Another exciting week with a plethora of discs from

The Delta Sax Quartet & Hugh Hopper perform Soft Machine, Wu Fei with Fred Frith & Karla Kihlstedt, Evan Parker & John Stevens 2 CD Reissue, The Jack & Jim Show w/ Eugene Chadbourne, Jimmy Carl Black, Pat Thomas, Schroeder,

Bobby Few Solo, Ernst Reijseger Trio, Lee Konitz/Ohad Talmor Big Band, Henning Sieverts w/ Chris Speed & John Hollenbeck, Loren Stillman w/ Drew Gress & Joey Baron, Marc Copland/Gary Peacock/Paul Motian, Tim Hagans Qt,

Amir ElSaffar, Three from Leonel Kaplan, Giacinto Scelsi, Luigi Nono, Franz Koglmann/Joseph Haydn, Peter Eotvos/Bernd A. Zimmermann, Jonathan Harvey, Salvatore Sciarrino, Jessica Pavone, Lily Masse's Unbind, Mitch Marcus, Rob Schwimmer, Matt Valentine & Erika Elder,

A Passel of Japanese Avant-Rock & Noise from: Hoppy Kamiyama, Tatsuya Yoshida, Damo Suzuki All-Stars, Kawabata Makoto, Ruins, Acid Mother Temple, The Magic Carpathians, Marzbow & Volcano the Bear, Julian Cope Jap-Rock book, + Historic reissues by a Daevid Allen, Nick Drake DVD, African Jazz n' Jiv, Jonesy, Trad, Gras Och Stenar & Ed Askew!


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DELTA SAXOPHONE QUARTET With Guest HUGH HOPPER - Dedicated To You...But You Weren't Listening: The Music Of Soft Machine (Moonjune 017; USA) This is a most extraordinary date and is so much more than anyone could have imagined. The Delta Sax Quartet feature Graeme Blevins on soprano sax, Pete Whyman on alto sax, Tim Holmes on tenor sax and Chris Caldwell on bari sax, plus special guests Hugh Hopper on electric bass & loops and Morgan Fisher on vocal, hurdy gurdy & electronics for one track each. The great Delta Sax Quartet (DSQ), founded in 1984, and in the recent five wears the ensemble in residence at Kingston Universtiy in Britain, have several fine discs out - including one on FMR and have covered the music of Terry Riley, Mike Westbrook, Steve Martland, Steve Reich, Gavin Bryars, Michael Nyman, Philip Glass, and Karl Jenkins [of Soft Machine/Nucleus fame].
The music of Soft Machine, considered to be England's most influential progressive/jazz/rock band, was always a work-in-progress. The personnel and sound changed/evolved on each of their eleven albums with only one original member (Mike Ratledge) remaining from their humble beginning in 1967 to the bitter end in 1976. Soft Machine was influenced by Terry Riley and utilized their own tape loop experiments, which can be heard on albums 'Third' and 'Six'. This influence was pervasive and ran like an invisible thread throughout much of their history. Even when they stopped using tape loops, the cyclical, repeating or minimal sound remained. Rather than just play the music from various Soft Machine records ('Volume Two' through 'Bundles'), the Delta Sax Quartet have written their own arrangements (often altering and evolving further), as well as composed a few of their pieces with the Soft Machine sound in mind. Another magical quality of the Soft Machine sound, was their ability to float in a dreamlike way and this quartet is the perfect choice to do this justice. Opening with an extrapolation of Hopper's "Dedicated to You, But You Weren't Listening", the quartet sails into Hopper's incredible "Facelift" with Hugh's electric bass and loops adding something special. The original version of this piece (which opened 'Third') was live from two different concerts and had some distorted sounds, like fuzz-organ and fuzz-bass. Here, Hopper's rich and haunting melodies, as well as his warm, tasty electric bass blend into a sublime mix, with an excellent soprano solo to make it even better. The quartet take part of "Kings & Queens' from 'Four' and rearrange it with layers of echo and repeating phrases, both used to make it quite hypnotic. Hugh's "Mousetrap" (only found on live recordings), is rich in layers of complex harmonies and is superbly performed. On "Everything is You", Blevins' soprano sax is featured and sounds more like an oboe in the middle of a Baroque string quartet. One stroke of genius is blending two very different pieces from 'Third', Robert Wyatt's "Moon in June" with Mike Ratledge's "Out-Bloody-Rageous". Morgan Fisher guests distant, spooky Wyatt-like vocals and eerie hurdy-gurdy sounds. There is too much wonderful music found here to mention it all and at one hour, it is consistently fascinating. The Delta Saxophone Quartet do an amazing job of illustrating the cosmic thread the runs through all of the great music that Soft Machine provided during their decade-long transformation. - BLG
CD $15


A Most Wanted Reissue!

EVAN PARKER/JOHN STEVENS - Corner To Corner/The Longest Night Volumes 1 & 2 (Ogun 022/023; UK) Evan Parker, soprano saxophone; John Stevens, percussion, trumpet. Featuring the duo of Evan Parker and John Stevens on Ogun. Corner to Corner [recorded 8 June 1993 at Angel Studio, Islington, London] was previously released on CD [OGCD005] but has been out-of-print for some time so it's good it is available again. Disc Two was originally released as 2 LPs in the '70s- The Longest Night Vol.1. and Vol. 2 [OGLP 120 & 420] - but never released on CD before!
2 CD Set $30


WU FEI With FRED FRITH/KARLA KIHLSTEDT/HELGE A. NORBAKKEN - A Distant Youth (Forest Hill 03; EEC) Wu Fei is a young Chinese composer and guzheng virtuoso who breaks the traditional rules of her instrument to create a new and exciting form of Asian music. Her innovative ideas come from her free spirit and from artistic exchange and collaborations with astounding American and European innovators like Fred Frith, Carla Kihlstedt, and Helge A. Norbakken (all featured on this disc). A Distant Youth is her debut CD, recorded in the Italian Alps, Venice, Parma, and Guerrilla Studio in Oakland, CA. Wu Fei has composed music for solo instruments, string quartets, choirs, orchestras, modern and traditional dance, film, and various chamber ensembles. She is featured on Fred Frith's newest album of film music entitled' Eye to Ear II', which received high acclaim from The Wire in April 2004.
CD $15


THE JACK & JIM SHOW [EUGENE CHADBOURNE & JIMMY CARL BLACK] With PAT THOMAS/SCHROEDER - Hearing Is Believing (Boxholder 53; USA) This version of the Jack & Jim Show features Eugene Chadbourne on guitar, banjo & vocals, Jimmy Carl Black on drums & vocals, Pat Thomas on Fender Rhodes, organ, other keyboards & cheap electronics and Schroeder on drums, percussion, vibes & electronics. For the last two weeks of August this past summer (2007), Eugene Chadbourne curated The Stone and performed most nights with an assortment musicians from around the planet. Guests included Duck Baker, John Zorn, Barry Mitterhof, Lukas Kigeti, Mary Halvorson & Dave Fox. This Chad Fest ended with three nights of the Jack (Dr. Chad) and Jim (Carl Black) Show with different guests each night. I caught a night with banjo great Tony Trischka sitting in and it was a blast. This disc was mostly done in a studio in Germany with some live material from a festival in Slovenia. The disc begins with a melancholy, laid-back version of "Eleanor Rigby", with Eugene and Jim sharing the vocals and Pat Thomas playing dreamy electric piano underneath Eugene's swirling banjo runs. Next up is the hilarious political satire "Cheney's Hunting Ducks" by Dr. Chad. Mingus' "Pithecanthropus Erectus" gets an odd spy movie sort of treatment with fine fractured el. guitar. Only Jim & Jack would segueway from Dizzy's classic "Salt Peanuts" to a country tune called "It's 5 O'Clock Somewhere" to a new version of "Girl from Ipanema", called, get this, "Girl from Al-Quaeda." They do a splendid sort-of bluegrass version of Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On", a most appropriate lyric for current times. Sometimes it sounds as if there are a few songs going on at the same time, swirling around one another. This works very well on "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey", with layers of crazy voices, a kazoo and strange sound effects. One of the highlights here is the lovely, laid-back version of Tim Hardin's "Misty Roses" with some fine electric piano by Pat Thomas. Things comes to close with slightly twisted country standard, "When the Grass Grows Over Me", with some fast spinning tapes and wacky electronics provided by Mr. Thomas. A most effective ending to another delight from the trusty Jack & Jim Show. - BLG
CD $15

BOBBY FEW - Lights And Shadows: Solo Piano (Boxholder 054; USA) This disc was recorded in a studio in Paris on a Bluthner piano in November of 2005. Bobby Few is one the giants of modern jazz piano with a career stretching back to the sixties (w/ Booker Ervin) and then moving to Paris in the seventies where he played with Frank Wright, Noah Howard and Steve Lacy. More recently Bobby has collaborated with Kali Fasteau and Avram Fefer, as well as having an earlier solo piano disc out on Boxholder. Mr. Few wrote all but one of the seven pieces on this disc with one cover, "Flakes", by his former bandleader, Steve Lacy. "Bells" opens with the tinkling of bells and bits of eerie hand percussion that compliment the spiritual piano playing that Bobby provides. Steve Lacy's "Flakes" has an odd lopsided quality that reminds me of Lacy's main inspiration, Thelonius Monk. I dig the way this piece has both hands playing in opposite directions that somehow make sense. Each piece evokes a different setting or story. "From Different Lands", begins with stark chords and slowly evolves with some waterfall like flourishes, picking up speed and density and ends with another stark conclusion. "Enomis" has a sunny side, as well as a softly majestic section and reminds me of music they might play for a silent movie. The title piece is the longest (18 & 1/2 minutes) and is a tour-de-force with layers of waves, that build and shift currents marvelously, orchestral in overall sound. It is easy to be swept away by the undertow beneath the waves, as Bobby balances layers of rolling lines. There is storm going on outside of my kitchen window as I type this (10/11/07) and the music feels like a soundtrack for natures forces: the wind, the rain and the thunder. "What You Doing?" is another long and well-developed work that begins with solemn notes and again builds through both somber and more intense sections. It sounds like the answer to the question of the title might be weaving dreams. The last I heard Bobby Few play solo was at an earlier Vision Fest and it was an outstanding performance. Here he again shows the depth of his talents on the piano. - BLG
CD $15


