Avant Music News

Again a low-key Zappa related release…Greggery Peccary & Other Persuasions came out last week.

Summarized here, the study concludes that file sharing has a negligible negative impact on big selling CDs, and may even spur more sales. It does have a small negative impact on niche market CDs however. Keep in mind that other studies have drawn different conclusions and that more studies are probably needed. […]

One Final Note has posted a set a reviews for recent jazz related releases:
29 March 2004
Gratkowski/Van Hove/Oxley GRATHOVOX (Nuscope)
by Scott Hreha
26 March 2004
William Gagliardi Nhlahla (CIMP)
by Jay Collins
25 March 2004
Lotz Of Music Pum’kin Diaries (Random Chance)
by Mwanji Ezana
24 March 2004
George Schuller Round’Bout Now (Playscape)
by John Chacona
23 March 2004
Mitchell/Buckner/Oshita Space : New Music For Woodwinds And […]

Oliver Lake has released a new CD from his Steel Quartet called ‘Dat Love’.
This is definitely the best recorded cd of the Oliver Lake Steel Quartet featuring, Oliver Lake - Alto & Soprano Sax Lynden Achee- Steel Pan Reggie Washington - eBass Damon Duewhite- Drums. “Imagine hearing the bagpipes and not thinking Scotland or hearing […]

Not sure how reliable the source is, but the long awaited Ligeti Project V CD is being listed. The tracklist is given as
Ballad and Dance, Cello Sonata, Artikulation for tape, Aventures, Nouvelles Aventures, Musica Ricercata, Big Turtle Fanfare

Though not announced on zappa.com, the DVD for Does Humor Belong in Music? is now out.

Leo Records has announced the release of a few new albums:
Christy Doran, John Wolf Brennan, Patrick Heral - Triangulation
Peter A. Schmid, Vinny Golia - Birdology
Dietrich Eichmann, Jeff Arnal - Temperature Dropped Again
Who Trio ( Michel Wintsch, Gerry Hemingway, Banz Oester ) - The Current Underneath

Cryptogramophone is now offering their catalog as downloads, for only $5.99 each. Inexpensive digital copies of CDs are something that we expect to see much more of in the near future.

Edgetone is a fiercely independent label for offbeat mostly-jazz-related artists. Best of all, lots of MP3 samples on line. Take a look…

MIO has announced the following new releases:
PHILIPPE BESOMBES: Libra [MIO-008]
A chemist by training, Philippe Besombes was engaged in the French avant-garde music scene from the early 1970s. Abandoning his doctoral degree for his pioneering work with new electronics in a variety of musical contexts, he supported himself through the seventies creating […]

As usual, Scott is on tour in the California area:
Wednesday, March 24th-Bruno’s,SF
Games:
Art Hirahara-piano
Todd Sickafoose-acoustic bass
Scott Amendola-drums
2389 Mission st. (@ 20th)
(415) 648-7701
21+
9pm
www.brunoslive.com

Friday, March 26th, CRATER, The Nels Cline Singers, Wil/Will/Scott Trio, Good For Cows
The Starry Plough
101 Shattuck Ave (next to La Pena)
510-841-2082
21+
$8
9:30 the music kicks-off
www.starryploughpub.com
CRATER:
JHNO-laptop
Nels Cline-guitars
Will Bernard-guitars
Todd Sickafoose-electric bass
Scott Amendola-drums/percussion/electronics
The Nels Cline Singers
Nels Cline-guitars
Devin Hoff-contrabass
Scott […]

Squonk-meister Brotzmann will appear in Philadelphia for a solo performance.

CIMP has released the following items of interest:
CIMP 300 Harris Eisenstadt (drums) Quintet with Andy Laster (clarinet, baritone saxophone) - Roy Campbell (trumpet, pocket trumpet, flugelhorn) - Paul Smoker (trumpet) - Taylor Ho Bynum (cornet)
Jalolu
CIMP 299 Devorah Day (vocals) & Dominic Duval (bass)
Standard
CIMP 298 Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra. Hiroaki Honshuku (flute) - Jim Hobbs (alto […]

You can now listen to parts of the FuseLeeds 04 festival, including tracks from John Zorn, Django Bates, Evan Parker, and Steve Reich.

An article in Andante describes how performances of Elliott Carter’s 5th String Quartet were cancelled due to concerns that it would offend the venue’s subscribers. Read on…