Avant Music News

2 Foot Yard’s New Bedford performance is previewed.

Not surprising given the history, but New York’s Tonic will close in 2 weeks. High rents are the main culprit but with any luck the music will move to Brooklyn or similar place in the NY scene where the rents are more reasonable and to where the music is fleeing.

From 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 heard this sort of […]

The first of six parts is linked here and you can easily find the rest from there.

From Musique Machine:

Starving Weirdos - Shrine Of The Post- Hypnotic
Shrine of the post- Hypnotic finds the Starving Weirdos in a more primal, metallic, fiery almost ritual mood. This Also feels like one long trip through their strange sound world, instead of several separate ones that usual make up their albums; this seems to be telling […]

Alicia Svigals talks about her month of concert planning at the Stone.

A review of this show has been posted.

From Bagatellen:

The Dixie Stompers - At Westminster College - 29 Mar 07
Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson - Kidney Stew is Fine - 29 Mar 07
Robert Jr. Lockwood - Steady Rollin’ Man - 29 Mar 07
Joe Henderson - Power to the People - 28 Mar 07
Three from emd.pl (Nowak, Menche, Charles/Piotrowicz) - 28 Mar 07

From DMG:

TAYLOR HO BYNUM SEXTET! BRAXTON IRIDIUM BOX!
TEN NEW ‘CLEAN FEED’ TITLES: ROB BROWN TRIO, BARRETTO/SCLAVIS, 4 CORNERS w/VANDERMARK, ALVIN FIELDER/DENNIS GONZALEZ, SCOTT FIELDS/JOHN HOLLENBECK, WALLY SHOUP, REUBEN RADDING et al
FIVE EMANEM TITLES incl. PHIL MINTON, LOL COXHILL, JOHN RUSSELL…
CHADBOURNE DVD, FEDERICO UGHI/DANIEL CARTER, MERZBOW, HORACE TAPSCOTT, MOTIAN/FRISELL/LOVANO, METROPOLITAN KLEZMER…
SIX NEW CADENCE/CIMP TITLES including STEVE […]

From AAJ:

30-Mar-07 Paul Motian
Time and Time Again (ECM Records)
30-Mar-07 Electric Masada
At the Mountains of Madness (Tzadik)
28-Mar-07 John Abercrombie
The Third Quartet (ECM Records)

From Dusted:

Artist: R. Stevie Moore
Album: Overactivity or Tabitha Soren
Label: Forty-Seven
Review date: Mar. 29, 2007
Artist: Huntsville
Album: For the Middle Classes
Label: Rune Grammofon
Review date: Mar. 28, 2007
Artist: Rhys Chatham
Album: A Crimson Grail (For 400 Guitars)
Label: Table of the Elements
Review date: Mar. 27, 2007
Artist: Koch / Schütz / Studer
Album: Tales From 30 Unintentional Nights
Label: Intakt
Review date: Mar. 26, […]

ICP’s current tour garners another review.

A bunch of new efforts on Winter & Winter:

New in 2007
Teodoro Anzellotti
»Chanson discrète«
910 124-2 [1 CD]
The art of Teodoro Anzellotti inspired numerous contemporary composers (Mauricio Kagel, Fumio Yasuda, Heinz Holliger, Hans Zender and Michael Jarrell among them) to write for the accordion and discover its unique sound quality as a solo instrument. Anzellotti has established […]

The latest tour info from Cuneiform:

AHLEUCHATISTAS
Saturday, May 12 - Orion Sound - 2903 Whittington Ave Suite C - Baltimore, MD 21230 - with Alec K. Redfearn and the Eyesores (410) 646-7334
July 14 - 21 Grand - Oakland, CA
July 20 - The Rendezvous - Seattle, WA
July 22 - Le Voyeur - Olympia, WA
July 23 - The […]

From the Bohemian National Home:

UPCOMING AT BOHEMIAN NATIONAL HOME
Saturday, March 24: The Magik Markers with Bad Thoughts
The new front-line of No-Wave derived sonic experimentation. The Magik Markers hail from Hartford, Conn. Their releases on Apostasy and Ecstatic Peace display a range of influences or fortuitous similarities that stretch from DNA to 1/2 Japanese to […]