From Tzadik, the May releases are out:
Frank London/Lorin Sklamberg
Tsuker-zisIkue Mori
Class InsectaJohn Zorn
Alhambra Love SongsRoberto Rodriguez
Timba TalmudWadada Leo Smith/Jack Dejohnette
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- Wadada Leo Smith (via last.fm)
From DMG:
John Zorn’s Love Songs! Wadada Leo Smith & Jack DeJohnette! Hilmar Jensson’s Tyft Qnt! Brotzmann/Kondo/Pupillo/Nilssen-Love! Ikue Mori! Centazzo with Derek Bailey/E#/Henry Kaiser et al! Rob Brown! Joe Morris! Irabagon/Pride! Upsilon Acrux! 2 from Elliott Sharp! Alberto Braida!
Louie Belogenis/Karl Berger Old Dog! Profound Sound: Dunmall/Grimes/Cyrille! Taylor/Dunmall Circuit Ensemble! 2nd KTU: Pohjonen/Gunn/Mastelotto! Gjerstad/Edwards/Sanders!
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Jeremiah Cymerman at Sonic Circuits
From DC’s Sonic Circuits:
Sunday May 3
Doors 730pm Music 7pm 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.orgJeremiah Cymerman (pronounced SIMMER-man) is a composer and clarinetist based in Brooklyn, New York. He was born May 4th, 1980 in log cabin in North Georgia. Since 2002 Cymerman has been active in a wide variety of musical contexts and has been honored to present his work in some of New York City’s most highly regarded venues for avant-garde and experimental music including The Stone, Issue Project Room, Roulette, Anthology Film Archives, Washington Square Church, and The Tank, among many others. Described by Time Out New York as “one of downtown’s most inventive and resourceful composer-performers” Cymerman has performed with a broad range of contemporary artists including Otomo Yoshihide, Jandek, Ned Rothenberg, Ikue Mori, John Zorn, Jessica Pavone, Toby Driver, Lawrence D. “Butch” Morris, Sylvie Courvoisier, Trevor Dunn, Walter Thompson, Nate Wooley, Mary Halvorson, and Matthew Welch, among many others.
http://www.jeremiahcymerman.com
http://www.myspace.com/jeremiahcymermanAlso appearing are Beans Cool (3 wacky fellows on wacky electronics) and Nine Strings Pilesar collaboration (acoustic bass duo drums etc).
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Upcoming Shows at Pyramid Atlantic
From DC’s Sonic Circuits:
Sunday April 19
Doors 630pm Music 7pm SHARP
$7PYRAMID 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.orgBROWN WING OVERDRIVE
Chuck Bettis, Mikey IQ Jones, and Derek Morton are mad jugglers of oddly-shaped musical eggs. Processed banjo, shamanistic chants, and fried electronics set up against lattices of stuttered beatboxing and found-object percussion to confound and delight.Chuck Bettis and Derek Morton met each other in Washington DC, crossing paths as part of that citys burgeoning experimental music community. Upon relocating to New York City, the two began collaborating as a duo before IQ Jones joined them in early 2007. IQs alarm clocks, duck calls, and array of unlikely sound devices provide a lively counterpoint to Bettis machine noise and Mortons chaotic circuits.
In the 90s, Chuck Bettis shook up Washington DC with no-wavers the Metamatics, his solo electronics moniker Trance and the Arcade, and the genre-traversing collective All Scars before relocating to NYC in 2002. He has since collaborated with revered downtown improvisers John Zorn, Fred Frith, and Ikue Mori (amongst others), and has recorded with such groups as Nautical Almanac, Yellow Swans, and Measles Mumps Rubella.
NYC-based vocalist/percussionist/one-man bomb squad Mikey IQ Jones has presented frankensteined collusions of performance art theatrics, mutant soul harmonies, beatbox & extended vocal technique, kitchen-sink live sampling aesthetics, and onomatopoeic wordplay in solo performances since 2003. His otherworldly rhythms, created exclusively with the sounds of IQs voice and a small handful of household objects, have captivated crowds and crossed genre-lines, resulting in performances from CBGBs and the downtown improv school to uptown hip-hop block parties and choreography collaboration.
