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Anthony Braxton / Jerry Hemmingway: Old Dogs
by Mark Corroto
It is very difficult to separate the music of saxophonist Anthony Braxton and percussionist Gerry Hemingway from the actual experience of listening to four-disc, four-plus hour Old Dogs (2007). Each disc represents a morning or afternoon's work, recorded at Wesleyan University in early August, 2007, requiring almost complete immersion--letting go each moment, as it passes. There ...
FIMAV 2010
by Kurt Gottschalk
Festival International Musique Actuelle VictoriavilleVictoriaville, Quebec, CanadaMay 20-23, 2010 After taking a year off for financial regrouping, Quebec's Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville returned May 20- 23 for its 26th edition, presenting not just a tighter festival but one with tighter bands. The various elements known to FIMAV goers were present--the improv ...
Nate Wooley
by Stuart Broomer
Nate Wooley Trumpet/Amplifier Smeraldina-Rima 2010 Nate Wooley & Paul Lytton Creak above 33 psi 2010 Nate Wooley somehow maintains a relatively low profile among younger trumpeters, a ...
Cosa Brava: Ragged Atlas
by Nic Jones
There's a lot to a title as far as Ragged Atlas is concerned. The members of Cosa Brava have long been skilled in avoiding the obvious and their music incorporates influences from disparate sources. The range of their musical activities and affiliations in the past result in a coherence that is notable. When allied to the ...
Multi-Instrumentalist/Composer Fred Frith Interviewed at AAJ...And More!
Since emerging in the 1970s with the fearless British group Henry Cow, multi-instrumentalist Fred Frith has built a career that's as comfortable in the realm of contemporary classical music as it is the equally innovative arena of free improvisation. From collaborations with John Zorn to his latest “rock" group, Cosa Brava, Frith refuses to sit still; ...
Cosa Brava: Ragged Atlas
by John Kelman
Probably the most curious reaction guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Fred Frith's Cosa Brava, when it debuted at the 2008 International Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville, was that it was “too melodic." Detractors of that show will likely be equally nonplussed by the group's overdue debut disc, Ragged Atlas, but it'll be their loss, as Frith's first “rock band" in ...
Fred Frith: Mapping the Further Reaches
by Nic Jones
Multi-instrumentalist/composer Fred Frith occupies a unique niche. As a charter member of Henry Cow, a band for which improvisation was always an integral part of musical expression, he was partly responsible for some of the most radical music ever to have emerged from beneath the rock umbrella.So much so, in fact, that ...
Cosa Brava: Ragged Atlas
by Mark Corroto
In the last forty years, no one has been about to categorize just what exactly Fred Frith music is. His seminal early work with the British prog-rock band Henry Cow--along with the likes of Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart--developed the idea rock artists could also be accomplished and serious musicians. Later he founded the New York ...
Steve Norton: Debris and Beyond
by Gordon Marshall
Multi-reedist Steve Norton is best known for his work with the 1990s Boston-based band Debris. Debris was an ambitious, exuberant, puzzling band that puzzled together serialism, free jazz and funk. Their music is in equal measure exhilarating and exhausting. It was the combination, in part, that burned Norton out about ten years ago, as ...
The Opposite: Interwined
by Eyal Hareuveni
This Swedish sextet was initiated by Malmö-based French keyboardist Loïc Dequidt and drummer Peter Nilsson--the latter one of the leaders of the Malmö-based Kopasetic Label's musicians collective, which investigates improvisational interplay through a democratic, collective group approach based on a dynamic rhythmic concepts that lean on Indian, African and Cuban traditions. Their instincts proved right since ...
