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Tag: Compact Disc

  • Mining Pop for Avant-Garde Inspiration

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    From NYTimes.com: More recently the pianist Christopher O’Riley has devoted full CDs to transcriptions of songs by Radiohead and the melancholy songwriter Nick Drake; and Alarm Will Sound, the inventive chamber orchestra, has been fascinated with electronica, having recorded an album of its own transcriptions of Aphex Twin’s brashly amusing pieces and gone on to…

  • DMG Newsletter August 7th, 2009

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    From DMG: John Hollenbeck! Two from Henry Kaiser! Paul Motian Trio 2000 2! DJ Spooky Matt Shipp Trio DVD! Donny McCaslin! Yitzhak Yedid! Jon Hemmersam/Dave Liebman! Chris Corsano! Eddie Prevost/Courtis/Bruce Russell/Mattin! John Cage DVD-A! Mirage! Turning Point! and more Important Archival Jazz Discs from the UK Vocalion Label! Downtown Music Gallery FREE In-Store Performance Schedule…

  • Musique Machine Reviews

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    From Musique Machine: Teatro Satanico – Black Magick Block Black Magick Block is a damned, often hypnotic and black occult merging of dense electronica, jack knife beats, industrial overload & noise matter- with the odd bizarre dip into camp theatrical meets butch electro pop here and there too; but always with prime evil and at…

  • DMG Newsletter July 31st, 2009

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    John Butcher via last.fm From DMG: Paul Dunmall Documentary DVD! John Butcher Group! John Shiurba Qnt with Anthony Braxton! Dunmall/Chang/Gibbs/Taylor! Daniel Carter/Paul Flaherty/Randall Colbourne! Zinc Nine Psychedelic: Dave Ballou/Nick Didkovsky/Kevin Norton! Elliott Levin & Seesaw People! Dave Stapleton Double Quartet! Gino Robair & Birgit Ulher! Fabio Orsi/Gianluca Becuzzi/Etre! Anthology of Chinese Experimental Music 4 CD…

  • New Keith Rowe and Sachiko M on Erstwhile Records

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    Keith Rowe via last.fm From Erstwhile Records: Keith Rowe and Sachiko M are two of the most pivotal and crucial musicians in experimental music today. Contact marks their first meeting as a duo, consisting of their complete unedited sessions, both live and studio. Rowe and Sachiko have primarily travelled parallel paths over the last decade,…

  • Sonomu Reviews

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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…

  • The State of Modern Classical Labels

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    NewMusicBox features an article (and this is part 2 of a 3 parter) about the economics and focus of indie classical labels in a post-CD world. Given that thousands of new CD titles are produced every year across the span of musical genres, it’s not hard to surmise that most discs don’t earn back enough…

  • DMG Newsletter July 17th, 2009

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    From DMG: Paul Dunmall/Paul Rogers 4 CD set! Weasel Walter w/Henry Kaiser & Peter Evans! Bill Frisell w/ Jenny Scheinman! James Carney w/ Tony Malaby & Josh Roseman! Franz Koglmann/Vladimir Nabokov! Itaru Oki! In the Country! Jandek! Francisco Lopez! Giancinto Scelsi! Bruno Maderna! Peter Hammill! Plus Historic Discs from Dick Heckstall-Smith, Mel Collin’s Circus, Anekdoten,…

  • DMG Newsletter July 10th, 2009

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    From DMG: Lake/Workman/Cyrille Geri Allen! Gary Lucas Najma Akhtar! Joe Morris! Foetus Archive CD/DVD/Book package! Scott Fields! Koch/Leimgruber/Ziegele! James Falzone! Throbbing Gristle classics! Carolyn Hester! .. Downtown Music Gallery FREE In-Store Performance Schedule Continues with: This Sunday, July 12th at 6pm: RAS MOSHE & THE INTERSTELLAR EXPLORERS! Sunday, July 19th at 6pm: STEW CUTLER Solo…

  • CD Release: The Beginning Of Danish Electronic Music

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    A review of this recent release is available. This is a collection of historical recordings, dating back primarily to the sixties-seventies, with a selection that accomplishes meticulous research into early Danish electronic avant-garde. This CD collects experiments done with the help of seminal analog instrumentation, in studios where it was easy to find DIY mixing…

  • 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…

  • June Point of Departure

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    Graham Collier via last.fm The latest Point of Departure magazine is out. Issue 23 – June 2009 Page One: a column by Bill Shoemaker What’s New?: The PoD Roundtable A Fickle Sonance: a column by Art Lange The Book Cooks: Workout: The Music of Hank Mobley by Derek Ansell & The jazz composer: moving music…

