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Music For Kids Who Can't Read Good (Free subscription) | yesterday
Heavy. Heavy. Heavy. Hailing from Melbourne, renowned label Knowfool dims the lights and adverts your eyes to the pit. Ladies and gentlemen… and ants, I present to you The Raah Project. This soulful duo has taken the stage with pining lyricism and dramatically orchestrated numbers. Never mind the intermissions and popcorn, their debut album, Score, is [...]
Consequence of Sound (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The idea of the “drummer as bandleader” is an oddity in most circles.
Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The widely praised Pixar animated feature Up is released tomorrow. Other theatrical releases include the documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell and the indie drama Evergreen. The complete series of Dawson's Creek and the animated Justice League are...
Dissensus (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
OK, help me out here. Has it been suggested before? If not: What are the categories? (fame & influence/(un)listenability/secret weapon i.e. work/idea of note)? Who would be the top scoring cards? Could you have, say, Stockhausen in it or if you did would you have to have the whole academy...
badgerblog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
(In the "trying to catch up posting about events" category) A couple of weeks ago maegwynn and I were out to dinner in Durham and I noticed a flyer: Having the midday free the next day I went and sat in. Eleven people attended, which I considered pretty good for a midday event with limited publicity. Attendees ranged from literature professors at one or another university embedded deeply...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Mean Fiddler and Elastic Artists presents THE STEVE REID ENSEMBLE 9th November 2009 @ The Jazz Cafe 5, Parkway, Camden, London, NW1 7PG 14 from seetickets.co.uk Doors: 7pm The Steve Reid Ensemble are set to play an exclusive London show at The Jazz Cafe on Monday 9th November. The cult free-Jazz drummer and percussionist has an illustrious career working with the likes of Miles Davies, James Brown,...
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
In its 27 years, the London-based music magazine The Wire —whose function has been to treat German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, astral-jazz shaman Sun Ra, and dubstep pioneer Kode9 as pop stars—has found an enviable niche as one of the few newsstand titles in its league continuing to thrive as more mainstream-minded titles go belly-up. Besides catering to a hard core of music lovers...
Matrixsynth (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
YouTube via trista300. Don't miss this post on Sun Ra and the illusive Minimoog Model B prototype . A search on Sun Ra will bring up more interesting posts including video. Note search is off - just weed through the unrelated posts... "Sun Ra Astro-Black 1972 Lamont McLamb Trumpet Atakatun Odun Conga Eloe Omoe Clarinet (Bass) Pat Patrick Clarinet Sun Ra Keyboards Vibraphone Main Performer Synthesizer...
the echo and echoplex (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
[ November 14, 2009; 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Amiri Baraka Amiri Baraka, born in 1934, in Newark, New Jersey, USA, is the author of over 40 books of essays, poems, drama, and music history and criticism, a poet icon and revolutionary political activist who has recited poetry and lectured on cultural and political issues extensively in the USA, the Caribbean, Africa, and Europe. With influences [...]
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Jimi Tenor and Tony Allen form the latest couple in the series uniting younger musicians with their heroes. Rating:
Awdio Blog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Nublu’s first annual jazz festival brings together some of New York’s bright new stars and legendary players between the 5th and 22nd November. Putting their own stamp on the NYC jazz scene, they will host a superb array of celebrated veterans as well as rising stars and favorites who are part of the Nublu pantheon [...] Related posts: Dance to the sounds of Nublu It’s 10pm in New...
LP Cover Lover (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Sun Ra and his Arkestra featurig John Gilmore on Tenor Sax I don’t have any information about this as I don’t have the disc, just the cover, which is “homemade.” The back is all pasted over with gold foil and the front has hand-coloring and some stickers. I think that this covered one of Sun [...]
Phawker (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
SUN RA ARKESTRA under the direction of Marshall Allen Halloween! Saturday, October 31, 8pm International House Philadelphia, 3701 Chestnut Street $20 General Admission Join us for this special and spectacular Halloween performance of the Sun Ra Arkestra. Founded in 1958 under the leadership of Sun Ra, the Arkestra pioneered a unique brand of afro-futurism, forging intersecting musical pathways that...
Resonance FM Podcasts (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
We return to L.A. for our latest guest mix. Depakote is a producer who got in touch with us after we’d posted about the Sun Ra beat tape a few months ago. He was one of the producers on said beat tape and he sent us links to a bunch of his freely available beat [...]
blissblog (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
feelingVery good, actually: Shackleton zone for the most part, but "Regressor" and "Ghostly Hardware" recall also the meteorite-scarred lunar bleakness of Marc Acardipane's ambient gabba mode ("Jupiter Pulse" etc).I've succumbed to the charms of "Dance Wiv Me". It's a textbook example of that popist precept/procedure, whereby “'importance' and 'relevance'...
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danielmyers2009 | 10/29/2009
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musicdvdandmore | 03/24/2009
This film offers rare insight of the Arkestra and examines their current work (in the physical absence of Sun Ra) under the direction of Marshall Allen (now age 86). Available on DVD May 19, 2009 Through MVD Visual MVD Visual and Ephraim Asili are pleased to announce the home viewing release of POINTS ON A SPACE AGE for worldwide distribution on DVD. POINTS ON A SPACE AGE, filmed between Spring’06
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