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This is quite the little gem. Pianist and composer Yelena Eckemoff evokes the dark ages with a blend of medieval-inflected yet jazzy progressive rock. Instrumentation includes a number of different keyboards, electric guitar, flutes, violins, bass, and drums / percussion (by the legendary Trilok Gurtu no less). The album features floating melodies with prominent piano […]
12.3.2025 21:37AMN Reviews: Yelena Eckemoff – Scenes From The Dark Ages (2025; L&H Production)Thanks so much for posting a link to Dan Gutstein's work, Mike — deeply appreciated!
12.3.2025 20:49Comment on Newsbits: Ghost Ensemble / Gutstein / LA Creative Music Book by tedzookGhost Ensemble will be performing pieces from Sarah Davachi, Ben Richter, and Pauline Oliveros on March 16 in Florence, Mass. Dan Gutstein writes about Fanoplane and several other acts. Eron Rauch has a new book out about the creative music scene in LA in the 2010s.
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12.3.2025 20:29Comment on Anthony Braxton Interviewed by Erwin VannSource: The Free Jazz Collective. Emad Armoush’s Rayhan – Distilled Extractions (Afterday Audio 2025) Rob Mazurek – Nestor’s Nest (Keroxen Records, 2025) Virginia Genta @ Moers 2024 The Vinny Golia Quintet 2024: Almasty (Nine Winds, 2024) ***** Albert Ayler with Don Cherry – 1964 Recordings First Visit Completed (First Visit-ezz-thetics, 2024) Yes Deer – Everything […]
12.3.2025 14:00The Free Jazz Collective ReviewsSource: Something Else! Hearts & Minds – ‘Illuminescence’ (2025) Ivo Perelman, Ken Vandermark + Joe McPhee – ‘Oxygen’ (2025) Ivo Perelman & Tyshawn Sorey – ‘Parallel Aesthetics’ (2025)
12.3.2025 13:00Something Else! ReviewsSource: Capital Bop. Twenty-seven years ago, I met Anthony Braxton during an elevator ride at the Library of Congress. I had waited too long to secure a ticket through normal channels, so my friend, the late Larry Appelbaum, had found a way for me to attend the saxophonist’s premier of “Composition No. 222.” But Larry’s […]
12.3.2025 12:00Anthony Braxton InterviewedSource: Santa Sangre. Whitney Johnson and Lia Kohl – For Translucence [reviewed by: Peter Marks] Education comes in many forms and this album puts out a very direct question even if its musical articulations are quite eccentric: which structure is your’s. […] ATMAEN – Canto Sagrado [reviewed by: Pegah] “The Supreme Light is the source […]
12.3.2025 11:00Santa Sangre ReviewsSource: The Gig. The mood was cordial, albeit faintly tinged with ambient anxiety, when I sat down to dinner with Rudresh Mahanthappa in Montclair, New Jersey on this day five years ago. We met at a Mediterranean restaurant near Anderson Park, both of us aware that our world was stumbling into something that no one […]
12.3.2025 10:00Rudresh Mahanthappa ProfiledSource: Black Aleph. 13 May 2025: The Folklore Rooms, Brighton, UK 16 May 2025: JT Soar, Nottingham, UK 19 May 2025: The Cluny, Newcastle, UK 20 May 2025: BLOC+, Glasgow, UK 23 May 2025: The Ballroom, Canterbury, UK 24 May 2025: Portals Festival, EartH Hackney, London, UK 29 May 2025: Dunk Festival, Ghent, Belgium
12.3.2025 01:30Black Aleph to Tour the UKSource: Musique Machine. Lei Liang – Six Seasons Nimikry – Bird of Paradise Gaudenz Badrutt – Palace Nauzea Negra – Abrasive Noisy Cliff Haswell & Hecker – UPIC Diffusion Session #23 Half Decayed – Engulfed By Fungus Olion – Tulpa Train Cemetery – Black Chapter Sado Rituals – Contemplation Of The Endless Collapse
11.3.2025 14:00Musique Machine ReviewsSource: DOWNTOWNMUSIC.NET. March 3, 2025 Ian Douglas-Moore & David Watson, Striped Light Ian Douglas-Moore David Watson March 3, 2025 Bhob Rainey Solo, Striped Light Bhob Rainey March 3, 2025 RAFGAK, Striped Light Bryan Eubanks Alexander Markvart March 2, 2025 Bryan Eubanks with Sean Meehan, Fridman Gallery Bryan Eubanks Sean Meehan March 2, 2025 Eternities, Fridman […]
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11.3.2025 12:08Comment on Upcoming Events at the ISSUE Project Room by Herr Irrtum!Source: 90.9fm WDCB. Chicago journalist and jazz aficionado Andy Pierce hosts “Another Place” Sundays at midnight. The show explores creative music, jazz and the avant-garde, and delves into the longer, more complex compositions and improvisations in jazz.
