Tag: Innova Recordings

Innova Recordings Profiled

Post author By Mike
Post date January 23, 2010

Minnesota’s Innova Records is one of the more prolific and longer-standing independent labels working in the US. An extension of the St. Paul-based American Composers Forum, Innova has been issuing a healthy number of discs in a surprising array of styles since 1982. Formal and quirky composed works sit alongside extended improv and teenager radio dramas in the label’s catalogue of over 700 titles. But as with any healthy eclecticism, it isn’t the point but a byproduct of people following their instincts.

Innova Expands Operations (netnewmusic.net)

Tags Add new tag, All About Jazz, Arts and Entertainment, Business, Independent record label, Innova Recordings, Labels, Music, United States

Performances Reviews

Cornelius Dufallo Sings the Fiddle Electric at the Stone

Post author By Mike
Post date December 1, 2009

From NYTimes.com:

As a member of the enterprising new-music ensembles Ne(x)tworks and Ethel, the violinist Cornelius Dufallo runs into plenty of composers. He has coaxed new solo works from some and taken up older scores by others. He is also a composer himself: “Dream Streets,” his new CD (for Innova), is devoted to his own imaginative works for violin and electronics.

In C Remixed (netnewmusic.net)
Digital Composer in Residence at Wilton’s Music Hall review (telegraph.co.uk)
Music Review | Kaija Saariaho: Finnish Composer Bursts Some of Her Own Myths (nytimes.com)
Dueling Violins (chicagoist.com)
Music Review | New York Woodwind Quintet: Exulting in the Orneriness of a Composer’s Composer (nytimes.com)

Tags Arts, Compact Disc, Composer, Composition, Innova Recordings, Music, New York Times, Violin

Reviews

All About Jazz Reviews

Post author By Mike
Post date July 14, 2009

: Giorgio Gaslini via last.fm

From All About Jazz:

Fred Anderson
Staying in the Game (Engine Studios)
Reviewed by Lyn Horton

14-Jul-09 Mark Alban Lotz and Lotz of Music
Bite! (LopLop Records)
Reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

14-Jul-09 Tortoise
Beacons Of Ancestorship (Thrill Jockey)
Reviewed by Glenn Astarita

14-Jul-09 Phosphor
II (Potlatch Records)
Reviewed by Mark Corroto

13-Jul-09 Kirk Knuffke / Federico Ughi / Chris Welcome
Garden Of Gifts (577 Records)
Reviewed by Mark Corroto

12-Jul-09 Andy Milne / Benoit Delbecq
Where is Pannonica? (Songlines Recordings)
Reviewed by George Kanzler

11-Jul-09 Multiple Artists
Globe Unity – Italy: Gianni Basso/Renato Sellani, Norberto Tamburrino & Giorgio Gaslini
Reviewed by Fred Bouchard

10-Jul-09 Joe Morris / Petr Cancura / Luther Gray
Wildlife (AUM Fidelity)
Reviewed by Troy Collins

10-Jul-09 George Cartwright
Send Help (Innova Recordings)
Reviewed by Glenn Astarita

09-Jul-09 Trio 3 Geri Allen
At This Time (Intakt Records)
Reviewed by Chris May

09-Jul-09 The Thirteenth Assembly
(un)sentimental (Important Music)
Reviewed by Sean Patrick Fitzell

08-Jul-09 Warren Smith
Old News Borrowed Blues (Engine Studios)
Reviewed by Raul d’Gama Rose

Tags All About Jazz, Assets under management, AUM Fidelity, Game, Innova Recordings, Lyn Horton, Songlines, Thrill Jockey

Artist Profile

Rudresh Mahanthappa: A Passage to India

Post author By Mike
Post date February 24, 2009

: Image via Wikipedia

Mahanthappa is profiled in the New Yorker.

