The Thing w/ Joe Mcphee

Date:	Sunday, June 27, 2010
Time:	7:30pm - 10:00pm
Location:	Space12
Street:	3121 E 12th Street

$10-$15 sliding scale admission. portion of proceeds to benefit Insidebooks project.

Epistrophy Arts is proud to present one of the most thrilling and exhilirating bands in any genre as we bring our 2010 season to a close on Sunday June 27 with the heavy-hitting Scandinavian group THE THING joined by special guest elder statesman JOE MCPHEE for their "Smoked Meat & BBQ Tour" that finds the band visiting their favorite Southern eating environs - the Smoked Meat Festival in Ville Platte, LA and Ruby's BBQ in Austin, TX - all while burning up southern stages with their take-no-prisoners punk-rock approach to free-jazz.

2 Great Nights

Epistrophy Arts presents 2 explosive evenings of international, adventurous jazz at Austin's Historic Victory Grill.

When: April 28, 29. 8PM
Where: Victory Grill (1104. E. 11th)

April 28: Peter Brötzmann / Hamid Drake Duo
April 29: Kidd Jordan, Hamid Drake, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten Trio

$16 advance tickets available at End of An Ear, Waterloo Records and Trailer Space Records. $20 Door

April is Jazz Appreciation month and Epistrophy Arts offers 2 explosive nights of world-class, international,adventurous improvised music in East Austin's original home for blues and jazz. Kicking off this mini-festival is a duo performance by one of the landmark collaborations in free music, German saxophone legend Peter Brötzmann with Chicago powerhouse drummer Hamid Drake. The sparks will continue to fly the following night when we convene a trio performance with New Orleans jazz patriarch and master Kidd Jordan, Hamid Drake and Austin's own (via Oslo) Ingebrigt Håker-Flaten.

Brotzmann / Drake
This very special engagement will mark the first time that Peter and Hamid have worked together extensively in over five years, and it has been nearly a decade since they toured as a Duo. Their unique bond was at the root of some of the Nineties and early 2000s finest improvised music through projects such as the original line up of the Brötzmann Chicago Tentet, the Albert Ayler tribute project Die Like A Dog, and numerous trios featuring the likes of the legendary Moroccan guembri player Mahmoud Gania, and bassists William Parker and the late Fred Hopkins. Their sole duo release, 1995's The Dried Rat-Dog on Okka Disk, received four stars in both the Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD and The All Music Guide, and is widely regarded as a cornerstone of the Chicago improvised-music resurgence that has garnished the city worldwide attention since the mid-nineties. Simply put, these two masters have affected an entire generation of improvisers all over the world through the unique language that they share, and they are long overdue to re-investigate that dialog.

Jordan / Drake / Haker-Flaten Trio

Epistrophy Arts is proud to present the debut performance of the collaborative trio of Kidd Jordan, Hamid Drake and Ingebrigt Håker-Flaten. Nate Chinen of the New York Times says the legendary Kidd Jordan is "one of a handful of saxophonists of his generation to absorb the breakthroughs of his contemporaries Coltrane and Ornette Coleman, not just as a shock but also as a spur. His technique has the capacity to astonish, especially in the altissimo range. But he works to ensure that the technical takes a backseat to the soulful. " Kidd Jordan's mighty saxophone will soar over the elemental and powerful rhythm section of Drake and Håker-Flaten

Some additional information on the artists:

PETER BRÖTZMANN - Over the course of his forty-plus year career, German saxophonist Peter Brötzmann has never compromised his distinct aesthetics. As one of the true founders of what has become known as European Improvised Music, and through his revolutionary trio of the seventies with Han Bennink and Fred Van Hove, right up to the present day and his continued work with his large ensemble: The Brötzmann Chicago Tentet; he continues to reinvent himself, his music, and the approaches of every artist around him every time he takes the stage. Possessing an instantly recognizable sound that has almost certainly affected every reedist that has ever encountered it, Brötzmann is legendary for reaching climactic heights on whatever instrument he picks up, but he is also the rare improviser equally capable of an original, introspective and near-blues sound. Throughout his storied career, Brötzmann has appeared on well over 150 recordings, and performed all over the world in a myriad of settings with such legendary musicians as Anthony Braxton, Cecil Taylor, Sonny Sharrock, Evan Parker, Misha Mengelberg, Derek Bailey, Peter Kowald, and Alexander von Schlippenbach, to name a select few.