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11.3.2025 11:05Comment on The Sound of Silence: A Wandelweiser Group Primer by Ryan MuscatSource: ISSUE Project Room. With Womens Work Screenings at Anthology Film Archives Wednesday, March 12, 2025 – 8:00 pm Thursday, March 13, 2025 – 8:00 pm Anthology Film Archives Anthology Film Archives & ISSUE Project Room present projections of work commissioned for ISSUE’s With Womens Work Series (2021). With Womens Work: Sydney Spann / Audrey […]
11.3.2025 11:00Upcoming Events at the ISSUE Project RoomSource: Bandcamp Daily. Start with John Cage. Cage died in 1992, the same year that Dutch flutist Antoine Beuger and German violinist Burkhard Schlothauer formed the Wandelweiser Group, with the publishing imprint Edition Wandelweiser and label Wandelweiser Records. The literal meaning of “wandelweiser” is ambiguous, having to do with levels of changeability or ways of […]
11.3.2025 10:00The Sound of Silence: A Wandelweiser Group PrimerSource: Freq. Gouldian Finch – Schizo Jerzy Mączyński – DO 555PS Rattle – Encircle Ventura – Superheld Rashied Ali Quintet Featuring Frank Lowe – Sidewalks In Motion Kate Shortt and Alcyona Mick – Convergence & Variations Mdou Moctar – Tears For Injustice Mark Polscher – Second Landing Jump Andrew Rumsey – Collodion Kjetil Mulelid Trio […]
10.3.2025 13:00Freq ReviewsSource: Jazz Album Reviews. Come Down Here Luis Vicente Server Farm Jon Irabagon Kouarteto Savina Yannatou / Barry Guy / Ramon Lopez / Floros Floridis Away Towards the Light Moe Staiano
10.3.2025 12:00All About Jazz ReviewsSource: Miller Theatre at Columbia University. Rebekah Heller Righteous Rage – Music for Bassoon Tuesday, March 25, 2025, 6PM Miles Okazaki and Bill Frisell Tuesday, April 15, 2025, 6PM JACK Quartet String Quartets of Austin Wulliman Parker Ramsay and Arnie Tanimoto Monday, May 19, 2025, 6PM
10.3.2025 11:00Popup Concerts at Miller TheatreSource: Dirk Serries. DIRK SERRIES – TREASURE OF STARS A Streams Of Consciousnes album (Projekt Records, digital) The Streams Of Consciousness series is home for Dirk Serries’ gleaming solo ambient work. With over 40 years of sonic experimentation — including his many albums as VidnaObmana — Dirk’s Treasure Of Stars is a return to his […]
10.3.2025 10:00New Dirk Serries ReleasesSource: Fringes of Sound. Sulci – Four Chambers Her second album both overall and on the Bricolage label, Sulci’s Four Chambers feels considerably different from her first album. Where her first one felt a bit more like intimate minutiae, this new album feels bigger, airier, and deeper. Everything feels like it sits in a large […]
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9.3.2025 15:41Comment on A Closer Listen Reviews by Bernd BürklinSource: Now Is. Sunday, March 09 Experimental Sound Studio 5925 N Ravenswood 773.769.1069 2:00PM-4:00PM Chicago Creative Machines : Public lecture-performance Caitlyn Min-ji Au First Presbyterian Church of Chicago 6400 S Kimbark 773.363.0505 3:30PM AACM Sunday Concerts Coco Elysses & Mwata Bowden Duo Elastic 3429 W Diversey, #208 773.772.3616 4:00PM AfriClassical Futures Series JoVia Armstrong + […]
9.3.2025 14:00Coming to ChicagoSource: Pitchfork. Sheer Hellish Miasma II Kevin Drumm Luminescent Creatures Ichiko Aoba Shards Tim Hecker List of Demands Damon Locks Sometimes I Forget to Breathe Eev Frances In Search of the Turtle’s Navel William Ackerman The Last Days of May Fennesz
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7.3.2025 13:25Comment on Lotte Anker Interview by Neil SandersThanks for publishing this, Mike. Susan was a friend of mine; I had the great good fortune to perform with her some time ago in Baltimore's High Zero "Red Room": https://soundcloud.com/alcorn-sebastian-zook/alcorn-sebastian-zook-live-at?in=ted-zook/sets/lost-civilizations . I had always hoped to perform with her again; alas, such is not to be . . . All the best, Ted Zook https://www.tedzook.com/ (practically all of the postings accessible through this site can be downloaded free-of-charge) https://avantmusicnews.com/2014/12/13/amn-interviews-ted-zook/ https://open.spotify.com/artist/2N5XZB5IermilrqYRAHO83 (solo work) https://tinyurl.com/mappn2tn (solo work) https://www.facebook.com/ted.zook.7
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