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.
Roscoe Mitchell – Not Yet (2013)
Alon Nechushtan – Tribal Fire (2013)
Secret Keeper (Stephan Crump / Mary Halvorson) – Super 8 (2013)
Gunnelpumpers – Montana Fix (2013)
English: Roscoe Mitchell, moers festival 2009 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The New Dischord Experimental Arts Festival takes place in Chattanooga, Tennessee on June 6-9.
Mutable Music features a new release from Roscoe Mitchell entitled Not Yet, and including performers Thomas Buckner, Eclipse Quartet, James Fei Alto Quartet, Petr Kotik, Dan VanHassel, William Winant, Jacob Zimmerman, and more.
A newly-released boxed set from the New York Art Quartet is reviewed.
Jazz Club Jury has a video interview with Vijay Iyer.
All videos from the recent Ambicon 2013 have been posted to Youtube. Performances include Robert Rich, Steve Roach, and Jeff Pearce.
The Chicago Reader reviews the recent release of a rare Sun Ra recording.
A two part article entitled “Electronic Tendencies in the work of John Butcher 1997-2012″ is available here and here.
On June 1st, The Tricentric Foundation will be releasing two albums of Anthony Braxton’s Falling River Music, recorded in 2007 and performed by Anthony, Erica Dicker (violin), Katie Young (bassoon), Sally Norris (piano). Audio sample available here.
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.
Anthony Braxton – Two Compositions (Orchestra) 2005
Ches Smith / These Arches – Hammered (2013)
Pan Gu – Primeval Man Born of the Cosmic Egg (2013)
Joe Morris / Barre Phillips – Elm City Duets (2008)
avant-garde pianist Matthew Shipp (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
A recent Matthew Shipp Trio performance in Nashville is reviewed.
On Sunday June 2nd, at 8pm, Inzinzac+Patrick Proctor, as well as Nick Millevoi solo will perform at the Rotunda, 4014 Walnut st, Philadelphia, PA.
The South Bend Tribune profiles Minerva in anticipation of their upcoming performance.
English: Rent Romus performing at the San Francisco Community Music Center (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
This year’s Outsound New Music Summit takes place in the San Francisco Bay Area in late July.
Sun. July 21
Workshop
3pm
Communications for Independent Musicians with
Lisa MezzacappaTouch the Gear
Exposition
7pm
A hands-on exposition of sound & gearMon July 22
Discussion
7pm
Compositional Trace Medium and Traditional Strata with
Rent Romus
Lewis Jordan Matt Davignon Fernando Lopez-Lezcano Ilya RostovtsevWed July 24
Performance
8:15pm
Opera Wolf
KREation
Weiner KidsThurs July 25
Performance
8:15pm
#Max
Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
Ritwik Banerji w/Joe Lasqo &
Warren Stringer
Ilya Rostovtsev
CCRMA EnsembleFri July 26
Performance
8:15pm
David Molina’s Transient
Pmocatat Ensemble
FuzzybunnySat July 27
Performance
8:15pm
Lords of Outland w/Hasan Razzaq & L.A. Jenkins
Lewis Jordan’s Music at Large
Kyle Bruckmann‘s Wrack
English: Band photo of Djam Karet in the studio (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
AVANTWHATEVER in Melbourne, Australia is featuring Dean Roberts (Guitar and Vocals), Rosalind Hall (Saxophone), and Arek Gulbenkoglu (Snare) at The Alderman, 134 Lygon St, Brunswick, on Wednesday May 29.
Three avant-garde metal bands, including Painkiller, are profiled.
The Wire has posted a series of photos of experimental musicians in their bizarre studios.
Veteran Prog rockers Djam Karet have a new album out, entitled The Trip.
The highlights of the 25th season of the Miller Theater at the Columbia University School of the Arts will include a festival celebrating the 60th birthday of John Zorn, and an evening of 125 short compositions modeled after John Cage. The Composer Portraits series will featuring the work of and discussions with Georg Friedrich Haas, Rand Steiger, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Roger Reynolds, Unsuk Chin, Jean-Baptiste Barrière and Liza Lim.
From Hudson Valley Almanac Weekly:
Woodstock’s Creative Music Studio (CMS) avoids such self-descriptions as “experimental,” “avant-garde” and “revolutionary” in its literature, preferring to emphasize the cross-cultural universality of music and such kernel virtues as “keen awareness,” “personal expression” and “intensive listening.” There can be little question, however, that CMS is one the world’s foremost incubators of radical, experimental and norm-challenging music and musical thought.
MAGMA LIVE (Photo credit: alainalele)
The Abbey Rader Quartet will perform Thursday, May 23, 2013, 8pm at Audiotheque, 924 Lincoln Road, Studio 201, Miami Beach, FL. The Abbey Rader Quartet brings its fiery brand of jazz to Audiotheque on May 23. After performing together for nearly two years, this unit is at the peak of their powers. Their music is an improvisational journey only possible when the individual musicians fade away and commit to playing together in the moment. The result is a gripping, spiritual sound best witnessed live.
The 12k label will be releasing Seaworthy + Taylor Deupree – Wood, Winter, Hollow and Illuha – Interstices.
On May 29th, at 8pm, 4thirtythree (Chris Parfitt – soprano sax, flute, piano, loops, vocals, Tim Rancelant – tenor sax, flute, spoken word, Stuart Revill – guitar) will perform at the Safe House Brighton, 132 Dyke Road, Brighton BN1 3TE, UK.
French Music Legends Magma Release EPOK 5 on DVD. EPOK 5 not only includes pieces from 1971, 1977 and 1978 but also Félicité Thösz, the latest MAGMA release, heard here in a version prior to the recording of the album. There are, in addition, 20 minutes of unpublished music.
Jaap Blonk, Sound Poet (Photo credit: massdistraction)
Burning Ambulance profiles Other Dimensions in Music.
Black Aces by Jamie Saft‘s Slobber Pup is previewed.
On Saturday, May 11, Jaap Blonk, Jake Rosenzweig, Ted Byrnes (trio) will perform with Joe Potts and Rick Potts (duo), and Casey Anderson and Josh Gerowitz (duo) at Human Resources, 410 Cottage Home Street, Los Angeles CA.
A duet between John Butcher and Thomas Lehn is available for streaming.