HAMID DRAKE - Chicago's Hamid Drake is one of the most active percussionists working in the field of jazz, world, reggae, and improvised musics today. His unique style on the drum kit, frame drum, and tablas is simultaneously powerful, funky, and emotional; and has been heard all over the world with such singular talents as Don Cherry, Pharaoh Sanders, Archie Shepp, Fred Anderson, David Murray, Henry Grimes, and Ken Vandermark, to name a very few. He is featured on dozens of recordings, many of which find him in the rhythm section with his most consistent and revelatory partner, bassist William Parker of New York. Although he calls the Windy City home, Drake spends most of his time on the road touring with many of the finest ensembles working in jazz and improvised music today.

KIDD JORDAN
The list of bands and artists legendary New Orleans tenor saxophonist and educator Edward ‘Kidd’ Jordan has performed with reads like a 40-year Grammy program--from Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder to Aretha Franklin and the Supremes. And the list of jazz musicians he has performed with is even longer. Today, this innovative, boundary-smashing artist has performed with Sun Ra, William Parker, Alvin Fielder, Hamiet Bluiett, Reggie Workman, David Murray, Alan Silva, Fred Anderson, Ornette Coleman, Archie Shepp, Peter Kowald, Louis Moholo, Sunny Murray, Hamid Drake, Ed Blackwell, and Andrew Cyrille. amassed a discography of over 30 recordings of his own music, and has performed in jazz and music festivals around the world, including France, where he has received the title of Chevalier of Arts and Letters for his contribution to European performing arts. Americans seem to be catching up. Jordan was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award in June 2008 at the Vision Festival in New York. ‘Kidd’ Jordan was born in Crowley, Louisiana, in 1935 and has spent his entire life in the New Orleans area, resisting the urge to move to a larger metropolis better suited to his avant-garde leanings. He recently relocated to Baton Rouge after Hurricane Katrina devastated his 9th Ward home.
Jordan's view of innovation, based on discipline and introspection, situates itself squarely in the tradition of black American music. As he himself modestly puts it, "Styles are born out of people's technique. When people have enough technique then they can do some things."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/13/arts/music/13visi.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91384626

Ingebrigt Håker Flaten (1971) - born in Oppdal, Norway - living in Austin, Texas

Ingebrigt studied Jazz at the Music Consevatory in Trondheim, Norway, from 1992-95 with bassplayer Odd Magne Gridseth. Since '95 he has been a professional musician, refining his sound by touring extensively all over the world with some of the most diverse and important improvisers on the international circuit today. He has participated on more than 100 recordings. Ingebrigt is currently focusing on his work in the Scandanavian ensembles Atomic and The Thing, both of which have energized Austin audiences in recent yearas. He also leads his own quintet and is a member of the bands Free Fall, The Electrics, The Outskirts, Dave Rempis Percussion Quartet, Scorch Trio, Trinity, IPA, Daniel Levin Trio and Atomic Schooldays. Ingebrigt also have ongoing projects with musicians from the undergrounds of Mexico City, New York, Chicago, Austin and Houston. Håker-Flaten represents a special era in Norwegian bass tradition. Inspired by Jimmy Garrison, Richard Davis and William Parker, as well as European bassists such as Barry Guy, Dave Holland and Peter Kowald, he provides an historical continuity of the instrument's tradition, and as such, improvisation. Ingebrigt’s bass playing also draws inspiration and energy from his deep roots in the bustling Norwegian jazz scene. This can be summarized by placing him and his contemporaries in the great lineage of Norwegian progressive jazz musicians that include the famed Jan Garbarek, Arild Andersen and Terje Rypdal, as well as the less well-known pianist, Svein Finnerud, and bassist, Bjørnar Andresen, all of whom were key figures in shaping Norwegian avant garde jazz into the sound we have today.

Today, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten is one of the great ambassadors of the Norwegian sound, carrying this strong tradition further, both musically and geographically. He is constantly pushing and challenging himself, seeking out collaborations that hold a promise to lead to new and unheard territories.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/13/arts/music/13flat.html

This is a sponsored project of the Vortex Repertory Company and is funded and supported by individual contributions and by the City of Austin Through the Cultural Arts Division.

The Gods of Thunder!

