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The latest from Cuneiform Records:

AHLEUCHATISTAS
October 12 - Nexus -Saalfelden, Austria
BEAT CIRCUS (our latest signing! new CD out in January! See them now and then wait anxiously for the CD!)
Wednesday, August 8 - The Rotunda - Philadelphia, PA (with Ara Anderson’s Iron & The Albatross)
Thursday, August 9 - Barbes - Brooklyn, NY - 7:30 pm show
Friday, […]

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From Jnana Records:

Nurse With Wound: Homotopy to Marie CD
We are pleased to announce the reissue of Homotopy to Marie, one of the classic early NWW albums. It is has been remastered and released in a full color 6 panel digipak with newly designed artwork. While there are no extra tracks, the disc index markers have […]

From Free Jazz:

Lucien Dubuis - Tovorak
Nagl/Bernstein/Akchoté/Jones - Big Four Live
Wadada Leo Smith & Günter Sommers - Wisdom In Time
Other Dimensions In Music - Live At The Sunset
Dennis Gonzalez - Geografia
Billy Stein Trio - Hybrids
Ethnic Heritage Ensemble - Hot ‘n’ Heavy

U-inductio is an experimental music collective, focused on theater and dance, who has posted their music free online. The Rejuvenation Trio will be touring the US midwest. The Zappa family is trying to block naming of a street in Germany after Frank. Finally, Rudy Carrera provides us with a rather unique video of Russian […]

From Dusted:

Artist: Keith Rowe
Album: The Room
Label: Erstwhile
Review date: Jul. 30, 2007
Artist: Nels Cline Singers
Album: Draw Breath
Label: Cryptogramophone
Review date: Jul. 27, 2007
Artist: KTL
Album: KTL 2
Label: Mego
Review date: Jul. 27, 2007
Artist: Alec K. Redfearn & the Eyesores
Album: The Blind Spot
Label: Cuneiform
Review date: Jul. 27, 2007

From AAJ:

30-Jul-07 Kahil El’Zabar’s Infinity Orchestra
Transmigration (Delmark Records)
Reviewed by Jerry D’Souza
30-Jul-07 Pierre Favre
Fleuve (ECM Records)
Reviewed by Budd Kopman
30-Jul-07 Braxton/Fonda; Rodrigo Amado; TECK Quartet
Braxton/Fonda; Rodrigo Amado; TECK String Quartet: Strings & Reeds
Reviewed by Clifford Allen
30-Jul-07 MoHa!
Norwegianism (Rune Grammofon)
Reviewed by John Kelman

From Chicago’s Umbrella Music:

Wednesday, 1 August 2007
The Hideout
10:00PM | Vandeweyer/Rempis/Parker/Abrams/Reed
Els Vandeweyer - vibraphone
Dave Rempis - saxophones
Jeff Parker - guitar
Josh Abrams - bass
Mike Reed - drums
two sets
$7 cover
PLUS | DJ Sets : John Corbett Presents Kings & Queens of Mali
Traditional and Popular Malian Music
Thursday, 2 August 2007
Elastic
10:00PM | Els Vandeweyer Group
Els Vandeweyer - vibes
Ken Vandermark - […]

The September Stone calendar is out.

September 2007 at the Stone curated by Theo Bleckman
9/1 Saturday (BLG)
8 and 10 pm
Ellery Eskelin Group
Ellery Eskelin (sax) and special guests
9/2 Sunday
8 pm
Judith Berkson
Judith Berkson (voice, piano)
A solo set featuring original compositions, standards and lieder by Schumann and Schoenberg
10 pm
Matt Moran and Joe Karten
Matt Moran (vibraphone) Joe Karten […]

From Mutable Music:

Timeless Pulse - Quintet
Timeless Pulse: Thomas Buckner, voice; George Marsh, percussion; Pauline Oliveros, accordion;
David Wessel, live-electronics; Jennifer Wilsey, percussion
Totem
Jerome Bourdellon Thomas Buckner
Jérôme Bourdellon, flutes and shakuhachi and Thomas Buckner, voice Improvisations with the sculpture of Alain Kirili
Archaea
Dan Joseph
The Dan Joseph Ensemble: Tom Chiu (violin), Michael Lowenstern (clarinet), Danny Tunick (percussion), Marija […]

From Mode Records:

mode 182 Aldo CLEMENTI: Works with Guitar - Serenata - for guitar & 4 instruments; Dodici Variazioni - for guitar; Albumblatt - for guitar; Fantasia su frammenti di Michelangelo Galilei - version for guitar; Otto Variazioni - for guitar; C.A.G. - for flute, violin, vibraphone & guitar; The Plaint - for female voice […]

From Bagatellen:

Sun Ra - The Night of the Purple Moon - 27 Jul 07
Sun Ra - Strange Strings - 26 Jul 07

Trio X consists of Joe McPhee, Dominic Duval and Jay Rosen. They have released a DVD, which is reviewed.

From The New York Times:

URI CAINE TRIO (Tuesday through Thursday) Uri Caine is a pianist with strong and often sophisticated ideas, and he tends toward a forward- tumbling aggression in this trio with the drummer Ben Perowsky and the bassist James Genus. (Through Aug. 5.) At 9 and 11 p.m., Village Vanguard, 178 Seventh Avenue […]

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 […]