From Cuneiform Records:
THE MICROSCOPIC SEPTET – FRIDAY THE 13TH
RICHARD PINHAS – METAL/CRYSTAL
JASON ROBINSON – THE TWO FACES OF JANUS
UNIVERS ZERO – HERESIE
UZ JSME DOMA – CAVES
From Portland Eye and Ear Control:
Jesse Kudler (guitar, electronics, radios, and tapes / Philadelphia) + Chandan Narayan (autoharp, swarmandal / Toronto)
Doug Theriault (guitar, electronics / Portland)
Jonathan Sielaff (amplified bass clarinet / Portland) Tuesday, August 24th, 8pm @ WorkSound 820 SE Alder, Portland http://www.worksoundpdx.com/
From Sonomu:
Chihei Hatakeyama, Ghostly Garden (Own Records)
Nils Frahm, Wintermusik (Erased Tapes), The Bells (CDR Kning Disk)
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, Landscape in Metamorphoses (Gruenrekorder)
From Mapsadaisical reviews Mori’s recent residency.
With this residency at Cafe Oto, in a strange way it feels like Ikue Mori has come full circle. Over the course of these three days, Mori is playing with some of the UK’s – and indeed the world’s – top improvisers. Mori is, after all, someone who was once described by Lester Bangs as being the equal of free jazz pioneer Sunny Murray on drums, so she should be able to hold her own in a lineup which pits her in duo and quartet settings with the free jazz musicians Evan Parker, John Russell and John Edwards (funnily enough, John Edwards actually plays at this same venue with Sunny Murray next week). The difference is that Mori’s drumming days are long behind her now, she has favoured laptop in her recent collaborations with the likes of Zeena Parkins, John Zorn, and Kim Gordon, and also now during this first night of the residency.
Here is where I post, at a frequency of about once a week, a list of the new music that has caught my attention that week. All of the releases listed below I’ve heard for the first time this week and come recommended.
Architeuthis Walks on Land – Natura Naturans (2010)
Sarah Wilson – Trapeze Project (2010)
Lisa Mezzacappa’s Bait and Switch – What is Known (2010)
Jim Hegarty – Cut It/Out (2010)
UnexpecT – In A Flesh Aquarium (2006)
From Milwaukee’s Present Music:
Present Music launches its 2010-11 season with London-based composer, dj and producer, Gabriel Prokofiev on September 18 at Turner Hall Ballroom. This is the first Milwaukee appearance by Prokofiev, founder of the Nonclassical record label and the grandson of the great Sergei Prokofiev. The PM ensemble will perform his acclaimed composition, Concerto for Turntables and Orchestra. Prokofiev will end the concert with a remix of the music performed earlier in the evening.
The other portion of this concert will feature Phillip Bush, PM keyboardist/pianist who is retiring from PM after 15 seasons. He will perform the five-movement, 22-minute György Ligeti piano concerto for his farewell performance.
Prokofiev studied music and electroacoustic composition at Birmingham and York Universities. He produced dance, electro and hip-hop music prior to returning to his classical roots to compose Concerto for Turntables and Orchestra which was premiered by DJ Yoda and Heritage Orchestra. The corresponding album won Best Contemporary Classical CD at the Independent Music Awards in 2010. He has also composed works for Russian pianist geNIA, Joby Burgess of Powerplant and vocal trio Juice.
Myspace: www.myspace.com/gabrielprokofiev
Concerto for Turntables and Orchestra: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQvvtELiCdo&feature=related
Nonclassical: www.nonclassical.co.ukBush has collaborated with numerous musicians and ensembles in addition to his work with PM. He made his New York recital debut at the Metropolitan Museum in 1984 and since then has performed with the London Sinfonietta, Osaka Century Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony, Houston Symphony, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Kronos Quartet, Miami String Quartet, Japanese piano quartet Typhoon, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Philip Glass Ensemble, Steve Reich and Musicians, Group for Contemporary Music, New Band, Sequitur, Parnassus, and New Music Consort. Bush is the founder of May Music in Charlotte, an annual chamber, contemporary music and film festival.