ERNST REIJSEGER / LARISSA GROENEVELD / FRANK VAN DE LAAR - Do You Still (W&W 136; Germany) Featuring Ernst Reijseger & Larissa Groeneveld on cellos and Frank van de Laar on piano. Includes compositions chosen by film director Werner Herzog for his motion picture Rescue Dawn, starring Christian Bale and Steve Zahn. Everything we've heard from former ICP & Clusone Trio cellist, Ernst Reijseger, on the Winter & Winter label has been wonderful, so why not another gem? Review soon.
CD $15


LEE KONITZ/OHAD TALMOR BIG BAND - Portology (Omnitone 15217; USA) The third in a series of ear-opening "larger ensemble" collaborations between jazz legend Lee Konitz and international jazz powerhouse Ohad Talmor, this time featuring a seventeenpiece world-class European big band. Compositions from Konitz's half-decade-long career as a musical innovator, from the classic "Sound Lee" to the new "Rhythm Suite." The first time Konitz has fronted a big band! Coincides with 80th birthday celebration concerts in the US and Europe by the Lee Konitz New Nonet and Konitz-Talmor String Project & Big Band.
CD $15


AMIR ELSAFFAR With RUDRESH MAHANTHAPPA/NASHEET WAITS - Two Rivers (Pi 24; USA) Featuring Amir ElSaffar on trumpet, santoor & vocals, Rudresh Mahathappa on alto sax, Zafer Tawil on violin, oud & dumbek, Tareq Abboushi on buzuq & frame drum, Carlo DeRosa on bass and Nasheet Waits on drums. Another one of the highlights of the recent new trumpet fest (FONT 2007) was the appearance of Iraqi trumpeter, Amir ElSaffar with Frank London's Mystical Trumpet project at Synagogue here in NYC. Amir's new debut disc features the "Two Rivers Suite", which "invokes the Tigris and Euphates (Rivers), whose floods were the forces of creation and destruction in the world's first cities." This music is "meant to recall Iraq's history, both glorious and tragic".
Amir has put together a fabulous mixed sextet with exotic instrumentation like the santoor (hammered dulcimer), oud, buzuq (long-necked fretted lute) and dumbek, as well as two of downtown's best young musicians: Rudresh Mahathappa and Nasheet Waits. Commencing with the sublime sounds of the santoor, violin, alto sax, rhythm team and Amir's haunting voice. The vibe is dream-like and hypnotic, midway they get into a great, slow, sly groove with some superb eastern sounding solos from the violin and trumpet. I dig the way the drums and bass move in shifting currents on "Hemayoun", underneath the horns and oud. Rudresh takes an inspired solo with the oud or buzuq flowing notes around him in a magical blend. Amir continues in the same vibe/flow with his dynamic solo that comes next. The swell frontline of oud, trumpet and alto sax plays that great laid back groove on "Shatt al-Arab", which features a sly solo from the oud. Amir's solo on "Flood" is long, flowing and buzzes like a bee around a precious flower. Rudresh picks up thread and continues soaring with Nasheet's incredible drums weaving powerfully to inspire him further. When both horn join together near the end, it is a joyous moment. The percussion and buzuq begin "Khoah Reng" with an odd (17/8) rhythm, while soon the trumpet and sax start to trade lines in a slow-burning yet exciting way. There are two intro pieces here which flow nicely into the longer pieces that follow and set the vibe of things to come. The one thread that seems to run through this disc is a blues drenched one: it is a sound and feeling that is universal to all of us that have suffered in some way. It is both humbling and triumphant and it embodies this music quite well. - BLG
[By the way, Amir ElSaffar is curating the schedule at Jamie's this month (Oct.) and will be playing each of those nights as well]
CD $15


UNBIND [LILY MAASE/PETER VAN HUFFEL/EVAN SMITH/MATT WIGTON/FRED KENNEDY] - The Suite Unraveling (Addtract 01; USA) This is the second splendid disc by Lily Maase and her band, featuring Lily on guitar & compositions, Peter Van Huffel on alto & soprano saxes, Evan Smith on tenor sax, Matt Wigton on bass and Fred Kennedy on drums. Guests include Vijay Iyer, Christian Pincock, Kevin Patton, Adam Benjamin and Jeff Morris on electronics. Lily Maase is a unique New York based guitarist and composer and I wasn't sure what to expect after her last electric Miles-like disc from last year. I know nothing about the other members of her quintet except for Peter Van Huffel, who second disc I reviewed just last week.
"Prelude: Inner Weave" features soft treated guitar and subtle, eerie electronics. Every other song is an interlude with just guitar and electronics, which fits perfectly between the other pieces, bringing things down to a calm space before they take off once again. "Made to be Broken" is a great, sly, laid back tune for two simmering saxes, spacious guitar and hushed drums. Peter takes the first of numerous spirited solos with Evan's dark tenor creating hypnotic harmonies with him. Lily likes to write these tunes with laid back yet slamming grooves so that both saxes get a chance to play strong harmonies around one another while she interjects subtle punctuation and takes only occasional and minimal solos, preferring to direct the action. "Anaphora" features the rhythm team at their best, kicking up a storm of power and creativity. Fred Kennedy's slamming drums push tenor man Evan Smith higher and higher while Lily plays frenetic lines around them. Like wow! For "Centerlude: Vanishing Point" we get 10 minutes of dreamy space guitar and vocal sounds, which makes for a fine central interlude before we get back to another sly groove of guitar and saxes sailing together on "Ricochet." All we can say is "where do they all come from...?" So many great discs by folks so few know about. Another buried treasure waiting to be discovered by you, the adventurous listener. - BLG
CD $14


JESSICA PAVONE - Walking Sleeping Breathing (Nowaki 10; Canada) This disc features "three indeterminate pieces for viola that highlight functions that are easily taken for granted, but essential for survival." "Walking" is dedicated to Elizabeth Cotton and features Matt Bauder, another Braxton collaborator, on electronics. While Jessica plucks bluesy licks on her viola, Matt adds subtle electronic sounds, perhaps altering the sound of the viola with effects. The blend of these two opposite sounds used to a good effect and gives the piece a ghost-like vibe. "Sleeping" is dedicated to Leroy Jenkins, the great AACM violinist who passed away this past year. Mr. Jenkins had a brisk, unique sound that seems to inspire Jessica's somewhat twisted tone here. Jessica balances the solemn beauty with the bent notes is her own special way, giving this piece a touching aura. "Breathing" is dedicated to Liver-Colored Dew (?) and it is more extreme with some harsh, distorted string sounds. This piece is quite intense, very focused, noisy and pretty extreme. What I find most interesting is that although it appears to be a barrage noisy fragments, it does have a thread or structure that holds it together and turns it into a pre-planned work or a song. There are a few layers that are intersecting: the sound of the bow on the strings and the distortion of the amplified strings. It is violent, yet perfectly balanced. Three very different approaches that work together as a complete whole. Only 22-minutes long, but just long enough. - BLG
CD $13


MITCH MARCUS QUINTET - Entropious (self released; USA) Featuring Mitch Marcus on tenor sax , Sylvain Carton on alto & soprano saxes, Chad Wagner on piano, Lorenzo Farrell on bass and Ches Smith on drums. A few weeks back, I reviewed a disc that I received in the mail by the Mitch Marcus Quintet from the Bay Area. I was knocked out by that disc and only recognized one member of the group, drummer Ches Smith, whose playing I knew from his work with Trevor Dunn and Marc Ribot. Mitch dug my review and I got copies of an earlier quintet disc of his from 2002. The main difference on this one is a pianist taking the place of the guitarist on the second disc.
"Runnin' Down Ashby" explodes open and swings hard and tight with some smokin' alto sax from Sylvain. Pianist Chad Wagner takes a great, swirling solo while the rhythm teams pumps hard underneath and then Mitch takes an equally blistering solo. The theme itself is a difficult bebop-like riff that is no doubt a challenge to play. This disc is less M-Base-like than the second one, yet it creative in other ways. "S.S. Clagett" has a cool, quirky theme that keeps the piano playing slightly bent chords underneath the more relaxed tenor and alto sax solos. The title track, "Entropious", was written by their other saxist, Sylvain Carton, and it does have a M-Base like rhythmic scheme that blends quick jazz lines with elements of oft-kilter rhythms. It slows down midway for a fine two-handed piano solo and again picks up speed as it evolves. Sylvain takes spirited soprano solo in the second half that dances around the piano, bass and drums joyously. Ches Smith takes a strong solo that moves in unexpected ways. A number of the tunes are deceptive, they seem simple (as in easy to understand) in some way yet there is always some unexpected twists or some odd harmony buried beneath the surface. "Piece of Cake" is the opposite as it changes direction after the opening theme. I love the way the band tightly changes tempo during the solos, stopping and starting as if scripted to fit around the story that the soloist is telling. I get the feeling that this quintet must have played regularly before making this recording since they work together so telepathically. At more than 73 minutes, a wealth of riches can be found in this outstanding gem from five years back. Better late than never. - BLG
CD $15


