wild bore

ex-burlingtonian, current-arkansasian, and all around nice guy ryan power & his wild bore tour 2007 roll through town this summer to bless us with a few killer shows. the first is a free after the fireworks extravaganza july 3rd at speaking volumes (great record/antique store on pine st. next to myers bagels) with dynasty, oak, & the cripples.

on july 28th, come celebrate the release of the cripples debut cd at higher ground with ryan & the cush.
tickets are 6 bucks and can be purchased from andy or aaron when you see them at 3 needs or the op or helping old ladies cross the street.

tick tock

a couple of great tick tick shows this weekend

friday get him, eat him, nose bleed island, king tuff, the captain shafts & james kochalka superstar at club metronome

sunday the evens at contois auditorium

the nightbirds, township & the new siberians

saturday night at nectars, come celebrate the release of the new new siberians cd. its an early show, t.n.s get on at 9pm sharp. with township & the nightbirds.

the lake champlain bluegrass festival august 10th 11th & 12th

held every year since 2001 (i think) in my home town of alburgh, vt- this festival was voted one of vermont's top ten events of 2006 by the vermont chamber of commerce. this years event is sure to entertain with bands such as doyle lawson & quick silver, rhonda vincent & the rage & the gibson brothers. more info here

black artists group

"People keep looking rearward for the tradition. The tradition in this music is forward, forward! Not what you did last week, but this week."

the black artists group was a multidisciplinary arts collective that existed in St. Louis, Missouri from 1968 to 1972- featuring the wonderful saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist oliver lake, whom i saw a couple of years ago at the flynn space with mary redhouse and pheeroan akLaff. church number nine- a great free-jazz/experimental music blog- posted an album by b.a.g for your downloading & listening pleasure! go to the blog and scroll down a bit. i'd post the link here myself- but i'm not sure if thats a breech of blogger etiquette. this album was even listed on thurston moores top ten free jazz album list. now thats street cred yo.

i love iceland & electric guitars

kira kira was beautiful. started out the set playing mbira mic'd & attached to a box that rumbled when shaken. she would bow deeply after each song. toy xylophone & jump rope & some homemade looking instrument with knobs that she sang & breathed into & kissed. then switched to electric guitar & sang a lovely song in icelandic about two music geeks who fall in love talking about pedals & guitars & strings.

charalambides was electric guitar & vocals. very melancholy. the guitarist did some interesting things with feedback & pedals etc., but the vocals were too much for me.

some bad news- i may have sustained a little hearing damage from the dinosaur jr. show last week- my left ear hurt like hell as soon as the guitar got loud- never had any problem before.

red square only bled into the firehouse a little-
thanks for all the shows, greg!

the le duo des chats

this is what came up when i searched for 'the le duo' on youtube. kinda pretty in a weird, french way

surprise show tonight!

the smittens are playing a free show tonight 6/14 at the monkey bar in winooski 9pm-12am. be there.

return of the sparkle...

magic sparkle will return to the stage this thursday at club metronome with montrealers manymental mistakes & locals nosebleed island. a free experimental/pop/indie/post-punk show should not be missed.

nosebleed island: pterodactyl

magic sparkle: the barn

dynasty

this is my first time trying to offer mp3's to download from my site. i'm using a free program called rapidshare- if anyone has any problems please let me know. here goes...

dynasty 'lay low' recorded last saturday at the greendoor studio.

dynasty is a local band made up of ben todd brian & mike (formerly of nest material/blades of grass/air guitar magazine/buster builder). rock like it was meant to sound- raw pure unadulterated loud skanky & authentic. watch for them around town this summer before they all scatter, like friday june 29th at the monkey bar...

dance this sunday

Flynn Center N.A.S.A. Grant
Work-in-Progress Presentation Selene Colburn
"The History of the Future Suite"
Sunday, June 17, 2007 at 7 pm
Donations accepted at the door; FlynnSpace

Dancer and movement artist Selene Colburn presents her new improvisational dance based on the popular management/planning History of the Future exercise, which asks participants to describe how an organization arrives at a future scenario and what happens when the end is just the beginning. This work-in-progress showing will lead to future site-specific works incorporating a large and somewhat rotating cast of visiting artists and possible multimedia components.

saturday night at the firehouse gallery

greg davis & burlington sounds presents charalambides & kira kira at the firehouse gallery in burlington, vt. sat. 6/16 8pm $7

unliberate

The Liberate Music & Arts Festival that I wrote about a few posts ago has been canceled. Another case of shortsightedness by local selectboard members. Kinda like what happened in highgate/swanton in the mid 90's after the grateful dead shows...perfect place for concerts + uptight selectmen = everyone loses.

but then i heard it may be re-scheduled- perhaps at higher ground- so i'll keep ya updated y'all

oak, snake, whale, bean

Oak, a Snake in the Garden, & Whale Tape this friday June 15th at the radio bean. kickoff/warmup show for Oak + Snake's 'Enchanted Forest' New England Summer Tour! not sure of the time- probably 9 or ten- will update when I find out...

