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  • Incus Records Featured at Henry Street Settlement

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    Fred Frith via last.fm From New York’s Henry Street Settlement: INCUS FESTIVAL 2009 October 17 & 18 | 8 pm Two diverse, breathtaking evenings of musical fireworks to celebrate Incus Records, one of the world’s most important improvisation based record labels. Each night features the musical luminaries Cyro Baptista, Min Xiao Fen, Fred Frith, Milford…

  • 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…

  • SICPP Review

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    Lukas Foss via last.fm From The Boston Globe: How to generalize a 36-piece, eight-hour sweep? Much of the program seemed compositionally less concerned with advocating particular vocabularies (tonal/atonal) or concepts (minimalism/serialism) than with exploring the means of production, the various orthodox and unorthodox ways instruments can make noise. Results were often mobile-like, artfully arranged rather…

  • Musique Machine Reviews

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    From Musique Machine: Aldous Huxley & Bernard Herrmann – Brave New World This disk brings together a two part 1956 radio play of Aldous Huxley’s classic sci-fi tale of future totalitarian and social engineered state, with narration by the author and musically cues by Bernard Herrmann. Blue Sabbath Black Cheer – Crows Eat The Eyes…

  • Elaine di Falco on Hugh Hopper

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    Hugh Hopper via last.fm Elaine di Falco writes on her times with Hugh Hopper. I had known for a long time that though Hugh might not have been a frequently active part of my life, the parts of my life that did involve him meant a great deal to me. Some of the following details…

  • New Release on 577 Records

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    577 Records Demian Richardson Matthew Putman David Moss Federico Ughi Daniel Carter The Gowanus Recordings The Gowanus Recordings are the embodiment of the 577 approach. Featuring some of Free Jazz’s most established musicians, it covers a wide range of musical ideas, creating a dynamic atmosphere of kinetic interplay. Song titles are scientific terminology which are…

  • 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…

  • Free Jazz Blog Reviews

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    Jack DeJohnette via last.fm From Free Jazz: Wednesday, June 3, 2009 Günter “Baby” Sommer – Live In Jeruzalem (Kadima, 2009) **** Tuesday, June 2, 2009 Wadada Leo Smith & Jack DeJohnette – America (Tzadik, 2009) ***** Related articles by Zemanta Firehouse 12 To Present The Peter Brötzmann/Nasheet Waits Duo May 8th (improvisedcommunications.wordpress.com) Reminder: Firehouse 12…

  • 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…

  • Free Jazz Blog Reviews

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    From Free Jazz: Sunday, May 24, 2009 Rob Mazurek – Sound Is (Delmark, 2009) ***** Friday, May 22, 2009 Gato Barbieri – In Search Of The Mystery (ESP, 2009) **** Thursday, May 21, 2009 Franz Koglmann – Lo-Lee-Ta (Music on Nabokov) (Col-Legno, 2009) ****

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Out on Editions Mego

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    From Editions Mego: Jim O’Rourke: I’m Happy, and I’m Singing, and a 1,2,3,4 Hecker: Acid In The Style Of David Tudor Lucio Capece & Mika Vainio: Trahnie

  • New World Records Release

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    From New World Records: David Rosenboom: How Much Better if Plymouth Rock had Landed on the Pilgrims David Rosenboom (b. 1947) has been widely acclaimed as an innovator in American experimental music since the 1960s. Although much of his work has been collaborative, virtually none of his large-scale collaborative works has hitherto been documented on…

  • Sonomu Reviews

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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…

  • Anthony Braxton & The Walter Thompson Orchestra Reviewed

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    Image via Wikipedia One of probably many reviews of this weekend’s concerts: Braxton was a busy man, moving from composing to playing three instruments (alto, soprano and sopranino sax?) as part of the ensemble. At times, Braxton and Thompson were conducting simultaneously, using a combination of their musical systems (Language Music and Soundpainting, respectively) to…

  • Out on Atavistic Worldwide

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    From Atavistic: Wrekmeister Harmonies – Recordings Made In Public Spaces Volume One My Cat Is An Alien & Enore Zaffiri – Through The Magnifying Glass Of Tomorrow

  • The Necks on Tour

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    The Necks (via last.fm) Upcoming tour dates from The Necks: Known as one of the great cult bands of Australia, The Necks conjure music that defies description in orthodox terms. Not entirely avant-garde, nor minimalist, nor ambient, nor jazz, the music of The Necks is regularly described as, simply, unique. Together for over twenty years,…

  • Free Jazz Blog Reviews

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    From Free Jazz: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 Sing Sing Penelope & Andrzej Przybielski – Stirli People In Jazzga (Monotype Records, 2009) **** Monday, April 13, 2009 Search – Today Is Tomorrow (Search Music, 2008) ***½ Related articles by Zemanta Garrison Fewell Profiled In The Boston Phoenix (improvisedcommunications.wordpress.com)

  • Frank Zappa: A ‘Lumpy’ Legacy

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    Image via Wikipedia NPR Music discusses the latest Zappa release. Frank Zappa was called many things during his life, but lazy wasn’t one of them. He put out more than 60 records, and unreleased music is still trickling out more than 15 years after his death. It’s part of an effort by his widow, Gail,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • All About Jazz Reviews

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    From All About Jazz: 08-Apr-09 Bushman’s Revenge You Lost Me at Hello (Rune Grammofon) Reviewed by John Kelman 06-Apr-09 Microscopic Septet Lobster Leaps In (Cuneiform Records) Reviewed by Joel Roberts Related articles by Zemanta Firehouse 12 To Present Wadada Leo Smith’s Organic Resonance April 17th (improvisedcommunications.wordpress.com) Positive Catastrophe CD Release Concerts At Jazz Gallery May…