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Article: Book Review

Music Farther Outside by Bill Shoemaker

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Music Farther Outside: Experimental Music During Brexit and the Pandemic Bill Shoemaker 213 Pages ISBN: #9781538178775 Rowman & Littlefield 2023 Music Farther Outside is a sequel to two books. First, it is Bill Shoemaker's follow-up to his excellent Jazz in the 1970s: Diverging Streams (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017). Both ...

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Article: Live Review

Résonances at the The Vortex

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Résonances The Vortex Illusion London UK April 17, 2023 Résonances is an experimental event which merges live visual art with dance, musical performance and poetry. As such, it has much in common with similar live performances such as Claire Zakiewicz's series of Some Loose Assemblies at the Hundred Years Gallery, ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Two contrasting releases from Charlotte Hug on the Fundacja Słuchaj! label

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For many followers of improvised music, their first experience of Switzerland's Charlotte Hug was around the turn of the millennium, as a viola player, an instrument on which she was classically trained. In collaborations such as the all-female trio with Maggie Nicols and Caroline Kraabel, or the London Improvisers Orchestra (LIO), she soon gained a reputation ...

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Article: Album Review

Evan Parker/John Russell/John Edwards, Pat Thomas, Alison Blunt/Benedict Taylor/David Leahy, Kay Grant/Alex Ward: Making Rooms

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Originated by guitarist John Russell and pianist/trumpeter Chris Burn, Mopomoso is an improvised-music organisation that has run a series of monthly concerts in London ever since 1991, making it the longest-running such series in the UK. Between April 23rd and 30th 2013, Mopomoso embarked on a tour of England which visited seven cities outside London. At ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Two INSUB releases

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When Switzerland's INSUB records issued its first two releases in a new format in early 2014, that innovative format got nearly as much attention as the music itself. Solving the download vs. physical object debate, its combination of attractive packaging (including A3 poster-size artwork) with a download code gave customers the best of both worlds. That ...

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Article: Album Review

Adam Pultz Melbye: Gullet

Read "Gullet" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


The title of the first solo album of prolific Danish double bassist Adam Pultz Melbye is inspired by a quote from Samuel Beckett novel Watt (published in 1953). Metaphorically, Melbye follows Beckett's words, determined to liberate himself from a symbolic deep-toned sonic gullet filled with known articulations, a reinvent and explore new dimensions, colors and sounds ...

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HMS Concert

Label: Tzadik
Released: 2012

Album

London Improvisers Orchestra: Lio Leo Leon

Label: Psi
Released: 2011
Track listing: Before Tapping; Wiretapping; After Tapping; Concerto for Soft-Loud Key-Box No.2; Inhale Exhale; Numbers Listening; After Numbers; Concerto for Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith & Orchestra.

Album

Lio Leo Leon

Label: Tzadik
Released: 2011


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