HMMM

HMMM

IMAGINE A SONIC TSUNAMI!

Saturday, June 16, from 3:30 to 4pm
along Saint-Laurent between Sherbrooke and Mount-Royal

WHAT IS HUMMM?
HMMM is a spectacular audio event that takes place on Saturday, June 16 from 3:30 to 4 pm along St-Laurent Boulevard from Sherbrooke to Mont-Royal. It is intended to unite Montrealers through vocal expression and to beautify this already magical street.

We definitely do not intend to create a disturbance, but rather to heighten all citizens' awareness of their sonic environment.

Because of the soothing effect of HMMM, you will be able to hear your surroundings even better than before. It is an opportunity to avoid words for a short while, and to swim in a sea of vocal sound with your friends and neighbours, through humming.

HOW CAN YOU BE A PART OF IT?
On Saturday, June 16, from 3:30-4pm, CKUT (Radio McGill) 90.3 FM will be broadcasting the humming soundtrack. There are over 50 volunteers that will be carrying radios with the sound, and subtly asking citizens to hum along.

You can help spread the HMMM by tuning any available radios to the same station. And of course you will want to hum along! Any note is fine, any melody is okay - as long as you raise your voice!

WHERE DOES HMMM COME FROM?
The idea comes from the discipline of acoustic ecology, the study of our sonic environment. For more information about this important research, go to the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology.

KATHY KENNEDY is a Montreal-based sound artist who teaches sound art at Concordia University, and has also been a vocal instructor for over 20 years. She is the artistic director of the innovative women's choir Choeur Maha. Her large-scale choral pieces have been performed on the esplanade of Place des Arts in 1992 as part of le Festival International de la Voix, and for the inauguration of the Vancouver New Public Library in 1995.

HMMM has been performed in Vancouver, Toronto, Kingston, Kitchener and in Lima, Peru.
More information is available at:
http://www.kathykennedy.ca
http://kathykennedy.wordpress.com

venue change

So it turns out the evens wont be playing at kriya studio. the message I got says..."It seems that Kriya is too small a venue for The Evens, as they have decided to move their show to a place that will accommodate a larger amount of people for a larger amount of money."
It's kind of ambiguous but I think it means they will still play in the area...but I'm not sure. The Evens website still says kriya studio...I guess we'll have to wait and see...

the 'ol switcheroo

The Dead Unicorn & We Vs. the Shark show tomorrow (sunday) is now being hosted at kriya studio instead of the second floor. Good.

the dynasty show tonight was:
basic, bloody, callow, coarse, crude, fibrous, fresh, green, hard, immature, impure, native, natural, organic, rough, roughhewn, rude, unbaked, uncooked, undercooked, underdone, undressed, unfashioned, unformed, unfried, ungraded, unpasteurized, unprepared, unprocessed, unrefined, unripe, unsorted, unstained, untreated, virgin & alarming, astonishing, awe-inspiring, awful, beautiful, breathtaking, daunting, dreadful, exalted, far out, fearful, fearsome, formidable, frantic, frightening, grand, hairy, horrible, horrifying, imposing, impressive, intimidating, magnificent, majestic, mind-blowing, moving, nervous, overwhelming, shocking, striking, stunning, stupefying, terrible, terrifying, wonderful, wondrous, zero cool

Liberate!

COME TOGETHER AT LIBERATE MUSIC AND ARTS FESTIVAL

The time is ripe: Eclectic Music Productions proudly presents Liberate Music and Arts Festival! A green and cutting edge festival dedicated to presenting good music, good vibes, environmental awareness, and a rockin' good time. We also offer organic food and the healing arts. Picture a tent city at the Bondville Fairgrounds in beautiful southern Vermont. The trees are full, the river is babbling, the stars shine clear in mountain sky. Now meet us here August 3rd and 4th, 2007! Throughout two days and nights, we offer live music by:

Soulive, DJ Harry, Gordon Stone Band, Peter Prince and Moon Boot Lover, The Breakfast, Craig Mitchell (RISE Boston), DJ Le Spam and the Spam All-Stars, DJ Monaco, Alpha Omega Project, Jah Red, The Turkey Bouillon Mafia w/ Christina Durfee of the Trey Anastasio Band, The Everyone Orchestra conducted by Matt Butler (w/ very special guests), CHUCH, John Brown's Body and more!

We offer yoga and visionary healing arts in our Allard Engineered dome.

Music, Arts, Healing Arts and Camping??? All included in my ticket price? YES!

For those interested, hotel rooms/condos are available at nearby Stratton Mountain Resort

(with free Shuttle service day and night). Our festival is green, so Bring Your Own Bottle for water, be prepared to compost your food scraps and to recycle. It's easier than you think and contributes to a better world. Join us in celebration! Join us in invocation! Join us in collaboration! Come LIBERATE! Buy your EARLY BIRD tickets now and save $30! Tickets on sale at: www.liberatevt.com Visit: www.myspace.com/liberatefestival PEACE! Please contact EMP to get involved.

