Avant Music News

From Free Jazz:

Régis Huby - Simple Sound
Empty Cage Quartet - Stratostrophic
Esa Pietilä - Travel of Fulica Atra
Daniel Levin - Blurry

Some Portland shows, courtesy of Ear and Eye Control:

4/26/08 - Chiesa & Werchowski
April 26th, Saturday
David Chiesa & Mathieu Werchowski @ Reed College chapel
http://mwerchowski.free.fr
http://david.chiesa.free.fr
3/14/08: Burns/Wright/Spera, CMG
March 15th, Saturday
Gust Burns, Jack Wright, Fabrizio Spera @ Community Music Center
A CMG show, also involving Bob Jones and another local
3/23/08 - Tatsuya Nakatani w/ locals
March 23rd, Sunday
Tatsuya Nakatani @ Valentines
Free
http://www.hhproduction.org/TATSUYA_NAKATANI_WORKS.html
Matt […]

Boulez’s visit this week is reviewed.

The Chicago Symphony came to Carnegie Hall on Monday and Tuesday. Pierre Boulez, who happily leaves the three B’s and most of the M’s and S’s of the standard repertory to other conductors, offered pieces from the 20th and 21st centuries.

From Bagatellen:

Paul Bley - Closer - 28 Feb 08
Graham Collier - Down Another Road/Songs For My Father/Mosaics - 27 Feb 08
David Buchbinder – Odessa/Havana - 21 Feb 08

Jazz listing, from the Times

HARRIS EISENSTADT CANADA DAY (Sunday) Harris Eisenstadt, a drummer with strong experimental tendencies, explores his own compositions in this working band with the trumpeter Nate Wooley, the saxophonist Matt Bauder, the vibraphonist Chris Dingman and the bassist Eivind Opsvik. At 8:30 p.m., Banjo Jim’s, 700 East Ninth Street, at Avenue C, […]

From Clean Feed:

Jason Stein’s Locksmith Isidore - A Calculus of Loss (CF 104)
Jason Stein, bass clarinet / Kevin Davis, cello / Mike Pride, percussion
Recorded on December 11th and 12th 2006 at the the Shape Shoppe, Chicago IL by Benjamin Balcom / Mixed by Benjamin Balcom / Mastered by Luís Delgado
Produced by Jason Stein / Executive […]

Horvtitz is interviewed in anticipation of an upcoming show.

Horvitz — who brings his Sweeter Than the Day band to the Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse in Berkeley on March 3 (sharing a bill with the Myra Melford/Ben Goldberg Quartet) — was a busy figure in what was known as the “Downtown” music scene in New York […]

SC3 are playing Cincinnati on Sunday and get previewed.

MUSIC: SECRET CHIEFS 3 Like with his pervious band, Mr. Bungle, Trey Spruance makes the music of Avant-Garde ensemble Secret Chiefs 3 refreshingly hard to pin down to just a couple (or a dozen) genres. Though slightly less maniacal, SC3 is the perfect next step for Spruance, […]

From Sonomu:

Tom Hall, Floats self-released CD
Two slightly out there productions from Australian artist Tom Hall generated in a relatively short space of time. Fleure is a conceptual album drawing exclusively on sounds made by Story Bridge in Brisbane. The results land somewhere in between field recording and a […]

From Musique Machine:

Sleep Reseach Facility - Nostromo
After the release of their superb second album and one the ambient highlights of last year Deep Frieze, it seems only fitting that Cold Spring should revisit & reissue the projects first album from 2001 here presented with enhanced artwork and extra track.
Rameses III - Basilica
Here english […]

From Philly’s Ars Nova Workshop:

MARCH 1-4 | RADICAL JEWISH MUSIC FESTIVAL
Presented by Ars Nova Workshop
Saturday, March 1, 8:30pm
MASADA GUITARS
with Jon Madof, acoustic guitar; and Tim Sparks, acoustic guitar
Sunday, March 2, 2pm
JOHN ZORN’S THE DREAMERS
JOHN ZORN ESSENTIAL CINEMA
with Cyro Baptista, percussion; Joey Baron, drums; Trevor Dunn, bass; Ikue
Mori, electronics; Marc Ribot, el. guitar; Jamie Saft, keyboards; […]

From AAJ:

27-Feb-08 Medeski, Martin & Wood
Let’s Go Everywhere (Little Monster Records)
Reviewed by Jay Deshpande
27-Feb-08 James Choice Orchestra
Live At Moers (Moers Music)
Reviewed by Nic Jones
26-Feb-08 Lisle Ellis
Sucker Punch Requiem: An Homage to Jean-Michel Basquiat (Henceforth)
Reviewed by Troy Collins

Mondays in March at 8:00 p.m.

Positive Catastrophe
Tea Lounge
837 Union Street in Brooklyn, NY (Park Slope)
$5 suggested donation
Venue information at http://www.tealoungeny.com
Taylor Ho Bynum, cornet
Abraham Gomez-Delgado, percussion and voice
Jen Shyu, voice and erhu
Mark Taylor, French horn
Reut Regev, trombone
Matt Bauder, tenor saxophone
Michael Attias, baritone saxophone
Pete Fitzpatrick, electric guitar
Keith Witty, acoustic bass
Harris Eisenstadt, drums (March 3rd and 10th)
Tim Keiper, […]

SCREAM (Southern California Resource for Electro-Acoustic Music) announced a call for new and unperformed works for piano and electro-acoustic music. The electro-acoustic music may exist on fixed-media, or as a type of live/eam. One work will be selected from the submissions to receive a prize of $500 US* and a world premiere performance on the […]

From Audible Think:

Wednesday, March 5, 2008:
The AUDIBLE THINK: Improvised Music Series
at Gallery X, 169 William Street, New Bedford, MA
presents
Wednesday, March 5, 2008, 7:30pm
Jorrit Dijkstra - alto sax, lyricon, electronics
Eric Rosenthal - drums, percussion
Ted Reichman - accordion
2 sets, improvised and original music
$5 suggested, byob, and 11 friends!