Jamie Baum’s performance at Firehouse 12 is reviewed.

Flutist Jamie Baum returned to her home state Friday for an exultant performance at New Haven’s Firehouse 12. The Fairfield native led her septet on an alluring voyage through a musical landscape teeming with possibilities.

Baum’s compositions often draw upon modern classical music and advanced jazz concepts for inspiration. Despite their lofty origins, her pieces sounded playful and punchy, thanks to the admirable improvisatory skills of her band mates.

From All About Jazz:

18-Nov-08 Arild Andersen
Live at Belleville (ECM Records)
Reviewed by John Kelman

18-Nov-08 Satoko Fujii / New York Big Band
Summer Suite (Libra Records)
Reviewed by Budd Kopman

17-Nov-08 Rob Mazurek
Rob Mazurek’s excellent adventures in Brazil and France
Reviewed by Mark Corroto

17-Nov-08 Steven Bernstein’s Millennial Territory Orchestra
We Are MTO (MOWO! Inc.)
Reviewed by Mark Corroto

17-Nov-08 Kirk Knuffke Quartet
Bigwig (Clean Feed Records)
Reviewed by Martin Longley

16-Nov-08 Matthew Shipp
Matthew Shipp: Multiplication Table, Abbey Road Duos, Un Piano & Cosmic Suite
Reviewed by Kurt Gottschalk

16-Nov-08 Taylor Ho Bynum
Asphalt Flowers Forking Paths (Hatology)
Reviewed by Robert Iannapollo

16-Nov-08 Paolo Angeli / Evan Parker / Ned Rothenberg
Free Zone Appleby 2007 (Psi)
Reviewed by Martin Longley

From Dusted:

Artist: J Spaceman and Matthew Shipp
Album: SpaceShipp
Label: Treader
Review date: Nov. 18, 2008

Artist: Richard Pinhas and Merzbow
Album: Keio Line
Label: Cuneiform
Review date: Nov. 14, 2008

Artist: Sun Ra
Album: Secrets of the Sun
Label: Atavistic
Review date: Nov. 10, 2008

From Musique Machine:

Richard Chartier - Further Materials

Further Materials is a follow up to 2002’s Other Materials. Both are collections of non-album tracks which originally saw the light of day on compilations with like minded artists. Richard Chartier is a sound artist, installation curator, and sometime lecturer who needs no introduction to anyone mildly interested in electronic music. He is one of the originators of the “microsound” or “lower case” form of digital music, which is, as it sounds, minimal music, usually played at minimal volume. What’s intriguing about Chartier’s music is that if you listen carefully, and with the volume pegged to ten, there’s incredible depth to his music.

Crow Tongue - Ghost:Eye:Seeker
tiMOTHy is the artist behind Crow Tongue, a solo project which takes a slightly different path from acid-folk/psych ensemble Stone Breath, with whom he takes part. Crow Tongue does include some acidic touches to be sure, and some folky elements as well, but it follows a dronier, doomy path. Ghost:Eye:Seeker is one strange album, and I mean that in the positive sense of the word. The first couple of listens may leave you scratching your head though. It’s hard to say whether tiMOTHy is totally serious or whether there’s a deadpan, dour sense of humor beneath it all. You could compare some of this music to the droney side of the Current 93 catalog, especially since the subject matter is said to be linked to Christianity. You’d have to be either psychic or observant on some level beyond ordinary to be able to pick up on the religious aspect, as the lyrics are obtuse, to say the least.

God Of Shamisen - Dragon String Attack
‘Shamisen metal’… liek wtf? As one would type out loud on the internet. The Japanese instrument with the weird, huge plectrum seems as distant from metal as noodles to French fries. But it’s a small world after all and these guys, in one form or another connected to Estradasphere prove it.

