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From Musique Machine:

Chica & the Folder - Under The Balcony
Under the Balcony is a memorable collection of quirky and inventive electronica that slides between dance floor friendly beatscapes, retro electro washers, and theatricals. Mixing in organic elements like acoustic guitars, Steel drums, slap bass, etc.
Katamine - Lag
Katamine is mainly a one man band starring Israeli […]

Ken Vandermark blogs about life on the road and recent events.

As I sit here in Stockholm washing my clothes at a laundromat, I realize that nearly another month has gone by since I last wrote down what’s transpired - it doesn’t seem possible and yet it’s a fact. So the time has come to flip […]

This week at Philly’s Ars Nova Workshop:

Saturday, October 6 | 8pm
Crispell / Helias / Cyrille Trio
with
Marilyn Crispell, piano
Mark Helias, double-bass
Andrew Cyrille, drums
Lytton / Wooley Duo
with
Paul Lytton, percussion
Nate Wooley, trumpet
Rose Recital Hall
Fisher-Bennett Hall
4th Floor
University of Pennsylvania
34th and Walnut streets (southeast corner)
$20 General Admission
Event Description:
Marilyn Crispell is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music where […]

The latest releases from Emanem & Psi:

Latest Emanem releases - available now:
4141 Trio of Uncertainty ‘Unlocked’ (2007)
with Veryan Weston, Hannah Marshall & Satoko Fukuda
4142 John Butcher ‘The Geometry of Sentiment’ (2004/6)
4143 Elliott Sharp & Charlotte Hug ‘Pi:k’ (2004/5)
Latest Psi releases - available now:
07.04 VA ‘Free Zone Appleby 2006′
Paul Lovens, Rudi Mahall, Evan Parker, Paul Rutherford,
Alexander […]

A benefit for Billy Bang will take place tonight in New York.

Friends of Bang present We Take Care of Our Own
A Benefit for Billy Bang
Sunday, September 30
7 pm
Admission: $25
3 Phenomenal Bands:
Other Dimensions in Music, Roy Campbell, Daniel Carter, William Parker, Charles Downs
Aftermath Band: Ted Daniel, Andrew Bemkey, Todd Nicholson, Newman Taylor-Baker
Commitment : Jason Kao Hwang, […]

Jazz in New York this week, from the Times:

★ DARCY JAMES ARGUE’S SECRET SOCIETY (Thursday) Led by the serious-minded jazz composer (and indefatigable jazz blogger) Darcy James Argue, this powerful and well-stocked ensemble juxtaposes postwar big-band conventions with ideas borrowed from indie rock, classical Minimalism and a handful of other idiomatic regions. The results are […]

From DMG:

Indian Summer in NY brings new discs from: Emanem: John Butcher, Elliott Sharp & Charlotte Hug, Trio of Uncertainty (Veryan Weston, Hannah Marshall & Satoko Fukuda), New Kevin Ayers CD, Thurston Moore, Sir Richard Bishop, Nick Didkovsky, Jessica Pavone & Till By Turning, Aaron Seigel Ensemble,
David Rosenboom, Lasse Marhaug & Paal Nilssen-Love, Trey Gunn’s […]

October shows at Oakland’s 21 Grand:

Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Club Sandwich Presents: mouthus + yellow swans+Always+Blubs (8:30pm)
Friday, October 5, 2007
Artists Reception: Joseph Lease & Roy Tomlinson (7:00pm)
Saturday, October 6, 2007
Forward Music Festival (8:00pm)
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Birgit Ulher Quartet + Bolivar […]

This husband/wife duo is reviewed.

From Greenleaf Music:

Dave Douglas Quintet Tour Dates
Sept 30 - Wexner Center for the Arts - Columbus, OH
Oct 1 - Kuumbwa Jazz - Santa Cruz, CA
Oct 3 - Bucknell University
South American Dates
Oct 9 - Bourbon Street Music Club - Sao Paulo, Brasil
Oct 10 - Teatro Solis - Montevideo, Uruguay
Oct 11 - Teatro Opera - Buenos Aires, […]

The New York Clean Feed Fest gets reviewed:

Lisbon’s Clean Feed label is a lifeline for jazz players who dangle at the end of the music’s exploratory end, its catalogue stuffed with works by just about every key exponent of free improvisation, controlled improvisation or pre-meditated composition that sounds akin to the act of improvisation. Not […]

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 […]

St. Petersburg is hosting a festival this weekend.

This year’s Aposition Forum, an annual avant-garde music event, launched by local musician and promoter Alexei Plyusnin in October 2005, opened with the Beth Custer Ensemble on Thursday.
On through Monday, Aposition draws artists from many countries, including New York-based minimalist composer and filmmaker Phill Niblock, composer, performer and […]

Marc Hannaford “All Booze” (mp3) from “The Garden of Forking Paths” (Extreme) More On This Album

November shows at New York’s Stone:

November 2007 at the Stone curated by Jeremiah Cymerman
CURATED SERIES
Tuesdays—8:00 Solos / 10:00 Notorious Duos
Wednesdays—Improv Nights
Thursdays—New Works & Long Form Compositions
Fridays—Bands
Saturdays—Album Night (Seminal Albums performed in their entirety)
Sundays—Film Night (Experimental Film with Live Music)
11/1 Thursday
8 pm
Jessica Pavone—Quotidian (2007) and Walking, Sleeping, Breathing (2007)
Amy Cimini (viola) Katie Young (bassoon) […]