Tag: Arts
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February at Lampo Reviewed
Chicago‘s Lampo is rapidly becoming a model of how to bring modern avant-garde to a dedicated audience. Our friend and contributor Mike Eisenberg reviews three recent Lampo shows. In February I saw three really excellent sound artist shows (can call them electro-acoustic, but I’ve been using that term alot lately so wanted to call them…
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New on Tzadik
From Tzadik: Daphna Sadeh & the Voyagers Reconciliation John Zorn Filmworks XXIII: el General Roberto Rodriguez The First Basket Uri Gurvich The Storyteller
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Coming from Long Song Records
Image by Kurt Christensen via Flickr From Long Song Records: Acoustic Guitar Trio – Vignes VIGNES, unreleased live album by the Acoustic Guitar Trio, coming soon. The Acoustic Guitar Trio was a beautiful improvising trio. They were guitar masters Nels Cline, Jim McAuley and the late Rod Poole. Rod Poole, an unsung and sadly quite…
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Musique Machine Reviews
From Musique Machine: Various Artists – Favourite, Places Favorite Places is a compilation based on the idea of the artists choosing to represent in sound their favorite places. It’s the type of concept which sounds intriguing, but in practice is somewhat confining. The locations chosen by the artists are often surprising in their banality, and…
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AMN Podcast: Brad Shepik – Human Activity Suite
Brad Shepik “Blue Marble (Africa)” (mp3) from “Human Activity Suite” (Songlines Recordings) More On This Album
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Classical Music Meets the Avant Garde
And if you’re around Milwaukee tonight, check out experimental music by Ryan Carter. Strings, woodwinds, brass, percussion and laptops. Yes, laptops. Classical music is getting an electronic upgrade thanks to a myriad of ‘laptop orchestras‘ popping up across the globe, increasing interest and knowledge in musical technology and a desire to make a break from…
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Shows Coming to Metropolis Underground
Image via Wikipedia From Syracuse’s Metropolis Underground: Kevin Norton’s Counterpoint will be here on 2/21 @ 8pm. Kevin always puts on a great show and should not be missed. The following night we will have four experimental acts: Beach Fuzz, Century Plants, Dead Friends and American Sphinx. Updates: April 17th – Mountains, The Human and…
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Sonomu Reviews
From Sonomu: Erik Enocksson, Farväl Falkenberg (Kning Disk) The original soundtrack to a movie about teenage angst in smalltown Sweden that was made quite a fuss over at the Venice and Toronto film festivals of 2006. Erik Enocksson bids farewell to Falkenberg with a folksy sound undercut and thereby upgraded by a quirky choice of…
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AMN Podcast: Stinking Lizaveta – Sacrifice and Bliss
Stinking Lizaveta “A Day Without a Murder” (mp3) from “Sacrifice and Bliss” (Monotreme Records) More On This Album Related articles by Zemanta Stinking Lizaveta’s announce new LP, 2009 Tour Dates (brooklynvegan.com) Stinking Lizaveta: Album/Tour (jambase.com) Stinking Lizaveta Announce New Album, Sacrifice and Bliss, (idiomag.com)
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John Zorn Scores Richard Foreman’s Astronome
A review of this show is available. Richard Foreman has a stimulus package for those who’ve missed the Ontological-Hysteric Theater‘s sensory overload the last few years. The director-playwright-designer founded his pioneering theater in 1968, mounting total-environment stagings of his own mind-plays. But in 2006, he embarked on the Bridge Project, a series of smaller video-performance…
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Cosmologic in Washington DC
From Sonic Circuits: As part of Cuneiform Records 25th Anniversary Celebrations, Cuneiform Records and Sonic Circuits Present For the first time in the Washington Area… C o s m o l o g i c Jazz/Improv Quartet from San Diego, CA Friday February 20, 2009 @ Pyramid Atlantic Art Center 8230 Georgia Ave, Silver Spring,…
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Free Jazz Blog Reviews
Image via Wikipedia From Free Jazz: Friday, February 13, 2009 Jimmy Halperin & Dominic Duval – Monk Dreams (NoBusiness Records, 2009) **** Thursday, February 12, 2009 Gerald Cleaver, William Parker, Craig Taborn – Farmers By Nature (AUM Fidelity, 2009) ****½ Wednesday, February 11, 2009 Henri Texier’s Red Route Quartet – Love Songs Reflexions (Label Bleu,…
