Articles by Nick Millevoi
Eric Cabonara CD Release Show at the Highwire Gallery
by Nick Millevoi
Eric Carbonara Fire Museum Presents at the Highwire GalleryPhiladelphia, PANovember 20, 2010After Philadelphia musician Eric Carbonara recorded his album The Paradise Abyss (Nada Sound Studio) in early 2010, he set out on a mission to be personally involved in each level of its creation. In addition to writing and performing the album, Carbonara designed and painstakingly hand created each flawless CD digipak and LP sleeve and self-released the record. The album features Cabonara on solo ...
read moreMichael Formanek Quartet at the Philadelphia Art Alliance
by Nick Millevoi
Michael Formanek QuartetArs Nova Workshop at the Philadelphia Art AlliancePhiladelphia, PAOctober 28, 2010 On October 28, 2010, bassist Michael Formanek brought his quartet to the Philadelphia Art Alliance to celebrate the release of The Rub and Spare Change (ECM). The album draws upon many of the strengths of the individuals and the group, providing strong evidence of Michael Formanek's skills as a composer, bassist, and bandleader. The music lends itself to being performed live, where, ...
read moreScurvy: Fracture
by Nick Millevoi
It is no news that prog rock is thriving. There is a healthy scene of underground bands that embrace heavy riffing and odd-meters, and run them through a variety of experiments. New York saxophonist Johnny Butler has gotten in on it too, and presents his unique version with Fracture, by his quintet, Scurvy. With Scurvy, Butler makes an avant-garde jazz attack on prog rock, where heavy vamps and extreme feedback abound to make for a noisy assault. Butler ...
read moreMerzbow and Charles Cohen at the International House
by Nick Millevoi
Merzbow and Charles Cohen Ars Nova Workshop at the International House Philadelphia, PA September 27, 2010At a table on the floor in front of the large, darkened room of the International House's Ibrahim Theater sat Charles Cohen. A single light dimly shone down upon Cohen, and his desk light illuminated the finer points of his signature Buchla Music Easel, an extremely rare analog synthesizer in a blue box. Cohen twisted knobs, plugged and ...
read moreSleepthief at the Philadelphia Art Alliance, September 7, 2010
by Nick Millevoi
SleepthiefArs Nova Workshop at the Philadelphia Art AlliancePhiladelphia, PASeptember 7, 2010The Philadelphia Art Alliance has been one of Ars Nova Workshop's most utilized venues for the past couple of seasons. The room is one of ANW's more formal spaces, featuring hardwood floors and a grand piano on the top floor of a Rittenhouse Square mansion. Despite the interruption of a staircase in the middle of the room, it still manages to provide an intimate setting ...
read moreScott Amendola Trio: Lift
by Nick Millevoi
Scott Amendola is probably best known as the drummer with the Nels Cline Singers, a guitar trio with detailed compositions, high-energy improvisations, and an oft-exhibited ability to shift gears at a moment's notice. On Lift, his first album since 2005's Believe (Cryptogramophone), Amendola debuts his own take on the guitar trio format, with guitarist Jeff Parker and bassist John Shifflett. Most of his compositions follow standard jazz structures built upon mid-tempo grooves, with unique melodies that sit deep in the ...
read moreNels Cline Singers, Richard Crandell and Good For Cows at Johnny Brenda's
by Nick Millevoi
Nels Cline Singers, Richard Crandell, and Good for Cows Ars Nova Workshop at Johnny Brenda's Philadelphia, PAJuly 7, 2010 For one of the closing concerts of the 2009-2010 season, Ars Nova Workshop brought the Nels Cline Singers to Fishtown's Johnny Brenda's. Cline has developed the reputation of being a guitar superhero, and the Singers are the purest manifestation of his work, so it was a rare treat to see the group in Philadelphia for ...
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