mercoledì 27 febbraio 2013

Ursula Oppens Solo - Live in Venezia 2003

Live at Teatro Piccolo Arsenale, Venezia
September 19th, 2003
during '47th Music Biennale'

Broadcasted and recorded on RAI Radio 3

Tracklist
01 Two Diversions (Elliott Carter)
02 Mistica (Tania Leòn)*
03 Two Canons For Ursula: Canon A 5/7, Canon B 2/3 (Conlon Nancarrow)
04 Humble Harvest (M. William Karlins)
05 Sonata (Luciano Berio)
06 Tango (Conlon Nancarrow)

Personnel:
Ursula Oppens (piano)

*world premiere

sabato 23 febbraio 2013

Django Bates Human Chain & The Smith Quartet - Live in Venezia 2003

photo of the concert

Live at Teatro Piccolo Arsenale, Venezia
September 20th, 2003
during '47th Music Biennale'

Broadcasted and recorded on RAI Radio 3

Tracklist
01 Horses In The Rain (Sidsel Endresen-D.Bates)
02 My Way (Paul Anka-Claude Francois-Jacques Revaux-Giles Thibaut)
03 Weird World (D.Bates)
04 Like Someone In Love (Jimmy Van Heusen-Johnny Burke)
05 Football (Iain Ballamy-Chris Batchelor-D.Bates)
06 From Chaos Anything Is Possible (D.Bates)
07 Wave (D.Bates)
08 New York, New York (John Kander-Fred Ebb)
09 Alone Again (Naturally) (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
10 You Live And Learn… (Apparently) (D.Bates)
11 Life On Mars (David Bowie)-Over The Rainbow (Harold Arlen-E.Y. Harburg)

Personnel:
Django Bates (keyboards)

Human Chain:
Iani Ballmy (sax)
Josefine Lindstrand (vocal)
Martin France (drums, electronic percussion)
Michael Mondesir (electric bass)

The Smith Quartet:
Ian Humphries (violin)
Charles Mutter (violin)
Nic Pendlebury (viola)
Deirdre Susanna Cooper (cello)

mercoledì 20 febbraio 2013

Gianluca Petrella & Furio Di Castri - Live in Venezia 2003

Live at Teatro alle Tese, Venezia
September 19th, 2003
during '47th Music Biennale'

Broadcasted and recorded on RAI Radio 3

Tracklist
01 unknown title
02 unknown title
03 unknown title
04 unknown title

Personnel:
Gianluca Petrella (trombone)
Furio Di Castri (bass)

lunedì 18 febbraio 2013

Sylvie Courvoisier Trio - Live in Venezia 2003

Live at Teatro alle Tese, Venezia
September 17th, 2003
during '47th Music Biennale'

Broadcasted and recorded on RAI Radio 3

Tracklist
01 Lanicum (S.Courvoisier)
02 Orodruin (S.Courvoisier)
03 Icaria 1 (S.Courvoisier-M.Feldman, E.Friedlander)
04 Abaton (S.Courvoisier)
05 Icaria 2 (S.Courvoisier-M.Feldman, E.Friedlander)

Personnel:
Sylvie Courvoisier (piano)
Mark Feldman (violin)
Erik Friedlander (cello)

mercoledì 13 febbraio 2013

Bang on a Can - Live in Venezia 2003

Live at Teatro Piccolo Arsenale, Venezia
September 17th, 2003
during '47th Music Biennale'

Broadcasted and recorded on RAI Radio 3

Tracklist
01 5 Machines (Marc Mellits)*
02 The Illusion Of Guidance (Scott Johnson)*
03 Believing (Julia Wolfe)
04 Shadow Suites (Evan Ziporyn)*
05 Workers Union (Louis Andriessen)

Personnel:
Robert Black (bass)
David Cossin (percussion)
Lisa Moore (piano and keyboards)
Mark Stewart (electric guitar)
Wendy Sutter (cello)
Evan Zyporin (clarinet)
Andrew Cotton (sound engineer)

*Italian premiere

lunedì 11 febbraio 2013

Gary Lucas - Live in Venezia 2003

photo of the concert
Live at Teatro alle Tese, Venezia
September 18th, 2003
during '47th Music Biennale'

Broadcasted and recorded on RAI Radio 3

Tracklist
01 Der Golem und wie er auf die Welt kam (G.Lukas-Walter Horn)*
[Il Golem come venne al Mondo]:
Main Title-Rabbi Loew Consults The Stars/The Decree
The Junker And The Jewess
Creation Of The Clary Man/Astaroth
The Golem Walks With Famulus, Der Böse Juden-Jüngling
The Festival Of The Roses
In the Synagogue/The Vision Of The Patriarchs
Go Go Golem