Derek Morton has generated and manipulated sound since the early 1990s. From his days as a rock guitarist and record label owner to more recent forays into performance curating and gallery installation, he has relentlessly investigated the possibilities of audio in all contexts. He is equally interested in live improvisation, studio research, exploratory composition, and electronic reconfiguration. Mortons sound experiments have attacked everything from cutting-edge technologies like surround-sound to reinvented tools like handheld video game consoles and controllers. His work with violinist John Coursey in the duo Mikroknytes has resulted in numerous performances around the U.S. as well as four full-length CDs.
http://brownwingoverdrive.com/U.S. Girls
If the alluring moniker used by Megan Remy conjures images of volleyball teams or cheerleading squads, forget it. Not that there’s any doubt that Remy–sorry, U.S. Girls–couldn’t rise and conquer either challenge.
Like fellow DIY ingenues Sally Strobelight and Inca Ore, U.S. Girls’ approach is deceptively ethereal and delightfully haunting; lithe, lysergic gamma rays of keyboard murk beamed over percussive bonk sort of resemble Diamanda Galas reinterpreting Suicide’s Red Star. And dig that cover of Bruce Springsteen’s “Prove It All Night,” done in such an effortless, barbital lush you’d swear the air was filled with mescaline. Guess what? It’s not.
http://www.myspace.com/usgirlsssPilesar
A kind of warped antidote to most of the over-earnest indie rock that tends to dominate the airwaves, Pilesar is disposable, playful, intermittently brilliant nonsense, conjured on a four-track using a bunch of cheap instruments. He kicks your butt and you enjoy it in the process.
http://pilesarmusic.com/Corpus Callosum
Corpus Callosum is Doug S. (amplified cello & effects) and Scott N. (arp analogy synthesizer, roland 808-ex, and effects/loops). Together we focus on a mix of melodic and atonal drones. The music is inspired by musicians who have explored the impact of frequencies on the conscious and unconscious mind as well as feelings of despair triggered by empathy for those who suffer day in and day out often as a result of third world exploitation.
http://www.myspace.com/corpuscallosummeltsskullsCOMING UP
April 22
A very Special Evening with Professor Eugene Chadborne
8pm $8April 23
MEM1, Area C, Fast Forty
8pm $7
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DOWNTOWNMUSIC.NET Photos
From DOWNTOWNMUSIC.NET:
April 11, 2009
Gay Disco Trio, The Bell House
Jim Black, Andrew D’Angelo, Trevor Dunn
H-alpha, The Bell House
Jim Black, Briggan Krauss, Ikue Mori
Mary Halvorson & Jessica Pavone, The Bell House
Mary Halvorson, Jessica Pavone
The New Mellow Edwards, The Bell House
Trevor Dunn, Curtis Hasselbring, Ches Smith, Chris SpeedApril 10, 2009
Ingebrigt Haker Flaten & Daniel Levin, 5C Cafe
Ingebrigt Haker Flaten, Daniel Levin
Ingebrigt Haker Flaten & Hakon Kornstad, Monkey Town
Ingebrigt Haker Flaten, Hakon Kornstad
Kornstad-Seabrook-Bard, Monkey Town
Christine Bard, Hakon Kornstad, Brandon Seabrook
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April at the Stone
- Mark Feldman (via last.fm)
From New York’s Stone:
April 2009 at the Stone curated by Louie Belogenis
4/1 Wednesday (MP)
8 pm
Trevor Dunn’s PROOFReaders
Trevor Dunn (bass) Darius Jones (alto) Nate Wooley (trumpet) Ryan Sawyer (drums)
