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    From Musique Machine: Wolfskin – O Ajuntas das Sombras O Ajuntas das Sombras (Ajuntas of the Shades) is a darkly enchanting, often hypnotic and at times very creepy shot of earthy woodland and ritual based dark ambience and chilling drone craft with hints of slowed and damned folk matter weaved in here and there along…

  • At the Stone in May

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    Cover of Works of Frantz Casseus From New York’s Stone: 5/1 Friday (DS) 8 pm Loren Conners Loren Conners (guitar) Connors’ singular adaptation of the blues is a distinct personal vision combining the Delta bottleneck sound and the ancestral blues voice (appearing as distortion, baying hounds or multi-tracked guitar), with hauntingly unexpected sounds. 10 pm…

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    Get your own widget at Last.fm From Musique Machine: The Idealist – I Am the Fire The Idealist is Joachim Nordwall, known as a member of the Skull Defekts. This solo excursion may surprise people acquainted with the usually more extroverted, guitar oriented music that the latter band puts forth. I am the Fire consists…

  • New Releases on Utech Records

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    From Utech: Artist: Calcination Released: March 28, 2009 Antoine Chessex: tenor sax, electronics, amp. Ktho Zoid: guitar, electronics, amp. Calcination is the first stage in the process of alchemical transformation, the administration of heat until a given substance is reduced to ash. It is often symbolized by sulfuric acid, a powerful corrosive that eats away…

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    Cisfinitum (via last.fm) From Musique Machine: The Idealist – I Am the Fire The Idealist is Joachim Nordwall, known as a member of the Skull Defekts. This solo excursion may surprise people acquainted with the usually more extroverted, guitar oriented music that the latter band puts forth. I am the Fire consists of what might…

  • 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.

  • This Week’s Best Albums from ALARM Magazine

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    Bob Log III (via last.fm) In ALARM Magazine: Bob Log III: My Shit is Perfect (Birdman) For 15 years, Bob Log III has knocked out fucked-up, floor-stomping rhythms for adventurous show-goers, performing in full-body cannonball suits with a telephone-receiver mic fastened to a motorcycle helmet. His one-man-band MO consists of crazy blues riffs, drum-machine beats,…

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    From Musique Machine: La Ira de Dios – Cosmos Kaos Destruction La Ira de Dios are a Peruvian band with a penchant for some of the heaviest, most punked out space rock to come down the pike in recent memory. The band is known for their extended jams, but Cosmos Kaos Destruction changes direction, opting…

  • Mountains, The Human, Words For Snow in Syracuse

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    From Metropolis Underground: Coming up April 17th is Thrill Jockey recording artists Mountains with special guests The Human and Words For Snow. Mountains is Brendon Anderegg and Koen Holtkamp, friends since their middle school days. The duo were brought together by mutual artistic and musical interests, and both ended up at the School of the…

  • Sonic Circuits April 4 Free-Improv Show

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    From DC’s Sonic Circuits: Saturday April 4, 2009 doors: 8:00pm music: 8:30pm SHARP $7! 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 Michael Thomas Jackson has been creating and recording…

  • Cryptonights in California

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    Myra Melford (via last.fm) Cryptogramophone artists will be featured at Cryptonights in Oakland and LA. March 25-26 at Yoshi’s in Oakland, CA Wed March 25, 8PM & 10PM: Alex Cline Continuation Quintet Myra Melford and Be Bread Thurs March 26, 8PM & 10PM: The Jeff Gauthier Goatette The Nels Cline Singers March 27-28 at REDCAT…

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    Harold Budd (via last.fm) From Sonomu: Harold Budd & Clive Wright, A Song for Lost Blossoms (Darla) As a whole, this is a middling album for Harold Budd. Then again, Harold Budd´s “middle” is usually of higher quality than most everybody else´s beginning, middle and end put together. Here is a collection of recordings made…

  • Free Jazz Blog Reviews

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    Matthew Shipp (via last.fm) From Free Jazz: Monday, March 16, 2009 Matthew Shipp & Mark O’Leary – Labyrinth (FMR, 2009) ****½ Saturday, March 14, 2009 Platz Quintet – Live At Internationales Jazz Festival Münster 2007 (Konnex, 2008) **** Friday, March 13, 2009 Trinity – Breaking The Mold (Clean Feed, 2009) **** Related articles by Zemanta…

