Avant Music News

This week’s DMG Newsletter contains the typical set of reviews of new releases.

Photos from this show are available.

Spin your favorite tunes in celebration as AMN is now two years old.
Since April 29th 2003, we have had 1520 posts. We started off averaging fewer than 2 posts a day and now we average between 3 and 4 a day. We get anywhere from 100-400 hits per day, and seem […]

Intakt’s Spring Releases include:

BARRY GUY NEW ORCHESTRA
OORT - ENTROPY
Barry Guy
Agusti Fernandes
Evan Parker
Mast Gustafsson
Hans Koch
Johannes Bauer
Herb Robertson
Per Ake Holmlander
Paul Lytton
Raymond Strid
OBJECTS TROUVES
FRAGILE
Gabriela Friedli
Co Streiff
Jan Schlegel
Dieter Ulrich
PHIL MINTON - VERYAN WESTON
WAYS OUT WEST / WAYS OUT EAST
Phil Minton: Voice
Veryan Weston: Piano, Organ, Voice
FRED FRITH - CARLA KIHLSTEDT - STEVIE WISHART
THE COMPASS, LOG AND LEAD

An article previews Smith’s upcoming performance.

An article on “one of the best and brightest young drummers to come out of New York (or anywhere) in the last few years” is available.

The latest release from Jaga Jazzist is reviewed.

An article discussing Zorn and his Tzadik label as a force in Jewish music is available.

The Echtzeitmusik site contains concert listings of experimental music in Berlin. Over the next couple of months, an ensemble will play Zorn’s game pieces and performances by John Butcher and Georg Graewe will be featured.

From Gino Robair:

As part of the annual Matthew Sperry Memorial Festival, we will be celebrating the 60th birthday of Anthony Braxton by assembling a 60-piece creative orchestra to play pieces from throughout his vast catalog of works. The event will take place on Saturday evening, June 4, 2005 at 21 Grand, Oakland, CA. We’re still […]

Innova’s latest batch include:

Matthew Smith - Archaic
Matthew Smith is a painter who composes layered landscapes with rich textures, absorbing color depths, and dramatic swaths. Matthew Smith is a composer who pieces together fragments of 1/16-size Suzuki violin gestures into some of the most gorgeous soundscapes you are likely to hear.
Victor Zupanc - Sun and […]

His latest release, Steve Swell’s Slammin’ The Infinite Quartet at Cafe Wilhelmina in Eindhoven is reviewed.

Next month’s Cuneiform releases are detailed as follows:

JOHN SURMAN - *Way Back When* - Cuneiform Rune 200 - JAZZ
An immensely exciting lost album by British jazz legend John Surman, recorded at an immensely exciting time in London’s jazz scene. One of Europe’s foremost jazz musician’s, John Surman is a masterful improvisor, composer, and multi-instrumentalist (baritone […]

The schedule for the 2005 Guelph Jazz Festival is not yet available but some basic information is now on their site. The dates are Sept. 7-11 and one artist signed on already is Miriodor.

The latest from Bob:

I finished Songs for Adults. I’ll post the estimated release date as soon as there is one. Next big project will be mixing the live Hamster Theatre album, on which I will commence as soon as I get the files from the band…which should be fairly soon. Meanwhile nothing specifically thrilling in […]