The PROOFReaders play the music of Ornette Coleman.10 pm
Brown Wing Overdrive
Chuck Bettis (electronics, vocals) Mikey IQ Jones (electronics, vocals, jews harps, percussion, objects) Derek Morton (electronis, banjo)4/2 Thursday (NYYT)
8 and 10 pm
Unbroken
Louie Belogenis (tenor saxophone) Greg Cohen (bass) Kenny Wollesen (drums)4/3 Friday
8 pm
Joe Morris Ensemble
Joe Morris (guitar) Steve Lantner (piano) Luther Gray (drums)10 pm
Harris Eisenstadt4/4 Saturday
8 pm
Jennifer Choi
Jennifer Choi (solo violin)
New works for solo violin: Eugene Ysaye -‘Ballade’/ John Zorn – Goetia for solo violin / Mario Davidovsky- Synchronism No. 9 / Juan Felipe Waller – Le Jaque, Sal, Gala y Luna / Jacob Ter Veldhuis- Capriccio10 pm
Momenta String Quartet
Erik Carlson (violin) Joanne Lin (cello) Stephanie Griffin (viola) Annaliesa Place (violin)4/5 Sunday (MP)
8 and 10 pm
Old Dog
Louie Belogenis (tenor saxophone) Karl Berger (piano, vibes) Michael Bisio (bass) Warren Smith (drums)
Anticipating the release of their CD “By Any Other Name” on Porter Records.4/7 Tuesday (MB)
8 and 10 pm
Tamarindo
Tony Malaby (tenor saxophone) William Parker (bass) Nasheet Waits (drums)4/8 Wednesday (GG)
8 pm
Marco Cappelli and Anthony Coleman duo
Marco Cappelli (guitar) Anthony Coleman (piano)10 pm
Anthony Coleman
Anthony Coleman (piano)4/9 Thursday
8 pm
Borah Bergman Solo
Borah Bergman (solo piano)10 pm
Borah Bergman and friends
Borah Bergman (piano) Louie Belogenis (soprano saxophone) Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz (bass) Michael Wimberly (drums)4/10 Friday (MB)
8 and 10 pm
Joey Baron, Robyn Schulkowsky, William Parker, and Scott Robinson
Joey Baron (drums) Robyn Schulkowsky (percussion) William Parker (bass) Scott Robinson (reeds)
FIFTEEN DOLLARS4/11 Saturday (RK)
8 pm
Okkyung Lee
Okkyung Lee (cello)10 pm
Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz
Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz (bass)4/12 Sunday (MB)
8 and 10 pm
Charles Gayle trio
Charles Gayle (sax, piano) and rhythm section10 pm
Gerald Cleaver Trio
Andrew Bishop (saxophone) Tim Flood (bass) Gerald Cleaver (drums)4/14 Tuesday (MB)
8 pm
Rob Brown Trio
Rob Brown (sax)10 pm
Gerald Cleaver Trio
Andrew Bishop (saxophone) Tim Flood (bass) Gerald Cleaver (drums)4/15 Wednesday (JC)
8 pm
Sylvie Courvoisier and Mark Feldman Duo
Sylvie Courvoisier (piano) Mark Feldman (violin)10 pm
Mark Feldman, Sylvie Courvoisier and Gerry Hemingway
Mark Feldman (violin) Sylvie Courvoisier (piano) Gerry Hemingway (drums)4/16 Thursday
8 and 10 pm
Twice Told Tales
Louie Belogenis (tenor and soprano saxophones) Tony Malaby (tenor and soprano saxophones) John Hebert (bass) Joey Baron (drums)4/17 Friday (NYYT)
8 pm
Ikue Mori
Ikue Mori (laptop)10 pm
John O’Gallagher
John O’Gallagher (alto saxophone) Russ Lossing (piano) Johannes Weidenmueller (bass) Russ Johnson (trumpet) Nate Radley (guitar) Jeff Hirshfield (drums)4/18 Saturday
8 pm
Allan Chase Trio
Allan Chase (alto, baritone, and soprano saxophones), Joe Morris (bass), Luther Gray (drums)
Boston saxophonist Allan Chase, a former member of Prima Materia with Rashied Ali, returns to New York after a 3-year absence for a set of improvisations. The three musicians play together regularly in the Steve Lantner Quartet and on Joe Morris’s recent Bass Quartet CD “High Definition,” but this is their first trio performance.10 pm
the macroquarktet
Herb Robertson and Dave Ballou (trumpets, etc.) Drew Gress (bass)4/19 Sunday (MB)
