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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.
Richard Pinhas / Merzbow – CODA (2022)
Gianluca Becuzzi – Axis Mundi (2022)
Fractalyst – Watchtower (2022)
Grey Frequency – Empyrean / Ritual (2022)
Trevor Dunn’s Trio Convulsant – Seances (2022)
Source: Yahoo.
At the end of the 60s, the quaint, historic city of Canterbury became the unlikely breeding ground for an underground music scene defined by its willful weirdness and its refusal to take itself too seriously. In and around the town immortalized by Chaucer in the 14th century, dedicated nonconformists like Soft Machine, Caravan, and Hatfield and the North took mad scientist delight in breeding obscure mutations of jazz and rock templates while pulling the rug out from under people’s expectations.
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.
Violeta Garcia – FOBIA (2022)
Forbes Graham – Another Day – Another Vector (2022)
Hedvig Mollestad Trio – Smells Funny (2018)
Hedvig Mollestad Trio – Ding Dong. You’re Dead (2021)
Various Artists – Anthology Of Contemporary Music From Greece (2022)
Anima Morte – Serpents in the Fields of Sleep (2022)
Source: extended techniques.
October 1–October 8
Monday–Thursday at 7:30pm
Friday–Saturday at 8:00pm
Monochromatic Light (Afterlife)
Composer, Conductor, Tyshawn Sorey
Director, Peter Sellars
Visual Artist, Julie Mehretu
Choreographer, Reggie (Regg Roc) Gray
Lighting Design, James F. Ingalls
Sound Design, Marc Urselli
Viola, Kim Kashkashian
Piano/Celesta, Sarah Rothenberg
Percussion, Steven Schick
Soloist, Davóne Tines
Choir, The Choir of Trinity Wall Street
VENUE: Park Avenue ArmoryTUESDAY, October 4
6:30pm Sylvester Germaine / Kirk Knuffke / Kenny Wollesen
7:30pm Patrick Golden / Ivo Perelman / Jim Clouse / Sean Conly
VENUE: DMGWEDNESDAY, October 5
7.30pm + 9.30pm Roscoe Mitchell & Anna Webber
The Margaret Whitton Award Culminating
VENUE: The Jazz GalleryWEDNESDAY, October 5
8 pm Vadim Neselovskyi
Mini Piano Festival
VENUE: Zürcher Gallery
ADMISSION: $25WEDNESDAY, October 5- SATURDAY, October 8
8:30 pm Sean Ono Lennon Band
Sean Ono Lennon (bass, guitar) Ches Smith (drums) Devin Hoff (bass, guitar) Yuka Honda (keys, samples) Joao Nogueira (keys) Julian Lage (guitar) Michael Leonhart (trumpet)
VENUE: The StoneTHURSDAY, October 6
8pm Sylvie Courvoisier
Mini Piano Festival
VENUE: Zürcher GalleryTHURSDAY, October 6
8pm Max Johnson Trio
Max Johnson
Anna Webber
Michael Sarin
VENUE: SeedsFRIDAY, October 7
8pm Vicky Chow: Philip Glass Etudes Album Release
VENUE: RouletteFRIDAY, October 7- SATURDAY, October 8
7.30pm + 9.30pm John Escreet – “Seismic Shift” Album Release
John Escreet -piano
John Hébert -bass
Damion Reid -drums
VENUE: The Jazz GalleryMONDAY, October 10
2:30pm Darius Jones / William Parker / Scott Clark
Darius Jones – alto sax / William Parker – bass / Scott Clark – drums
VENUE: First Street Green Art Park (33 East 1st Street, NYC)WEDNESDAY, October 12
8pm False Harmonics #12: TILT Brass & Zeena Parkins feat. James Fei and Josh Henderson
Julius Eastman – If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Rich? (1977)
Zeena Parkins – solo harp performance
New works by Parkins and John Bischoff
Phill Niblock Exploratory (Rhine version, “Looking for Daniel”) (2019)
Zeena Parkins – Whistling in the Dark Wind (rev. 2022)
VENUE: Pioneer WorksWEDNESDAY, October 12 — SATURDAY, October 15
7:30 Everything Rises
Created by Jennifer Koh and Davóne Tines
Composed by Ken Ueno
Directed by Alexander Gedeon
VENUE: BAM FisherFRIDAY, October 14 and SUNDAY, October 16
7 pm La Monte Young: Birthday Blues
Young’s Dorian Blues (c. 1960-61-present)
The Theatre Of Eternal Music
La Monte Young, voice
Marian Zazeela, light design
Jung Hee Choi, voice and light design
Ben Neill, just intonation trumpet
Jon Catler, electric fretless guitar
Hansford Rowe, electric fretless bass
Naren Budhkar, tabla
VENUE: MELA Foundation Dream HouseSATURDAY, October 15
7: 30pm International Contemporary Ensemble & IFCA: PEYVAND (پیوند)
International Contemporary Ensemble
