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Winter is a comin' on strong. There are some amazing gigs coming up! Be prepared!!! The first 3 of 4 cd's are finally here on the all new BRAXTON House label. All are beautifully recorded with nifty black designed covers. Two superb cd's of Braxton's latest development-Ghost Trance Music-TENTET (NY) 1996 and SEXTET (Istanbul) 1995 which is a 2 cd set ($25.) The other single cd ($15.) is COMPOSITION #102 for 39 piece student orchestra. The fourth cd is SOLO (Skopje) 1995 for solo alto sax & will be out in a few weeks, stay tuned. ZORNnews-As we type this info up, Masada could be in your town, as they tour the US for a couple of weeks. They'll be back at the Knit for 7 nites of Hanukah, December 6th-12th. Word is that they're also playing at a local synagogue with a dancer, the same nite they start their run at the Knit! In the meantime, we should be getting in 7 new Tzadik titles next Tues. the 19th, including Zorn's Filmworks V & VI, reissue of the New Klezmer Trio's 1st release, plus film score cd's by Peter Scherer & Steve Beresford. There are also 3 premieres of classical pieces by Mr. Zorn... DURAS-Zorn's 15 minute tribute to Marguerite Duras for 6 piece ensemble will be at the Knit on Wed. Nov. 27th at 8pm with the new Dim Sum Clip Job. Zorn's DARK RIVER will be performed by Dave Douglas' all star down- town unit on Sun. Dec. 29th at 8pm with pieces by Douglas, Morton Feldman and Stockhausen. The American Composers Orchestra will perform Zorn's APORIAS-REQUIA FOR PIANO & ORCHESTRA with Stephen Drury on piano on Sun. Jan. 12th, 1997 at 3pm at Carnegie Hall. On the same bill will be pieces by Roger Sessions & Steve Mackey featuring Bill Frisell on el. guitar & Joey Baron on drums. Top tix are 40 bucks. Saw a powerful improv set at the Knit last week featuring Thurston Moore, Thomas Chapin (their 1st gig together), DJ Olive, Marc Edwards & Tom Surgal. Thurston is presenting a mini fest of improv at CB's Gallery on Fri. Dec. 6th with John Fahey headlining (his 1st gig in NYC in a long time), Thurston & Lee Ranaldo duo, Davey Williams solo, and Kim Gordon/DJ duo. Fahey just played the Table of the Elements fest in Chicago with Jim O'Rourke & Loren Mazzacane. ROULETTE has been the most consistent loft space presenting New Music in NYC since the early 80's. I recall so many incredible gigs there through the years-Zorn, Frith, Laswell, Derek Bailey... Their fall season just ended with a number of superb gigs- Christian Marclay turntable trio with DJ Olive, Charles Noyes-San Won Park-Jim O'Rourke & Jim Staley- Ikue Mori- Davey Williams. Always challenging. Their Einstein label has released about a half dozen fine avant cd's. Sadly they will have to move at the end of their next season in Spring of '97. In the meanwhile... ROULETTE is putting together a terrific cast of musicians for a benefit festival at the Knit on Dec. 16th-18th. There will be 2 different sets per night at 8:00 & 10:30, $15. per set, $25. per night, $65. for all six sets. Dec. 16th 1st set: Zeena solo w/film, Ned Rothenberg new trio w/ Jerome Harris & tabla player, David Garland trio and Meredith Monk & 3 vocalists; The 10:30 set includes Joey Baron- solo, Christian Marclay & Shelley Hirsch, Jon Gibson Ensemble and Thurston Moore/Tamio/Jackson Krall. The 17th 1st set: Guy Klucesvek- solo, Lois Vierk, Ursula Oppens/Richard Teitlebaum/Shelley Hirsch/Mark Feldman and Spalding Gray. The 2nd set: Company style improv set organized by Jim Staley w/Zorn, Hirsch, Mori,Staley & Susie Ibarra (more players to be...) The Dec. 18th 1st set will feature: David Weinstein/Ted Spelios/the Poool, Leroy Jenkins/Oliver Lake duo, Margaret Lang Ten doing John Cage and Elliott Sharp (possibly w/ Vernon Reid). The final set is George Lewis/Anthony Davis duo, Min Xiao Fin solo pipa wonder, Bang-on-a-Can Live and the return of Yankees w/Zorn, Derek Bailey & George Lewis. Their 1st gig in 15 years!! Be there!! For four of the five years that Downtown Music Gallery has been open, we have celebrated our anniversaries with annual improv/noise fests usually at the Knit. We didn't do one for our fifth, so I'm working on a big fest for our 5 1/2 year anniversary. Tentatively scheduled for Friday Jan. 3rd at Context Studios, participants may well include-(the return my old pal guitar/saz demon) Steve Buchanan, Bob Musso, Thomas Chapin, John Richey, Kurt Ralske, Jane Scarpantoni, Loren Mazzacane, Alan Licht, Thurston Moore & friends, Zorn & Susie Ibarra, improv units Escapade and Oatmeal Banana. Maybe the return of my unit-Suburban Bohemia. We'll see... More new releases to be aware of:
Sorry for that last one there but sometimes you just have nothing to say. Sometimes you still have nothing to say but you have to produce and this is one of those times. Some people fear looking like an idiot, I don't know how else to look so I'll bravely soldier on and set the controls for the center of MIKE'S SPACE... This edition of MS is dedicated to Stacey Taylor at Nettwerk who fed my Skinny Puppy craving and to portable electric nose hair clippers because you wouldn't want to see me without one. Welcome, I'll start with the newest additions to the HOT BABES LIST- I'm sure I'll get flak for this but Chelsea Clinton is a BABE!!! Talk about the quintessential "Ugly Duckling". I'm just happy that the next four years will keep her in the public eye and that I'll be able to watch her continued growth into one fine woman. (our baby's all grown up [snif]) The late night, soft porn, straight-to-video/cable industry has churned out Julie Strain & Shannon Tweed who are celebrated and renowned for their "acting". Well I, Emperor Mike, do hereby nominate Shannon Whirry as the Hottest Li'l Thing on the "following movie is not rated. It contains... viewer discretion advised." circuit. I can almost guarantee that you will never catch her anywhere else except for Friday, late night cable or the "erotic thrillers" section of your local vid store but she is worth waiting up for/searching out even if her films are not. (My God, do I need a life or what?) Lela Rochon. (I need not and will not say more) Next up- HEAVY ROTATION LISTENING FAVES.
In no particular order and disregard for age of the recording they are:
(RIYL: Orbital, Cosmic Baby, early nursing memories) trance with hooks galore
Tetsu Inoue/Atom Heart- Datacide- Asphodel
slow in unfolding
In Blind Embrace- Songs From The Shadows-
Death Factory
goth meets classical
Inner Thought- Perspectives- Dwell
third release best yet
Adham Shaikh/Tim Floyd- Drift- Instinct
guitars in orbit?
(RIYL: see review) death and goth hellspawned
Earth Crisis- Gomorrah's Season Ends-
Victory
str(hate) edge metalcore
Rose Chronicles- Nettwerk
newest disc shows growth
(RIYL: Jungle) breakbeat trance done well
Autour De Lucie- S/T- Nettwerk
if it's possible
Merzbow/Bastard Noise- S/T- Release
Merzbow splits one with
(RIYL: S.O.D., A.O.D.) punk grind death laugh fest
(RIYL: Watching ice melt, chess by mail, snail tracks) drone drone drone beep drone
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