Author: Mike
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RIP Peter Sinfield
Source: DGM Live. Peter Sinfield, King Crimson’s original roadie, lyricist, lights operator and live sound engineer passed away yesterday on the 14th of November 2024 aged 80. Sinfield was responsible for naming the group, finding their first rehearsal space in the basement of the cafe on the Fulham Palace Road, and perhaps most significantly sourcing…
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Ensemble Dal Niente 2025 Winter / Spring Performances
Source: Ensemble Dal Niente. DECEMBER, date to be announced Shared Program: Dal Niente + Macie Stewart FRIDAY, 24 JANUARY @ 8PM Dal Niente @ Appalachian State University Rosen Concert Hall, Hayes School of Music THURSDAY, JANUARY 30 Dal Niente Presents: figures that did nothing but simply were Further information to be announced Mabel Kwan, piano…
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Coming to Roulette
Source: Roulette. Theresa Wong: Fluency of Trees Sunday, November 17, 2024. 8:00 pm A solo work for cello and voice exploring connection to the primal sentience of the natural world. Lines of Light Vocal Ensemble Tuesday, November 19, 2024. 8:00 pm Lines of Light is a vocal ensemble collective, utilizing non-hierarchical and mutual modes of…
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Interview with Gavin Bryars
Source: 15 questions. Gavin Bryars was awarded the Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Works Collection at the Ivors Classical Awards on 12th November, which recognises the composer of a consistently exceptional body of classical compositions.
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The Squid’s Ear Reviews
Source: The Squid’s Ear. Han-earl Park / Yorgos Dimitriadis / Camila Nebbia – Gonggong 225088 (Waveform Alphabet) Jason Stein / Marilyn Crispell / Damon Smith / Adam Shead – Spi-raling Horn (Balance Point Acoustics / Irritable Mystic)
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New Releases From Unexplained Sounds Group
Source: Unexplained Sounds Group. Out Now Drone Islands – Borealis (Published by Eighth Tower Rrecords, dl + limit. edition cd) is now available and ready for shipping. After a three-year absence “Borealis” marks the return of the Drone Islands series by Eighth Tower Records. It is the fourth volume, following the previous releases “Stellar” (2021),…
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Vital Weekly Reviews 1460
Source: Vital Weekly. REVERSE IMAGE – TOWARDS THE NOCTURNAL SUN (CD by Fourth Dimension Records) TADASHI YONAGO & EISUKE YANAGISAWA & MASAMI BABA – ‘ALLEGORIES OF LISTENING’ AT LISTUDE ON 20 MAY 2023 (CD by Immeasurable) YOUNGS NO – 蟄虫坏戸 | TIME: 17:12-18:12 DATE: 02 OCT 2023 (CD by Immeasurable) NOISE FOREST (2LP/CD by Cold…
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Rabble Without A Cause Show – November 13, 2024
Source: CKCU. Newly released life performances from Andrew Hill, the Arthur Blythe Quartet and Wayne Shorter.
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Chain D.L.K. Reviews
Source: Chain D.L.K.. Yugen: s/t Disturbio: Les Mauvaises Fréquentations Stefan Prins: inhabit Angel Lin: all of these are in me Roman Leykam: New Worlds in Interslices Brume: Syncronicity & Wandering Current mHz: Material Prosody Bankert: ol07 Christopher Chaplin: Door 1 Door 2
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Ambientblog Reviews
Source: Ambientblog. DreamScenes – November 2024 The Joy Paradox Tracklist: Play this edition on-demand from the Concertzender website OR: read post”DreamScenes – November 2024″ Edu Comelles * Jacek Doroszenko Deconstructed soundtracks of Berlanga movies by Edu Comelles with visuals by Sergi Palau *** Jacek Doroszenko treats sound phenomena as a legitimate material of a field…
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Cold Spring Records Overview Page Completed
Our Cold Spring Records Label Overview page is now up and running with our new design. We have reviewed 23 albums from that label and these are now available in an easy-to-navigate and more visually pleasing format. We are concurrently working on several other label overview pages right now, hoping to have them done in…
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AMN Reviews: Nathan Hubbard / Kyle Motl – Obsidian (2024; Confront Recordings)
This combination of percussionist Hubbard and bassist Motl was recorded in 2021 and recently released on the UK-based Confront Recordings label. It consists of four tracks of heavily (if not fully) improvised duets. What is notable here is how Obsidian sounds little like a traditional bass/drum outing, as both musicians employ extended techniques and no…
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RIP Roy Haynes
Source: Los Angeles Times. Roy Haynes, a jazz drummer and band leader whose skill and versatility led to performances with such diverse artists as Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, Chick Corea and Pat Metheny over the course of his seven-decade career, has died.
