Avant Music News

From Musique Machine:

Arktau Eos - Mirrorion
Arktau Eos debut album is a journey into ritual and dark occultic ambience with guitar elements on a few tracks. But for the most part it’s stick to purely organic and acoustic elements such as piercing blasts of windbones, accelerating steel-plate rolls, singing bowl and various kinds of stringed instruments […]

A new Frank Zappa blog has launched.

A series of recent European Anthony Braxton shows are reviewed.

After yesterday’s post on a similar topic, this piece appears, discussing how out of print classical can be found.

Every couple of weeks or so a new podcast or blog emerges that offers free downloads of out-of-print or rare recordings. Most of these sites also display a disclaimer, stating something to the point of: “We’re only posting these digitized high-quality recordings because they are otherwise unavailable. We’re not distributing pirated copies, no-sir-ee!”
Let’s […]

From AAJ:

28-Nov-06 Ahmad Jamal
Pavane For Ahmad (FiveFour)
28-Nov-06 Steve Swallow with Robert Creeley
Steve Swallow with Robert Creeley: So There (XtraWATT/ECM)
27-Nov-06 Francois Carrier
Open Spaces (Spool)
27-Nov-06 Evan Ziporyn
Frog’s Eye (Cantaloupe Music)

The latest from Important Records:

RIVULETS
You Are My Home
For Rivulets’ third album members include Jessica Baliff, Chris Brokaw and musicians from The Rachel’s, Boxhead Ensemble & Mission Of Burma.
Together they tastefully smother Rivulet’s soft voice and guitar with layers of wintery sounds….. (more)
YELLOW SWANS & BIRCHVILLE CAT MOTEL
Yellow Swans & Birchville Cat Motel
Yellow Swans & Birchville […]

An article provides an overview of the music of the Microscopic Sextet.

From Chicago’s Umbrella Music:

Wednesday, 29 November 2006
The Hideout
10:00 PM | Birth Control
Greg Ward - alto sax
Tim Halderman - tenor sax
Jason Roebke - bass
Mike Reed - drums
11:00 PM | New Now Know How
Jeb Bishop - trombone
Jason Stein - bass clarinet
Jeff Parker - guitar
Matt Golombisky - bass
Quin Kirchner - drums
$6 cover
PLUS | DJ Sets
Jeb Bishop Plays Two […]

From the Bohemian National Home:

UPCOMING AT BOHEMIAN NATIONAL HOME
Today, Monday, Nov. 27th: Daniel Higgs and Chiara Giovando with special guests
The former front man of Lungfish returns to the Bohemian! A noted visual artist and vocalist, Higgs has spent most of his solo career defying expectations built up from Lungfish’s reputation as the most creative […]

6 new CDs were released in Nov-2006 by Leo Records:

CD LR 474 Metamorphosis ( Richard Deutsch / Martin Alacam / Christoph Pajer / Jan Kavan) Luff
CD LR 475 Mark O’leary / Cuong Vu / Tom Rainey Waiting
CD LR 476 Frank Gratkowski / Misha Mengelberg Frank Gratkowski Vis-a-vis Misha Mengelberg
CD LR 477 John Wolf Brennan / Tscho Theissing / Daniele Patumi / […]

Steven Bernstein, of Sex Mob and various solo projects, is interviewed.

From www.henrygrimes.com:

Wednesday, November 29th: Henry Grimes & Roy Campbell, Jr. broadcasting and Webcasting on air with Lazaro Vega, Blue Lake Public Radio, Twin Lake, Michigan, www.bluelake.org/radio.html, http://bluelake.ncats.net, radio@bluelake.org, 231-894-2616 or -5656.
* Thursday, November 3Oth: Henry Grimes Trio w/ Roy Campbell, Jr. & Chad Taylor, Bohemian National Home, 3009 Tillman St. Detroit, (street map http://tinyurl.com/ts25w), […]

West coast improv-er Leibig is interviewed.

If I’m reading this right, an experimental music festival is going on right now in China. Cardboard Amanda stretches the meaning of “weird” with an experimental recording. Henry Kuntz has a new CD out. A number of interesting shows are taking place at the Brecht Forum in New York.