Avant Music News

10 months from now the Magic Band is scheduled to play Beefheart in London. That’s all we know right now.

From DMG:

New! Other Dimensions: Carter/Campbell/Parker/Drake 2 CD set! Herb Robertson NY Downtown AllStars! Anthony Braxton 2007 Trio! Dennis Gonzalez NY Qt! Brotzmann/Wilkinson Qt!
Harry Beckett/George Haslam Sextet plus 6 More New Discs from Slam! Steve Jansen w/ David Sylvian! 4 Discs from Weasel Walter’s Ug-Explode label! 3 from Australia’s Barney McAll w/ Billy Harper, Joey Baron, […]

This review covers the improvising rock collective covering the sounds of free-jazz pioneer Marion Brown.

This, of course, is good news, as many out of print recordings can now be downloaded. Their prices are a bit high, but it is a step in the right direction. Quite a number of modern classical releases are included.

From Bagatellen:

Stephen Riley - Once Upon a Dream - 28 Nov 07
Ted Brown - Shades of Brown - 27 Nov 07
Chip Shop Music - s/t - 27 Nov 07
Anthony Braxton - Solo Willisau - 27 Nov 07

From Musique Machine:

The English Heretic - Wyrd Tales(cd & book)
The English Heretic are a mysterious musically, literary & dark historic collective who investigate ocultic matters blurring the lines between fact and fiction, their music is a layered and sinister mix of dark electronics, folk and source recordings & ambience. Their written word […]

From AAJ:

29-Nov-07 One Shot
Ewaz Vader (Le Triton)
Reviewed by John Kelman
29-Nov-07 Bismillah Khan
The Shenai’s Humble Master (Saregama India)
Reviewed by Chris May
28-Nov-07 Miles Davis
Miles Davis: The Complete On The Corner Sessions (Sony-Legacy Music)
Reviewed by John Kelman
27-Nov-07 3 Cohens
Braid (Anzic Records)
Reviewed by Mark F. Turner

Sex Mob’s Bernstein is interviewed about playing all over the world.

When the nine-year-old NYC club Tonic closed its doors in April, many saw it as the last gasp of the Downtown Scene. With the Knitting Factory long ago having abandoned its more experimental roots, the distinctive brand of rock-tinged jazz that had flourished in the […]

From Ground and Sky:

28 November 2007
New review: Miasma & the Carousel of Headless Horses - Manfauna
New review: Zs - Arms

From the Bohemian National Home

UPCOMING AT BOHEMIAN NATIONAL HOME
Thurs. Nov. 29: Capillary Action, Wildcatting
The first time at Bohemian National Home, Capillary Action backed-up Fugazi’s Joe Lally with understated accompaniment. Now they return to do a full set of their own material, full of unexpected changes and genre-hopping. Detroit’s Wildcatting keep their instrumental music more firmly […]

From DOWNTOWNMUSIC.NET:

November 25, 2007
Marty Ehrlich & Erik Friedlander, Jimmy’s Restaurant
Marty Ehrlich, Erik Friedlander
Marty Ehrlich’s Four Alto(s), Jimmy’s Restaurant
Michael Attias, Marty Ehrlich, Andy Laster, Ned Rothenberg

From VisionFestival.org:

VISION CLUB 2007
Friday November 30th
11 pm
Gerald Cleaver
Gerald Cleaver drums with
Tim Flood bass & laptop – Daniel Jodocy laptop & electronics
Saturday December 1st
10:30 pm
VISION CLUB 2007
Bern Nix Trio
Bern Nix guitar – Jackson Krall drums– Francois Grillot bass

The first of three explorations of musical cultures takes place next month in Philadelphia:

Live @ International House
Out There: Radical Musical Cultures
Now in our third year, International House Philadelphia proud to collaborate with Ars Nova Workshop to bring new music to Philadelphia.
We present Out There, a new series showcasing radical and exploratory music from around […]

From Bowerbird:

november 28th (wed)
Killick’s KINDA QUIET CONTINUO QUARTET
SULLENDER / HERNANDEZ DUO
JOHN HERON SOLO
@ Powel House [ website ]
244 South Third Street
Philadelphia, PA
[ directions ]
8:00pm, $5 - $10
Killick’s KINDA QUIET CONTINUO QUARTET
Killick - H’arpeggione
Mary Halvorson - guitar
Matt Weston - percussion
Matt Bauder - clarinet
Sick, modern, geeky, heavy and deep. Old enough to repay, but young enough to […]

Pianist Schweizer is interviewed and profiled.

One of the leading exponents of free piano playing in Europe from the late 1960s onward, Swiss-born Irène Schweizer occupied a somewhat lonely place in the high-energy FMP canon as she worked with Peter Kowald, Evan Parker, Manfred Schoof, the Wuppertal reedman Rüdiger Carl and others in European free improvisation’s […]