8 pm
ANIMA
Beth Anne Hatton (voice) Vita Wallace (Baroque violin) Christa Patton (harp) Motomi Igarashi (viola da gamba, lirone)
Musical daring and improvisation were alive and well in the Seventeenth Century. Anima will refashion laments and love stories from 1640s Rome in this concert.10 pm
Russ Lossing Density Trio
Russ Lossing (piano) John Hebert (bass) Eric McPhearson (drums)4/21 Tuesday (MB)
8 pm
Renku
Michaël Attias (alto saxophone) John Hebert (bass) Satoshi Takeishi (percussion)10 pm
ABYSM (a tale of the floating world)
Shoko Nagai (piano, moog, auto harp) Satoshi Takeishi (percussion, electronics)
Experimental Piano/Percs, electronics duo has been incorporating free improvisation, composition, electronics, found objects and visual elements into performances to create a unique path into the world of contemporary music. Their performances are based on stories and they create sound textures almost visible to the listener. In this performance, they will perform new compositions based on a tale of the “floating world,” a world where illusion is sustained by multiple shifting elements.4/22 Wednesday
8 pm
Lou Grassi, Adam Lane and Mark Whitecage
Mark Whitecage (alto saxophone) Adam Lane (bass) Lou Grassi (drums)10 pm
Tom Blancarte’s Liquid Surprise
Tom Blancarte (bass, compositions) Andrew Drury (drums) Brian Osborne (drums) Kevin Shea (drums)
Bassist Tom Blancarte (Sparks, Totem) leads an unprecedented ensemble of three drummers and upright bass through his compositions that throw humor, hyperkinetic improvisation and spirituality all into one pot.4/23 Thursday (DS)
8 and 10 pm
An evening with Andrew D’Angelo
Andrew D’Angelo (alto saxophone) and special guests4/24 Friday (CW)
8 and 10 pm
Flow Trio
Louie Belogenis (tenor saxophone) Joe Morris (bass) Charles Downs (drums)
Celebrating the release of their new ESP release “Rejuvenation”.4/25 Saturday
8 and 10 pm
John Zorn IMPROV NIGHT—A Stone Benefit
John Zorn (alto saxophone) Louie Belogenis (tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone) and many special guests.
COME OUT AND SUPPORT THE STONE! TWENTY DOLLARS.4/26 Sunday (MB)
8 pm
Adam Kolker Trio
Adam Kolker (saxophone)10 pm
Bob Feldman Trio
Bob Feldman (saxophone)4/28 Tuesday (MB)
8 pm
Uri Gurvich Quartet
Uri Gurvich (saxophones) Leo Genovses (piano) Peter Slavov (bass) Francisco Mela (drums)
Uri and his quartet will perform music from their recent debut, “The Storyteller” on Tzadik.10 pm
Louise’s Miniature Spaced Out Ensemble
Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen (saxophone) Dan Blake (saxophone) Drew Pitcher (saxophone) Sam Oatts (trumpet) Kevin Shea (drums) Tom Blancarte (bass)
Danish saxophonist Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen leads an ensemble performing her idiosyncratic and sensitive compositions arranged for winds and trumpet accompanied by hyperactive free-improv rhythm section.4/29 Wednesday
8 pm
Radio I-Ching
Andy Haas (saxophone, fife and electronics) Don Fiorino (guitar and other strings) Dee Pop (drums and percussion)10 pm
Ehran Elisha Ensemble featuring Haim Elisha
Haim Elisha (piano) David Bindman (tenor saxophone) Sam Bardfeld (violin) Ken Filiano (bass) Ehran Elisha (drums)4/30 Thursday (DS)
8 and 10 pm
Magical Listening Hour
Nate Wooley (trumpet) Michaël Attias (alto saxophone) Louie Belogenis (tenor saxophone) Steve Swell (trombone)
alphabet city meets lower case.