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Black Artists Group Profiled
Source: The Shfl. The Black Artists Group (BAG), formed in St. Louis, Missouri in 1968, is often seen as a junior stepsibling to Chicago’s Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), which launched a few years earlier. But while the AACM was focused entirely on music, BAG was a multidisciplinary arts organization that included…
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S.E.M. Ensemble to Perform The Year of Czech Music In Conclusion
Source: S.E.M. Ensemble. Why present Cage, Feldman, and Heflin as part of the Year of Czech Music? Because these composers and their ideas are connected with the Czech Republic in an important way. John Cage’s ideas in particular had an impact on a group of composers and artists in Prague in the early 1960s. It…
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Cuneiform Records Artists on Tour
Source: CUNEIFORM RECORDS. EMPIRICAL December 3 – Jazz Hastings – Hastings, UK December 6 – Sheffield Jazz Festival – Crucible Theatre – Sheffield, UK HAMSTER THEATRE November 17 – Bug Theater – 3654 Navajo St – Denver, CO [first gig in many, many years] ROGER C. MILLER with the Anvil Orchestra [live soundtracks for silent…
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The Free Jazz Collective Reviews
Source: The Free Jazz Collective. Joëlle Léandre Celebrates Her Rebellious Music with Old and New Friends Steve Baczkowski – Cheap Fabric (Relative Pitch, 2024) Shane Parish – Sunday Interview Travis Laplante – The Golden Lock (New Focus Recordings, 2024) Lars Fiil – New Ground (s/r, 2024) Frush (Luc Houtkamp, Sebi Tramontana, Steve Beresford, Martin Blume)…
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Astral Spirits Overview Page Completed
Our Astral Spirits Label Overview page is now up and running with our new design. We have reviewed 24 albums from that label and these are now available in an easy-to-navigate and more visually pleasing format. We are concurrently working on two other label overview pages right now, hoping to have them done by the…
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AMN Picks of the Week: Capricorni Pneumatici / Vladimír Hirsch / Radio Massacre International / Gauci and Golden / Paul Dunmall
Here is where I post, at a frequency of about once a week, a list of the new music that caught my attention. All of the releases listed below I have heard for the first time recently and come recommended. Capricorni Pneumatici – Witchcraft (2024)Vladimír Hirsch – Symphony No.4 “Descent From The Cross” (2008)Radio Massacre…
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Coming to Seattle
Source: Wayward Music Series. Natacha Diels + Steph RichardsThu. Nov. 14, 8 PM CANCELLED TAP 4.0: The Nyxology SessionsSat. Nov. 16, 8 PM; $8 donation at door ‘TAP 4.0: The Nyxology Sessions’ are high-level experiments in the art and craft of designing and presenting simultaneous, multi-participant and multi-discipline live performances, or “art-theater”, that inhabit a…
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Musique Machine Reviews
Source: Musique Machine. House Of Gold – House Of Gold Muddersten – Triple Music Jo David Meyer Lysne & Peder Simonsen – Spektralmaskin Samuel Rohrer – Music for Lovers Andrew Ostler – The Blind Sublime Godspeed You! Black Emperor – No Title as of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead Transition Unit – Face Value Tonus…
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Another Place Show, November 11, 2024
Source: 90.9fm WDCB. Chicago journalist and jazz aficionado Andy Pierce hosts “Another Place” Sundays at midnight. The show explores creative music, jazz and the avant-garde, and delves into the longer, more complex compositions and improvisations in jazz.
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New Releases From Aurora Central Records
Source: Aurora Central Records. Solonoise 1Merzbow Vórtex SubmarinoGibrana Cervantes Material Action for 2 MicrophonesMerzbow Paradoxa ParadoxaMerzbow Tanz Des NosferatusJulian Lede
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Painkiller Profiled with New Release
On Friday, Zorn’s Tzadik label will release “Samsara,” the first new studio recording in 30 years to feature the original lineup of the trio, collectively known as PainKiller. While the personnel is the same, much else is different this time around.
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