Avant Music News

A rather interesting Magma video from 1970 is available.

A very nice review courtesy of the BBC.

Atavistic has released the following new CDs:

Anhedoniac - Jarboe
Ashes of Time - The Flesh Eaters
Burning In Stockholm - Per Henrik Wallin
Cline/Parkins/Rainey: Out Trios Vol. 3 (Ash & Tabula) - Out Trios Series
I Was Born, But… (Original Film Score) - Chris Brokaw
Medicina - Peter Brotzmann

The experimental KEN Festival kicks off in Glasgow next weekend.

A surprisingly comprehensive guide to the music of Parker and Shipp is available.

Ok, so its only a 13 minute recording but still, a 5uus release is always a welcome event. The best part: you can download the whole thing from ReR for a reasonable price.

Decomber’s All About Jazz magazine is out. Article features include Pharoah Sanders and Myra Melford, and it includes the usual reviews and information.

The Iridium Jazz Club features some of the best jazz from New York and beyond. Their schedule over the next couple of months includes:

PHAROAH SANDERS/KENNY GARRETT BAND
With Special Guest: JEFF “TAIN” WATTS
BILL BRUFORD/TIM GARLAND EARTHWORKS UNDERGROUND
Chris Karlick – Baritone and flute, Steve Wilson – Alto / flute, Alex Sipiagin – TrumpetTony Kadleck – […]

Kill Your Timid Notion is a festival of experimental music and film, taking place December 10-12 Scotland.

Equal parts live music, avant-garde cinema and visual art, KYTN is a celebration of artists whose vision transgresses traditional boundaries of media or genre; be that cinematic auteurs with notions of synaesthesic noise or free folk hipsters with a […]

Frith’s career is briefly reviewed in an article, focusing on his compositional and improvisational style. And he’s playing a rare solo gig next weekend.

A writer has made a list of the 20 most bizarre hunks of vinyl. Trout Mask Replica makes it, as does Metal Machine Music. The rest, are…well…just weird by comparison.

If you know french, there is a short interview with Christian Vander available, and oh yes, some Magma videoclips from their Trianon DVD as well as the new 1981 Bobino DVD.

We reported earlier about the closing of Seattle’s Polestar Gallery. Apparently it has reopened as 1412 Gallery. More news as it becomes available…

This series of performances has garnered a very positive review, and features names to look out for in the future.

The latest DMG Newsletter is out a little early this week, and focuses on the latest new music releases.