From Free Jazz:
Jason Stein’s Locksmith Isidore – Three Kinds Of Happiness (Not Two, 2010) ****1/2
Joëlle Léandre Tentet – Can You Hear Me? & Trio (Leo Records, 2011) ****½
Donny McCaslin – Perpetual Motion (Greenleaf Music, 2011)
Emergency! – Live in Copenhagen (2010, JVTlandT) ****½
Uwe Oberg & Evan Parker – Full Bloom (Jazzwerkstatt, 2010) ***
Tony Malaby’s – Tamarindo Live (Clean Feed 2010) ****½
Avant-garde Metal has listed their top albums of 2010.
Gutbucket’s new album is streaming for free at Alarm Press.
A number of Xenakis performances and discussions will take place in and around (I believe) London in early April.
A recent Georg Friedrich Haas performance is reviewed.
From Touching Extremes:
MARKUS EICHENBERGER – Halbzeit
PAVEL BORODIN – Unlimited 23: A Documentary About Music Unlimited Festival 2009
BJ NILSEN & STILLUPPSTEYPA – Man From Deep River
JESSICA PAVONE – Army Of Strangers
MENDEL KAELEN – Remembering What Was Forgotten
Odean Pope, Odean Pope
“Mwalimu” (mp3)
from “Universal Sounds”
(Porter Records)
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This year’s Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville lineup has been partially announced, and it is wonderful as you might expect:
THE EX & BRASS UNBOUND
With Mats Gustafsson, Roy Paci
Ken Vandermark and Wolter Wierbos
(Netherlands, Sweden, Italy, USA) NAPKOICHI MAKIGAMI
« Tokyo Taiga »
(Japan, Russia) NAPKID KOALA
« 12 Bit Blues Show »
(Quebec) WPRICHARD PINHAS
MERZBOW / WOLF EYES
(France, Japan, USA) WPPETER BRÖTZMANN @ 70
Solo + Trio
With Paal Nilssen-Love
and Massimo Pupillo
(Germany, Sweden, Italy) NAPANTHONY BRAXTON
« Echo Echo Mirror House »
With Taylor Ho Bynum
Jessica Pavone, Mary Halvorson
Jay Rozen, Carl Testa and Aaron Siegel
(USA) NAPIG HENNEMAN SEXTET
With Ab Baars, Axel Dörner
Lori Freedman, Wilbert de Joode
and Marilyn Lerner
(Netherlands, Germany, Quebec, Canada) NAPCOMICOPERANDO:
Music of ROBERT WYATT
With Dagmar Krause
Annie Whitehead, Karen Mantler
Michel Delville
John Edwards and Chris Cutler
(England, France, USA) NAP
From Seattle’s Wayward Music:
THU. 2/17, 8 PM – Seattle Phonographers Union honors the recent passing of German sound artist Rolf Julius with a surround environment of small sounds on localized and mobile playback systems
FRI. 2/18, 8 PM – Nonsequitur presents Frances-Marie Uitti, music for solo cello with multiple bows by Salvatore Sciarrino, Jonathan Harvey, Huang Rao, Lisa Bielawa, Annie Gosfield, Gyorgy Kurtag, and F-M Uitti
SAT. 2/19, 8 PM – Jherek Bischoff presents ten new works for the large Ambient Chamber Orchestra
COMING UP:
THU. 3/1 – vocalist Joy Von Spain and friends
FRI. 3/4 – Seattle Composers’ Salon present an evening with Wayne Horvitz
SAT. 3/5 – Brad Sherman
THU. 3/10 – Seattle Chamber Players
FRI. 3/11 – Christopher DeLaurenti
FRI. 3/18, 7 PM – Hollow Earth Radio’s Magma Festival: Mecca Normal, Sue Ann Harkey, Ô Paon
SAT. 3/19, 7 PM – Hollow Earth Radio’s Magma Festival: Michael Hurley, Jason Dodson, Shana Cleveland & the Sand Castles
FRI. 3/25 – Kris Hartung
SAT. 3/26 – Rik Wright’s Zen Tornado + Iron Kim Style
WED. 3/30 – Beth Fleenor and friends
From Improvised Communications:
Chicago-based clarinetist/composer James Falzone has two very different hometown concerts scheduled for March.
On Monday, March 14th at 7:30 p.m., Falzone and saxophonist Dave Rempis will perform together a duo for the first time as part of the Experimental Music Mondays series at Myopic Books.
Later that same week, on Saturday, March 19th, the Outer Ear series at Experimental Sound Studio will present Falzone’s innovative solo work, “Sighs Too Deep For Words”, featuring clarinet, prepared clarinet, ritual bells and ambient sounds.