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All About Jazz Reviews
- Cover of For All I Care
From All About Jazz:
22-Feb-09 Nels Cline
Coward (Cryptogramophone)
Reviewed by Troy Collins22-Feb-09 The Bad Plus with Wendy Lewis
For All I Care (Heads Up International)
Reviewed by Matt Marshall22-Feb-09 Lotte Anker / Sylvie Courvoisier / Ikue Mori
Alien Huddle (Intakt Records)
Reviewed by Ted Gordon22-Feb-09 Matthew Shipp Trio
Harmonic Disorder (Thirsty Ear Recordings)
Reviewed by Kurt Gottschalk
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Creative Differences and An Die Musik Live team up for this show.
Creative Differences 2009 presents a performance from international jazz trio Anker/Mori/Courvoisier, featuring Lotte Anker on saxophone, Ikue Mori on electronics and Sylvie Courvoisier on piano, at An die Musik Live on Saturday at 8 p.m. Their 2008 release, “Alien Huddle,” combined jazz and modern classical influences, topping many critics’ lists for 2008.
Anker, a native of Copenhagen, Denmark, has studied with Joe Henderson, David Liebman, John Tchicai, David Murray and Bob Brookmeyer. Mori moved from Tokyo to New York in 1977, and in the ’80s began to employ drum machines within the context of improvised music. Courvoisier was born and raised in Lausanne, Switzerland, and moved to Brooklyn in 1998. She has played and recorded with John Zorn, Joey Baron, Tony Oxley, Yusef Lateef, Dave Douglas, Butch Morris, Mark Dresser and Fred Frith, among others.
An die Musik Live is located at 409 N. Charles St. in Baltimore. Tickets are $20. For more information, visit andiemusiklive.com.
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John Zorn at Yoshi’s
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Zorn will be spending some time at Yoshi’s in San Francisco this March.
Sometimes a club is more than a club; it becomes an incubator. From March 11 through 15, Yoshi’s in San Francisco is bringing in saxophonist-composer John Zorn, still a radical at age 55, a man whose music ranges from roll-the-dice free improvisation to elastic, Ornette Coleman jazz, earsplitting punk-jazz, loungey surf-jazz, intimate chamber music and the Ennio Morricone songbook.
Each night at Yoshi’s, Zorn, who leads or composes for umpteen groups, will present a different band, including the Dreamers; Bar Kokhba; Masada String Trio; Electric Masada; and his Masada quartet, a fabulous band. It draws on Coleman and (like much of Zorn’s music) the yearning of Jewish folk forms; it features Zorn on alto saxophone, Dave Douglas on trumpet, Greg Cohen on bass and Joey Baron on drums. Other New York downtowners flying in to perform with one band or another include Marc Ribot, Kenny Wollesen, Erik Friedlander, Cyro Baptista, Mark Feldman, Jamie Saft and Ikue Mori. Tickets on sale soon: http://www.yoshis.com. or (415) 655-5600.
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Musique Machine Reviews
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From Musique Machine:
Phantom Orchard – Orra
Phantom Orchard is the sonic joining of forcers of two of the most respected women in experimental music; Ikue Mori (Death Ambient, Electric Masada,solo work, ect) and Zeena Parkins (Carbon, Keep The Dog, News From Babel, solo,ect). Orra is the projects first wonderful sonic fruit – which sit’s between creative electronics, world music, quirky classical elements, sound tracking, ambience and improv elements.Thomas Christoph Heyde – High Culture Motherfucker
High Culture Motherfucker is juddering often manic ride that jumps between atmopsrics/ dramatics & playfulness often. Utilizing a mixture of live electronics , turntable elements, percussion, piano, brass and strings for it’s often rollercoaster like ride.Zeitkratzer & Carsten Nicolai – Electroincs
Electronics is the first of three collaborative releases between genre shifting German chamber orchestra Zeitkratzer and other respected experimental artists. This first release finds them working with Carsten Nicolai who is one of the mainstay and owners of minimalistic and arty electronic label Raster Noton.
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