Steve Smith
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Vanessa Rossetto (Image: Matthew Revert) Vanessa Rossettoerased de kooning + rocinanteBandcamp; DL only Originally published by National Sawdust Log, May 5, 2017 Everything that’s erased leaves its trace of its passage behind: a point as familiar to the manuscript recyclers of antiquity for whom the term palimpsest was coined to modern-day digital data-recovery sleuths. We learn…
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Formed in 1966 in the city whose banner it would fly around the globe, the Art Ensemble of Chicago turned 50 in 2016. Of the longtime classic lineup – saxophonists Roscoe Mitchell and Joseph Jarman, trumpeter Lester Bowie, bassist Malachi Favors, and percussionist Don Moye – two, Bowie and Favors, have passed away, and one, Jarman,…
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An occasional tally of memorable things Steve Smith has stuck in his ears lately. Richard Wagner – Die Walküre – Matthias Goerne, Michelle DeYoung, Stuart Skelton, Heidi Melton, Petra Lang, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra/Jaap van Zweden (Naxos) <a href="http://tonkatsurecords.bandcamp.com/album/lark-city">Lark City by Skylark Quartet</a> Skylark Quartet – Lark City (Tonkatsu) <a href="http://fabricarecords.bandcamp.com/album/same-animal-different-cages-vol-2-solomonos-for-analog-synthesizer">Same Animal, Different Cages Vol.…
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An occasional tally of memorable things Steve Smith has stuck in his ears lately. <a href="http://jonathanfinlayson.bandcamp.com/album/moving-still">Moving Still by Jonathan Finlayson & Sicilian Defense</a> Jonathan Finlayson & Sicilian Defense – Moving Still (Pi Recordings; 2016) Chöying Drolma & Steve Tibbetts – Chö (Rykodisc; 1997) Mayhem – De Mysteriis dom Sathanas (Century Black; 1994) Laraaji – Ambient…
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An occasional tally of memorable things Steve Smith has stuck in his ears lately. Linda Catlin Smith – Memory Forms (Artifact Music; 2001) > Among the Tarnished Stars – The Burdocks; Through the Low Hills – Andrew Smith, Stephen Clarke; Knotted Silk – Stephen Clarke, Arraymusic/Henry Kucharzyk; With Their Shadows Long – Marc Sabat, Stephen…
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An occasional tally of memorable things Steve Smith has stuck in his ears lately. Linda Catlin Smith – Memory Forms (Artifact Music; 2001) > Among the Tarnished Stars – The Burdocks; Through the Low Hills – Andrew Smith, Stephen Clarke; Knotted Silk – Stephen Clarke, Arraymusic/Henry Kucharzyk; With Their Shadows Long – Marc Sabat, Stephen…
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An occasional tally of memorable things Steve Smith has stuck in his ears lately. Van der Graaf Generator – Do Not Disturb (Esoteric Antenna; 2016) Eli Keszler – Last Signs of Speed (Empty Editions; due Nov. 17, 2016) Linda Catlin Smith – Dirt Road – Mira Benjamin, Simon Limbrick (Another Timbre; 2016) Joseph Kudirka –…
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A bit of news to report, and rather than waxing loquacious I'm simply going to state it plainly: This is, for the foreseeable future, the last post I'll be writing for Night After Night, the blog I've operated on Typepad since October 2005. That's not to say I'm packing it in, just that I've decided…
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Away With You by Mary Halvorson Mary Halvorson Octet – Away With You (Firehouse 12; due Oct. 28) Claude Debussy – Images; Jeux; Nocturnes; La Mer; Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune; Marche écossaise sur un theme populaire; Printemps; Two movements from L’Infant Prodigue; Berceuse héroïque – Women of the RSNO Chorus, Royal Scottish National Orchestra/Stéphane…
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Photograph: Paola Prestini, by Brigitte Lacombe Originally published by National Sawdust Log on Oct. 3, 2016 When I first met with composer Paola Prestini just over three years ago to discuss her dreams, plans, and goals for the wide-ranging arts venue, incubator, and accelerator that would become National Sawdust, she expressed her conviction that journalism…
