The Oakland Examiner reviews a new-music performance at UC Berkeley.
Just Not Normal has posted a free improv release from Daniel Barbiero.
Puin+Hoop has released a new ambient / electronic album entitled Door. Downloads are free.
Yet another Open Ears Music show available for free download, this one featuring the Jeff Albert Quartet.
From Cork, Ireland‘s Stet Lab:
The Stet Lab kick-off of 2011, featuring Murray Campbell, will take place on Tuesday, January 4, upstairs @ The Roundy, Castle Street, Cork, Ireland
stet lab featuring murray campbell
with han-earl park, plus andrea bonino and kevin terry
Tuesday, 4 January 20119:00 pm (doors: 8:45 pm)
Upstairs @ The Roundy [map…]
Castle Street
Cork, Ireland€10 (€5)
Cork’s monthly improvised music event, Stet Lab, starts a New Year of on-stage mutations and hybrids on Tuesday, 4 January 2011, upstairs at The Roundy, Castle Street, Cork, Ireland. A unique opportunity to witness the interaction between novice and veteran, and local and visiting, improvising musicians, the January event will feature California-based multi-instrumentalist Murray Campbell
From Portland Eye and Ear Control:
Rich Halley Quartet plus poet Dan Raphael Saturday January 22 at TaborSpace Saxophonist/Composer Rich Halley and his quartet with trombonist Michael Vlatkovich, bassist Clyde Reed and drummer Carson Halley will perform at 7:00 PM on Saturday, January 22 at TaborSpace, 5441 SE Belmont. The group will be performing material from their new CD “Requiem for a Pit Viper” which will be released in April on Pine Eagle Records. Poet Dan Raphael will also perform with Rich and Carson as a preview to their soon to be released CD “Children of the Blue Supermarket”. Admission is sliding scale $10-15.
From latimes.com:
A capaciously creative improviser engaged in a wide array of projects, Robinson recently released three radically different CDs that each reveal intricately detailed, often enthralling musical worlds. On “The Two Faces of Janus” (Cuneiform) he matches wits with a superlative rough-and-tumble New York ensemble that includes reed expert Marty Ehrlich and alto sax star Rudresh Mahanthappa. “Cerulean Landscape” (Clean Feed) documents his expansive duo with longtime collaborator Anthony Davis, the pianist-composer better known these days for his ambitious operas than as a trailblazing jazz innovator. And on his solo session “Cerberus Reigning” (Accretions), named after the three-headed dog of Greek mythology who guards the gates of Hades, Robinson offers the second installment in a trilogy exploring sweeping electro-acoustic soundscapes on saxophones, flute and laptop.