AXEL DORNER/LEONEL KAPLAN/DIEGO CHAMY - Absence (Creative Sources 34; EEC) During the recent FONT (Festival of New Trumpet) in New York, we had a chance to hear a wealth of fine new trumpet explorers. On September 29th, there was a chance to hear some new trumpeters playing assorted percussionists: Forbes Graham, Birgit Uhler & Sean Meehan, Leonel Kaplan & Tatsuya Nakatani and Taylor Ho Bynum w/ Gamelan Son of Lion.
Leonal Kaplan hails from Argentina and has a trio disc with Nate Wooley & Audrey Chen on Utech. For 'Absence', Leonel also works with another trumpeter, Axel Dorner and Argentina-based percussionist Diego Chamy. It was recorded in Buenos Aires in 2003. This is lower-case improv at its finest. Axel and Leonel explore similar terrain, twisted, breath-like sounds that don't sound very much like a trumpet with minimal percussion. Smears, rubbed cymbals, eerie, ghost-like effects... It is difficult to tell who is doing what since many of the sounds are percussion-like and carefully placed. The trumpeters occasionally make growling or other odd vocal sounds into the trumpets and mouthpieces. At one point, it sounds as if a kettle is about to boil or like the radiators in my old apartment hissing. On "Asn'th", it sounds like the drones are made by electronics, as they slowly are twisted into odd shapes. What I find most fascinating are the textures of the different sounds that the trio comes up with. It sounds like a symphony of radiators with shimmering percussive sounds weaved together into a mesmerizing tapestry. This is one of those discs that must be listened to with no distractions since there is such an attention to detail. Take your time and listen closely, the rewards are great. - BLG
CD $14

LEANDRO BARZABAL/LEONEL KAPLAN/XAVIER CHARLES/JEAN PALLANDRE - Patagonia (Three Chairs 02; EEC) Featuring Leonel Kaplan on trumpet, Xavier Charles on clarinet, Jean Pallandre on phonography and Leandro Barzabal on percussion. This disc was recorded live in Patagonia in September of 2005 and then remixed in France and Argentina during the following summer. Besides our newly discovered friend, Leonel Kaplan, who has a trio disc out with Nate Wooley and Audrey Chen, Xavier Charles is the only name here I recognize. I've hard Mr. Charles play up at the Victo Fest and he has collaborated with Otomo Yoshihide, John Butcher, Diane Labrosse and Martin Tetreault.
Leonel mentioned that outdoor sounds were recorded and utilized by the quartet. The first things were here are assorted birds, waves and similar sounds of nature. It takes some time before we hear anything else, but a clarinet does slowly drift in later on in the first piece. 'Track 2' features the dense sound of water with Leonel's trumpet breath sounds. The outdoor sounds permeate many of these tracks with the occasional sounds of the clarinet, trumpet, percussion or turntable. Often, all we can hear are those nature sounds, making one wonder how much the musicians have contributed to the overall sound. It does force us to listen more closely to figure out who is doing what. The sounds are most often fascinating as the textures are always changing. I would imagine that this disc sounds better with headphones since we can here the minute sounds and changes more readily. - BLG
(Limited Edition of 400 & we have just 5 as of 10/12/07)
CD $10

LEONEL KAPLAN - Reveille (RR 25; EEC) The Festival of New Trumpet (FONT) just ended and it was another milestone of diversity and adventurousness, bringing together trumpet explorers from around the world and presenting dozens of gigs in the New York area. One afternoon (9/29/07) at the St. Marks Church, we heard four sets of trumpeters with percussionists. One of the sets that blew me away was Leonel Kaplan and Tatsua Nakatani. I only knew of the Argentina-based trumpeter, Leonel Kaplan, from a trio disc on Utech with Nate Wooley and Audrey Chen. Leonel came to visit our store and left us with three discs to distribute.
'Reveille' is his solo offering with Leonel on trumpet and electronics, recorded at a Sound & Light Exhibition at The University of Chicago, from December '06 to February '07. "Track 1" consists of a central raspy drone that most lower case improv trumpet players excel at. That bent drone is slowly twisted texturally with some of that brassy trumpet sounds floating as well. "Track 2" features scary storm-like wind and breathing sounds. Layers of floating textures slowly evolve and pile up, becoming more dense and ominous. The many layers of static, wind sounds, odd electronics and tortured breathing are both fascinating and disturbing. This much closer to the nightmarish sounds of industrial music from the eighties than anything I've heard in a long while. I came close to turning this off midway, since it was almost too much to deal with at times. "Track 3" is more relaxed and has softer layers of different breath-like sounds. It feels like we are traveling in a wind-storm in the desert and conversing with ghosts along the way. Is this a mirage or an illusion? Hard to say, except that it is most effective and does transport us to a different world. - BLG
CD $10


ROB SCHWIMMER - Beyond The Sky (NuNoise Records; USA) Rob Schwimmer plays piano and theremin and is currently half of a ridiculously cool duo called Polygraph Lounge with Mark Stewart. Rob studied with Paul Bley, worked for Annette Peacock and has toured with Simon & Garfunkel along with Mr. Stewart. A few years back, we used to sell copies of Rob's superb trio CD with Uri Caine on piano, Mark Feldman on violin and Rob on theremin. It is sadly out-of-print but now Rob has dropped any equally fine solo piano and theremin offering. 'Beyond the Sky' contained 19 pieces, most penned by Rob with just a few standards. It took me a while to figure out what I liked about this disc as it is either too subtle in part or too different from anything else I usually review. The pieces flow into one another and seem to fit together just right. I dig that this music is in between categories like jazz and classical. It draws from both as well as other streams that are hard to peg. This has a romantic quality and Rob excels at finding melodic material that is often quite lyrical and often beautiful. I am occasionally reminded of the way Van Dyke Parks draws from different folk music or Americana and still comes up with something to call his own. Just when I think I have Rob figured out, he comes up with something unexpected and astonishing. On "Four Miniatures" he spins a number of ideas out a furious pace that goes by before we can absorb what just happened. Then he brings us back down to Mother Earth with the title piece that is exquisite. His version of "Buddy, Can You Spare a Dime" seems to float in the air, ever so delicately. His other suite, "Three Tone Poems", is also dream-like and slightly unnerving like a music box breaking down. "Waltz for Clara" is for piano and theremin and is delightfully melancholy without being too schmaltzy. There is something about this music that makes it timeless. I imagined listening to a pianist in the olden days at a cafŽ society recital before we had any categories or marketing knuckleheads to deal with. Nice work Rob. - BLG
CD $13



New Discs & other First-Time listings from The Pirouet Label:

HENNING SIEVERTS - Symmetry (Pirouet 3022; Germany) Featuring Johannes Lauer, trombone; Chris Speed, tenor saxophone, clarinet; Achim Kaufmann, piano; Henning Sieverts, bass and John Hollenbeck, drums.
CD $16

LOREN STILLMAN - Blind Date (Pirouet 3024; Germany) Featuring artists: Loren Stillman, alto saxophone; Gary Versace, piano; Drew Gress, bass and Joey Baron, drums. Loren Stillman consistently knocks me out on each release, as well as the few times I've caught him live with Paul Motian, Tyshawn Sorey and the Jackalopes. Review soon.
CD $16

BILL CARROTHERS With BEN STREET/ARI HOENIG - Keep Your Sunny Side Up (Pirouet 3021; Germany)
CD $16

MARC COPLAND With GARY PEACOCK/PAUL MOTIAN - Voices: New York Trio Recordings Vol 2 (Pirouet 3023; Germany) CD $16


TIM HAGANS With MARC COPLAND/DREW GRESS/BILL STEWART - Beautiful Lily (Pirouet 3016; Germany)
CD $16



GIACINTO SCELSI - Collection Volume 1 (Stradivarius 33801; Italy) Compositions include: Maknongan, for bass flute (1976) * String Quartet No. 2 (1961) * Riti: I funerali d'Achille, for 4 percussionists (1962) * Quattro Illustrazioni sulle metamorfosi di Vishnu, for piano (unissued version, 1953) * Riti: I funeral di Carlo Magno, for cello & percussion (1976). The first in a series of recordings devoted to the music of Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988), devised by Stradivarius in conjunction with the Isabella Scelsi Foundation. The series comprises new, original recordings made in 2005, marking the hundredth anniversary of the composer's birth. The Scelsi Collection is not intended to be a set of the composer's complete works, but a definitive collection enabling the expert, the performer, and the layman to achieve a greater understanding and appreciation of this extraordinary composer, experimenter, poet, and traveler of the modern age.Featurig: Roberto Fabbriciani - flute, Turin String Quartet, soloists of Musica Teatro Ensemble, Fabrizio Ottaviucci - piano, Francesco Dillon - cello and Fulvia Ricevuto - percussion.
CD $16

LUIGI NONO - Prometeo, Tragedia dell'ascolto [2 H-SACD set] (Col Legno 20605; Germany) [this is a Hybrid SACD (H-SACD) which means it is playable on ordinary CD players as well] "Nono's 'Prometeo,' available on CD in surround sound for the first time ever! The glorious union of a legendary past, a Venetian atmosphere, philosophy, literature and music, merged by Nono into one of the greatest 'Gesamtkunstwerke' of the history of music and art. Technology and music: while there are certainly numerous examples of recordings of various kinds of music that use surround sound technology simply as an effective gadget, the adequate realization of 'Prometeo' indeed requires more than mere stereophony -- simply the material extravagance including four orchestral groups, choir, narrators, singers, instrumental soloists and two conductors makes every performance of 'Prometeo' a very special sound event. And what is of particular importance is the exact distribution of the music, which is made to move through space virtually timelessly, with no beginning and no end, by the application of sophisticated live electronics. But Nono was not content with a perfect performance by all musicians involved 'but also expected very specific attitudes to the music from these musicians; things developed by the composer in a lengthy process together with all those who performed in the 1984 premiere; to some extent individual results and covenants, which had to be understood and passed on over and again ever since, for more than twenty years now.' --Lydia Jeschke. This exemplary reference quality recording is the first to succeed in adequately preserving the 'reproduction of the comprehensive spatiality' in 'Prometeo' for posterity. The double SACD includes a detailed booklet in German, English and French as well as a graphic score, comprising the complete text and a guide to the work."
2 CD set for $38

