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Cobra in Amsterdam
by XRedbirdxx＠aol.com 03 Jun '02

03 Jun '02

Greetings list- this may be of interest to those in Holland. I've clipped all the promo from the press release and fwd just the essentials below. -Joseph Stichting TryTone presents John Zorn's Cobra: Wednesday 5 June, 21.30 - Zaal 100, De Wittenstraat 100, Amsterdam Koen Nutters – double bass Jodi Gilbert – voice Corrie van Binsbergen – guitar Tom Swafford – violin Joop van der Linden – trombone Ned Mcgowan – flute Albert van Veenendaal – piano Gijs Levelt – trumbet Alex Parkinson – drums Mark Haanstra – bass guitar Tobias Klein – bass clarinet Luis Diaz – percussion Isak Goldschneider – clarinet Nathan Fuhr – prompter

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cobrAmsterdam
by Emmanouil Papagiannakis 03 Jun '02

03 Jun '02

maybe interesting forpeople of the region: A group of local (Amsterdam) musicians will be performing Zorn's Cobra at the Zaal 100 on Wednesday June 5th, 21:00. for more info check: http://www.desk.nl/podiumpost manolis

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New Fred Frith CD
by Arthur Gadney 03 Jun '02

03 Jun '02

Uh, this looks great. Has anybody heard it yet?! 1. FRED FRITH - Accidental (Fred Records/ReR Fra 01) Any new record from Fred Frith, one of the world's leading avant rock guitarists and composers, is a major event. 'Accidental' was commissioned by a British choreographer who lives in Amsterdam, Paul Selwyn Norton, for a dance piece made with the Batsheva Company in Tel Aviv. For Fred it's a return to basics, a series of deeply contrasting moods achieved with the simplest of means. Throughout the CD, noises of rusty metal, electronic detritus, bits of random radio, improvised cut-up vocals and messed up percussion, suggest an unpredictable and hostile landscape. Fred describes the motivations behind Accidental: "I'm fascinated by accidents. When I do solo improvisations I think of myself as being in continuous dialogue with the unexpected, and its always dynamic. Do I ignore this, do I embrace it, do I integrate it, do I keep my distance? When making this music I was constantly using random elements like radio tuning and trying to frame them in metric or harmonic structures." Fred Frith is the thinking person's guitar hero. Starting out with Henry Cow, in the early 70's, he later became a key component of the New York scene, playing with John Zorn's Naked City, Skeleton Crew, and Massacre (with Bill Laswell). Along the way he contributed to albums by Robert Wyatt and Brian Eno. He regularly tours the world as a solo guitar improviser, and in duos with the likes of ex Pere Ubu and Henry Cow drummer Chris Cutler. As a contemporary classical composer his works have been performed, amongst others, by the Ensemble Modern and the Arditti Quartet. Incredibly, given his history as an avant garde rock guitarist, he is now a professor of composition at the prestigious Mills College in Oakland, California. CD only release for $14. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx

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Fwd: D.Shea / IAO
by Efrén del Valle 02 Jun '02

02 Jun '02

Hi, I'm currently listening to Zorn's "IAO" and really enjoying it. It's diversified but really cohesioned, IMHO, unlike some of his latest works (Taboo & Exile could be an example, although I like it). The best word that comes to my mind is "atmospheric" as mostly everyone agrees. But there are also some harder peak moments like "Leviathan" a great metal tune with Patton on loutish vocals (basically screaming). Just appalling. I was also particularly impressed by "Lucifer Rising" with Jennifer Charles' sensuous vocals (this time maybe more frightening!). I've fallen in love with the album immediately and it's a pleasure, because I was starting to distrust THE MAN. Best, EfrÃ©n del VAlle n.p: IAO > I went to the David Shea project: A Sound Film in > Eight Scenes,was very interesting: a little room , > no > more than 50 people, a keyboard with samples, and of > course D.Shea. > Eight fragmented pieces with different thematics.: > cartoon music, movie fragments, chamber music ... > The best pieces was the first and last. > The first piece was a brutal mix of jazz, rock, > techno, movie sounds...some of the samples of this > piece are extracted from Naked City i think. > The last piece was a very enigmatic version of > satyricon . > > Now, other thing. > An hours ago I listened for the first time the IAO , > and I'm disappointed too, too boring. This is my > first > impression, but i expect more. > > That's all. > > Ricardo. > > n.p:John Cage "Imaginary Landscapes" > > > > > > _______________________________________________________________ > Copa del Mundo de la FIFA 2002 > El Ãºnico lugar de Internet con vÃdeos de los 64 > partidos. > Â¡ApÃºntante ya! en > http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/fc/es/ > > _______________________________________________ > zorn-list mailing list > zorn-list(a)mailman.xmission.com > http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/zorn-list _______________________________________________________________ Copa del Mundo de la FIFA 2002 El Ãºnico lugar de Internet con vÃdeos de los 64 partidos. Â¡ApÃºntante ya! en http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/fc/es/

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Naked City Question
by Marco Pronk 02 Jun '02

