught musician with 5 years of playing behind him, Metzger was growing tired of the conventions of the instrument. This lobotomy was the first of many surgeries that would follow in years to come. Strings were added, [...]

05/22 @ 8pm – Nat Baldwin + peace, loving + Woody Sullender
Nat Baldwin New Hampshire-native Nat Baldwin is an experimental upright bassist and singer-songwriter who cut his teeth studying with free jazz legend Anthony Braxton. In addition to his three critically-acclaimed solo releases, Nat has collaborated on works with Extra Life, Vampire Weekend and is a long-time member of The Dirty Projectors. “Nat Baldwin’s upright bass is Joanna [...]

From Metropolis Underground:

Saxophone player Klaus Ellerhusen Holm and bass player Roger Arntzen have joined forces and created the duo Ballrogg. The duo started out exploring the music of Eric Dolphy in a small format, stripped down to only bass and reeds in 2006. Songs from greats such as Paul Bley, Ornette Coleman and Jimmy Giuffre was soon also brought into the concept, aside with compositions by the group itself. The results was some free jazz-classics combined with spacy and energetic originals placed into an acoustic chamber setting.

Vertex is a norwegian duo that spontaneously compose electroacoustic music that is both immediate and enticing to listen to. From lowercase drones through beautiful melodic passages to assaulting industrial walls of sound, Vertex creates a plausible yet otherwordly soundscape with it’s own set of natural laws. A universe that focuses in on form and interaction.

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