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Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville: Day 4 - May 23, 2010
by Gordon Marshall
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 Festival International Musique Victoriaville Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada May 23, 2010 Sunday afternoon was relegated to sounds of the European persuasion. Jacques Demierre's and Urs Leimgruber's Six opened the day, and The Trondheim Orchestra under Kim Myhr followed. As much ...
Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville: Day 3 - May 22, 2010
by Gordon Marshall
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 Festival International Musique Actuelle VictoriavilleVictoriaville, Quebec, CanadaMay 22, 2010 In a sense, by definition, experimental artwork can never fail because, as it constitutes experiments, even when the outcome is not the desired one, there is still something to be learned that moves ...
Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville: Day 2 - May 21, 2010
by Gordon Marshall
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada May 21, 2010 Friday, Day 2 of FIMAV, started with a double feature at 2:00 in the afternoon, with two more Quebec-based acts, underscoring the impression that a new musical language ...
Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville: Day 1 - May 20, 2010
by Gordon Marshall
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 Festival International Musique Actuelle VictoriavilleVictoriaville, Quebec, CanadaMay 20, 2010 Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville (FIMAV), translated into English, is an acronym meaning Victoriaville International Festival of Contemporary Music--or, more precisely, “Now" music, or, “the music of now." It distinguishes itself from, ...
Katt Hernandez: Spiral Passes
by Gordon Marshall
Katt Hernandez plays violin with a hand and eye versed in the vagaries of natural sound. A student of microtonal music, she is also steeped in European folk traditions, and skilled in classical forms of improvisation. While her work goes in many directions, it stays sharp and swift and supple. She is equally adept ...
Life After Rashied: Live at the Woodstock Playhouse 1965; Why Not?; Eddie Jefferson at Ali's Alley; Configurations--The Music of John Coltrane; Mystic Journey
by Gordon Marshall
Burton GreeneLive at the Woodstock Playhouse 1965Porter2010 Marion BrownWhy Not?ESP2009 Rashied Ali QuintetFeaturing Eddie Jefferson at Ali's AlleyBlue Music Group2010 Rashied Ali with Prima ...
Ryan McGuire: Metal Reasoning
by Gordon Marshall
Bassist Ryan McGuire, a master of classical composition, uses this skill as a strategist in the metal underground. His band Ehnahre is quite unlike any other in that field, baffling committed rock fans with its advanced theory and unstructured time signatures. In another way, he throws off jazz and improvisation aficionados with his part ...
Blaise Siwula and Dom Minasi: Live at The Matt Bevel Institute
by Gordon Marshall
Dom Minasi is an acutely sensitive guitarist with an oblique approach and an aim to please, plucking his way through runs with persistence and nerve. His live duet with saxophonist Blaise Siwula sums these qualities up neatly, in configurations that unfold and build up melodically through a set that, by the end, is enveloped in a ...
Mike Reed: The Drum Thing
by Gordon Marshall
There is not a name yet for what Mike Reed does on drums. Elvin Jones created polyrhythmics; Rashied Ali, multi-directionalism. Reed is delivering something related but distinct. It has as much to do with tonal complexity as with keeping the beat, but the complexity goes beyond that, into a recombination of the many drumming styles of ...
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 ...