PETER BRÖTZMANN (Germany) reeds
HAMID DRAKE (Chicago) drums, percussion

Advance tickets available April 12 at End of An Ear, Waterloo Records, Trailer Space Records and www.epistrophyarts.org
$16 advance, $20 door

Epistrophy Arts is proud to present one of the landmark collaborations in free music in Austin's historic home of blues and jazz.

This very special engagement will mark the first time that Peter and Hamid have worked together extensively in over five years, and it has been nearly a decade since they toured as a Duo. Their unique bond was at the root of some of the Nineties and early 2000s finest improvised music through projects such as the original line up of the Brötzmann Chicago Tentet, the Albert Ayler tribute project Die Like A Dog, and numerous trios featuring the likes of the legendary Moroccan guembri player Mahmoud Gania, and bassists William Parker and the late Fred Hopkins. The one record that they released as a Duo, 1995's The Dried Rat-Dog on Okka Disk, received four stars in both the Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD and The All Music Guide, and is widely regarded as a cornerstone of the Chicago improvised-music resurgence that has garnished the city worldwide attention since the mid-nineties. Simply put, these two masters have affected an entire generation of improvisers all over the world through the unique language that they share, and they are long overdue to re-investigate that dialog.

Some additional information on the artists:
PETER BRÖTZMANN - Over the course of his forty-plus year career, German saxophonist Peter Brötzmann has never compromised his distinct aesthetics. As one of the true founders of what has become known as European Improvised Music, and through his revolutionary trio of the seventies with Han Bennink and Fred Van Hove, right up to the present day and his continued work with his large ensemble: The Brötzmann Chicago Tentet; he continues to reinvent himself, his music, and the approaches of every artist around him every time he takes the stage. Possessing an instantly recognizable sound that has almost certainly affected every reedist that has ever encountered it, Brötzmann is legendary for reaching climactic heights on whatever instrument he picks up, but he is also the rare improviser equally capable of an original, introspective and near-blues sound. Throughout his storied career, Brötzmann has appeared on well over 150 recordings, and performed all over the world in a myriad of settings with such legendary musicians as Anthony Braxton, Cecil Taylor, Sonny Sharrock, Evan Parker, Misha Mengelberg, Derek Bailey, Peter Kowald, and Alexander von Schlippenbach, to name a select few.

HAMID DRAKE - Chicago's Hamid Drake is one of the most active percussionists working in the field of jazz, world, reggae, and improvised musics today. His unique style on the drum kit, frame drum, and tablas is simultaneously powerful, funky, and emotional; and has been heard all over the world with such singular talents as Don Cherry, Pharaoh Sanders, Archie Shepp, Fred Anderson, David Murray, Henry Grimes, and Ken Vandermark, to name a very few. He is featured on dozens of recordings, many of which find him in the rhythm section with his most consistent and revelatory partner, bassist William Parker of New York. Although he calls the Windy City home, Drake spends most of his time on the road touring with many of the finest ensembles working in jazz and improvised music today.

This is a sponsored project of the Vortex Repertory Company and is funded and supported by individual contributions and by the City of Austin Through the Cultural Arts Division.

YXSB

10^th Annual Yeast by Sweet Beast 2010 Line-Up – Preliminary....

A Decade Featuring the Best in Experimental Improv and Outsider Music!!!

....Sat Mar 13^th, 2010....

3 pm to 10 pm

Chain Drive, 504 Willow St (off Red River and Cesar Chavez)

(512) 480-9017

.. ..

Visual projections by Erich Ragsdale

2:45 to 3:15 pm ------------------------------Book of Shadows

3:30 to 4 pm -----------------------------------Chris Petkus

4:15 to 4:45 pm ---------------------Tom Benton ....

5 to 5:30 pm -------------------------Ichi Ni San Shi....

5:45 to 6:15 pm ---------------------Muzak John....

6:30 to 7 pm -------------------------Matt LaComette....

7:15 to 7:45 pm ---------------------Mystery Band ....

8 to 8:30 pm -------------------------Fm Campers ....

8:45 to 9:15 pm -------------------- Telepathic Friend....

9:30 to 10 pm -----------------------Florene....

.. ..

Sun. Mar 14^th, 2010....

4 pm to 2 am

Chain Drive, 504 Willow St (off Red River and Cesar Chavez)

(512) 480-9017

.. ..

