Avant Music News

The Nashville City Paper has reviewed three new releases by Michael Davis, Chicago Underground Trio, and Craig Taborn, respectively.

A tribute to a number of modern composers who performed music at the Kitchen in New York is reviewed.

The latest Perfect Sound Forever has a pretty good overview of The Cardiacs.

FIMAV’s detailed schedule is now available.

From Rich’s site:
The concert schedule in 2004 will be lighter than usual, as I intend to stay home and work on new material. However, with the piano album “Open Window” due out soon, I have agreed to perform a short solo piano set to open the following event:
The 1st Annual Sacred Music Concert
AN EVENING OF […]

Avant Music News turns one year old today! Our first post was submitted on April 29th 2003 and covered the new (at that time) batch of Cuneiform releases.
Since then we’ve posted almost 500 articles on a wide variety of offbeat music topics. We’re currently averaging slightly over 2 posts per day, […]

Crispell’s latest release, Storyteller, is reviewed by the BBC.

The Norfolk and Norwich Festival will take place in England May 5-15th. Featured artists and performers include Astor Piazzolla and Hermeto Pascoal.

Northwestern Univ in Chicago is offering a free concert series “Performing Imaginations” featuring, among other things, Virgil Moorefield compositions and modern music from other Northwestern faculty and students.

Want to download legal (at least it looks legal to me but I’m not a lawyer…) MP3’s at a reasonable price? Try AllOfMP3. The selection is pretty broad. And read a recent article about the site.

The European Free Improv Pages are an essential resource for information on the Euro free jazz scene. Surf on over and stay a while…

Heading out to London soon? Be sure to check out London Improv a site dedicated to London’s improv scene.

London’s Freedom of the City fest is scheduled to take place this weekend:
freedom of the city 2004
- a festival of radical & improvised music -
London, Conway Hall - 2004 May 1-3
SATURDAY AFTERNOON (May 1st 14:00) note starting time
AMM: JOHN TILBURY (piano), KEITH ROWE (guitar / electronics), EDDIE PRÉVOST (percussion)
The World Book: ROSS LAMBERT (guitar), JOHN […]

Sequenza 21 reports that Davis will perform his piano concert Wayang V in New York at the Imrpovise! festival.

Want to hear 20th century classical while in Dallas / Ft. Worth? Stop by a museum.