Jazz musicians have two fundamental goals: creating music that keeps listeners wondering what’s next, and finding a novel context within which to explore old truths. (There are no new truths.) Whenever a musician achieves this synthesis, usually after years of apprenticeship and exploration, a rumble echoes through the jazz world. Such a rumble was heard last fall, when the thirty-seven-year-old alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa released an astonishing album, “Kinsmen,” on a small New York-based label (Pi), quickly followed by another no less astonishing, “Apti,” on a small Minnesota-based label (Innova). The breakthrough had been a long time coming, and, curiously enough, it justifies ethnic assumptions that Mahanthappa had for much of his career been working to escape.

Music Review | Indo-Pak Coalition: Sounds Mixed and Matched (nytimes.com)
Feb. 11 (thebadplus.typepad.com)

Tags Alto saxophone, Arts and Entertainment, Innova Recordings, Jazz, Music, New York City, Rudresh Mahanthappa, United States

Podcasts

AMN Podcast: Rudresh Mahanthappa’s Indo-Pak Coalition – Apti

Post author By Mike
Post date January 19, 2009

Apti Rudresh Mahanthappa’s Indo-Pak Coalition
“Apti” (mp3)
from “Apti”
(Innova Recordings)

All About Jazz Reviews

Post author By Mike
Post date January 2, 2009

: Image via Wikipedia

From All About Jazz:

01-Jan-09 Ensemble 56
1st Meeting: Towards Sky Flight of Dragon (Not Two Records)
Reviewed by Jerry D’Souza

31-Dec-08 Jim Hall / Bill Frisell
Hemispheres (ArtistShare)
Reviewed by Mark F. Turner

31-Dec-08 Adam Niewood & His Rabble Rousers
Epic Journey, Volumes I & II (Innova Recordings)
Reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

Tags All About Jazz, Bill Frisell, Dragon, Fighting, Innova Recordings, Marvel vs. Capcom Series, Video Games

Reviews

All About Jazz Reviews

Post author By Mike
Post date December 5, 2008

: Cover of Four Films

From All About Jazz:

05-Dec-08 Joe Morris Bass Quartet
High Definition (Hatology)
Reviewed by Glenn Astarita

05-Dec-08 Sean Noonan
Being Brewed By Noon (Innova Recordings)
Reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

05-Dec-08 Satoko Fujii Orchestra Nagoya
Sanrei (Bakamo Records)
Reviewed by Mark Corroto

05-Dec-08 Mark Dresser / Ed Harkins / Steven Schick
House of Mirrors (Clean Feed Records)
Reviewed by Stuart Broomer

04-Dec-08 Mostly Other People Do The Killing
This Is Our Moosic (Hot Cup Records)
Reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

04-Dec-08 Trevor Dunn
Four Films (Tzadik)
Reviewed by Martin Longley

03-Dec-08 Townhouse Orchestra
Belle Ville (Clean Feed Records)
Reviewed by Mark Corroto

Tags All About Jazz, Arts and Entertainment, Clean Feed Records, Innova Recordings, Mark Corroto, Music, Nagoya, Tzadik

Reviews

All About Jazz Reviews

Post author By Mike
Post date October 22, 2008

: Image via Wikipedia

From All About Jazz:

Erik Friedlander
Broken Arm Trio (Skipstone Records)
Reviewed by Troy Collins

22-Oct-08 John Zorn
Filmworks XX: Sholem Aleichem (Tzadik)
Reviewed by Warren Allen

21-Oct-08 Mary Halvorson Trio
Dragon’s Head (Firehouse 12 Records)
Reviewed by Troy Collins

20-Oct-08 Adam Niewood and his Rabble Rousers
Epic Journey Volumes I and II (Innova Recordings)
Reviewed by Woodrow Wilkins

Tags Erik Friedlander, Innova Recordings, John Zorn, Lou Reed, Music, Sholem Aleichem, Tzadik, Tzadik Records

Podcasts

AMN Podcast: Barry Schrader – Monkey King

Post author By Mike
Post date September 21, 2008

Barry Schrader
“Procession of the Immortals – Monkey Becomes a Buddha (Part 4)” (mp3)
from “Monkey King”
(Innova Recordings)

AMN Podcast: Robert Moran – Mantra

Post author By Mike
Post date September 20, 2008

Mantra Robert Moran
“Mantra” (mp3)
from “Mantra”
(Innova Recordings)

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