Visual projections by Paul Baker

4 to 4:30 pm --------------------------Ether Allen Trio ....

4:45 to 5:15 pm ----------------------Jomo....

5:30 to 6 pm --------------------------Smokey Emery....

6:15 to 6:45 pm ----------------------Brad Andrew (solo sax)....

7 to 7:30 pm --------------------------Night Viking....

7:45 to 8:15 pm ----------------------Seven Inch Stitch....

8:30 to 9 pm --------------------------Clear Spot....

9:15 to 9:45 pm ----------------------Low Red Center....

10 to 10:30 pm -----------------------Static Storm System....

10:45 to 11:15 pm -------------------The Waco Girls....

11:30 to Midnite ----------------------No Mas Bodas....

12:15 to 12:45 am -------------------Lustigovi....

1 to 1:30 am --------------------------Damp Heat

.. ..

Mon, Mar 15^th, 2010....

7 pm to 2 am

Plush, 617 Red River St.

(512) 478-0099

.. ..

Visual projections by Laurel of RecSpec

7 to 7:30 pm ----------------------------Brekekexkoaxkoax....

7:45 to 8:15 pm ------------------------Aaryn Russel Anti-Symmetric....

8:30 to 9 pm ----------------------------Zorch....

9:15 to 9:45 pm ------------------------Mystery Band....

10 to 10:30 pm -------------------------We Aim to Try....

10:45 to 11:15 pm ---------------------Xathax....

11:30 to Midnite ----------------------------------Mystery Band ....

12:10 to 12:40 am ---------------------Skullcaster....

12: 45 to 1:15 am ----------------------Aurora Plastics Company....

1:30 to 2 am ----------------------------ST37!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ELLEN FULLMAN

Austin New Music Co-op Presents: Ellen Fullman & The Long String Instrument

Composer-performer and former Austinite Ellen Fullman returns to Austin with her 100 foot long string instrument for the first time in 12 years. Rare performance to be held at the historic downtown Seaholm Power Plant.

Saturday, March 13th - 8PM
Sunday, March 14th - 8PM
Both performances at The Seaholm Power Plant
214 West Avenue Austin, TX 78701
$12 students/advance and $15 at door
Advance tickets available now at End of an Ear http://endofanear.com

NMC is thrilled to present Ellen Fullman and her Long String Instrument for a long-overdue homecoming performance. Austin audiences will have the opportunity to step into the turbine hall of a historic power plant and be enveloped by dense masses of sound from a 100 foot long string instrument. This experience is akin to stepping into an enormous grand piano. Fullman's rare visit also celebrates the SXSW world premiere of Peter Esmonde's in-depth documentary film about her music entitled "5 variations on a long string."

Ellen Fullman called Austin home from 1985 to 1997, and rented studio space in a former candy factory off Manor Road east of the University. It was there that she developed many aspects of her work and her very unique instrument. Using incredible lengths of wire and custom built wooden resonators, Fullman transformed the hardwood-floored building into a gigantic instrument. Breaking with all conventions of string playing, she rosined her hands and walked along the lengths of wire coaxing out otherworldly vibrations.

Over the past 25 years, Ellen Fullman has taken that original idea, carefully refined it, and brought it to the world by performing throughout the Europe, Japan, and the Americas. For this incredibly rare event, Fullman and NMC will construct the Long String Instrument inside a particularly resonant Austin landmark: the magnificent turbine hall of the 1930's Art Deco Seaholm Power Plant. In two very special concerts, Ellen Fullman will perform her compositions solo and in ensemble with NMC instrumentalists James Alexander (viola), Henna Chou (cello), Nick Hennies (percussion), and Travis Weller (violin).

FREEFALL

Ingebrigt Håker Flaten in association with Epistrophy Arts present the Texas debut of internationally acclaimed jazz trio Free Fall on March 12.

FREE FALL
Ingebrigt Håker Flaten (Austin) – double bass
Håvard Wiik (Oslo, Berlin) - piano
Ken Vandermark (Chicago) – clarinets

Friday March 12, 8PM doors 7:30
AAMP
411 West Monroe
Austin, TX 78704 (map)
advance tickets available Feb. 12 at End of An Ear and Waterloo Records
$12 advance, $15 door

Free Fall was organized by bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, reedist Ken Vandermark, and pianist Håvard Wiik in 2001 as an opportunity to work together in a chamber music environment and without percussion. Inspired in part by Texas jazz legend Jimmy Giuffre's classic group with Paul Bley and Steve Swallow, the band quickly found its own voice, utilizing velocity, space, and sound by incorporating combinations of pulse-based and open time, distributing melodic responsibility through its fragmentation, and building expression through a dialectic between understatement and explosiveness.