SALVATORE SCIARRINO - Nocturnes (Metronome 1077; USA) Compositions include: V Sonata, con 5 final diversi (1994), Due Notturni (1999), Notturno No 3 (1998), Notturno No 4 (1998) and Due Notturni Crudeli (2000-2001). Following the death of Luciano Berio, Salvatore Sciarrino is now widely regarded as the leading Italian contemporary composer. Recordings of these works for piano with Nicolas Hodges were made in the presence of the composer. Hodges is one of the leading contemporary music international pianists. He premiered Elliot Carter's Dialogues with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. "The world premiere of Sciarrino's two latest Nocturnes, Due Notturni Crudeli, showed the terrors of night in music of dazzling ferocity." - The Guardian
CD $16

FRANZ KOGLMANN - Nocturnal Walks /JOSEPH HAYDN - Symphony No. 27 (Col Legno 20273; Germany) Koglmann compositions: Nocturnal Walks, Twilight musings based on motifs by Joseph Haydn, featuring the original voice of E.M. Cioran. Haydn compositions: Symphony No. 27 in G major H 1 No. 27. The truth is out: Haydn was a jazz composer! Franz Koglmann took the diligent classic's 27th Symphony with him on his Nocturnal Walks. Incidentally, "Nocturnal Walks, a twilight of thoughts inspired by motifs of Joseph Haydn, featuring the original voice of E.M. Cioran" is 'just' the Austrian contribution to the European Capital of Culture 2007, Sibiu/Hermannstadt in Romania. But Franz Koglmann manages not only to create real jazz on the basis of Haydn's "Symphony of Sibiu" (named in honor of Sibiu because a copy of the score was discovered there) but moreover to transplant E.M. Cioran there in a logical context, so to speak as a musing stroller. Cioran, the philosopher, caustic essayist and cultural critic, was born near Sibiu - another reason for Koglmann to take him on his walks and let him speak for himself. And speaking for himself in a Falter interview, Koglmann says: "I have used all themes of Haydn's 'Symphony of Sibiu', some in their original form, some as variations, with different harmonies or rhythms. Moreover, I have used abrupt cuts, also for the purpose of emphasizing the ambivalences of Cioran, who was on the one hand an absolute skeptic but on the other hand really quite a cheerful person, not at all melancholy." In Nocturnal Walks, the jazz soloist Koglmann also appears as a trumpet and flugelhorn player; accordion and vibraphone are also among the party, "to perhaps give the whole thing some sort of rancid quality." (Koglmann) The first release of Col Legno's "creations" series unites the original, namely Haydn's symphony, in a wonderfully vivacious, light-footed new recording by Gustav Kuhn and his Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano and Trento, with Koglmann's extremely original and slightly melancholy new creation, in an excellent performance by the Exxj Ensemble under Peter Burwik's direction.
CD $20

PETER EOTVOS//BERND ALOIS ZIMMERMANN//MARTIN SMOLKA - Musica Viva 15 (Neos 10701; Germany) Live recordings: Herkulessaal der Residenz, Munich; January 26, 2006 & April 7, 1989 (Zimmermann)
Peter Eotvos is one of those who set the tone in the New Music scene, not just as a composer but also as a conductor and teacher. "Cap-ko" is the homage to Eotvos' great model Bartok. That applies even to the details. Bartoks penchant for parallel lines gave Eotvos the idea of using an instrument that makes it possible to play these parallel lines on the piano not with two hands but rather with one. This necessitated that Eotvos rediscovered the digital keyboard. For that made possible that a second note sound with every note played, with the interval between the notes alterable at will, as with an organ mixture. In addition there is a traditional grand piano with a fixed right pedal, which produces an echolike reverberation with every note played that is never muted. Pierre-Laurent Aimard plays both instruments alternately. Bernd Alois Zimmermann does not have to be introduced anymore. With his opera "Die Soldaten" and his "Requiem for Einen Jungen Dichter" he became known in the 1960s as one of the leading composers of the generation that emerged after the Second World War. The violin concerto is a work that displays the characteristics of Zimmermann's composition: It sets ist tone forcefully and unmistakably. Martin Smolka works with intervals that he finds in "natural" sounds. His works, in which he uses various forms of microtonality, are performed at all the current festivals for contemporary music - this one, recorded at "Musica Viva" in Munich was premiered in Donaueschingen in 2000: "I was asked to write a choral piece on the subject of violence in our society. But I was rather attracted by the violence that our society commits - against nature, against our home planet. And I preferred to be positive in my music rather than creating a kind of protest song."
CD $20

JONATHAN HARVEY//SPECTRUM - Bhakti (NMC 01; UK) A mystical exploration of the Sanskrit Hymns of the Rig Veda for chamber ensemble and quadrophonic tape by Jonathan Harvey, whose long-standing connections with IRCAM and studies with Pierre Boulez are perfectly demonstrated here.
CD $20

NICK DIDKOVSKY - Ice Cream Time (New World 80667; USA) Featuring Nick Didkovsky on electric guitar, laptop & composition, Thomas Dimuzio on sampling & processing and the ARTE (Sax) Quartett. Over the last decade, Nick Didkovsky, has concentrated more on composing, working with his computer and improvising, than running NYC's foremost "progressive" band, Dr. Nerve. With Dr. Nerve performances and recordings few and far between, Nick has continued to refine his composing and improvising skills. The six pages of enclosed liner notes by Ross Feller are illuminating and helpful in understanding this music, but I leave it to you to read them for yourself. The first part of this piece, after a short silly vocal refrain, features purposefully drunken sounding twisted sax lines. Nick's writing for the sax quartet is spirited, fun and his guitar fits in just right. I dig the way the layers of samples weave their way around the saxes like a festive fabric that is as much fun to hear as it is to look at. Nick's music often has that quirky yet difficult Zappa-like vibe that makes me smile because it feels so good and is a challenge to play and listen to as well. There is a great section on "Fall" where the saxes play layers of twisted notes together and then become intertwined in layers of manipulations. It sounds as if they are playing backwards! Like Lasse Marhaug in the Territory Band, Tom Dimuzio, does a great job of providing strange, electronic textures or samples and is featured on "Seltzer Section" and on "I Cheer Pet Eater", where the samples turn the saxes inside-out at times. What I dig about this piece is that has some unexpected twists and turns. "Calm" is just that, with long hushed drones for the saxes, that is quite lovely. The final section, "Rise" is long and most impressive. It begins with more somber sax drones that are rich and haunting and build exquisitely in cautious layers that both fascinating and a bit unnerving, just like life itself." - BLG
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A Passel of Avant-Japanese Rock and Noise!

DAIMONJI [HOPPY KOMIYAMA/TATSUYA YOSHIDA/NASUNO MITSURU] - I'm Getting Sentimental Over You (Vivo/Tone Industria 21; EEC) New project of Tatsuya Yoshida, Hoppy Kamiyama, Nasuno Mitsuru. If you like music of Seikazoku, Musica Transonc, Ruins, Altered States & Pugs you will be amazed by this album!
CD $16

DAMO SUZUKI With HOPPY KOMIYAMA/TATSUYA YOSHIDA et al - The Fire Of Heaven At The End Of The Universe: Live At UFO Club (Vivo 2007030; EEC) a new record of DAMO SUZUKI, member of the legendary krautrock band CAN! Featuring: Damo Suzuki (voice), Hoppy Kamiyama (keyboards), Yuji Katsui (violin), Kenji Sato (bass), Tatsuya Yoshida (drums). The CD brings a rich, colorful palette of krans-kraut-psychedelic sound. 3 fold-out cardboard sleeve. Limited edition. Recorded live at UFO Club / Tokyo, 5th March 2006.
[out of print, we have the last copies]
CD $16

SEIKAZOKU [TATSUYA YOSHIDA/KAWABATA MAKOTO/ATSUSHI TSUYAMA] - Live in Japan (Vivo 2006019; EEC) A wonderful mixture of progressive psychedelic rock, improvised structures of jazz and extraordinary world music inspirations! Yoshida Tatsuya (head of Magaibutsu Records, Ruins, PainKiller, Korekyojin, Zubi Zuva, just the name of few!), Tsuyama Atsushi (Akaten, Haco, Omoide Hatoba, Acid Mothers Temple), Kawabata Makoto (Acid Mothers Temple, Zoffy, Godman, Akaten, Gong, Mainliner, Musica Transonic, countless other projects). Featuring 13 tracks recorded during shows in Tokyo and Nagoya in 2005. Must-have for all fans of new sound of Japan!
CD $16

RUINZHATOVA [YAMAMOTO SEIICHI/TATSUYA YOSHIDA/TSUYAMA ATSUSHI] - Liveinsomewhere (Vivo 2006021; EEC) Well known for fans of Japanese experimental music virtuosos: Yamamoto Seiichi (Boredoms, Omoide Hatoba, Rovo), Tatsuya Yoshida (Ruins, Korekyojin, Zubi Zuva, AMT) and Tsuyama Atsushi (Akaten, Haco, Omoide Hatoba, AMT) have joined forces to present live their visions of jazz-infuenced progressive free-rock. Classic !
CD $16

PIOTR ZABRODZKI & TATSUYA YOSHIDA - Karakany (Vivo 2007027; EEC) Young generation of Polish jazz meets Japanese free/jazz/improv/experimental Guru. Free jazz for piano, drums, voice and bass guitar effects. Not easy but pretty refreshing sound.
CD $16

ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE MELTING PARAISO U.F.O. - Close Encounters Of The Mutants (MultiKulti 16; Japan) This title was released on the Polish label Multikulti 2 years ago and was never distributed abroad. Special packaging (ecopack). Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. at the time of this recording were Tsuyama Atsushi: monster bass, vocal, alto-recorder, cosmic joker. Higashi Hiroshi: synthesizer, electric guitar, dancin' king. Koizumi Hajime: drums, percussion, sleeping monk. Kawabata Makoto: electric guitar, hardy-gardy, violin, percussion, speed guru. ...with: Oni & Pikacyu (from Afrirampo): vocals. Recorded at Acid Mothers Temple, April - July 04. Produced & engineered by Kawabata Makoto.
CD $17.