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    From Musique Machine: Future Islands – Wave Like Home Future Islands specialize in wonky,often dense yet criminal additive brand of off-kilter 80’s retro pop meets post punk crunch ‘n’ grime. Think a more active, up-beat and positive take on the kind of thing John Maus has been doing over the last few of years. But…

  • Grid Mesh / BCPH Quartet in Syracuse

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    From Metropolis Underground: March 18th 2009 – Grid Mesh w/BCPH Quartet Andreas Willer, guitar Frank Paul Schubert, alto and soprano saxophones Rudi Fischerlehner, drums Grid Mesh: As usual in Berlin, the Grid Mesh group is the result of a project involving musicians who themselves are involved in many other projects of apparent complete stylistic heterogeneity.…

  • Zu’s Carboniferous Reviewed

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    Cover of Igneo The latest from this heavy Italian free-jazz band is reviewed: Here’s a hypothetical question for you- how many bass strings would you get through a month if you were Masimo Pupillo, the bassist in Italian trio Zu? A lot, would be your answer, had you been listening to Carboniferous recently. I haven’t…

  • The Thirteenth Assembly @ Barbès

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    From Improvised Communications: On Wednesday, March 11th at 8:00 p.m., The Thirteenth Assembly will celebrate its new CD, (un)sentimental (Important Records), at Barbès in Brooklyn. The New York-based quartet features Taylor Ho Bynum (cornet), Jessica Pavone (viola), Mary Halvorson (guitar) and Tomas Fujiwara (drums).

  • Grey Gersten, Jeremiah Cymerman’s Graphic Scores, and Toby Driver Ensemble at Zebulon

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    Image via Wikipedia Coming up at Brooklyn’s Zebulon: Tuesday, March 10th Zebulon 258 Wythe Ave (between Metropolitan Ave and North 3rd St) Williamsburg, Brooklyn 718-218-6934 9:00 Grey Gersten solo Grey Gersten (guitar, effects) 10:00 Jeremiah Cymerman’s Graphic Scores Jeremiah Cymerman (clarinet) Nate Wooley (trumpet) Mary Halvorson (guitar) Christopher Hoffman (cello) Tom Blancarte (bass) Harris Eisenstadt…

  • Bern Nix Trio & James Keepnews’ Stalker at RUCMA

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    From RUCMA: Start: 03/09/2009 – 8:30pm End: 03/09/2009 – 11:30pm Bern Nix Trio & Stalker Bern Nix Trio — 8:30 PM Bern Nix – guitar Francois Grilliot – bass Jackson Krall – drums Stalker – 7 PM James Keepnews – guitar, electronics Todd Nicholson – bass Michael Golub – drums Monday March 9 The Local…

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    Image via Wikipedia From KFJC: Tickmayer, Stevan Kovacs – “Cold Peace Counterpoints” – [Rer Megacorp] A crazy cut-up tour de force of keyboards, string instruments, percussion, and sampling, all whirled together in Tickmayer’s compositional blender. Piano, organ, and harpsichord-type sounds are heard throughout, but it’s not all about keyboards; Track 7 goes heavy on electric…

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    From KFJC: Chen, Yuanlin – “Away From Xuan” – Innova/American Composers Chen studied music in his native China where he pioneered a computer and electronic music studio. He has a PhD from SUNY Stony Brook. These three pieces show a lot of variety in his music. “Away from Xuan” is a big symphonic piece. “Wondering…

  • Of Cowards and Continuations with Alex and Nels Cline

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    An interview with the Cline Brothers from Jambands.com: The Cline Brothers spent close to three decades as the “first twins” of avant-garde music before Jeff Tweedy tapped Nels Cline as the lead guitarist in Wilco shortly after the release of 2004’s A Ghost is Born. Since then Nels has scored “guitar god” status in Rolling…

  • Coming from Long Song Records

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    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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    From Musique Machine: Merzbow – Anicca Anicca finds Merzbow in a wonderfully urgent, manic and often chaotic mood; offering up three lengthy tracks that literal stream roller your mind in breathless submission & leave you feeling very pump-up and almost hyper. Teeth of The Sea – Ophaned By the Ocean Teeth of the Sea summon…