Avant Music News
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A source for news on music that is challenging, interesting, different, progressive, introspective, or just plain weird. Since 2003, Avant Music News has been the daily source of new about weird, non-mainstream, complex music. We publish daily links to articles regarding tour dates, releases, reviews, interviews, and various other items of interest. From time to time, we also publish our own..
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17h ago
Source: Vital Weekly. CORRUPTED – FELICIFIC ALGORITHM/MUSHIKERAS (CD by Cold Spring) * AUGMENTED ATROCITY – IN SEARCH OF SOMETHING THAT DOESN’T EXIST (CD by Aussaat) * NEU GESTALT – DREAMING SERPENTS (CD by Alex Tronic Records) * BASS COMMUNION – THE ITSELF OF ITSELF (CD by Fourth Dimension) * MASSARIA & KNEER & ERTENSTEIN ..read more
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18h ago
Source: Bandcamp Daily. Welsh-born, California-based artist Brian Williams has been recording sprawling, cosmic electronic music as Lustmord since the early ’80s. As a reluctant pioneer of the dark ambient genre who regards his music as neither dark nor ambient, he’s often been a square peg in the scenes he’s been thrust into. “I never felt ..read more
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20h ago
Source: The Stone Calendar. 4/3 Wednesday 8:30 pm NU MU: Adam Rudolph & Peter Apfelbaum Duet Peter Apfelbaum (saxes, flutes, piano, bamboo sax and flute, melodica, electric keyboards, percussion) Adam Rudolph (handrumset, tarijas, piano, electronic processing, thumb pianos, mouth bow, baka harp, gongs, cup gongs, slit drum, digeridoo, percussion) 4/4 Thursday 8:30 pm Adam Rudolph ..read more
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20h ago
The new archival Alice Coltrane release is reviewed. Ches Smith’s Laugh Ash garners a lengthy review. The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis also grabbed a review. A new Brian Eno film is different each time it is screened ..read more
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22h ago
Source: Chicago Jazz String Summit. Friday, May 17, 2024, 8:30PM at Constellation 3111 N. Western Ave Chicago, IL 60618 Dorothy Carlos – solo cello DoYeon Kim – gayageum & Tomas Fujiwara – drum set Yacouba Sissoko’s SIYA duo – kora w/ Moussa Diabate – ngoni Saturday, May 18, 2024, 7:30PM at University of Chicago/Logan Center ..read more
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22h ago
Source: Passion of the Weiss. Heady, honkin’, wildin’ free jazz first seems like a foreign language, in which the code is cracked when you finally understand. And Dave Harrington, Patrick Shiroshi, and Max Jaffe’s new trio album, Speak, Moment, may initially scan as unapproachable, but beneath the improvisatory structure is a mighty, infectious, and inviting ..read more
Avant Music News
2d ago
Here is where I post, at a frequency of about once a week, a list of the new music that caught my attention that week. All of the releases listed below I’ve heard for the first time this week and come recommended. Fall Of Leviathan – In Waves (2024)Steph Richards – Power Vibe (2024)Sons of ..read more
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2d ago
Sound artist Elizabeth Joan Kelly returns with a three-track EP of airy ambient / electro-acoustic / drone pieces. The source recordings were from Edinburgh, Scotland and presumably environmental sounds of one form or another. They were provided by an unnamed individual for Kelly to manipulate based on her own experience of the city. Thus, LF17 ..read more
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2d ago
Source: Noise Not Music. Review: Death Kneel – Burning Grip (Life of Sensation, Mar 4) Review: Lean – Sounds (G-Tech, Mar 1) Review: Clinton Green – A Conduit (Shame File Music, Feb 25) Review: Lès Modernos – Ciutats (Bruit Direct Disques, Feb 16 ..read more
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2d ago
Source: Point of Departure. Page One: a column by Bill Shoemaker Ezz-thetics: a column by Stuart Broomer Ned Rothenberg: Manifesting an Inner Diaspora: an interview with Troy Collins Pharoah Sanders: 1977 Revisited by Pierre Crépon The Book Cooks: And Did Those Feet … Six British Jazz Composers Duncan Heining (Jazz in Britain; London) & Journeys ..read more