Electronics and improvisation
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<a href="http://noveller.bandcamp.com/album/artifact" data-mce-href="http://noveller.bandcamp.com/album/artifact">ARTIFACT by Noveller</a> "And you can tell everybody that this is your song…" Just out from Noveller – a.k.a. guitarist/looper/soundscaper Sarah Lipstate – is ARTIFACT, a new compilation of 12 short solo tracks, each created for an individual who purchased a copy of the limited-edition DVD box set of the same title that
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Green Heights by Toshimaru Nakamura + Ken Ikeda + Tomoyoshi Date There's no reason why I should be surprised to find anything on Bandcamp nowadays… and anyone who knows me even a little, in person or online, also knows what an avid ’camper I am. Still, I admit that I was pleasantly taken aback to
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<a href="http://gestinson.bandcamp.com/album/masters-of-the-abstract-an-homage" _mce_href="http://gestinson.bandcamp.com/album/masters-of-the-abstract-an-homage">masters of the abstract (an homage) by g.e.stinson</a> Left coast guitar artist GE Stinson, a founding member of seminal New Age/fusion ensemble Shadowfax who moved onward to all manner of rich, gripping projects, has just reposted this 2011 "homage to some of the masters of abstract jazz and improvisation." I was going to
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New death-ambient hip-hop drone by 3:33, who cite Yoshi Wada, Terry Riley, Whitehouse and La Monte Young in the press release for their forthcoming 2CD album, Bicameral Brain, due October 29 on Parallel Thought. From the group's label bio: Too frequently, experimental music has automatically fallen under the generic label of “new” or “different”. Perhaps
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Keith Fullerton Whitman, electronic-music maven and proprietor of the early-electronica archival label Creel Pone and the brilliant avant-music e-tailer Mimaroglu Music Service, makes everyone’s morning with a new, very personal project uploaded to Soundcloud this morning. Here, in his own words, the explanation of Greatest Hits: On the eve of my 30th birthday, I began
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<a href="http://umorrex.bandcamp.com/album/collected-works-vol-1-the-moog-years" _mce_href="http://umorrex.bandcamp.com/album/collected-works-vol-1-the-moog-years">Collected Works Vol. 1 The Moog Years by M. Geddes Gengras</a> Compilations aren't generally things I spend much time recommending. But in the case of an artist as madly prolific as California synth muso M. Geddes Gengras, Collected Works Vol. 1, a new anthology from Mexican label Umor Rex, is a godsend. Subtitled
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Fred Frith and Evelyn GlennieMoers Festival, May 19, 2013
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<a href="http://steamroom.bandcamp.com/album/steamroom-1" _mce_href="http://steamroom.bandcamp.com/album/steamroom-1">Steamroom 1 by Jim O&#39;Rourke</a> A hefty, heady trove of new and recent music by Jim O'Rourke has just turned up on Bandcamp, priced inexpensively and available in a variety of file formats, lossless and otherwise. I've just bought Steamroom 1, a 2012 recording O'Rourke pressed up for his recent Japanese tour with
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You might know Anne Guthrie's name from Sinter, the excellent CD she recorded with Richard Kamerman for the ErstAEU label, which is where I first learned of and heard this Brooklyn-baed composer, improviser and acoustician. Maybe you've heard her previous recordings on Engraved Glass or Copy for Your Records. I haven't, which is why I'm
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&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a href=&amp;quot;http://chubbywolf.bandcamp.com/album/seasick&amp;quot; _mce_href=&amp;quot;http://chubbywolf.bandcamp.com/album/seasick&amp;quot;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;Seasick by Chubby Wolf&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt; Newly posted on the Chubby Wolf Bandcamp page: Seasick, a beautiful posthumous release initially issued in a limited-edition CD run of 250 copies on the Mystery Sea label. The album was mastered by Mathias Ruhlman, who also added a light sprinkling of original sounds. The results are luminous and
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Anne Guthrie and Richard Kamerman (Photograph: Billy Gomberg) ErstAEU ShowcaseIssue Project Room; Sat 25 For some time now it’s been possible to labor under the impression that electroacoustic improvisation (or EAI) is exclusively available on import, primarily the domain of Japanese, German and English performers. Actually, that’s never been the case; Americans have contributed to
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John Shiurba JazzizMay 1999 Bay Area guitarist and free-improvisor John Shiurba hit upon the idea of his new Limited Sedition record label soon after buying a CD burner last year: "I just wanted to put out CDs of my music, and music that I think is worthy," he explains. "But the idea of shopping tapes
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Choi Joonyong (Photograph courtesy Issue Project Room Preview: Choi Joonyong and Hong Chulki at 155 FreemanTime Out New York, Feb. 7–13, 2013 It’s not as if music didn’t exist in South Korea before 2012. Prefab acts from Seoul had been conquering the world, one market at a time, for years; Super Junior, 2NE1 and Girls’
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Grey Mcmurray with So Percussion, by Sara Krulwich/The New York Times So Percussion at the Brooklyn Academy of MusicThe New York Times, Dec. 21, 2012 A review of Where (we) Live, the latest multimedia beguilement from So Percussion, who use vivid imagination and a solid grounding in John Cage's music to create a thoughtful meditation
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The following is a Top Live Shows preview I wrote for the current issue (Nov. 1–7) of Time Out New York. The concert in question has been postponed indefinitely due to storm- and transit-related concerns, so I'll just post it here for the time being. Aaron Dilloway/Jason Lescalleet Bobby Redd Project Space; Sat 3 When
Night After Night 