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  • Oto Zono Festival Coming to Harvestworks on November 30 and December 1

    Source: Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center. The literal meaning of Oto Zono in Japanese is “Sound Garden,” here it is translated into a performance concept cultivating diverse experimental music/sound. New York City is the most linguistically diverse city in the world, a vibrant garden and forest of aural culture. Not to mention the strata of…

  • DOWNTOWNMUSIC.NET Reviews

    Source: DOWNTOWNMUSIC.NET. November 17, 2024 Theresa Wong: Fluency of Trees, Roulette Theresa Wong November 10, 2024 Mariá Portugal & Paula Sanchez, Schl8hof, Wels Mariá Portugal Paula Sanchez November 10, 2024 Joe McPhee, Ken Vandermark, Emma Fischer, Bildungshaus Schloss Puchberg, Wels Emma Fischer Joe McPhee Ken Vandermark November 10, 2024 Jaap Blonk, Susanna Gartmayer, Emma Fischer,…

  • Coming to the ISSUE Project Room

    Source: ISSUE Project Room. Axine M: Control Scheme Friday, December 6, 2024 – 8:00 pm The Emily Harvey Foundation Co-presented by ISSUE and The Emily Harvey Foundation, 2024 Artist-In-Residence Axine M presents her culminating commission “Control Scheme,” songs and improvisations for computer-extended fretless guitar and voice. Chuquimamani-Condori / Embaci Saturday, December 14, 2024 – 8:00…

  • Musique Machine Reviews

    Source: Musique Machine. Fear of the Object – Leaves Never Fall in Vain Nordvargr – Resignation IV Neil Ardely – A Symphony For Amaranths

  • The Best Jazz on Bandcamp, November 2024

    Source: Bandcamp Daily. Nearly an entire year of excellent new jazz recordings has left me feeling truly grateful, thinking it can’t get any better. Then November comes along and says, “Actually, it can. There’s more…a lot more.” Several of this month’s selections deserve serious consideration for inclusion for the upcoming year-end wrap-up, so even as…

  • AMN Picks of the Week: Borca and Murphy / Zeena Parkins / Blacksmith Tales / Beger et al. / Rempis et al.

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    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. Karen Borca and Paul Murphy – Entwined (2024)Zeena Parkins – Dam Against the Spring Tide…

  • Fringes of Sound Reviews

    Source: Fringes of Sound. Atlus – Ultraviolet Previous albums from Atlus have leaned heavily on long droning textures and more amorphous structures. Whereas Ultraviolet takes some of those same techniques and rolls them into something a bit more structured and integrating deep rhythmic elements. By deep, in this case, I mean to say that these…

  • All About Jazz Reviews

    Source: Jazz Album Reviews Bleed The Necks Ancestral Numbers II Jason Robinson The Duke Ellington Carnegie Hall Concerts: January 1943 Duke Ellington And His Orchestra

  • Coming to Milwaukee

    Source: Improvised Sound. Friday Dec. 6th: Russ Johnson with Jon Irabagon, Clark Sommers, Dana Hall @ The Sugar Maple, 7:30 pm. Sunday Dec. 8th: Sugar Maple Afternoon Jazz Series Presents Earscratcher at The Sugar Maple, 4 pm. Earscratcher is Dave Rempis – saxophones, “Lisa Arnik” – piano, Fred Lonberg-Holm – cello and Tim Daisy –…

  • Ars Nova Workshop in December

    Source: Ars Nova Workshop. Fri., December 13 8:00 PM Air Legacy Trio Ars Nova Workshop is thrilled to present the all-star Air Repertory Trio, performing the music of NEA Jazz Master Henry Threadgill, at Solar Myth on Friday, December 13. Sat., December 14 Hu Vibrational Ars Nova Workshop presents Hu Vibrational, the hip-hop, electronica, and…

  • New Releases From Unexplained Sounds Group

    Source: Unexplained Sounds Group. Pre-Order Kokum – Obscured Instinct and the pale Folklore (Published by Eighth Tower Records, dl + limit. edition cd) “Obscured Instinct and the Pale Folklore” is an evocative sonic journey crafted by the Hungarian musician, Kokum. This album traverses the shadowy corridors of dark folk music and the pulsating rhythms of…

  • Interview With Onasander 

    Source: Dungeon Synth & Dark Ambient Reviews!!. When it comes to Dark Ambient music, the name Onasander should come up when discussing the modern chieftains of the genre. With a consistent amount of captivating releases as a stand-alone producer, as well as a consistent contributor to many other releases, this is an artist that must…

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