ACID MOTHERS GONG [ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE With DAEVID ALLEN/GILLI SMYTH et al] - Live in Nagoya (Vivo 2006020; EEC) A live collaboration between legendary psychedelic-space-rock band GONG & not less respectable Japanese ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE. Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth, Josh Pollock, Kawabata Makoto, Higashi Hiroshi, Tsuyama Atsushi, Yoshida Tatsuya. Together they form Acid Mothers Gong. Recorded at Nagoya TOKUZO on 9th april 2003. Essential.
"Featuring Daevid Allen (Gong founder), Gilli Smyth (Mother Gong), Josh Pollock (University of Errors), Kawabata Makoto, Higashi Hiroshi, Tsuyama Atushi (3 Acid Mothers) and Tatsuya Yoshida (Ruins mainman). Although, you got to admit that Acid Mothers Temple & Makoto Kawabata have way too many discs out (30+), as well as does Daevid Allen & Gilli Smyth and their myriad of projects-bands-solo efforts, certain gems are still worth their weight in gold. This is the second Gong/Acid Mother collaboration and it is another treat. It is live, space-rockin' epic. "HoHoHo!" is an epic length, hard-rocking space journey, somewhere between early Gong and Hawkwind. Tatsuya's master drumming kicks the force up a notch as the swirling guitars, synth, throbbing bass and sly/silly vocals sail into space. "Glissade Gillisade" features Daevid's glissando guitar and Gili's space whispers and is quite Gong-like. The four long space-rockin' epics are followed by three fine shorter pieces, some taken from previous Gong song cycles, however mutated. Loads of fun for Space Cadets worldwide. If only they would tour the world together and make the planet earth safer for all of us, then we could smile as we float down-stream." - BLG
CD $16

ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE COSMIC INFERNO - Demons
From Nipples (Vivo 2005015; EEC) Another trippy release,this time out on Vivo Records,a Polish label of the notorious Japanese noise-space rockers Acid Mothers Temple.'Demons' From Nipples' is every bit AS good as most other numerous ATM discs available out there.Recorded at(what I assume)their own studio in May,2005.Like several recent other Acid Mother's CD's,just two tracks here.The title cut "Demons From Nipples"(39:10)features plenty of acidic guitar shredding and bubbling synthesizer,plus some hypnotic vocals by bassist Tabata Mitsuru,late in the song."5 Seconds Demon"(12:48)is a bit heavier,but still accomplishes the same goal of scrambling your brain cells.Well worthy of repeated plays.Glue sniffers,stoners,hop heads and late night dreamers - rejoice! Your day has finally come. - Mike Reed
CD $16

KAWABATA MAKOTO - Your Voice From the Moon (Vivo 2005018; EEC)If a bearded, tie-dyed guy fiddling with the knobs and wires of some vintage synth is your idea of a good time, you're in luck. Here's another three (quite long, of course) tracks of space-out fantasia from the prolific Kawabata Makoto, leader of everyone's favorite band of hippie throwbacks, Acid Mothers Temple. Kawabata's music is just about Japan's number one export these days, isn't it?? Well c'mon, he's got rent to pay (or effects boxes to buy, or something). And as always, we're not complaining... ol' Kawabata can indulge his love for krauty cosmic electronics, as he does here, all the live long day and we'll forever be willing to lend an ear.
At 21, 19, and 34 minutes, roughly, these tracks have plenty of space to develop, and feature quietly creepy stretches of looping seagull static as well as utter sci-fi, videogame zappery, pretty much along the same lines as Space Machine, Masonna's similarly inspired analog synth side project. Good music to veg out to while starring at any remotely abstract pattern, with the last and longest (title) track being the most meditative, basically a central drone-tone and heartbeat-like pulse.
CD $16

THE MAGIC CARPATHIANS & LECHISTAN'S ELECTRIC CHAIR - Mirrors (Vivo 2006024; EEC) Five brand new tracks of droning, hypnotic ethno/psychedelic /noise rock from Anna Nacher's & Marek Styczynski's The Magic Carpathians Project new incarnation named The Magic Carpathians & Lechistan's Electric Chair. Recorded this summer, just after their return from prestigeous Terrascope / Terrastock6 Festival. Mesmerizing and surprisingly sounding ethno-core music from the darker side of the Carpathian Mountains.
CD $16

THE MAGIC CARPATHIANS PROJECT - Sonic Suicide: Ethnoise #1 (Vivo 2005015; EEC) MAGIC CARPATHIANS PROJECT's new release, Sonic Suicide, is as surprising and as challenging as every one of their previous albums. The figure of suicide designates the moment of closure and transformation, not far from orgasmic density and bodily pleasures of sounds on the album. The music here creates intense, vibrating, rhizomatic field of electric pulsations, drones and irregularities. This time Magic Carpathians Project's line up has been scaled down to just two of core members who have been establishing the name since 1998: ANNA NACHER (mistreated electric guitars, voice, lyrics, media manipulation and bastardization, loops, field recordings) and MAREK STYCZYNSKI (homemade analog sound modulator, field recordings, saxophone, clarinet, flutes, gongs, percussions). A prototype version of analog sound modulator--called badoog--which emits soundwaves of sinusoidal amplitude and frequencies reaching out beyond the standard range audible to human ear has been designed and built especially for this session. Anna Nacher sings, screams and soars both in English and Polish, occasionally inhabiting the space between languages or mixing up the dialects, idioms and pronunciations. Field recordings taken by the duo during their travels across Himalaya, Carpathians and Balkans are employed as signs of hybridic soundscape of cultural nomads, far from overproduced and colonized idioms of 'world music'. Only for the bravest of the bravest!
CD $16

MAREK STYCZYNSKI - Cyber Totem (Vivo 20070; EEC) Cybertotem is a solo project of Marek Styczynski (ex Atman, The Magic Carpathians & Lechistan's Electric Chair) that shows fruits of a few years of sonic studio experimentations, travelling and studying the ritual music of Carpathians and Balkans. File under: ethno / folk / experimental / psychedelic rock. Jewel case packaging.
CD $16

MERZBOW [MASAMI AKITA] - Bloody Sea (Vivo 2006022; EEC) Protest-Noise music by Masami Akita. Dedicated to anti-whaling activity. 50m. 27s. "In November, 2006, the Japanese whaling fleet will set sail for the icy waters of Antarctica. Their target - 50 Humpback Whales, 50 Fin Whales and almost 1000 Minke Whales." (...) STOP WHALING!
CD $16

MERZBOW [MASAMI AKITA] - Coma Berenices (Vivo 2007029; EEC) Weird psychedelic-noise by Masami Akita. 5 tracks. Recorded and mixed at Bedroom in Tokyo, January 2007. Classic.
CD $16

SATANICPORNOCULTSHOP - Orochi Under the Straight Edge Leaves (Vivo 2005017; EEC) 7th full-length CD album from Osaka/Japan based Satanicpornocultshop. Orochi under the Straight Edge Leaves presents unusual mixture of grotesque noisepop, abstract hip hop and cinematic experimental sounds. Beautiful, breathtaking and... insane.
CD $16

VOLCANO THE BEAR - Egg And Two Books (Vivo 2006026; EEC) n't sit still and continue to add further additions to their fast growing library of works. Recorded at Eggstock in Leicester in June of last year, "Egg and Two Books" is a live document that perfectly translates the most bizarre aspects of the band from live on stage to your CD player. Currently composed of Aaron Moore on drums, trumpet and vocals, saxophonist/guitarist/vocalist Nick Mott, electronics master Clarence Manuelo and Daniel Padden on keyboards, guitar, clarinet and vocals, the quartet continue their mission to add a greater depth into the world of dada. Describing their music is like trying to paint a picture for a person who has been blind all their life. You can mention the shades of green, but what the hell does a colour look like anyhow? You can talk about moments of sounds that appear to be composed but what does composition have to do with a live Volcano The Bear performance? I can mention an odd, twisted keyboard on "Amidst the Noise and Twings" that churn themselves against a grain of percussion that keeps pace with the electronically induced whirl, which is then massaged by weirdly obtuse vocals, but would any of this make any sense? Can words do this quartet any justice or will they work against them? Can you hurt a group by groping their music and mining words that come out of a rock, when the rock is stubborn and won't crack? Suffice it to say, the live recording provides enough tribal moments - mysterious drools of awe on saxophones and skewed guitar analogies - along with vocalizations from outer space to keep the most starved of alien listeners completely satiated. May the force of the Bear be with you! - Tom Sekowski
CD $16

GENE BOWEN With HAROLD BUDD/JOHN BERGAMO - Bourgeois Magnetic (Amorphon 10; Japan) A hidden gem produced by Harold Budd in 1981. Gene Bowen is a singer/songwriter based in California. He worked with Harold Budd at California Institute for the Arts on the 70s. He has contributed to Harold Budd's landmark ambient work with Brian Eno - Ambient 2: Plateaux Of Mirror (1980), The Serpent (In Quicksilver) (1981), Abandoned Cities (1984). Bourgeois Magnetic was originally released on Budd and Bowen's own Cantil label in 1981. Budd plays piano on three of the albums five tracks. "Bourgeois Magnetic", originally released under the name Eugene Bowen, was a 12-inch 45 rpm record, and the second release on Budd and Bowen's own label Cantil Records back in 1981. It's the only album that has never been reissued in albums Budd is involved. This album is influenced from composite art like Dada and Fluxus, including some references from movie, art culture and poetry. Budd's beautiful piano (tr1, tr3, tr5), filtered synth work (tr2) and groovy song with Berimbau (tr4) in one album. Although the music is firmly in the tradition of the early Ambient movement, its originality and freshness have not diminished over the years. A hidden gem. "Wow! It's a beautiful album... wonderful innocence." -- Harold Budd.
CD $17