At The Head of The Woods - Secrets Beyond Time & Space
Secrets Beyond Time & Space is the debut solo release from guitarist and instrumental mood maker James Woodhead who is best know as been one half of the Pagan, psychedelic and folk project The Elemental Chrysalis, which he does with Chet W. Scott(Ruhr Hunter, Blood of the Black Owl & Glass Throat Records owner).

Anakrid - Banishment Rituals of The Disenlightened
Anakrid make dense, darkly psychedelic and often intense and surreal electro soundscapes and dark electroinca. You can hear traces of more beat bound Coil or Cyclobe at their more filmatic, doom horror organ soundtracking, ambient industrial tone and slight noise tendencies and even slight traces of more demented Resident like cinematic and surrealism stirred into the dense mix.

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From Sonomu:

Sleep Research Facility, Deep Frieze (Cold Spring)
This is the ambient music that ambient music puts on the stereo when it wants to unwind and get reaquainted with its roots. Toronto´s Sleep Research Facility perversely approach the “comfort of encroaching hypothermia” with this sweeping, textbook example of true soundscaping craftsmanship. The… [read]
Posted by Stephen Fruitman at 08:20, 17 Nov 2008

Jeremy Bible & Jason Henry, Vryashn (CDR Gears of Sand)
The present reviewer must confess to having no idea of this duo´s track record, but artistically at least it looks like a case of the old ketchup-effect: nothing, nothing for a long time and then suddenly, splat! Five releases on three different labels, including their own, in a matter of a few… [read]
Posted by Stephen Fruitman at 06:45, 05 Nov 2008

My friend and colleague Steve Courtright reviews the show.

From Free Jazz:

Sunday, November 16, 2008
Codona - The Codona Trilogy (ECM, 2008 re-issue) *****

Saturday, November 15, 2008
Ilia Belorukov - Dots & Lines (Ermatell Records, 2007) ***½

Friday, November 14, 2008
Trio X - 2006 US Tour (CIMPoL, 2008) *****
Trio X - Live In Vilnius (NoBusiness, 2008)

Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Arild Andersen - Live At Belleville (ECM, 2008) ** and *****

Steven Bernstein’s Millennial Territory Orchestra grab a review.

Trumpeter and arranger Steven Bernstein might be the hardest working man in music these days. Just these last few years he has garnered a Grammy nomination (for Sexotica by his band Sex Mob) and a Annie nomination for scoring a children’s TV series; released an album under John Zorn’s Tzadik label; scored some Laurel & Hardy flicks; arranged on albums by Rufus Wainright, Marianne Faithfull, Linda Thompson and Darlene Love; played as member in Levon Helm’s Midnight Ramble band; served as musical director for Hal Willner’s show, and much more.

From All About Jazz:

16-Nov-08 Matthew Shipp
Matthew Shipp: Multiplication Table, Abbey Road Duos, Un Piano & Cosmic Suite
Reviewed by Kurt Gottschalk

16-Nov-08 Taylor Ho Bynum
Asphalt Flowers Forking Paths (Hatology)
Reviewed by Robert Iannapollo

16-Nov-08 Paolo Angeli / Evan Parker / Ned Rothenberg
Free Zone Appleby 2007 (Psi)
Reviewed by Martin Longley

15-Nov-08 Medeski, Martin & Wood
Radiolarians 1 (Indirecto Records)
Reviewed by Doug Collette

From Musique Machine:

Caïna - Temporary Antennae
After last years superb post black metal masterwork Mourner Temporary Antennae see’s one man project Caïna pushing the envelope further to breed an album that is still just linked to blacked metal but drifts effortless into post rock, 80’s shoegazing and gloomy pop , folk and all manner of sonic genre. All to build an album that is shiver inducingly great managing to be epic and personal, noisy and harmonic.

Astro - The Echo From The Purple dawn
Astro is Hiroshi Hansegawa’s (C.C.C.C, solo work, ect) noisy, spacey and psychedelic drone project. And with The echo from the Purple dawn he offers up three planet sized shifting drone nirvanas to get lost in.