My soon-to-be 17-year-old daughter believes the world is ending. More precisely, she is deeply pessimistic about our ability to save the planet from climate catastrophe and wonders out loud what state it will be in by the time she's my age. I doubt that her fears are unique. Truly, how could a teenager not draw … Continue reading Wanderwelle – Black Clouds Above the Bows
Author: Kevin Press
16th Annual Nordic Jazz Festival goes June 17-22 in Washington
The DC Jazz Festival Artist in Residence Orrin Evans is planning a tribute to Sweden's E.S.T. trio and the late Esbjorn Svensson. It'll be featured at next month's 16th Annual Nordic Jazz Festival in Washington. The event is a presentation of The DC Jazz Festival and the Nordic Embassies to the United States. Three concerts … Continue reading 16th Annual Nordic Jazz Festival goes June 17-22 in Washington
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Contemporary music from around the world. Peter Coccoma - begin 0.00 Adam Badí Donoval - Today I Woke Up Earlier Than Usual 2.57 Christian Reiner / Martin Siewert - Erstens 11.57 An Laurence - Artificial Light 13.52 Test Card - Every Mile Is Two In Winter 17.10 JARR - The One Who Was Pale As Milk 21.07 Cognition Delay - No … Continue reading The Moderns ep. 211
Must See: General Magic Video for “Burn”
Vienna's General Magic - a duo featuring Andi Pieper and Ramon Bauer - is back with a new seven-track EP called Softbop. It lands May 25 via generate and test, the farmersmanual "publishing hub for decentralised, incremental and opportunistic audio projects." Tina Frank's gorgeous video for "Burn" is up on Vimeo. https://vimeo.com/tinafrank/burn
Friday Five: May 20, 2022
Five new faves: Barnett + Coloccia - Third Wilderness (SIGE Records) Kranemann + Pharmakustik - Electric Fluxus (Verlag System) Linus + Økland/Van Heertum/Zach - light as never (Aspen Edities) Lucy Liyou - Welfare/Practice (American Dreams) LXV - things that may not be connected (Warm Winters Ltd.) And from the archives: Jean D.L. and Karen Willems … Continue reading Friday Five: May 20, 2022
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Ebi Soda feat. Yazz Ahmed - Chandler 0.00 Alex “Apolo” Ayala - Bozales 3.31 Farzin Farhadi Trio - Ascent 9.05 Calvin Johnson Jr. - Treme 14.28 Kalí Rodriguez-Peña - Thinking Of The Universe 20.39 Moonchild - Take Two 28.51 Yaniv Taubenhouse - Once Upon A Time - Chapter One 32.26 Rebecca Vasmant - Broken Biscuits 38.02 The Glass Canyon Ensemble - For Rose … Continue reading Jazz Mixtape 22
Ephemera Festival Goes June 16-19 in Warsaw
The Makers of Unsound have announced details of its third Ephemera Festival. The event runs June 16-19 in Warsaw. “Ephemera aims to connect different Warsaw communities through radical experiments in music, sound, performance and interdisciplinary projects,” say directors Małgorzata Płysa and Mat Schulz in a media release. “The first two years of the festival took … Continue reading Ephemera Festival Goes June 16-19 in Warsaw
Elischa Kaminer and An Laurence Announce May 28 Toronto Performance
The Music Gallery in Toronto will host Elischa Kaminer and An Laurence on May 28, for a performance of Chants D'Amour. This is part of a series entitled You In Mind. The guitar and electronics work is "a collection of songs about what happened that one night, by the river, past the tunnel," according to … Continue reading Elischa Kaminer and An Laurence Announce May 28 Toronto Performance
Discussions: Melanie Dyer
Melanie Dyer founded WeFreeStrings, the improvisational string/rhythm collective in 2011. She also performs with the Sun Ra Arkestra, Dead Lecturers, Heroes Are Gang Leaders, Baba Andrew Lamb, Gwen Laster’s New Muse 4tet, William Parker, Tomeka Reid Stringtet and more. We talked about improv, the power of collaboration and more. https://youtu.be/TFnRMbG_uKM
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Contemporary music from around the world. Choral Arts Initiative, Jeffrey Derus - Throat - Creativity Chakra 0.00 India Gailey - Ghost 3.33 An Moku | Stefan Schmidt - Sediment 7.55 John McGuire - Pulse Music II 15.13 Hüma Utku - Light of All Lights 35.42 Antoine Chessex, Francisco Meirino, Jérôme Noetinger - Cocyte & Phlégéthon 38.44 Andrea Grossi Blend 3 + … Continue reading The Moderns ep. 210
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