kevin frenette | the kevin frenette 4: connections
Thursday, May 1st, 2008
The Kevin Frenette 4: Connections
(fsm 1781-2)
Kevin Frenette - guitar | Andy McWain - piano | Todd Keating - bass | Tatsuya Nakatani - percussion
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jean-michel van schouwburg - the mercelis concert
Friday, March 21st, 2008
The Mercelis Concert (Brussels 2006)
inaudible cd 006
Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg, voice | John Russell, acoustic guitar | Jean Demey, double bass
Tracklist: Light Staging’ - 13:10 | The First One - 15:25 | The Mercelis Trio - 11:15 | The 50th Birthday Party - 6:30 | Zen Garden Gift - 6:46
Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg : Voice, performance,improvised music. Brussels. Born 1955. Member of Brussels’ Inaudible Collective & Workshops since 1984. Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg develops vocal improvisation and voice extended techniques from low throat singing to high falsetto, overtones and yodels, mouth noises etc.. . « Phonoetry » (phonésie in french) describes the poésie sonore of his solo voice performance « ORYNX » (Orynx –Phonésie cd Inaudible 003.)
rigsby smith | hands up baby hands up
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Some weeks ago I published an raindog poem called Eyes like Mingus and I found a great painting from Rigsby Smith to illustrate the posting and he contacted me today and I went again to his web site to learn more about him. And you should do the same! He is a sort of an musicsmith and an visual artist as well. Check out his page here… and please send him an e-mail under rigsbysmith at hotmail dot com and ask him to send you the ‘hidden-link’ to get his latest album for free. Sounds great? Great Sounds !
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kyon and dyems | overnight
Monday, March 3rd, 2008
KYON AND DYEMS - OVERNIGHT
Crystal Wish Records CWO2
Search the farthest regions of the globe from now til the end of time and you would NEVER find a record that sounds like this. Not rap, not pop, not electronic, just phenomenal music.
christoph gallio | mösiöblö| ample food
Friday, February 8th, 2008
Like Robert Filliou’s 1965 massively small “epic” on something else press, AMPLE FOOD FOR STUPID THOUGHT from which it draws its inspiration, this cd is as short as it is long. Listening to it is like going back to school. The poems it contains are a witty, perverse primer on life. Not since the Lacy/Aebi combo has there been such a positive effort to bring poetry both humorous and profound into the improv/composed (97 % in this case by Christoph Gallio)/jazz/new music idiom all in one package and have it work so well from beginning to end.
journey into the valley | farouq z. bey w/ northwoods improvisers
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
In the year 2000, the Northwoods Improvisers srtarted playing with reed player Faruq Z Bey. The connection was made throuqh Len Bukowski - Charlie Parker discographer, San Ra enthusiast, record store owner and reed player who knew them in separate contexts. After Bey and the Northwoods met, it turned out they alrady knew each other: the Northwoods had played the opening set at a 1984 concert in their Mount Pleasant home town, on the occasion of a visit by Bey’s qroup Griot Galaxy. That first encounter was a one-off event, but at this second meeting between Faruq Z. Bey and the Northwoods something sparked.
bill payne | conversations
Saturday, January 26th, 2008
The clarinet in jazz seems to go in and out of fashion every couple of decades. This may be in part because its subtle sounds don‘t necessarily fit with the high-volume, over-miked and often heavily electronic ensembles of our contemporary music culture; and partly also, I suspect, because in its understated way the clarinet conveys emotions with directness that challenges our desensitized comfort zones.
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