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Originally published by National Sawdust Log on Sept. 30, 2016. David Lang: the loser Presented by BAM Next Wave FestivalHoward Gilman Opera House, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NYReviewed on Sept. 9, 2016 By Steve SmithPhotographs: Richard Termine If you’ve followed the career of David Lang, the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and co-founder of the revolutionary…
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King Crimson – Radical Action (To Unseat the Hold of Monkey Mind) (DGM/Panegyric) Uton and Ø+yn/Bird People and Creation VI – Monster Collab (Cosmic Winnetou) Strom Noir – The White Colour of the Clouds (Cosmic Winnetou) America's National Parks by Wadada Leo Smith Wadada Leo Smith – America's National Parks (Cuneiform; due Oct. 14) An…
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Steve Flato – Road to Ruins (Abrash) The Grey Eminence by Warfather Warfather – The Grey Eminence (Greyhaze) King Crimson – "Easy Money," "Suitable Grounds for the Blues," "Sailors Tale," "Starless," "Level Five" – 2016 European Tour downloads (DGMLive) Pearl Jam – Fenway Park, Boston, MA, Aug. 5, 2016 (Pearl Jam) Joda Clément – Sea…
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Fall and all attendant memoriesCrowd the day with unrelated historiesEach year leaves its unresolving fantasiesTo hang around each cornerHang around each street. Thick with ghosts, the wind whips round in circuitriesCarrying words as strangers exchange pleasantriesDo they intrude upon your private reveriesAs they meet you on each cornerMeet you on each street. Watch for daily…
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Eve by Thalia Zedek Band Thalia Zedek Band – Eve (Thrill Jockey) Come – 11:11 (Matador) Uzi – Sleep Asylum (Homestead) Dangerous Birds – "Alpha Romeo"/"Smile on Your Face" (Propeller Product) Live Skull – Dusted (Homestead) Live Skull – Snuffer (Caroline) E – E (Thrill Jockey; due Nov. 11) WREKMEISTER HARMONIES Live In NYC by…
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Steven Tyler, by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP The ticket: Pop musicSunday, Aug. 28, 2016 XENIA RUBINOS This dependably vital, consistently inventive singer and rapper continues to twist her Afro-Caribbean cultural and musical roots into unexpected and instantly appealing new branches, the likes of which can be heard on her powerful new album, “Black Cat.” Aug. 31, 9 p.m.…
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Bent Knee, by Ben Stas for the Boston Globe The week ahead: Pop & rockThursday, Aug. 25, 2016 BLACK SABBATH They say this is our last chance to see three-quarters of the quintessential English heavy-metal band, and you get the sense they’re telling the truth this time. The set list offers no surprises, but think…
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Michael Daugherty – Tales of Hemingway; American Gothic; Once Upon a Castle – Zuill Bailey, Paul Jacobs, Nashville Symphony/Giancarlo Guerrero (Naxos) Morton Subotnick – Music for the Double Life of Amphibians (Wergo)> Axolotl – Joel Krosnick; Ascent Into Air – CalArts Twentieth Century Players/Stephen L. Mosko; The Last Dream of the Beast – Joan La…
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John Adams – Scheherazade.2 – Leila Josefowicz, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra/David Robertson (Nonesuch; due Sept. 30) Kiss – Kiss Rocks Vegas (Eagle Rock) Marillion – F.E.A.R. (F**k Everyone and Run) (earMUSIC; due Sept. 23) No Place Fast by Wayne Horvitz Wayne Horvitz – No Place Fast (Theatre for Your Mother) The Bad Plus – It's…
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Black Sabbath The ticket: Pop musicSunday, Aug. 21, 2016 BLACK SABBATH They say this is our last chance to see three-quarters of the quintessential English heavy-metal band, and you get the sense they’re telling the truth this time. The set list offers no surprises, but think of this as paying your last respects. Aug. 25,…
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