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Upcoming Emily Hay Appearances
Emily Hay (via last.fm) From Emily Hay: February 18, 2009 circa 11:00pm Duo performance by Emily Hay (flutes/vocals/electronics) and Motoko Honda (keyboards/electronics/sound art) Spark Festival of Experimental and Electronic Music (University of Minnesota) Bedlam Theater 1501 S. 6th Street, Minneapolis, Minnesota http://spark.cla.umn.edu/ http://www.emilyhay.com http://www.myspace.com/motokohonda April 24-25, 2009 Duo performance by Emily Hay (flutes/vocals/electronics) and Motoko…
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New on Victo Records
From Victo Records: In the spring of 2006, Spanish sound artist Francisco López led a composition workshop in Montreal. A master of the field recording and its use in acousmatic composition, López asked the participants to share their urban field recordings. From their work came a compact disc, Montreal Sound Matter on Pogus, and an…
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Upcoming Sonic Circuits Show
From Washington DC’s Sonic Circuits: Sunday Feb 15, 2008 doors: 6:30pm music: 7:00pm SHARP PYRAMID ATLANTIC 8230 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring MD 20910 301.608.9101 located three blocks south of the silver spring metro station (red line) Free parking in gated lot out front INFO: http://www.dc-soniccircuits.org DIRECTIONS: http://www.pyramidatlanticartcenter.org Mattin (Barcelona, Spain) Mattin is a Basque artist…
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Jazz Prospecting From Tom Hull
Nels Cline (via last.fm) More reviews from Tom Hull: The Bad Plus: For All I Care (2008 [2009], Heads Up): Front cover adds: “Joined by Wendy Lewis.” Lewis is a singer, based in Minneapolis, don’t know much more. Her presence pushed the piano trio to doing more cover songs, which leads to some not very…
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2008 Vision Festival Photos From Lyn Horton
Our friend, Lyn Horton provides pics from last year’s Vision Festival. Related articles by Zemanta Jazzhouse Diaries: I Got The Feelin’ (netnewmusic.net)
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Musique Machine Reviews
From Musique Machine: Death In June – All Pigs Must Die All Pigs Must die is a welcome reissue of Death In June’s harmonic yet schizophrenic and progressively unhinged album from 2001. It saw for the most part a return to simpler and memorable acoustic guitar, accordion, trumpet and flute song based sound, but with…
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Richard Foreman and John Zorn join forces with ASTRONOME: A NIGHT AT THE OPERA
John Zorn (via last.fm) A performance of Zorn’s ASTRONOME is ongoing. This is the historic first time collaboration for two MacArthur geniuses who have, individually, challenged, enlightened and entertained adventurous audiences for years. ASTRONOME: A NIGHT AT THE OPERA is a work dominated by ecstatic groans, grunts and babbling, and explores the initiation of a…
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Musique Machine Reviews
Andrey Kiritchenko (via last.fm) From Musique Machine: Merzbow – Dead Leaves Dead Leaves title may suggest an organic, melancholy and doomy outlook but the three tracks inside are quite the opposite- with each been a great long, jittering and shifting electro noise attacks which are splattered here and there with melodic hints, rhythmic chugs and…
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Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey Offers Free Album Download
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey joins many other artists with offering free music to fans. Related articles by Zemanta Reed Mathis Leaves Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey To Focus on Tea Leaf Green (idiomag.com) JFJO NYE: Prince, Jackson, Richie (jambase.com) 2009 Winter Jazzfest | 01.10 | NYC (jambase.com)
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KFJC Reviews
Image via Wikipedia From KFJC: C.O.M.A. – “California Outside Music Associates” – [Edgetone Records] Central Valley musicians Dax Compise and Brian Clark (grads of Stockton’s UOP) join John Vaughn. These fine players combine traditional elements such as bouncy beats, klezmer, swing, and world music with “free jazz” squawky improvisation at breakneck speed. Edgetone founder Rent…
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