*original musics for electric and acoustic guitars and synthesizer by Gary Lucas and Walter Horn, played live by Gary Lucas, which accompanied 'Der Golem', a film by Paul Wegener and Carl Boese (1920)

sabato 9 febbraio 2013

Meshuge Klezmer Band - Live in Venezia 2003

Live at Teatro alle Tese, Venezia
September 18th, 2003
during '47th Music Biennale'

Broadcasted and recorded on RAI Radio 3

Tracklist:
01 unknown title
02 unknown title
03 unknown title
04 unknown title
05 unknown title
06 unknown title
07 unknown title
08 unknown title

Personnel:
Fabio Basile (electric guitar)
Stefano Corsi (acoustic bass)
Zeno De Rossi (drums)
Roberto Lanciai (alto sax)
Andrea Ranzato (accordion)
Maria Vicentini (violin)

mercoledì 6 febbraio 2013

Roscoe Mitchell with Anthony Braxton and Joseph Jarman - Live in New York 1977

Live at the Kitchen, New York
April 29th, 1977

Tracklist:

---first set---
01 untitled impro
02 untitled impro
03 untitled impro

---second set---
04 untitled impro
05 untitled impro [cuts off]

Personnel:
Roscoe Mitchell (saxes)
Anthony Braxton (saxes)
Joseph Jarman (saxes)

Notes from original taper: These two nights were pure heaven. The trio later recorded on Braxton's 'For Trio' and played once in 1978 at Moers (taped) that I know of, but this may be their total output.
As with the Art Ensemble's performance from six months earlier, I got there early and parked myself between Braxton (left) and Scowie (center). The array of reeds and flutes was amazing with all of the sax's present as well as numerous clarinets, oboes, bassoons, and flutes. The space was littered with them! On the second night, piece two, between approximately 24:10-27:45, they each doubled up on saxes. Braxton played the contra bass and sopranino at the same time. They diddled around with simple children's tunes (like "Hot Cross Buns:--teases really-- and had everyone laughing at the sight and sound.

Philological Notes: This review is of the first of two nights (April 29 & 30, 1977), according to NYT 4/24/77 p.D40

'Three Reed Players Improvise at Kitchen' (NYT 5/1/77 p.70)

Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, and Anthony Braxton, who performed music for varying combinations of saxophones, clarinets, and flutes at the Kitchen Friday, were the most promising young reed players of the Chicago jazz avant-garde 10 years ago. Today they are practically elder statesmen. A school of improvisational reed playing has sprung up behind them, and this is not surprising, for they have opened jazz to an unprecedented palette of instrumental sounds while demonstrating that spontaneity and a thoughtful approach to structural organization need not be incompatible.

Between them, the three musicians played more than 20 woodwinds during their concert at the Kitchen, but the unusual instrumentation was not employed for its shock value. Even a piece for bass and contrabass saxophones, composed by Mr. Braxton, avoided cuteness. The switching of instruments by individual players took place in an orderly fashion; it did not intrude on the flow of the music.

The trio played pieces by Mr. Mitchell and Mr. Braxton at Friday's concert, with Mr. Jarman's compositions set for another day, and the bravura contrapuntal passages, silences, variations in dynamics and timbre, and satisfying resolutions into chords and unisons the two writers provided guided the collective improvising without unnecessarily circumscribing it.

Mr. Jarman, who plays a battery of wind, percussion, and stringed instruments when performing as a member of the Art Ensemble of Chicago and is not often heard soloing at length, turned in several
captivating statements, especially a breathy tenor saxophone rhapsody and some celebratory bass clarinet solos.

Mr. Mitchell, who never plays a phrase when a note will do, was catapulted into an alto saxophone improvisation of staggering vitality and richness by one of Mr. Braxton's composed passages. Mr.
Braxton was particularly effective on his huge contrabass saxophone, on alto saxophone, and on his regular and contrabass clarinets.

--Robert Palmer

lunedì 4 febbraio 2013

Lawrence D. Butch Morris - Live in Matera 1990

Live at Madonna della Virtù, S.Nicola dei Greci, Matera
during Audiobox 90 - Spiriti Materani
October 6th, 1990

Broadcasted and recorded on RAI Radio 3

01 intro by Antonia Tessitore
02 Spiriti Materani (B.Morris)
03 outro by Antonia Tessitore

Personnel:
Lawrence D. Butch Morris (cornet)
Wayne Horvitz (keyboards, electronics)
J.A.Deane (trombone, electronics)

sabato 2 febbraio 2013

Roscoe Mitchell Solo - Live in Roma 2013

Live at Auditorium Parco della Musica, Roma
January 28th, 2013

Tracklist
01 untitled impro
02 untitled impro
03 untitled impro
04 untitled impro
05 untitled impro [encore]
06 untitled impro [encore]

Personnel:
Roscoe Mitchell (soprano and alto saxes)