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  • Musique Machine Reviews

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    From Musique Machine: Hoor-Paar-Kraat – In Eros Veritas In Eros Veritas stands as some of most musically based, noise tinged and dense material released thus far by this project- that’s best described as surreal soundscape making that mixes in elements of drone matter, field recordings, and various other genre traits to make something that is…

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    From Sonomu: Greta Hoheisel & Norbert Lang, Bukarest Fragmente (CD & Book Gruenrekorder) A three-pronged guided tour – music, text, image – of Bucharest, a “metropolis in constant flux”, according to the introduction. Bucharest has indeed historically been one of the important capitals of central Europe, but long fell under the shadow of the dictator…

  • Dusted Reviews

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    From Dusted: Artist: White Hills Album: Heads on Fire Label: Thrill Jockey Review date: Jul. 14, 2009 Artist: Joe Morris / Petr Cancura / Luther Gray Album: Wildlife Label: AUM Fidelity Review date: Jul. 13, 2009 Artist: Isis Album: Wavering Radiant Label: Ipecac Review date: Jul. 10, 2009 Related articles by Zemanta Tortoise – new…

  • Coming to the ISSUE Project Room

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    From NY’s ISSUE Project Room: 07/15 @ 8pm – Mari Kimura with Liubo Borissov and Kevork Mourad Organic Digits: Kimura-Borissov-Mourad Project Mari Kimura teams up with visual artists Liubo Borissov and Kevork Mourad, presenting everything from her virtuosic solo works of her signature bowing technique Subharmonics, to realtime interactive audio visual works, using Issue Project…

  • New Releases From FMP/FREE MUSIC PRODUCTION

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    Peter Kowald via last.fm From FMP FMP CD 131 WITHOUT Olaf Rupp FMP CD 132 OPEN SECRETS Peter Kowald FMP CD 133 NO COMMENT Keune-Schneider-Krämer Related articles by Zemanta Peter Brötzmann, Nasheet Waits and Eric Revis Trio [Victory Grill] (austinist.com)

  • 23five Releases

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    From 23five: Jason Kahn Vanishing Point Vanishing Point is a 47 minute composition, which Kahn has dedicated to his daughter who died shortly before Kahn began working on this piece in 2007. For all of the phenomenological studies and stoic mesmerism attributed to much of his catalogue, Vanishing Point is a subtle and hypnotic elegy…

  • Sonomu Reviews

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    From Sonomu: DJ Olive, Triage (Room 40) Gregor Asch aka DJ Olive has found a second, antipodean home in Room 40, an upside-down Brooklyn where instead of teasing out unheard-of beats he abandons them altogether in favour of atmosphere and introspection. Triage is the final installment of a trilogy for the label, designed like “Buoy”……

  • Arve Henriksen and Nils Petter Molvaer at Le Poisson Rouge

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    Nils Petter Molvær via last.fm From NYTimes.com: At first blush Arve Henriksen and Nils Petter Molvaer might seem nearly indistinguishable. Both are pristine-sounding Norwegian trumpeters with conspicuous investment in electronics. They share a fondness for fragile lyricism and rippling atmosphere, building on a 40-year tradition that began with the Miles Davis album “In a Silent…

  • Unnamed Music Festival Review

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    Bagatellen reviews London’s recent Unnamed Music Festival. Friday night opened with a long, appropriately meandering set from Jamie Coleman (trumpet, objects), Paul Abbott (electronics, homebrew), Ute Kanngiesser (cello) and Grundik Kasyansky (electronics, homebrew). This was another group I was particularly interested in hearing, in large part for my general unfamiliarity with the musicians save for…

  • Dusted Reviews

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    From Dusted: Artist: Gareth Davis & Stephen R. Smith Album: Westering Label: Important Review date: Jun. 15, 2009 Artist: Tortoise Album: Beacons of Ancestorship Label: Thrill Jockey Review date: Jun. 15, 2009 Artist: Ata Ebtekar Album: Ornamentalism: Ata Ebtekar and the Iranian Orchestra for New Music performing works of Alireza Mashayekhi Label: Sub Rosa Review…

  • Dusted Reviews

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    John Wiese via last.fm From Dusted: Artist: Alva Noto Ryuichi Sakamoto Album: utp_ Label: Raster-Noton Review date: Jun. 5, 2009 Artist: John Wiese and C. Spencer Yeh Album: Cincinnati Label: Dronedisco Review date: Jun. 4, 2009 Artist: Tony Malaby Album: Paloma Recio Label: New World Review date: Jun. 2, 2009

  • ESP Disk New Releases

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    Image via Wikipedia New from ESP-Disk: Talibam! Boogie in the Breeze Blocks Sun Ra Featuring Pharoah Sanders & Black Harold Naked Future Gigantomachia Flow Trio Rejuvenation Don Cherry Cafe Montmartre, Vol.3