FITZ ELLARALD - The Very Air Seems Replete With Humming And Buzzing Melodies (Amorphon 01; Japan) Russian electornics, sounds like Fennesz by Russian sysths & tapes
CD $17

YOSHIO MACHIDA - Infinite Flowers (Amorphon 02; Japan) Hybrid, Steel Pan x Electronics with Fourcolor, member of Minamo.
CD $17

YOSHIO MACHIDA - Naada (Amorphon 06; Japan) Steel Pan improv. inspired by Indian traditional music
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JULIAN COPE - Japrocksampler (Bloomsbury; USA) "Julian Cope, eccentric and visionary rock musician, hip archaeologist and one time frontman of Teardrop Explodes, follows the runaway underground success of his book Krautrocksampler with Japrocksampler, a cult deconstruction of Japanese rock music. Japrocksampler reveals what really happened when East met West after World War II and the mayhem that ensued... and is a must for anybody interested in modern music and Japanese culture. It explores the clash between traditional, conservative Japanese values and the wild rock 'n' roll renegades of the 1960s and '70s and tells the tale of the seminal artists in Japanese post-war culture, from itinerant art-house poets to violent refusenik rock groups with a penchant for plane hijacking. The book concludes with enticing reviews of Julian's top 50 Jap Rock albums."
BOOK $30


DEMONS - Evocations (No Fun 25; USA) Demons is Nate Young (founding member of Wolf Eyes and of AA records) and Steve Kenney. Dual brooding analog synths as evil as you can make it! This is what I thought Bruce Haack's "Electric Lucifer" would sound, like a soundtrack to an early Kenneth Anger film or an accompaniment to a black mass. This imaginary horror movie will creep you out and have you looking under your bed and in your closet. Trudging subsonic sine pulses emulating failing heartbeats or your final breath with enchanting swells of filter sweeping heavy psychedelic sine bursts. Yet both Nate & Steve know their synths well and allow each other to breath while they manipulate the psycho-tropic sonic field to finely tune your mind into a mesmerized trance. Artwork by Alivia Zivich (cofounder of AA records). Recommended to listen to loud and in the dark or sitting close to your self-built dream machine. Fans of Space Machine, Mort Garson, and Cluster, take note.-Chuck Bettis/dmg
CD $12

PAIN JERK/INCAPACITANTS - Live At No Fun Fest 2007 (No Fun 23; USA) 2007 marked the first time ever both Japanese noise legends Incapacitants and Pain Jerk played outside of their native homeland. The music caught on this disc captures the bone crushing intensity of these groups, each whom with their unique approach have helped pioneer an ever growing interest in the mystical abilities of noise.
With your volume set on 1 it will sound like its on 10! This will tear the paint off your walls! Pain Jerk starts off first ripping through your speakers with a sherman filter tank, homemade acoustic noise machine (ala early Merzbow), and random analog electronics. Concentrated tones pummel your brain but feels like a shiatzu massage. Incapacitants give only a few seconds of breathing room before they start dancing on the burning embers of your speakers charred remains. These two crazed bankers bring you insane madness that few noise groups have been able to emulate with the use of modern and archaic electronics with the oldest human instrument, voice. The shorter out of the two sets, this perpetual noise machine churns out modulating sine waves, strangulated screams, and brutal abuse on their equipment. Perhaps their sonic onslaught will cause some sort of tarantism. As the pictures,liner notes, and the ecstatic responses of the undulating participants of this noise ritual can testify (listen to the crowd response), Pain Jerk and Incapacitants have changed the face of noise music forever. Another history lesson brought to you by No Fun Productions. A cd for the visceral hardcore! -Chuck Bettis/dmg
CD $12


MV & EE [MATT VALENTINE/ERIKA ELDER] With THE GOLDEN ROAD - Gettin' Gone (Ecstatic Peace 109; USA) "Still riding high on the glorious steed that was Green Blues (heads are still processing its smoked grooves and wild-at-heart paeans to love and kosmiche carnality), Matt Valentine and Erika Elder entered a Western Mass studio armed with enough fresh material to choke a whole team of horses. You may ask, 'how can this be?' Well, since recording their Ecstatic Peace! debut, the duo has toured extensively, all the while writing tunes, scavenging esoteric guitar equipment & revamping their backing band to suit the environment of Gettin' Gone. A new sound has organically evolved that will most certainly astonish listeners new & old, but still find a special place on the formidable shelf of their back catalog. So rejoice in this disc, which boasts some of MV & EE's most finely-crafted songs to date and along with The Golden Road present a feast of tones & riffs that will stick to your ribs for a long time. Like its predecessor, Gettin' Gone is a family affair of like-minded freak and friendly hair waves. Most fascinating is the Ecstatic Peace! soundboard premier of Zuma, one of the coolest dog minds north of New York City. Also the one part golden addition of Doc Dunn and the harmonium magic of Luisa, she of Mascis child. Oh and J his self blams some mountain heavy drumming on a few of these tracks. Matt and Erika's devotional dharma is open to all true vibes of rock n' roll and folk n' roots ramble both tender and tuff."
CD $12.


ED ASKEW - Little Eyes (Destijl 032; USA) First EVER issue of this unreleased 2nd album, recorded in 1970. This was the intended follow-up to Ed's classic ESP-disk album, Ask the Unicorn from 1969. This CD adds 6 bonus tracks from radio sessions, 1970-71. Wow. "Ed Askew recorded Little Eyes in one continuous take during a brief, hot, hetero moment, 1970, New York City. Thirty-two years later, Destijl released it on LP. Made with little more than magnetic tape, Ed's voice, and the stunningly modern arrangements of his beloved Martin Tiple, Little Eyes is as grand, sad and beautiful a statement as can be expressed. His off-key lilt hangs like a seductive pink mist and settles deeply; you'll hear these songs long after they are over. Attempting to publicize an unreleased record, Ed did a string of radio gigs between New York and New Haven, and the best of them are collected here. Lovely and wild, this one is very near and dear to our hearts. Soon, yours too."
CD $14


..And more Historic & Archival Recordings:

DAEVID ALLEN [GONG] & EUTERPE - Good Morning (Esoteric 2004; UK) In 1975, following his departure from GONG, the highly influential group he had founded, Daevid Allen sought musical solace in the village of Deja on the island of Mallorca. Here he encountered a group of Catalan musicians, Euterpe, with whom Allen began a collaboration. Recorded in Mallorca, the album "GOOD MORNING" was released by Virgin Records in 1976 to great acclaim, being a unique work that was regarded by fans and critics as being equally as good as anything he recorded with GONG, if not better. Filled with Allen's startling original musical observations, "GOOD MORNING" appeared briefly on CD in the early 1990's and vanished quickly. Long sought after by the legions of GONG / DAEVID ALLEN followers, ESOTERIC RECORDINGS is proud to announce the reissue of this album + the non-album bonus cut "Euterpe Gratitude Piece', and with fully restored artwork and superb 24-bit digitally remastered sound.
CD $17

JONESY - Masquerade - The Dawn Years Anthology: No Alternative/Keeping Up/Growing [2 CD set] (Esoteric 2009; UK) Recently cited by "CLASSIC ROCK" magazine as "The Best Prog Band You've Never Heard", Jonesy were one of the most innovative British bands of the early 1970's. Placing a Mellotron at the centre of their sound and taking influences from the worlds of jazz, rock, classical music and folk, Jonesy recorded a single and three albums ("No Alternative", "Keeping Up" & "Growing") for Pye's progressive Dawn imprint. Drawing comparisons to KING CRIMSON and YES, Jonesy were more that. Classic Rock's Malcolm Dome declared recently; "Jonesy were more than mere mimics of any Fripp-ery. They made some fascinating records". Now, for the first time, ESOTERIC gathers all of Jonesy's recorded output for Dawn Records and gathers it on this deluxe 2CD set, with all tracks remastered from the original master tapes. "Masquerade" is certain to attract an excellent response.
2 CD set for $22.


TRAD, GRAS OCH STENAR - From Moja to Minneapolis [DVD] (Gashud; EEC) Trad Gras och Stenar have their origin in the legendary Swedish psychedelic /experimental bands, Parson Sound/International Harvester /Harvester who started playing in 1967. The band dissolved in 1972 but reunited in 1995, ready for new adventures and they never ever lost the spirit. They still rank as one of the most amazing contemporary psych bands worldwide. During 2002-2005, Mikael Hogstrom and his video camera accompanied their gigs. As time went on, it turned into a little project. Mikael showed the band his latest clips and under their merciless eyes and ears, those clips slowly developed into this DVD. The amazing footage and sound documents the band performing in Sweden, USA and Russia. It also contains recordings from other cameras and sound recorders, including a few glimpses from the band's old 8mm movies -- an echo from the past. An amazing psychedelic journey in sounds and sights. Time 118 min., plus an extra bonus 3 min. 21 secs. with old film clips from 1970. 4:3; NTSC PCM; Stereo; Region: 0; DVD 9; Double Layer.
DVD $26

NICK DRAKE - Under Review [DVD] (Sexy Intellectual 527; USA) "A 90-minute documentary film which goes some way to unraveling the mystery of this enigmatic singer-songwriter, who passed away at the age of just 26. With the aid of those who were close to Nick, those around at the time and those who have studied and written about Nick Drake in depth, this program discusses, dissects and appraises Nick's life, music and astonishing, albeit short, career. The program also features classic Nick Drake performances, location shoots, rare and classic photographs and many other features. Includes contributions from; Nick's close friend, Jeremy Mason; the man who 'discovered' Nick and founded Fairport Convention, Ashley Hutchings; Fairport drummer who also drummed on Bryter Later, Dave Mattacks; fellow Witchseason artist and founder of the Incredible String Band, Robin Williamson; folk-blues guitarist and major influence on Nick Drake, John Renbourn; singer/guitarist and contemporary of Nick's Ralph McTell; the only journalist to have interviewed Nick, Jerry Gilbert; both Nick Drake biographers, Patrick Humphries and Trevor Dann, singer-songwriter and Mercury Music Prize nominee, Kathryn Williams and many others." Running time: 90 minutes; NTSC format, All Regions; Screen Format 4:3; Stereo Sound Mix. As it says on the back, "this film is not authorized by the estate of Nick Drake nor by Island Records."
DVD $20


AFRICAN JAZZ N JIVE [V.A.] - An Authentic Selection Of South Africa Township Swing Classics From the 50s and 60s (Gallo; EEC)
CD $24





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6pm - BEN GERSTEIN / MICHAEL ATTIAS /TERRY McMANUS!


