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Tag: Percussion instrument

  • Canid / Layne Garrett / Insert Factory in DC Tonite

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    From Sonic Circuits: Tuesday June 16 Doors 730pm Music 8pm 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 DIRECTIONS: http://www.pyramidatlanticartcenter.org Benefit for new PA system! As Canid I work with a setup…

  • Upcoming Seattle Shows

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    From Wayward Music: THIS WEEK AT THE CHAPEL: THU. 6/11, 8 PM – Nonsequitur presents Harold Budd, celebrates new book of poems in duo with Seattle bassist Keith Lowe (reservations strongly suggested, sent to gscchapel@gmail.com – include name and number of people in party) FRI. 6/12 – Gregory Campbell, percussion with Eric Barber, saxophones; Jesse…

  • Umbrella Music Through May 31

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    From Chicago’s Umbrella Music: Wednesday, 27 May 2009 The Hideout 10:00PM | Urs Leimgruber Solo Urs Leimgruber – saxophone 11:00PM | Leimgruber/Roebke/Hunt Urs Leimgruber – saxophones Jason Roebke – bass Steve Hunt – drums $8 cover PLUS | DJ Sets: Jeff Kimmel spins Clarinets and Other Favorites Thursday, 28 May 2009 Elastic 10:00PM | Leimgruber/Hunt…

  • Minimalism By Mail

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    From Post No Bills: Every week for 15 weeks starting in December 2007, Adam Sonderberg–best known as one-third of Haptic–and Salvatore Dellaria posted a new piece on their Web site, creating a series of experimental sketches as part of a project named “Untitled_Ongoing.” Sonderberg and Dellaria, who’ve worked together in various contexts since 1998, hoped…

  • New Release on 577 Records

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    From 577 Records: Big Group In Ponta Delgada Recorded at the 10th Festival de Jazz de Ponta Delgada, Açores, Portugal featuring Hernani Faustino: bass Jorge Lima: soprano sax Tadeu Cabral: alto sax Federico Ughi: drums, flute, percussion Zézé Ngambi: drums Miguel Mendes: alto sax João Luis Macedo: guitar Térinho: piano Ricardo Reis: drums Daniel Carter:…

  • Umbrella Music Through May 28

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    Image via Wikipedia From Chicago’s Umbrella Music: Wednesday, 20 May 2009 The Hideout 10:00PM | Jason Adasiewicz Solo Jason Adasiewicz – vibraphone 11:00PM | Breakway Paul Giallorenzo – synthesizer Brian Labycz – electronics Marc Riordan – percussion $6 cover PLUS | DJ Sets: Jeff Thomas spins The Tritone Thursday, 21 May 2009 Elastic 10:00PM |…

  • Cecil Taylor at University of Vermont

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    From University of Vermont: Visionary avant garde pianist Cecil Taylor, one of the most innovative figures in the free jazz movement, will spend four days in residency at UVM April 14-17, rehearsing student musicians, performing with them, and delivering a talk about his life and music. Taylor will also perform at the Flynn Theater on…

  • Musique Machine Reviews

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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…

  • Cornish College musicians re-create historic John Cage, Lou Harrison performances

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    Lou Harrison (via last.fm) An article reviews the performance and discusses a bit of the Cage / Harrison history. In the years between their first collaboration and their 1992 Seattle appearance, Cage and Harrison had risen from obscurity to become titans of the American avant-garde. Harrison’s forays into music of non-Western cultures helped fuel the…

  • New Garrison Fewell And Ayn Inserto CDs Out

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    Improvised Communications discusses the two latest releases from Boston’s Creative Nation Music, guitarist/composer Garrison Fewell’s Variable Density Sound Orchestra (CNM 014) and The Ayn Inserto Jazz Orchestra’s Muse (CNM 015). Fewell’s second release for the label, following 2008’s The Lady of Khartoum (CNM 010), Variable Density Sound Orchestra is the self-titled debut of his newest…

  • Umbrella Music Through February 22nd

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    From Chicago’s Umbrella Music: Wednesday, 11 February 2009 The Hideout 10:00PM | Gray/Becker/Roebke Darin Gray – bass Jim Becker – fiddle Jason Roebke – bass 11:00PM | James Falzone’s Allos Musica James Falzone – clarinet Cathy Kuna – cello Adam Larrabee – guitar, mandolin Tim Mulvenna – hand drums, percussion $6 cover PLUS | DJ…

  • New From HatHut Records

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    New releases on HatHut: hat(now)ART 141 Christian Wolff Early Piano Pieces Steffen Schleiermacher Total time 73:06, DDD, Barcode: 752156014126 For Prepared Piano (1951) was my first experiment with John Cage’s invention (putting various objects into the piano strings to produce percussive or non-specifically pitched sounds) and a continuation of interest in percussion as such. I…