  • Musique Machine Reviews

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    From Musique Machine: Vice Wears Black Hose – Part 2 Vice Wears Black Hose is harsh noise/wall noise project that brings together two respected US noise mongers in the form of Sam McKinlay of The Rita and Richard Ramirez of Werewolf Jerusalem & Black Leather Jesus. This cdr takes in one long 40 minute track…

  • The Squid’s Ear Reviews

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    From The Squid’s Ear: Lucio Capece & Mika Vainio – Trahnie (Editions Mego) Mark Dresser / Denman Maroney – Live in Concert (Kadima Collective) Matt Milton / David Thomas / Ryan Jewel / Patrick Farmer – Bear Ground (Creative Sources) Not the wind not the flag – Tintinabulum (Barnyard) Buffalo Collision – Duck (Screwgun)

  • Bagatellen Reviews

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    From Bagatellen: three from Thessaloniki Organized Music From Thessaloniki, Kostis Kilymis’ new-ish label out of his native Greece, has picked up the pace in its release schedule, here contributing three distinctive and listenable discs in a year that’s thus far been packed with gems. Experimental music is not without its share of notable Greek musicians,…

  • Dusted Reviews

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    From Dusted: Artist: Nilsson / Sandell / Strid Album: Beam Stone Label: Psi Review date: May. 7, 2009 Artist: Fredrik Nordstrom Album: Live in Coimbria Label: Clean Feed Review date: May. 6, 2009 Album: Music Inspired by the Film Scott Walker: 30 Century Man Label: Lakeshore Review date: May. 5, 2009 Artist: Ami Yoshida /…

  • Mode Records Releases

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    Sun Ra (via last.fm) From Mode Records: The Respect Sextet: Sirius Respect – The Respect Sextet play the music of Sun Ra and Stockhausen Garth Knox: Viola Spaces Peter Ablinger: 33-127

  • Out on Atavistic Worldwide

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    From Atavistic: Wrekmeister Harmonies – Recordings Made In Public Spaces Volume One My Cat Is An Alien & Enore Zaffiri – Through The Magnifying Glass Of Tomorrow

  • Dusted Reviews

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    From Dusted: Artist: Andrea Parkins Album: Faulty (Broken Orbit) Label: Important Review date: Apr. 15, 2009 Artist: Yoshie Fruchter Album: Pitom Label: Tzadik Review date: Apr. 15, 2009 Artist: Joe Morris Album: MVP LSD Label: Riti Review date: Apr. 9, 2009 Related articles by Zemanta Shakti Reviewed By Dusted And JazzTimes (improvisedcommunications.wordpress.com) Ancestors And Shakti…

  • Jazz Prospecting From Tom Hull

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    More reviews from Tom Hull Paul Dunmall Sun Quartet: Ancient and Future Airs (2008 [2009], Clean Feed) Denman Maroney Quintet: Udentity (2008 [2009], Clean Feed) Michael Blake/Kresten Osgood: Control This (2006 [2009], Clean Feed) Trinity: Breaking the Mold (2006 [2009], Clean Feed) Gypsy Schaeffer: New Album (2008 [2009], PeaceTime) Rova: The Juke Box Suite (2006…

  • Hathut Sales at the Jazz Loft

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    Morton Feldman (via last.fm) Hathut is having a HUGE sale at the Jazz Loft, basically, at $3.50 per CD, to celebrate their 35 years in business. In 1975, Werner X. Uehlinger founded HatHutRecords simply in order to document the artistry of a musician he heard through a chance encounter-saxophonist / trumpeter Joe McPhee. Today, over…

  • Rova’s Rovaté 2009

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    From Rova: Rovaté 2009: Fissures, Futures (for Buckminster Fuller) May 22 23, 2009, 8PM Kanbar Hall, JCCSF 3200 California Street Tickets: 415.292.1233 or jccsf.org $24 public | $21 JCCSF members | $16 students Buckminster Fuller drawing drawing by Buckminster Fuller Rova Saxophone Quartet returns to Kanbar Hall for another no-sounds-barred evening of improvisatory collaboration. Acclaimed…

  • Firehouse 12, One-Stop Jazz Hub, Prospers in New Haven

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    The Times raves about Firehouse 12: JULIAN LAGE, a fastidious young guitarist, waited for the applause to subside before bantering with his audience at Firehouse 12 last Friday night. He and his band were playing songs from “Sounding Point” (Emarcy), his brand-new debut; the next piece, he said, had to do with exploring sound in…

  • Sonomu Reviews

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    Rapoon (via last.fm) From Sonomu: B?Tong, Structures (Noecho) An artist who dips his foot in many different pools. A Swedish émigré living in Basel with over a decade´s recording experience. For Structures, he moves effortlessly between small-scale sound experiments and shifting moods and modes, to a darkness so remininiscent of Robert Rich and B…. [read]…