For this Austin debut performance, the trio will be performing in support of the upcoming release 'Gray Scale' on the Norwegian label Smalltown Superjazz. Grey Scale features material that is completely improvised.

MURAL

Ten Pounds To The Sound presents ::

from Norway / Australia
-- MURAL --
Kim Myhr - guitar
Ingar Zach - percussion
Jim Denley - saxophone, flutes
http://www.myspace.com/mural3

+
Vic Firth and the Lutherans
Kurt Newman - guitar
Chris Cogburn - percussion
Nick Hennies - percussion

Saturday, March 6 at 8p (doors at 7:30p)
AAMP -- 411 west Monroe St.
$8 - 15 sliding scale admission

Saturday night at Trailer Space . FREE !

This Saturday, March 6th @ Trailer Space Records in Austin, TX

America Reads Derek Rogers , Jacob Green ,
Iraan Show will start around 7:30 I'd assume.

BYOB as always!

Invisible Landscapes

Friday, Feb 26th - 8PM
Saturday, Feb 27th - 8PM
Sunday, Feb 28th - 2PM (FREE afternoon show)
All concerts at Ceremony Hall
4100 Red River St.
$12 students/advance and $15 at door
Both Nights: $20 students/advance and $25 if purchased together
Advance tickets available now at End of an Ear http://endofanear.com

On February 26th - 28th, NMC will present three unique programs of new chamber music. Among the eleven works to be performed are two septets commissioned from maverick composers Radu Malfatti (Austria) and Michael Pisaro (California) by the Co-op. The New Music Co-op performers will realize these pieces alongside guest percussionist Greg Stuart, who has dedicated a significant portion of his career to collaboration with Michael Pisaro. Mr. Pisaro will also be in attendance for all three programs to discuss his work. This concert will give Austin new music audiences a rare opportunity to be immersed in one of the more radical branches of contemporary art music.

Many common threads run through the uncompromising pieces on these three programs, among them the summoning of new sounds from acoustic instruments, the use of silence as a material, and a clarity of musical experience which results from pure sounds which are allowed to be themselves.

Michael Pisaro and Radu Malfatti, the two featured composers of this presentation, are regular fixtures on the European experimental music circuit. Pisaro's "pi (1-2594)" was performed late last year by pianist Philip Thomas over the course of a week at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival in England. Both Pisaro and Malfatti are active members of Wandelweiser, a geographically far flung collection of composer/performers who have been presenting concerts and publishing recordings and scores of their music for over 17 years. Wandelweiser stands on the shoulders of 20th century pioneers such as John Cage, Morton Feldman, and La Monte Young, continuing to explore sound, silence, and form in new music.

About the Program

Our program on Friday the 26th begins with Pisaro's piece "A Wave and Waves" for 100 percussion instruments. For this work Greg Stuart will perform solo, accompanied by an 8 channel surround sound system, playing back high fidelity recordings of Stuart playing the other 99 parts. Friday's program also includes Pisaro's "July Mountain" and the amplified sound of melting ice in Alex Keller's "Encantada II." During Saturday's performance we will premiere our two major commission pieces "Red River 7" by Radu Malfatti and "Ascending Series (7) (evaporation)" by Michael Pisaro. The co-op has been honing these two starkly beautiful pieces under the direction of the composers. Also on Saturday's program are new works by Nick Hennies and Travis Weller. Sunday's free afternoon performance features "Eye of the Blackbird" from Pisaro's notable "Harmony Series" and "Stones" by New York School composer Christian Wolff as well as new works by NMC composers Brent Fariss and William Bridges.

If you haven't heard WOODGRAIN yet......

WOODGRAIN CD RELEASE!!!!!!

Tweak Bird with Woodgrain (CD Release on Australian Cattle God), Auxiliary Earth (members of Gorch Fock) and The Gary
WEDNESDAY THE 24TH AT RED SEVEN !

