Avant Music News

Bridge Records has released the latest in their series of Crumb recordings.

From Toronto’s Arraymusic:

Ten Planets CD Release Concert
Friday, March 9th, 2007, concert at 8 p.m. – The Music Room, Hart House, The University of Toronto; 7:15 p.m. composers’ talk.
Please join Arraymusic as we celebrate the release of Ten Planets, an inspired CD of intricate music for solo percussion performed by Arraymusic’s ‘true-blue’ Rick Sacks.
Rick will perform […]

Not at the same time, but on subsequent nights in March, these two will play Lincoln Center.

From AAJ:

31-Jan-07 Mark O’ Leary / Cuong Vu / Tom Rainey
Waiting (Leo Records)
30-Jan-07 The Vandermark 5
A Discontinuous Line (Atavistic)

Two new offerings from this CDR label:

After a short hiatus during which Interventions’ vast corporate offices moved from Brooklyn, NY, to Portland, OR, the good-karma $5 avant-garde CDR series is back with new disks from the UK and DC, representing radically different approaches to the improv/New Music universe.
Interventions #30: Steve Lofkin - Guitar Sculptures: Shimmering, […]

From Musique Machine:

Nurse With Wound - An Awkward Pause-Special Edition
This is a welcome reissue of one of the more accessible Nurse with wound Albums from 1999, which featured Current 93’s David Tibet vocal skills on a few tracks, And more rocked out, folk and rhythmic elements. It also tags on a rewarding second disk of […]

The Long Tail has yet another cool observation: with CD sales going down and concert revenue still going way up, why charge at all for the music?

Mark Feldman is interviewed.

The latest from AMT:

Feb.28 (wed) @ KOBE Helluva Lounge (078-331-7732)
http://helluva.jp/lounge/
w/ LSD-March, Novacane
open 18:00 / start 18:30
adv 2000 yen / door 2500 yen
*only Trad, Gras och Stenar play in this night.
Mar.1 (thu) @ NAGOYA Tokuzo (052-733-3709)
http://www.tokuzo.com/
18:00 open / 19:00 start
adv 3200 yen / door 3500 yen
Mar.2 (fri) @ TOKYO HATSUDAI Doors (03-5350-5800)
http://www.livebar-the-doors.com/
adv 3800 yen / door […]

Foray Two is a side-label of 482 Music. Browse their site to find their catalog and samples.

The latest schedule from Chicago’s Umbrella Music:

Wednesday, 31 January 2007
The Hideout
10:00 PM | Sympathy
Kevin Drumm - test equipment
Jim Dorling - test equipment
11:00 PM | Robert A.A. Lowe
Robert A.A. Lowe
$6 cover
PLUS | DJ Sets : Delta-Istanbul Flash-Point
John Corbett plays rembetika and Turkish music mixed with early downhome American blues
Thursday, 1 February 2007
Elastic
10:00 PM | Nate McBride […]

An update to the Audible Think schedule has been announced.

The Audible Think Improvised Music Series at Gallery X, New Bedford, MA:
Winter/Spring 2007:
Wed, Feb 7 Andy McWain (pno)/Joe Morris (bass)/Chris Poudrier (dr)
Wed Feb 21 Forbes Graham (trumpet) with Daniel Levin (cello)
Wed Mar 7 Reuben Radding (bass), NYC
Wed Mar 21 Kevin Frenette 4: Kevin Frenette (gtr)/Andy McWain […]

Philadelphia’s Ars Nova Workshop has a strong lineup for next month:

Two Nights!
Tuesday, February 6 | 8pm Wednesday, February 7 | 8pm
Atomic
with
Fredrik Ljungkvist (SE), saxophones
Magnus Broo (SE), trumpet
Håvard Wiik (N), piano
Ingebrigt H. Flaten (N), bass
Paal Nilssen-Love (N), drums
International House Philadelphia
3701 Chestnut Street
$8 General Admission
Purchase Tickets
Sponsored by the Royal Norwegian Consulate of Philadelphia.
Event Description:
Please join Ars Nova […]

New York’s Miller Theatre is offering a run of interesting performances.

Frank Zappa Composer Portraits Miller Theatre $25 2/2/2007 8:00 PM
Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians Composer Portraits Miller Theatre $25 3/23/2007 8:00 PM
Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians Composer Portraits Miller Theatre $25 3/24/2007 8:00 PM
Pocket Concertos: Year Two Pocket Concerto Project Miller […]

From AAJ:

29-Jan-07 Christian Weber
3 Suits & A Violin (Hatology)
29-Jan-07 Sonic Liberation Front
Change Over Time (High Two Recordings)
28-Jan-07 Matt Wilson’s Arts & Crafts
The Scenic Route (Palmetto Records)