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Artist Overviews are Up
We have redesigned our Artist Overviews page. Come take a look. We currently have overviews for Area and Magma, as well as our Braxton 75 celebration which will be finished soon.
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AMN Reviews: Sly & The Family Drone – Moon is Doom Backwards (2024; Human Worth)
The experimental UK-based collective Sly and the Family Drone returns with a new studio album, continuing their distinctive fusing of electronics with improvisation. The lineup for this release includes James Allsopp on reeds and bass clarinet, Kaz Buckland on drums, electronics, and reeds, Matt Cargill on electronics, voice, and percussion, Ed Dudley on electronics and…
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AMN Picks of the Week: Godspeed You! Black Emperor / Cortex / Hubbard and Motl / Dan Blacksberg / Grey Men
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. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – No Title as of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead (2024)Cortex –…
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Coming to Downtown Music Gallery
Source: Downtown Music Gallery. Tuesday, November 19th: 6:30: patrick brennan – alto sax / DAFNA NAPHTALI – electronics-voice / SAM NEWSOME – soprano sax 7:30: AARON RUBINSTEIN – Guitar / DAVID GROLLMAN – Snare / Voice 8:30: KATT HERNANDEZ – Violin Tuesday, November 26th: 6:30: BLOOMERS 7:30: MICK BARR – Guitar / DANIEL CARTER –…
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Jazzword Reviews
Source: Jazzword. Anthony Braxton Saxophone Quartet SAX QT (LORRAINE) 2022 Paal Nilssen-Love/Ken Vandermark Japan 2019 مد [ahmed] Giant Beauty Kenneth Jimenez Sonnet to Silence Ivo Perelman Quartet Water Music The Wandering One High Laver Levitation Volume 2 Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp Magical Incantation Silvan Schmid/Tom Wheatley/Eddie Prévost The Wandering One: High Laver Levitation Volume 2 Frank…
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Evan Parker/Barry Guy/Paul Lytton Leo Records Reissues Reviewed
Source: Burning Ambulance. Since the 1970s, Parker has been part of two key trios: pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach’s group with drummer Paul Lovens, and his own unit with bassist Barry Guy and drummer Paul Lytton. The Parker/Guy/Lytton group has recorded nearly 20 albums, some including special guests. Three of these records are part of the…
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Interview with Rafael Anton Irisarri
Source: 15 questions. I’ve been to so many places around the world with extreme sonic characteristics, that it’s hard to choose just one. Caves are definitely a favorite—magnificent spaces with stunning reverberations. I’ve also experienced the unique reverb inside an empty tower silo, which was fascinating. But the most breathtaking space, acoustically, has been the…
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Coming to San Francisco
Source: Bay Improviser Calendar Friday, November 15 Fri 11/15 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF] Tonight’s musical medicina is being provided by Mystery School (Phillip Greenlief and David Boyce saxes) Fri 11/15 7:30 PM San Francisco Conservatory of Music – Studio G [Bowes Center 200 Van Ness Ave SF] Dark Cycles: TAC…
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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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