Don’t miss this edition of AGP.
The Avant Garde Project is a series of 20th-century classical-experimental- electroacoustic torrents digitized from LPs whose music has in most cases never been released on CD, and so is effectively inaccessible to the vast majority of music listeners today. This is wild stuff, so check it out if you’ve never […]
Dusted recently posted a bunch of new reviews.
Artist: The Dirty Projectors
Album: New Attitude
Label: Marriage
Artist: Wolf Eyes
Album: Human Animal
Label: Sub Pop
Artist: DJ Shadow
Album: The Outsider
Label: Island
Artist: The Necks
Album: Chemist
Label: ReR Megacorp
Artist: Nels Cline
Album: New Monastery: A View Into the Music of Andrew Hill
Label: Cryptogramophone
The latest from Bagatellen.
Brian Allen w/ Tony Malaby and Tom Rainey – Synapse - 29 Sep 06
Sun Ra - Concert for Comet Kohoutek - 26 Sep 06
Upcoming shows at New York’s Roulette:
For immediate release
ROULETTE presents
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
8:30 PM Admission $15 Students $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
Roulette 228 West Broadway New York, NY 10013
contact: press@roulette.org http://www.roulette.org/
ROULETTE IS THRILLED TO ANNOUNCE OUR MOVE INTO OUR NEW HOME: 20 GREENE
STREET in SOHO. With this new […]
Reich reviews some predictions he made about the future of classical music in 1970.
Thirty-six years ago, I had the nerve to write a short essay entitled “Some Optimistic Predictions about the Future of Music”. I would not write such an essay today. We really know very little about what is going on right under our […]
This review focuses on Coleman’s supposedly unconventional sounds.
Part of the legend of saxophonist Ornette Coleman, as with many other great innovators, has to do with early rejection and ridicule.
There’s the story of one of his first employers, rhythm ‘n’ blues bandleader Pee Wee Crayton, paying him to not take solos. Of the beboppers in Los […]
This week’s DMG Newsletter has the latest news and reviews.
THE FALL ROLLS IN with NEW DISCS from MARK FELDMAN/JOHN TAYLOR/ANDERS JORMIN/TOM RAINEY, BILL FRISELL/RON CARTER/PAUL MOTIAN, GARY LUCAS’ GODS & MONSTERS, HILMAR JENSSON’S TYFT w/ JIM BLACK/ANDREW D’ANGELO,
JOE FONDA/RAMON LOPEZ/BRUNO ANGELINI, THE JD PARRAN SEXTET, EDDIE PREVOST/ALAN WILKINSON DUO & TRIO, JEFF ARNAL & GORDON […]
Our earlier post missed these two ReR releases, that have come out along with the Henry Cow box and the new Hail.
PICCHIO DAL POZZO “abbiamo tutti i suoi problemi”
Amongst the cognoscenti, Picchio dal Pozzo are regarded as one of the most original, impressive and highly respected of all the experimental groups to have come out […]
A recent Springheel Jack performance is reviewed.
Having made their name in the early 1990s producing hard-edged drum’n’ bass, recent albums have seen SHJ’s Ashley Wales and John Coxon collaborate with some of the most renowned free jazz players from Europe and America, including Evan Parker, Han Bennink and Matthew Ship. Here, they were joined by […]
This McPhee reissue is reviewed.
This newly issued and re-mastered album of modern/free-jazz reedman and trumpeter Joe McPhee’s 1971 live recording was originally broadcasted at New York City’s WBAI radio station. In the liners, producer Werner X. Uehlinger describes the history behind the tapes and what ultimately led to this CD format release. And part of […]
Yet more reviews from Musique Machine.
Rafael Toral - Space
Rafael Toral’s Space is mixture sci-fi sound effects, ala the first Star trek, electronic tones that rarely pick up much of a pace, and Journeys into an odd circuit board take on jazz and well space its self- literal lots of silence and slow build ups. Sound […]
A review of this recent festival, featuring a few Quebec avant-rock acts, has been posted.
You wouldn’t think it but classical fans are the early adopters of downloading.
Research commissioned by Gramophone magazine shows that classical music fans have enthusiastically joined the digital music revolution.
The survey calculates that 57% of aficionados have converted at least some of their classical CD collection to digital format, and three-quarters listen using new media such […]
George Lewis is apparently writing a book on the AACM. No indication of when it will be available but it should be an interesting read.
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