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Playlist for the Week of May 29, 2017

Roswell Rudd, Jamie Saft, Trevor Dunn, Balazs Pandi – Strength & Power (Rare Noise, 2016) Klaus Treuheit & Lou Grassi – Port of Call (No Business, 2017) Isabelle Duthoit & Franz Hautzinger – Lily (Relative Pitch, 2017) Ballrogg – self-titled (Bolage, 2008) Satoko Fujii – Invisible Hand (Cortez Sound, 2017) Magda Mayas & Jim Denley

Playlist for the Week of May 15, 2017

Kenny Warren Quartet – Thank You for Coming to LIFE (Whirlwind, 2017) Skyjack – self-titled (Werkstatt, n.d.) Ballrogg – Insomnia (Bolage, 2010) Carlos Barretto Lokomotiv – Labirintos (Clean Feed, 2010) Joe Morris & Barre Phillips – Elm City Duets (Clean Feed, 2008) Sean Ali – With My Head in the Sand (Wee Space Tapes, n.d.)

May Artist Feature: Michael Foster

Michael Foster is a saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist working in the fields of free improvisation, noise, free jazz, graphic & video notation, performance art, and other forms of weird music. Foster utilizes extensive preparations of his saxophone, augmenting it with amplification, objects, balloons, drum heads, vibrators, tapes, and samples as a method of subverting and queering

Playlist for the Week of May 8, 2017

Ornette Coleman – Paris Concert (Trio Records, 1977) [vinyl] Ornette Coleman – Crisis (Impulse!, 1972) [vinyl] Jason Ajemian – Folklords (Delmark, 2014) [vinyl] Ornette Coleman – Ornette at 12 (Impulse!, 1969) [vinyl] Jaimie Branch – Fly or Die (International Anthem, 2017) [vinyl]

Review: Dre Hocevar – Transcendental within the Sphere of Indivisible Remainder

Dre Hocevar – Transcendental within the Sphere of Indivisible Remainder Dre Hocevar, has put together a very unique band with Sam Pluta, Aaron Larson Bryan Qu, Mette Rasmussen, Jeremy Corren, Zack Clarke, Lester St. Louis, and Henry Fraser. I am familiar with Mette from seeing her YouTube videos. I had the opportunity to see Henry

Review: Eivind Opsvik – Overseas V

Eivind Opsvik  – Overseas V Bassist/composer Eivind Opsvik began his Overseas project in the early 2000s. It showcases a union of various palates, a figurative way of connecting his musical world that’s genesis began in Oslo and led him to his current residence in New York City.  The lineup for overseas V is a selection

Interview: Nicole Mitchell

Flutist, composer, and educator Nicole Mitchell is one of the foremost creative musicians of the twenty-first century. Most well-known as the bandleader of the Black Earth Ensemble, she has established herself on the cutting edge through a series of innovative and forward-looking records. Her latest release, Mandorla Awakening II, was released on May 5. In

Playlist for the Week of May 1, 2017

Giant Dwarf – Rabbitwood (Engine, 2012) Tashi Dorji & Tyler Damon – Live at the Spot +1 (Astral Spirits, 2016) Anemone: Peter Evans, John Butcher, Frederic Blondy, Clayton Thomas, Paul Lovens – A Wing Dissolved in Light (No Business, 2017) Paul Rutherford & Sabu Toyozumi – The Conscience (No Business, 2017) Jason Ajemian, Tony Malaby,

Announcing Fundamental Festival: The Intersection of New Music and Sound Art

When: May 19, 2017, 5-11:30 pm Where: Planeta, 295 East 8th St, NYC Featuring: Aki Onda Tyler Gilmore’s Western Verse Lea Bertucci Tatsuya Nakatani Tombstones by Michael Pisaro Earth Tongues A marathon evening presenting artists at the cutting edge of NYC’s live sound art community. The performers will present works tailored to Planeta’s unique space

Playlist for Week of April 24, 2017

Fay Victor Ensemble – Cartwheels through the Cosmos (Artist Share, 2006) Sam Weinberg, Charlie Kirchen, Julian Kirshner – Whip the Apron (2017) Tashi Dorji – Live at the Dreamland (Ultra Violet Light, n.d.) [cassette] New York Art Quartet – Call It Art, vol. 5 (Triple Point, 2013) [vinyl] Roswell Rudd – Inside Job (Freedom, 1978)