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THE STONE is located at the NW corner of Avenue C & 2nd St.

October, 2007 curated by Paola Prestini / Steven Bernstein

10/12 Friday
8 pm - The New York Miniaturist Ensemble w/ Erik Carlson (violin) Josh Rubin (clarinet) Michael Caterisano (percussion); The New York Miniaturist Ensemble performs works of 100 notes or fewer by composers from around the globe.
10 pm - Steve Piccolo and Gak Sato w/ Steve Piccolo (voice, bass, guitar and electronics) Gak Sato (theremin, percussion and electronics)
Steve Piccolo, in a rare appearance at the Stone, comes from Milan, Italy to bring us "Unreliable Sources", an evening of songs and stories.

10/13 Saturday
8 pm - Moo, Squeal & Scratch: In the Garden of Shadows
Haleh Abghari (voice) Michael Douglas Jones (voice) Benjamin Kreith (violin) Keith Carrol (Sound Design) - Excerpts from Moo, Squeal & Scratch: in the garden of shadows, a bilingual music-theatre work with text from classical Persian poetry, created and performed by Haleh Abghari, Michael Douglas Jones, Benjamin Kreith and Keith Carrol.
10 pm - 'CELLI w/ Felix Fan (cello) ; Felix Fan, the exciting versatile cellist, offers an evening with multiple cellistic perspectives in a program that includes 'Metamorphosis' by Philip Glass for two celli, 'We shall Fight' by Yoav Gal, and 'Cello Counterpoint' by Steve Reich.

10/14 Sunday
8 and 10 pm - Improv Night-A Stone Benefit featuring: John Zorn (sax) Steven Bernstein (trumpet) Kenny Wollesen (drums) Shanir Blumenkranz (bass) Cyro Baptista (percussion) Special Guests TBA Come out and support The Stone! Twenty Dollars.

10/16 Tuesday
8 pm - Songs to Die By w/ Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz (slide bass, vocals) Briggan Krauss (saxophone) Ches Smith (drums) Special Guests TBA
Shanir Blumenkranz and his new ensemble
10 pm - Kinan Azmeh-Electro-Clarino (clarinet and electronics); Syrian Clarinetist/composer will be presenting a genre-blurring mixed works of Arabic Electro-Acoustic original compositions with musical and visual collaborators guests from his Gilgamesh Project.

10/17 Wednesday
8 pm - Matt Munisteri and Brock Mumford w/ Matt Munisreri (guitar, vocals), Jon-Erik Kelso (cornet) Guests TBA, Brooklyn-bred guitarist (and MTO member) in his 1st Stone appearance
10 pm - Tony Scherr and friends w/ Tony Scherr (bass, guitar, vocals) Special guests bassist, guitarist, vocalist, 1/4 of Sex Mob, long time collaborator with Bill Frisell, Willie Nelson, Joey Baron and so many more with a special instrumental project put together for this event.

10/18 Thursday
8 pm - Paul Shapiro and Midnight Minyan w/ Paul Shapiro (tenor saxophone) Peter Apfelbaum (tenor saxophone) Steven Bernstein (trumpet) Brian Mitchell; (piano) Booker King (bass) Tony Lewis (drums); Special all acoustic performance by Tzadik favorites Midnight Minyan.
10 pm - Doug Wamble (guitar) Ben Allison (bass) Matt Wilson (drums)
Marsalis Music recording artist (and original MTO member) Doug Wamble in his first ever collaboration with two of the most critically regarded musicians in NYC today.

10/19 Friday
8 pm - Michael Blake's Hellbent - w/ Michael Blake (tenor saxophone) Steven Bernstein (trumpet, slide trumpet) Marcus Rojas (tuba) Calvin Weston (drums)
10 pm - Sex Mob with Calvin Weston w/ Steven Bernstein (slide trumpet) Briggan Krauss (alto saxophone) Tony Scherr (bass) Calvin Weston (drums)
First NYC appearance since the end of Tonic by the Grammy nominated band Sex Mob...come to see their Grammy medallions, stay to hear their music.

10/20 Saturday
8 pm - Charlie Burnham and Hidden City w/ Charlie Burnham (violin, mandolin, vocals) Dom Richards (bass) Marika Hughes (cello) Shahzad Ismaily (drums)
MTO violinist, member of Blood Ulmer's Odeysey Band, Cassandra Wilson collaborater...Charlie sings and plays his original songs...an incredible musician.
10 pm - G Calvin Weston and the Nassira Project; w/ Calvin Weston (drums, trumpet, vocals) Tom Spiker (guitar, bass) Brian Marsala (keyboards)

10/21 Sunday
8 pm - Brad Shepik Trio w/ Brad Shepik (guitar) Gary Versace (organ) Mark Ferber (drums)
10 pm - Peck Allmond Kalimba Collective - Peck Allmond is a multi-instrumentalist who never stops expanding his musical world...also a friend of Steven Bernstein's since 3rd grade!


Performances take place at 8 & 10 PM from Tuesday - Sunday nights,
There are no advance tickets, first come, first served, there is no phone
There is no food or beverage served or allowed, just a serious listening environment
Admission for each set is $10, unless otherwise indicated
Check out the website for The Stone at thestonenyc.com


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Dance Theater Workshop presents
DONNA UCHIZONO COMPANY
In the world premiere of
THIN AIR
Music by Fred Frith
OCTOBER 9 - 13, 2007

In the world premiere of Thin Air, Donna Uchizono's point of departure is her fascination with how human perception shapes and obscures our sense of reality. Hailed by Ms. Magazine's end of the century issue as "a choreographer making great leaps forward into the 21st century," Donna Uchizono is known for bringing emotional depth to inventive work spiced with wit, rich invention and unexpected beauty. In Thin Air, she draws from the Buddhist tenet of "emptiness" as well as concepts of quantum physics to create a landscape that is both real and virtual. Juxtaposing projected video and shifting soundscapes with the visceral power of dance, Thin Air ultimately emphasizes the emotional impact of "real" physical contact and intimacy. As Uchizono stretches space and time with a language of minimal movement and compelling visual imagery, Thin Air emerges as a performance that exposes the complexity and fragility of the human psyche and once again, "plays with our expectations at every turn." (The Washington Post) Thin Air features dancers Hristoula Harakas, Antonio Ramos and Julie Alexander, an original score by the iconic composer Fred Frith, video by artist Michael Casselli and lighting by Jane Shaw.


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j a z z a t t h e s e a p o r t - Fridays at 8pm

october 12
shoko nagai, piano
louie belogenis, tenor saxophone
satoshi takeishi, drums

october 19 angelica sanchez trio
angelica sanchez, piano
chris lightcap, bass
chad taylor, drums

october 26 berger, lindberg, belogenis & kugel
karl berger, piano and vibes
john lindberg, bass
louie belogenis, tenor saxophone
klaus kugel, drums

seaport district cultural association performance space
Front Street at Beekman Street (South Street Seaport)
rsvp: 1.212.393.9191
subway: 2,3,4,5 to Fulton Street or A to Broadway/Nassau


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Dee Pop presents: The Freestyle Creative Music Series
EVERY SUNDAY @ Jimmyâs Restaurant
43 East 7th Street, NYC - 212-982-3006
Sets are at 7pm & 9pm $10 PER SHOW (cheap!)

OCTOBER: CURATED BY AMIR ELSAFFAR

October 14
7:00 Mitz, with Dimitri Mikelis, Julian Ougier, Allan Bjorklund, Alex Dewrier, Pascal Niggembenker
9:00 Safaafir Iraqi Maqam ensemble, with Amir ElSaffar, Dena ElSaffar, and Tim Moore

October 21
7:00 Radio I-Ching
9:00 Gaida and her ensemble, featuring Amir ElSaffar, Dimitri Mikelis, Tareq Abboushi, Arturo Martinez

October 28
7:00 Carlo DeRosa Trio with Justin Brown and Mark Shim


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ROULETTE presents
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
8:30 PM Admission TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
Roulette 228 West Broadway New York, NY 10013

Friday, October 5th
Kyoko Kitamura with Valeria Vasilevsky & ok|ok [Mike McGinnis: reeds, Khabu: guitar, Kyoko Kitamura: voice and laptop]:
Nihon Anime Night. In tonight's work, conceived by Kyoko Kitamura & Valeria Vasilevski and performed by ok|ok (Mike McGinnis on reeds, Khabu on guitar & Kitamura on voice and laptop), several Japanese silent animations from the 1920s and 1930s will merge with a live performance. ok|ok's performance will honor the original content and add an English translation as well as original music both composed and improvised. Theater director/writer Valeria Vasilevski and vocalist Kyoko Kitamura first started exchanging creative ideas informally at a cafe in Brooklyn in the beginning of 2007. The purpose: to come up with ideas, no matter how strange or unrealistic, for multi-media projects which incorporated music, visuals, and Japan. Since then, the meetings have given birth to several possible projects, from small and light to big and heavy, based on classic Japanese animation from the 20s, 30s and 40s. Tonight's performance is the first realization of these ideas.


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From Lukas Ligeti: FRIDAY, OCT. 5:
BURKINA ELECTRIC!!! For the first time in the US, voila! My African-electronica band - all the way from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso! This concert will be a warm-up gig for our upcoming tour: we will hit Norwich, NY; Troy, NY; Pittsburgh; Charlottesville, VA; Boston; and on OCTOBER 20 we will be at JOE'S PUB!