02 Jun '02

Hey all, Just joined this mailinglist, because I got more and more intrested in John Zorn throughout the years. First through Naked City, but I'm starting to dig more and more through his material and from other other artists released on Tzadik. (besides my regular portion of (Japanese) Avant-garde, Electronic, Noise/Psych). Anyhow recently I got my hands on the latest Naked City CD (Live @ The Knitting Factory 1989 vol.1). Does anybody overhere already know how much releases will follow in the (near) future. I thought I read somewhere that it will be totally 3 CD's. And is it already known what kind of material/periods will be on the other discs? I would very much appricate it if someone can tell me a bit more about this Thanks in advance, Marco @ The Noise Commando

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Re: El-P
by Marco Pronk 02 Jun '02

02 Jun '02

Andrew ahorton(a)vt.edu wrote Tue, 28 May 2002 23:38:03 -0500 >I think that "Fantastic Damage" is easily the worst thing to come out of the Def Jux crew and EL-P, ever. I must be the only who doesn't like it! The production is noisy, and horrible....it's like a pale reflection of what EL-P did for Cannibal Ox's "the cold vein." I also can't stand EL-P's constant "angry" schtick. Haven't got a chance to hear the El-P album yet (it's still somewhere on a pile of CD's I still have to listen too) and neither have I heard some Canibal Ox's yet But what I have heard from people so far that this album was very much inspired by the recent project he had done with Alec Empire (also known from the german Digital Hardcore Recordings label and Atari Teenage Riot). I don't know how many people are familiar with Alec's music but it kinda make sense with what your saying .It pretty much got compared with Alec's soloalbum "Generation Star Wars" Only Alec's material is even more noisier then El-P's. Anywayz, Marco @ The Noise Commando

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Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet
by Karen Murphy 01 Jun '02

01 Jun '02

Hopefully coming to a town near you... PETER BROTZMANN CHICAGO TENTET U.S. TOUR (Peter Brotzmann, Joe McPhee, Mats Gustafsson, Ken Vandermark, Mars Williams, Jeb Bishop, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Kent Kessler, Hamid Drake, Michael Zerang) 6/01/02 New York, NY: Tonic 6/02/02 Cambridge, MA: Middle East (downstairs) 6/04-06/02 Montreal, PQ: La Sala Rosa 6/07/02 Toronto, ON: St. George The Martyr 6/08/02 Buffalo, NY: University of Buffalo 6/09/02 Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh 6/11/02 Atlanta, GA: First Existentialist Congregation 6/12/02 Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky 6/13/03 Kalamazoo, MI: Kraftbrau 6/14/02 Chicago, IL: Storefront Theatre (small groups) 6/15/02 Chicago, IL: Storefront Theatre (small groups) 6/16/02 Chicago, IL: Chicago Cultural Center SCHOOL DAYS (Ken Vandermark, Jeb Bishop, Kjell Nordeson, Ingebrigt Haker-Flaten, Paal Nilssen-Love) 6/22/02 Vancouver Jazz Festival, BC 6/23/02 Vancouver Jazz Festival, BC PETER BROTZMANN CHICAGO TENTET EUROPEAN DATES 6/26/02 Verona, Italy 6/28/02 Ljubljana, Slovenia 7/5/02 Kongsberg, Norway (tentet) 7/6/02 Kongsberg, Norway (small groups)

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Re: Victo [Peggy Lee/Marilyn Lerner CD]
by Jeni Dahmus 31 May '02

31 May '02

>is the CD interesting too and what label? I didnĀ´t find so much >while googleing. > >Andreas "Struck" by the Peggy Lee/Marilyn Lerner duo is a self-produced CD consisting of 9 tracks recorded at Western Front in Vancouver (February 2001). You probably have to purchase it from the artists. Email contacts are listed on the cover - I can send to anyone interested. I like the CD but it does not capture the energy of the Victo concert. Jeni np: Fushitsusha - Withdrawe, this sable disclosure ere devot'd (Victo) --------------------------- Nemokama el.paĆ°to dĆ«Ć¾utĆ« - http://webmail.delfi.lt/

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Re: New Fred Frith CD
by Fastian＠aol.com 31 May '02

31 May '02

Arthur Gadney wrote: > Uh, this looks great. Has anybody heard it yet?! > > 1. FRED FRITH - Accidental (Fred Records/ReR Fra 01) > >> This is definitely a great cd, more in the "Technology Of Tears" style with layers of instruments and noise over a repeating pattern or rhythym.. Frith plays everything on the cd including lots of violin. There's 11 pieces so the ideas come and go quickly with a lot of variety. One piece is dedicated to Phil Minton that is all vocals, with Minton type gurgles, whispers, and howls. Often there's sticatto bursts of noise over the top of everything that makes you wonder if your cd player is functioning correctly. This is another fine Frith effort (recorded in '96 so its been in the vaults for awhile). It makes me anticipate more releases from Fred Records. It's distributed by Wayside/Cuneiform in the states so that's probably the easiest place to get it from if you don't live close to a good store. Cheers, John Threadgould

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