Campers , Farmers , Strangers and Zorch !

Epistrophy Arts presents Frode Gjerstad Trio 2/2

Epistrophy Arts presents

Frode Gjerstad Trio (Norway, UK)

Frode Gjerstad - alto sax
Paal Nilssen Love - drums
Nick Stephens - bass

Space 12 3121 E 12th St
Tuesday Feb. 2. 8:00pm-10:30. doors 7:30
All Ages,
tickets available at the door $10-$15 sliding scale admission.
www.epistrophyarts.org


Epistrophy Arts is proud to kick of its 12th year of presenting cutting-edge improvised music in Austin with a special performance by three of Europe’s most prominent creative musicians - Frode Gjerstad, Paal Nilssen-Love and Nick Stephens.
Drawing heavily upon the energy of the free-jazz continuum as defined by Ornette Coleman, Charles Mingus and John Coltrane, alto saxophonist Frode Gjerstad is a pioneer of Norwegian improvised music. His various ensembles have served as a training ground for the current (and most vital) generation of Norwegian experimental musicians. Gjerstad first came to prominence with British percussionist John Stevens' group in the 1980s, and later played in a trio with William Parker and Hamid Drake. His career has spanned over 20 years and has included collaborations with many of the leading lights of improvised and experimental music including Peter Brötzmann, Han Bennink, Evan Parker, Derek Bailey, Louis Moholo-Moholo, and noise musician Lasse Marhaug.
Powerhouse drummer Paal Nilssen-Love is no stranger to adventurous Austin music audiences. He has taken part in some of Epistrophy Arts' most noted presentations including sold out performances by The Thing, The Peter Brotzmann Tentet, and Atomic. Nilssen-Love has established himself as a powerful and dynamic musician through his wide ranging collaborations with leading improvisors Ken Vandermark, Mats Gustafsson, Peter Brötzmann, Joe McPhee and left-field rock artists like Thurston Moore, Jim O'Rourke,the Ex’s Andy and Terrie, and Fugazi's Guy Picciotto. In December he completed a tour of Ethiopia with Ken Vandermark, Ab Baars and members of The Ex.
Bassist Nick Stephens has been an active member of the fertile UK improvising community since the late 1970s. In the process, he has played with many of the major players on that scene including Evan Parker, John Stevens, and Lol Coxhill ”Stephens thrives in a trio where he can soak up space with booming long notes, slip in a sleek line between the splash of cymbals and the texture of a horn, and place otherworldly arco color in the foreground,” wrote jazz critic Bill Shoemaker in 2007. “The bassist is the fulcrum of two of the better albums by improvising trios this year"

photo: http://www.paalnilss...Press/frode.jpg

http://frodegjerstad.com/
http://www.paalnilssen-love.com/
http://www.loosetorq.../biography.html

Hey Stephen O'Malley what u been listening to ?

This.....

http://www.ideologic.org/DLPublic_NK/sounds/SOMA_2009YEMENS.zip

Free Derek Rogers music

Derek Rogers has posted some of his albums for free on this blog . Great stuff and as previously mentioned he will be playing at Trailer Space records on friday at 7pm .

Friday at Trailer Space

Friday Jan. 22nd @ Trailer Space Records.

Daniel Francis Doyle
Shitheads On Dynamite
Derek Rogers
Brett Humphrey (from X=X)

Free. BYOB. Starts @ 7pm sharp.

Trailer Space is a great record shop that supports the local underground , so give them your money !!!!!

Shows this week !

General Badassery of the week ..

Church Of the Friendly Ghost present

Waco Girls on Thursday, with Insurgent Theatre.

ZORCH !

Zorch is pretty great , and now you can enjoy them in your own home ..... for FREE !!!
http://zzoorrcchh.com/



5 bands to catch up to in 2010" The Onion/AV Club

"this duo is quite amazing." mathvsrock.blogspot.com

"..makes me feel like a koala bear crapped a rainbow on my brain. Beautiful" rhythmsektion.com

"Zorch as a band.... might just be the saving grace of electronically-charged music of overly avant nature." thephotongod blogspot

"These guys, single-handedly changed how i feel about experimental music" http://www.tapebombs.com/musicblog/

"Crazy Stuff." openyourarmsandwelcome.blogspot.com/

"breaks that wouldn’t be out of place on a Fela Kuti or electric period Davis record. Throw in some Rhodes, some drone and some free jazz drum fills and you got yourself a clusterfuck of awesome" daybowbow.net

Damn you facebook!!!!!!!

