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Vision Festival: Days 2-3, June 6-7, 2011
by John Sharpe
Day 1 | Days 2-3 | Day 4 | Days 5-6 | Day 7 Vision FestivalAbrons Arts CenterNew York, NYJune 6-7, 2011 Having two stage areas allowed the Vision Festival organizers to minimize changeover times by programming consecutive performances alternately, between the main hall and the downstairs theater. Breathless ...
Yuganaut: Sharks
by Raul d'Gama Rose
It is somewhat easy to be fooled, by the playfulness of Yuganaut's musicians, into thinking that Sharks is a flippant album. So, as rapidly as the thought occurs let it perish. The music on this album is deep as the ocean of sound from where it comes, and the musicians do a fine job of exploring ...
Lost + Found
By Tom Abbs
Label: Engine Studios
Released: 2009
Track listing: Lost; Static; Torn; Suspect; Lock; Tidal; Parse; Consolation; Bars; Box; Cross; Pin Top; Pedestrian; Strung; Tightrope; Missing; Found; Reflection.
Lost & Found
By Tom Abbs
Label: Engine Studios
Released: 2009
Track listing: Lost; Static; Torn; Suspect; Lock; Tidal; Parse; Consolation; Bars; Box: Cross; Pin Top; Pedestrian; Strung; Tightrope; Missing; Found; Reflection.
Tom Abbs & Frequency Response: Lost & Found
by Jerry D'Souza
Tom Abbs is a multi-instrumentalist who, besides violin and didgeridoo, plays bass, tuba and cello on this CD. He has enlivened the free jazz scene in New York, not only through his collaborations with Cooper-Moore and Steve Swell among others, but with his music as well. He thinks with a vivid imagination and as such injects ...
Tom Abbs and Frequency Response: Lost + Found
by Lyn Horton
Rarely does a recording's clarity of purpose come through in one listening, but bassist Tom Abbs and Frequency Response's Lost + Found fits the bill. The significance of this record originates in the brevity of each of bassist Abbs' eighteen pieces--lasting, on average, only slightly over three minutes, with the longest being six and the shortest ...
Tom Abbs: Lost & Found
by Raul d'Gama Rose
It is possible to respond to Tom Abbs & Frequency Response's Lost & Found with eyes wide shut, ears completely unlocked and a body ready to leap up and dance to some of its eighteen randomly arranged musical fragments. There is a cerebral angle here, most likely deliberate on the part of the artist. It has ...
Tom Abbs & Frequency Response: Lost + Found
by Glenn Astarita
Frequency Response's third outing is a study in diversity via a stylistic group sound that touches upon many genres. Cellist/tubaist Tom Abbs is the director of operations throughout a program that integrates chamber jazz, free jazz, and noise-shaping activities amid many other shades of Western song forms. The group abides by a structured approach ...
A New Dawn: Self Produced Artists In The Digital Age
by Mark Corroto
If musicians were instead writers or visual artists, their self-produced recordings would fall under the valued category of chapbook or artist book. In this 21st century, musicians are able to produce studio quality digital music with very inexpensive tools and software. They can also create a traditional manufactured product, printed and packaged, yet often they eschew ...
