Upcoming at REDCAT

From LA’s REDCAT:

PIANO AND, Featuring Danny Holt
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 8:30 pm

http://www.redcat.org/event/piano-and

Known for his no-holds-barred style, Danny Holt’s Piano/Percussion
Project places the pianist amid an array of percussion instruments, an
LP player, toy instruments and metronomes. The program will feature
Andrew Tholl’s hitting things won’t solve your problems (but it might
make you feel better), Sarah Seelig’s Tingsha, Oscar Bettison’s new An
Inventory of Remnants, and Liza White Ballad of the Mean Angry Jazz
Hater Monster! These works will be interspersed with CalArts pianists
performing other interdisciplinary collaborations.

WHERE:
REDCAT
631 West Second Street
Downtown Los Angeles 90012
In the Walt Disney Concert Hall complex

EMANUELE ARCIULI
Los Angeles premiere
Thursday, March 24, 2011 8:30

http://www.redcat.org/event/emanuele-arciuli

Through a repertoire that reaches from Bach to contemporary music,
Emanuele Arciuli has established himself as one of the most original,
energetic, scholarly and imaginative contemporary concert performers.
His program centers around the Concord Sonata by Charles Ives, pairing
it with James Tenney’s own meditation on the sonata, and includes
works by Native American composers Barbara Croall and Raven Chacon.
Arciuli has a formed deep relationship with the artists and music of
United States, and his sustained interest and commitment to Native
American culture has led to the creation of pieces for him by several
major Native composers.

WHERE:
REDCAT
631 West Second Street
Downtown Los Angeles 90012
In the Walt Disney Concert Hall complex

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Musique Machine Reviews

From Musique Machine:

Concrete Threat – Young Blood
Indch Libertine – Bodil Jørgensen Lover
Ptomain – Ptoma
Philip Jeck – An Ark For The Listener
Pumpkin Buzzard – Avalon Burning
Moloch – Misanthropie ist der einzige Weg zur Reinheit
Vargrwulf – Black Supremacy
Mjr – 11-2010
Mass Graves/Dead Body Collection – They Will Return
Francisco López – köllt / kulu
Drakh – Bethlehem

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Free Albums Galore Sightings

Free Albums Galore is doing its usual great job finding free downloads and streams of great music. Some highlights from the last few weeks are below.

Wukir – Yehezkiel
Epsilon Eridani – three albums
Meczup – Hanging From The Purgatory’s Pendulum
Various Artists – New Weird Australia: Vols 1-6
Neuroleptic Trio – Heroic Improvisations
Jose Travieso – seven albums

Upcoming Henry Grimes Shows

Henry Grimes

From Henry Grimes:

Thursday, March 17th, 6-8 p.m. (pre-event reception at 5:3O): Henry Grimes in panel discussion with interdisciplinary scholars Dr. Dwight Andrews, Dr. Charles Hersch, and Joy Bostic about Albert Ayler, at Case Western Reserve University, Thwing Center Ballroom, 11111 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio, free and open to the public, registration recommended, 216-368-2242, http://case.edu/humanities, bakernord@case.edu. This event is held in conjunction with Marc Ribot’s Spiritual Unity playing music by and for Albert Ayler at the Cleveland Museum of Art the next day:

Friday, March 18th, 7:3O p.m: Marc Ribot & Spiritual Unity, w/ Roy Campbell, Jr., Henry Grimes, and Chad Taylor, Cleveland Museum of Art, Gartner Auditorium, 1115O East Blvd., Cleveland, Ohio, 216-421-734O, -735O, http://www.clevelandart.org, http://tinyurl.com/3379jh5,
http://www.clevelandart.org/events/music%20and%20performances/viva%20gala.aspx, info@clevelandart.org;

Saturday, March 19th, sets at 8 and 1O p.m: Henry Grimes and Spencer Barefield, N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art, 52 E. Forest at Woodward, Detroit, Michigan, Black Box Performance Center, 313-831-87OO, www.grnnamdi.com, grimesbarefield@eventbrite.com, tickets in advance from http://tinyurl.com/648ur27;

Sunday, March 2Oth, 2-5 p.m: Henry Grimes and many other great musicians to play in a formal memorial service for Fred Anderson at the DuSable Museum, 74O East 56th Place, Chicago, Illinois, 773-947-O6OO, http://www.dusablemuseum.org, info@dusablemuseum.org, bambooewart@aol.com;

Tuesday, March 22nd, music from 7 p.m. (doors at 6:3O): “The Brotherhood of Fred,” Edward “Kidd” Jordan’s first memorial birthday concert for Fred Anderson, w/ Tatsu Aoki, Jim Baker, Harrison Bankhead, Hamid Drake, Henry Grimes, & Chad Taylor (followed by a jam session), at the Jazz Showcase, Dearborn Station, 8O6 South Plymouth Court betw. State & Clark St’s, Chicago, Illinois, 312-36O-O234, http://www.jazzshowcase.com, jazzshowcase@jazzshowcase.com,
birdhousechicago@gmail.com

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Newsbits

Jimmy Bennington’s Colour and Sound has an upcoming show in Chicago: Thursday, March 24, 2011, 8-10pm, at Uncommon Ground, 1401 W. Devon.

Chamber Music America is once again commissioning new works of chamber music.

Dal Niente plays the music of James Dillon April 5th in Chicago.

Rudresh Manhanthappa writes about Bunky Green.

The latest from John Zorn is reviewed.

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Interview with Tyshawn Sorey

Terrence McManus, Tyshawn Sorey, Loren Stillma...

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From Ars Nova Workshop:

his Friday night, March 11, Ars Nova Workshop begins its three-day Composer Portrait: Fieldwork series with a performance of Fieldwork drummer Tyshawn Sorey’s composition, “For Kathy Change.” Inspired by Kathy Change, an American performance artist and political activist who killed herself in an act of self-immolation on the University of Pennsylvania campus in 1996, Sorey’s ensemble includes trombonist Ben Gerstein, pianist Kris Davis, cellist Okkyung Lee, and guitarist Terrence McManus. One of the newest stars of New York’s creative music scene, multi-instrumentalist Sorey is an active composer, performer, educator and scholar who works across an extensive range of musical idioms. As a percussionist, trombonist and pianist, Sorey has worked nationally and internationally with his own ensembles and those led by Muhal Richard Abrams, Steve Coleman, Wadada Leo Smith, and Dave Douglas. ANW caught up with Sorey to talk about the relationship between musical theory and practice, Fieldwork’s “open form” compositional approach, and his motivations for composing “For Kathy Change.”

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