If you can't make it on October 20, the Oct. 5 concert is the chance to see us straight out of the woodshed. We will be rehearsing for a couple of days at the Bushwick Starr, a beautiful space in my hood of Bushwick, Brooklyn, and to celebrate the end of our rehearsal phase, we will open our doors to you and play this semi-secret, very informal concert.
I assume the starting time is 8 pm but I'm really not sure, it may be 8:30 or 9 so

PLEASE check the Starr's calendar at http://www.thebushwickstarr.org/CALENDAR.html a few days beforehand. The location is: The Bushwick Starr, 207 Starr St. #4, (between Wyckoff Ave. and Irving Ave.), Bushwick, Brooklyn - a 2-minute walk from the Jefferson St. stop on the L train. http://www.thebushwickstarr.org, info@thebushwickstarr.org

Burkina Electric is: Mai Lingani (vocals), Wende K. Blass (guitar), Pyrolator (electronics), As Zoko (dance), Vicky Kafando (dance) and as you can see, our shows are not only music but also feature African-modern dance and live video!

ALSO...very shortly, we will be releasing REEM TEKRE, a double EP featuring some of our songs plus remixes by DJ SPOOKY, PAUL DE JONG OF THE BOOKS, RUPERT HUBER OF TOSCA, BADAWI (RAZ MESINAI), and MAPSTATION (STEFAN SCHNEIDER OF TO ROCOCO ROT).
I will soon send out another email with information about this CD and how to purchase it, and about our Oct. 20 concert at Joe's Pub. Until then: http://www.myspace.com/burkinaelectric


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KEVIN NORTON'S COUNTERPOINT THREE featuring:
Kevin Norton - vibraphone, compositions
Jesse Stern - electric bass
Garrett Brown - drums

October 10th at BARBES
376 9th St. at 6th Ave, Brooklyn
718 965 9177 www.barbesbrooklyn
f train to seventh ave in park slope
shows at 8pm and 10pm-12am, $10 each

After composing music for a dozen or so CDs and for various chamber groups, the TILT brass band and the Sound Vision Orchestra, Norton now turns to a decidedly jazz orchestration. Like the Steve Lacy trio, the Sonny Rollins trio or the Ornette Coleman trio ö a lead melody instrument with bass and drums (functioning on a higher level of interaction, rather than subordinate accompaniment roles) this trio features a new transparency of sound, yet is connected to Nortonâs other composition work by counterpoint: both emotional and technical.


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Tuesday Oct. 16th

10 pm at Spike Hill

Angelica Sanchez Trio
Angelica Sanchez, piano - Lisle Ellis, bass & Michael Sarin, drums
Creative Music Tuesdays at Spike Hill * October curated by Harris Eisenstadt

$10 cover per set
184 Bedford Avenue (@ N7) * Brooklyn, NY 11211 * (718) 218-9737
www.spikehill.com * Located on the corner of Bedford and North 7th, with delectable pub food, gold-standard Guinness, pristine sound and two full bars, Spike Hill has flourished into a staple among the area's clubs while still maintaining its intimate atmosphere.

Directions: L Train to Bedford Ave., walk west on Bedford


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AACM NEW YORK CITY CHAPTER PRESENTS:

Friday, October 12th at 8pm at The Community Church of NY

40 E. 35th St (between Madison & Park Avenues)

REGGIE NICHOLSON PERCUSSION TRIO PLUS ONE featuring:
Warren Smith, Don Eaton & Reggie Nicholson - percussion & Salim Washington - woodwinds

THE INTERNATIONAL BRASS & MEMBRANE CORP. featuring: Charles Burnham - violin, Joseph Daley - tuba, Ted Daniel - trumpet, flugel & cornet & Newman T. Baker - percussion


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CLAUDIA QUINTET EAST COAST TOUR!

October 8th-13th
"More Hair" Tour
with special guest Gary Versace-organ bass

Monday, Oct. 8 - Harrisonburg, VA
Tuesday, Oct. 9 - Charleston, SC
Wednesday, Oct. 10 - Richmond, VA
Thursday, Oct. 11 - Philadelphia, PA
Friday, Oct. 12 - New Haven, CT
Saturday, Oct. 13 - NYC

(Please note that tour dates are subject to change; for updated tour information visit www.johnhollenbeck.com or HYPERLINK "http://www.cuneiformrecords.com" www.cuneiformrecords.com)


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Thursday November 1st at 7:30 PM

ROBERT FRIPP solo, & with The League Of Crafty Guitarists

at The Concert Hall at the Ethical Cultural Society
2 West 64th Street, New York, NY 10023

Mr Fripp will play the first set with electric guitar going through his 'Lunar Modue' tower of electronics

Mr Fripp will play the second set on acoustic guitar with The LOGC. This is the first NY appearance of LOGC in over 15 years!


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Composer, pianist Burton Greene is in New York from Amsterdam for two concerts on October 20 and 21:

October 20: Solo Piano concert (including premieres of his new piano works) at S-P-A-C-E Gallery, 207A Front Street, NYC 8:30 PM $10.

October 21: Trio concert with Ed and George Schuller on bass & drums at Brecht Forum, 451 West St. 9PM - 3 groups on the program starting at 6:30 PM)
Narada Burton Greene: Composer, Pianist. Originally from Chicago, he began his long career of many recordings and performances in New York«s legendary jazz scene of the 1960's. He and Bassist Alan Silva contributed to the beginnings of free jazz in New York with the formation of their Free Form Improvisation Ensemble in 1963. He also co-founded the East West Trio with Indian sitarist Jamaluddin Bhartiya and percussionist Daoud Amin in 1973, one of the first World Music groups. Since that time he has travelled all over Europe and the USA with performances and recordings of his compositions and arrangements in many different types of music styles and ensembles. As Burton says it: "Music is or should be universal, without limits or borders eventually become boring.. they should be transcended." His 14 piece New Age Jazz Chorale (1975-78) did concerts and recordings in Europe, years before other groups were termed as "New Age". In the last 17 years he's been busy with his klezmer, Sephardic, Balkan-jazz ensemble Klezmokum, and various jazz solo, trio or quartet combinations. He also has a solo orchestral electronics program, teaches jazz, world music workshops, and lectures. His autobiographical book written over 20 years: "Memoirs of A Musical Pesty-Mystic" appeared in print in 2001 (Cadence Jazz Books). His recent groups based in New York include a duet with bassist Mark Dresser, a quartet with trumpeter Roy Campbell, Lou Grassi, and Adam Lane, concerts and recordings on the CIMP label in trio with Ed and George Schuller on bass and drums, and a quintet with the Schuller brothers, Russ Nolan on saxes and flute, Paul Smoker on trumpet. His recent solo piano CD "Retrospective 1961--2005 came out (January, 2007) on the CIMP label. Burton«s music is featured on about 50 recordings: records and CD's. www.burtongreene.com


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TREVOR WATTS & JAMIE HARRIS DUO!

Amalgam, SME & Moire Music legendary saxist with a great percussionist!
A rare stateside appearance

October 28th, 2007 at 5pm

At The Lounge at Hudson View Gardens
116 Pinehurst Ave at West 183rd St.

For more info, call 212-923-7800 ex. 1941


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ROB REDDY TO UNVEIL NEW WORK, NEW ENSEMBLE THIS OCTOBER in BROOKLYN, NY

Saxophonist/composer Rob Reddy and his new ensemble, Rob Reddy's Tenfold, will be in residence at

Brooklyn's Jalopy Theater every Friday night in October to perform his latest and most ambitious extended work, Episodes and Antinomies. The world premiere of this ten movement suite, commissioned by the American Composers Forum,

Three other performances will follow on October 12th, 19th and 26th respectively, further exploring the nuances and possibilities of this diverse music.

The opening acts will be the
Jon Margulies: Stone Tablet Interface (10/12)
Sarah Bernstein Unearthish (10/19)
Jessica Lurie Ensemble (10/26)

Admission to each of these four concerts will be $15 at the door. The Jalopy Theater is located at 315 Columbia Street in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Venue information is available at (718) 395-3214

Episodes and Antinomies, which takes roughly an hour and a half to perform, was written for Reddy's newly formed ten-piece ensemble featuring Douglas Yates (clarinets), John Carlson (trumpet), Mark Taylor (French horn), Charles Burnham (violin and mandolin), Rubin Kodheli (cello), Brandon Ross (guitars), Bryan Carrott (vibraphone and marimba), Dom Richards (double bass), and Pheeroan akLaff (drums). The music further explores many of the hallmarks of Reddy's most acclaimed musical projects, including a variety of time signatures, co-existing melodies, alternating through-composed and improvised movements, and the influence of genres ranging from traditional marches to modern rock to avant-garde jazz.

Episodes and Antinomies, the second of three commissioned Reddy works to receive its world premiere in New York this year, will be followed by the debut of a new book of music for his sextet, Rob Reddy's Gift Horse, at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center (TPAC) in late November.


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MATT SHIPP & THE NU-BOP QUARTET - Featuring:
MATT SHIPP / DANIEL CARTER / WILLIAM PARKER / GUILLERMO E. BROWN

Saturday, October 27th at 8pm
At Miller Theatre at Columbia University
2960 Broadway at 116th St.


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IRENE SCHWEIZER US & Canadian Tour Schedule for November, 2007:

November 5th - Solo - EUROJAZZ MEETS CHICAGO, USA

November 6th, Trio w/ FRED ANDERSON and MICHAEL ZERANG at VELVET LOUNGE, CHICAGO

November 9th - Trio with Jean Derome, jazz club MONTREAL

November 10th - Solo concert in Montreal, La chapelle historique du bon pasteur.

November 12th - Solo at ROULETTE, New York City -- -- ____________________________________________________________ October 2007: New improved Superfast 'Advanced Search Engine' at our site. More choices of parameters for winnowing down to what you're really looking for! Go to http://search2.downtownmusicgallery.com/first.cgi


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