So I did something to screw up the AUSKRONK facebook page , but I'm working on fixing it and hopefully I'll have some new posts in a few days . If there is anything I should post in the future hit me up at fuzebox419@gmail.com . See you all soon .

-Lee Dockery

Saturday 1/16

This concert will be unstoppable !

1/16 Austin

Presented by Ten Pounds to the Sound

8pm / $8 - $15 sliding scale

AAMP
411 Monroe St (map)

First set
Screwed Anthologies

Second set
Chris Cogburn +
Jesse Kudler +
Nick Hennies

Third set
Remi Alvarez +
Ingebrigt Håker Flaten +
Stefan Gonzalez

http://www.noideafestival.com/

Laurel Barickman / Co Curator / www.recspec.org

I’m a little late, and this is a little hurried, but I wanted to post my favorite albums from 2009. Music is everything to me, and if you’d like some suggested listening, here you go. These are in no particular order.

1. Supersilent - 9
2. Fever Ray - Fever Ray
3. Antony & The Johnsons - The Crying Light
4. Nurse with Wound - The Surveillance Lounge
5. Big Business - Mind The Drift
6. Ben Frost - By The Throat
7. Soisong - xAj3z
8. Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
9. Tim Hecker - An Imaginary Country
10. This Immortal Coil - The Dark Age of Love

With some great album artwork, too:

Lee Dockery / Co Curator / Snakebite

My Top Ten Dopest albums of the '09 (no real order)

1. Bibio- Ambivalence Ave
2. Tortoise - Beacons of ancestorship
3. Fever Ray - S/T
4. Oneida - Rated O
5. Skull Defekts - Temple
6. Z'S - Music of the modern white
   
7. Mt. Fuji Doomjazz Corporation - Succubus
8. Vadislay Delay - Tummaa
9. Shrinebuilder - S/T
10. Ben Frost - By The Throat

Happy New Year !!!!

Derek Rogers

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Top 10 Shows I Saw In 2009:

10. Animal Collective/Black Dice at Stubb's
09. Peter Brötzmann, Nasheet Waits and Eric Revis Trio at the Victory Grill
08. Dead Meadow and Wooden Shijps at Psych Fest 2
07. The Renderers at End Of An Ear at SXSW
06. Not Not Fun Showcase at The Hideout at SXSW (Sun Araw, Magic Lantern, Pocahaunted, Robedoor, Barn Owl)
05. Earthless with J. Mascis at the Habana Calle tent at SXSW
04. My Bloody Valentine/Josh T. Pearson at Austin Music Hall
03. Borbetomagus at the Frenetic Theater (Houston)
02. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy at the Granada Theater (Dallas)
01. Leonard Cohen at The Long Center

Honorable mention:

Sub Pop showcase (Red Red Meat, Baptist Generals, No Age) at SXSW
Talk Normal at Natrix Natrix House at SXSW
Pearl Jam at Austin City Limits Festival
Sonny Rollins at the Bass Concert Hall

A Personal Addendum:

My live solo debut set in tribute to the late Jack Rose at Natrix Natrix House
Air Traffic Controllers, Kingdom of Suicide Lovers, Elvis, Diamondhead at Beerland
The Young, XYX, Diamondhead, Glasses, Cruddy at Emo's
West Coast tour in August playing with Al Qaeda and being anchored on bass by Mike Watt (particularly the sold out SF show)

Jacob Green / Snakebite / End of an Ear Records

here's what i ended up with - about half new and half old but i included those because there really was no (or almost no) possibility that i could have heard the music ever before.




Units "History of the Units 1977-1983" (reissue, comp)
OOIOO "Armonico Hewa"
Cold Cave "Cremations" (comp)
Pyramids with Nadja "s/t"
Eagle Twin "The Unkindness of Crows"
Ben Frost "By the Throat"
v/a "Ghana Special: Modern Highlife, Afro-Sounds and Ghanaian Blue 1968-1981" (comp)
Betty Davis "Is it Love or Desire" (from 1976, first issue)
Luc Ferrari "Les Arythmiques" (posthumous issue)
39 Clocks "Zoned" (reissue, comp)

Pedro Moreno/ Epistrophy Arts

2009 was another fine year for adventurous music all over the world and in Austin. While most of the activity took place deep in the margins of the 'Live Music Capital of the World',there were so many events of such high quality and originality that it feels like our local scene has never been healthier. Here is looking to an amazing 2010!