  • Urs Leimbruber, Peter Evans and Okkyung Lee at Roulette

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    From New York’s Roulette: Thu Jun 11 – 8:30 PM “Urs Leimgruber’s mastery of the saxophone is so protean you could easily be fooled into thinking you are listening to a whole range of other instruments. He produces drum beats, the sound of guitars or the echoing resonnance of gongs at will. His playing seems…

  • KLANG’s Debut CD, Tea Music, Coming August 25th

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    From Improvised Communications: Chicago-based clarinetist/composer James Falzone is proud to announce the August 25th release of Tea Music (Allos Documents 003), the debut studio recording of his three year-old working quartet, KLANG, featuring vibraphonist Jason Adasiewicz, bassist Jason Roebke and drummer Tim Daisy. All four members compose for the group, which picks up the swing…

  • New Releases From Ambiances Magnetiques

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    Image via Wikipedia Out recently on Ambiances Magnetiques: John Geggie – Geggie Project / Ambiances Jazz | AM 179 | 2008 Using John Geggie’s compositions as a point of departure, this creative trio covers much terrain with its lyrical and sonic landscapes. … Normand Guilbeault Ensemble Mingus – Live at Upstairs 2008 / Ambiances Jazz…

  • New Releases from Leo Records

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    William Parker via last.fm From Leo: CD LR 533 Evelyn Petrova – Living Water CD LR 534 Vyacheslav Guyvoronsky – Interventions Into Bach And Mozart CD LR 535 Joelle Leandre and William Parker – Live at Dunois CD LR 536 Stefano Luigi Mangia Featuring Gianni Lenoci – Painting On Wood ( Pittura Su Legno )

  • Firehouse 12 To Present Carl Maguire’s Floriculture June 5th

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    From Improvised Communications: On Friday, June 5th, New Haven’s Firehouse 12 will present the penultimate event of its 2009 Spring Jazz Series, the CD release celebration for Sided Silver Solid (Firehouse 12 Records), the new recording by Carl Maguire’s Floriculture. The longstanding group, led by New York-based keyboardist/composer Carl Maguire, features violist Stephanie Griffin, multi-instrumentalist…

  • Sonomu Reviews

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    From Sonomu: Samara Lubelski, Parallel Suns (The Social Registry) Music with flowers in its hair. A new name to me, but according to her thick resumé Samara Lubelski has worked with (either as musician or engineer) Jackie-O Motherfucker, Thurston Moore, MV & EE, Hall of Fame, and fellow-German experimental collective Metabolismus. For this album, she…

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    From Sonomu: John Hudak, On and On (Presto!?) You know how they say “you could hear a pin drop”? On and On is the sound of that pin dropping over and over and over again over seventy pristine minutes. The pin-drops are guitar strings; Hudak´s “sound” for this particular effort was been borrowed from the…

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    Alio Die (via last.fm) From Sonomu: Alio Die & Zeit, Raag Drone Theory (Hic Sunt Leones) Zeit is Tommaso Cimò, who teams up with Alio Die for a single, fragile, meditative track glittering with notes dripping off their respective zithers, gradually shapeshifting for three seconds shy of the maximum capacity of a compact disc. Alio…

  • New Point of Departure

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    A new Point of Departure magazine is out. Page One: a column by Bill Shoemaker What’s New?: The PoD Roundtable A Fickle Sonance: a column by Art Lange The Book Cooks: Experimental Music : Audio Explorations in Australia & Cornelius Cardew (1936 – 1981) A Life Unfinished Moment’s Notice: Recent CDs Briefly Reviewed Ezz-thetics: a…

  • Dean Moore & Tom Baker CD Release Show in Seattle

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    From Wayward Music: 8:00 PM; $5 – $15 sliding scale donation at the door. Guitarist Tom Baker and percussionist Dean Moore celebrate the release of their debut duo CD Seven Winds, an ambient work for electric guitar and gongs/resonant metals. CDs available for $10.

  • New on Important Records

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    Jozef Van Wissem (via last.fm) From Important Records: ANDREA PARKINS . Faulty (Broken Orbit) Faulty (Broken Orbit) re-imagines Faulty (Per-Objective), an hour long 10-channel site-specific audio work, premiered in 2007 at Diapason gallery for sound in NYC, with sponsorship from Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center and the New York Electronic Arts Festival…… (more) Jozef Van…

  • Firehouse 12 Records To Release New CDs From Carl Maguire And John Hébert

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    From Improvised Communications: On June 16th, Firehouse 12 Records will release music from its two newest artists, keyboardist/composer Carl Maguire’s longstanding band Floriculture and bassist/composer John Hébert. Sided Silver Solid (FH12-04-01-009) is Floriculture’s second recording and its first as a quintet featuring new members, violist Stephanie Griffin and multi-instrumentalist Oscar Noriega. Hébert makes his recorded…