Iranian Female Composers Association
Composers Now
VENUE: NYU Skirball CenterSATURDAY, October 15
8pm Meredith Monk with Bang on a Can All-Stars: Memory Game
Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble
Bang on a Can All-Stars
Program:
Spaceship, from The Games: a science fiction opera (1984) (arr. Michael Gordon)
Memory Song, from The Games: a science fiction opera (1984) (arr. Julia Wolfe)
Gamemaster’s Song, from The Games: a science fiction opera (1984) (arr. Meredith Monk)
Migration, from The Games: a science fiction opera (1984) (arr. Meredith Monk)
Downfall, from The Games: a science fiction opera (1984) (arr. Ken Thomson)
Waltz in 5s, from The Politics of Quiet (1996) (arr. Meredith Monk and Allison Sniffin)
Tokyo Cha Cha, from Turtle Dreams (Cabaret (1983) (arr. Allison Sniffin)
Totentanz, from impermanence (2006) (arr. David Lang)
Double Fiesta, from Acts from Under and Above (1986) (arr. David Lang)
VENUE: The Town HallMONDAY, October 17-TUESDAY, October 18
7:30pm Owls
violinist Alexi Kenney, violist Ayane Kozasa
cellist Gabriel Cabezas and cellist-composer Paul Wiancko
Program:
Chick Corea, Children’s Song No. 12 (1984)
Paul Wiancko, Vox Petra (2018)
Franghiz Ali-Zadeh, Reqs (2015)
François Couperin, Les Barricades Mystérieuses (1717)
Trollstilt (Monica Mugan and Dan Trueman), Ricercar (2000)
Paul Wiancko, When The Night (2018)
Terry Riley, Good Medicine (1986)
VENUE: Baryshnikov Arts CenterFRIDAY, October 21
8:30pm Archipelago X
Sae Hashimoto (percussion) Ikue Mori (electronics) Brian Marsella (keyboards)
VENUE: The StoneSATURDAY, October 22
8:30pm Yarn/Wire premieres Marcel Zaes’ Parallel Prints
Marcel Zaes – Parallel Prints
Laura Barger, piano
Russell Greenberg, percussion
Sae Hashimoto, percussion
VENUE: The StoneWEDNESDAY, October 26
8:30pm Trio
Wendy Eisenberg (guitar) Anna Webber (sax) Joanna Mattrey (viola)
VENUE: The StoneWEDNESDAY, October 26
7:30 pm Ecstatic Music: Imani Winds & Andy Akiho
Andy Akiho, BeLoud, BeLoved, BeLonging
Afro Blue by Mongo Santamaría arranged by Valerie Coleman
De Memorias by Tania León
Seen by Nathalie Joachim and Cane by Jason Moran
VENUE: Kaufman Music CenterMONDAY, October 31
8PM Veer Quartet
Celebrating the album “Veer Quartet,” New Focus Recordings
Sarah Bernstein, violin/compositions
Sana Nagano, violin
Leonor Falcon, viola
Nick Jozwiak, cello
VENUE: Zürcher Gallery
A recording of Bernard Parmegiani’s Stries is reviewed.
Sélébéyone is interviewed about its new album.
Research indicates that music does impact cognitive performance, but not in the ways that you might think.
Wacław Zimpel is interviewed about his new album.
The new Magma release is reviewed.
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.
Cristiano Bocci – Beyond the Dark Zone (2022)
Moten / Lopez / Cleaver – Moten / Lopez / Cleaver (2022)
Amidea Clotet – Trasluz (2022)
Jon Lipscomb – Conscious Without Function (2022)
Ingrid Laubrock / Tom Rainey – Counterfeit Mars (2022)
Source: Musique Machine.
Martin Taxt – Second Room
Alex Zethson – Residy
L’Azionismo Viennese, and Portland Orego – Piss Aktion
Rudolf Eb.er & Roro Perrot – Blood Merde
Samuel Rohrer – Hungry Ghosts
Sussan Deyhim & Richard Horowitz – Desert Equations: Azax Attra – Made to Measure Vol 8
Norfolk Trotter – Untitled
Charlie Butler – Haunted Moon
Dunam – Zerem
Source: The Guardian.
Pharaoh Sanders, revered American jazz saxophonist, has died aged 81. The news was confirmed by Sanders’ label, Luaka Bop, on Twitter. “We are devastated to share that Pharoah Sanders has passed away,” the label’s statement read. “He died peacefully surrounded by loving family and friends in Los Angeles earlier this morning. Always and forever the most beautiful human being, may he rest in peace.”
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.
Dead Voices on Air – Abrader Redux (2022)
øjeRum – Reversed Cathedral (2022)
Ahleuchatistas – Expansion (2022)
Maulen – El Miedo De Amar (Part 1) (EP) (2022)
Microkingdom – Undevelopmental Arrestment (2022)
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