TOP 09 in 09

1. The biggest event and something that will be sure to make quite an impact on local adventurous culture in the following years is Ingebrigt Haker-Flaten's decision to move to Austin. Norwegian creative music powerhouse and bassist extraordinaire, Haker-Flaten is a member of the Thing, Atomic, Free Fall, Scorch Trio and many other prominent international avant-garde jazz ensembles. Ingebrigt will make his debut as an Austin resident at the 2009 No Idea Festival on Sat. January 16 playing with Mexican free jazz saxophonist Remi Alvarez. http://www.ingebrigtflaten.com/

2. Seeing multi-instrumentalist Cooper-Moore at this year's No Idea Festival was simply amazing. As was the rest of the multi-faceted and international line up for this cutting edge festival. Chris Cogburn has grown his No Idea Festival into something really unique. It is quite easily the most genuinely radical music event in our region, bringing together improvisors and sound artists from Europe, Latin America, Austin and the greater United States. Chris's work building bridges with the Mexican avant-garde musical community deserves major Kudos! http://noideafestival.com/

3. KOOP DJ Rick Kendrick's stewardship of the new avant-garde jazz radio show Cutting Edge (Sundays 7-8:30 PM) was one of the most welcome developments on the local jazz front. And the addition to the line up of jazz scribe and bon-vivant Clifford Allen's deep crates and bottomless knowledge of free music arcana is the icing on the cake.... http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Cutting-Edge-KOOP-917-FM/150413301735?ref=ts

4. 2009 was another fantastic year for new releases but 'Bag It!' by the Thing on Smalltown Supersound easily tops the list. Steve Albini's production does the best job yet of capturing that deep emotion and the shamanic intensity that the group unleashes regularly during live performances. The bonus disc entitled Beef Brisket (dedicated to Ruby's BBQ) and Bear Guerra's stark b/w concert photos from their November Austin show are a nice shout out to the local scene from our good friends from Scandinavia... Watch out for a return of The Thing in late June presented by Epistrophy Arts!!!
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5. Not avant-garde in the traditional sense, but Charisse Kelly and Noel Waggener's Heavy Light Records launch party and presentation of funk gospel group The Relatives was nothing short of transcendent. Their sold-out performance at the Continental Club had the same spririt raising and stage levitating power of the most intense free jazz concert. http://heavylightrecords.com/

6. The expression 'Keep Austin Weird' is being used to sell all kinds of stuff these days, so that it has lost some of its meaning... But, nobody is keeping it weirder than Aaron Mace and the collective freak scene that is The Church of the Friendly Ghost. Their calendar is so jam packed full of genre-defying music and performance that it is easy to overlook some of the amazing world-class stuff they have pulled off. Some standouts include Eugene Chadbourne's residency and Frank Rosaly solo and ensemble performances. My personal fave was their presentation of the Humanization 4tet from Lisbon Portugal and Dallas.

7. The Ab Baars Trio with Ken Vandermark and Peter Brotzmann/ Nasheet Waits / Eric Revis Trio performances at the Victory Grill were standouts in our organization's history. Great crowds, good press and good vibes all around made for 2 memorable performances. I especially dug the Brotzmann Trio's 2nd set where they mined some somber and deeply emotive ground....

8. The passing of Tina Marsh. Austin and the world lost an amazingly talented and creative human being. Among many other talents, Tina was a creative catalyst and tireless advocate for adventurous culture in our town. Tina Marsh and CO2 did so much to expand my awareness for adventurous jazz. Tina was also responsible for introducing Austin to many world-class improvisors and artists including Kidd Jordan, Rova Saxophone Quartet, Roscoe Mitchell, Kenny Wheeler, Hamiett Bluiett among others. I will always be grateful for Tina's support and encouragement with Epistrophy Arts. Her loss is immeasurable.

9. Lots of other standouts including, the Austin New Music Coop, Fusebox Festival, Frank Gratkowski's solo show at the Salvage Vanguard, UT Performing Arts center presenting Sonny Rollins and Charles Lloyd in the same season!