Pass the word... it's "LIBERATE"

Idris Muhammad

Idris Muhammad doing what he does. He comes on slow & steady- at first you think 'ah whats the big deal?' but by the end you realize that what you just saw was a master player blowing your mind slow-like. Saw him with Ahmad Jamal at last years jazz fest & loved it.

home items & dynasty saturday

home items: sassier & sluttier at volga river trading company, 294 n. winooski ave in burlington. come hear the girls rock your world. fat is where the flavor is. only catch is, line forms at 5.45- doors open from 5.55 to 6.00- come late and you're out of luck.

at ten o'clock- after the diorama-o-rama at the green door studio, Dynasty- local eccentric rock superstars- play their first show with full band. prepare to have whats left of your mind blown and then re-assembled and then blown again.

tick tick presents something-core at second floor

'melodic noise prog-punk' dead unicorn & 'indie experimental gothic' we versus the shark at the second floor, sunday june 10th.

metronome thursday

this thursday at club metronome, greg davis & tick tick present akron/family & the lexie mountain boys with greg davis.

also, dont forget tonights improv show at the euro gourmet.

the evens

the evens- a rock duo featuring the one and only ian macKaye, are playing a burlington show Sunday, June 24th, 2007 at kriya studio. i've never heard the evens, but i have listened to a little minor threat & have quite a bit of respect for their straight edge ways (even though its way different from my free wheelin, hedonistic lifestyle) kriya is bringing in some great shows! can i get a little hell yeah for the burlington music scene?!

busy early june

jazz fest starts tomorrow & there are tons of shows up & down church street and in all the clubs and bars & tourists everywhere & you can catch all the high school jazz bands featuring future music stars.

official website

also, shows at kriya:

pharaoh sanders @ burlington discover jazz fest.

this saturday I am going to see pharaoh sanders with the kenny garrett quartet at the flynn theater as part of the burlington discover jazz fest. I still have an extra ticket, so if anyone is interested in going, let me know. locals vorcza open.

Jack Wright - Agnes Palier - Olivier Toutlemonde Trio with Greg Davis

a nice improv show coming up next monday june 4th with saxophonist
jack wright (from philadelphia) with 2 french musicians, vocalist
agnes palier & electro-acoustic musician olivier toutlemonde.

This trio is the convergence of two duos, Jack Wright and Agnès
Palier, which performed the first time in Paris in April 2005, and Agnès and
Olivier Toulemonde, who have performed extensively in Europe. Greg Davis will join them for a set as well.


live at Euro Gourmet Cafe
61 main street
burlington, vt
Monday, June 4th
9pm
$5
all ages

more info here
gregs website
tick tick

sun ra freaking out in 1980

sunday night...

An outdoor show at Red Square featuring the Cripples & the Nightbirds. 8pm.

coltrane interview 1960

just audio, so you have to suffer through a montage of tranes album covers for six minutes, but its totally worth hearing him talk about his music which was moving away from his hard bop stuff with miles davis at such a clip people were calling it angry, un-beautiful, un-music etc. I cant imagine what they thought of him 5 or 6 years later! 'making music that only the poets can understand' as elvin jones supposedly said.

the cush at nectars friday night.

watch burette dance the echo-plex and croon
experience the hadeka rhythm machine
see gabby entrance the bass machine and serenade
hear me (chris brodie) soundscrape and twist knobs

with the activist/dictators & rolla

www.liveatnectars.com

European Free Improvisation

an amazingly detailed website i found about the european free improv scene. with bio's and discographies and even mp3 samples. man, those europeans love their free music! link

shows at the monkey; oak; hammer & saw

local bluegrass trio hammer & saw have a string of shows coming up this week, the first during acoustic tuesdays at the monkey house in winooski.

wednesday, oak, the new darlings of the burlington experimental/folk/psychedelic scene, are playing a free show at the langdon street cafe in montpelier.

and finally, sunday, tick tick is presenting a show at the monkey house featuring nethers from washington dc, and locals farm, and sean hood.

top ten from the free jazz underground

"No matter how you listen to it JAZZ is ostensibly about FREEDOM.
FREEDOM and the MYSTERY surrounding it.
And, like MUSIC, it is an ABSTRACT.
It's SHAPES, FORMS (SOUNDS!) are DISTINCT and PERSONAL and SENSITIVE to each player's DESIRE.
And the DESIRE is INFINITE.
FREEDOM is not just another word for nothing left to lose.
We know this from MESSAGES beamed from the space-lantern of his cosmic highness SUN RA!
The MESSAGE was clear:

"NOTHING IS."

thurston moore's tot ten favorite free jazz albums.

chris corsano, paul flaherty, and (somwhere in there) thurston moore & friends

different music this weekend

this saturday there are a couple of unusual acts i wanted to let you all know about.

at the barre auditorium in barre (obviously) christian rock singer and vermont native mark shelton celebrates the release of his cd 'tribal nation' with a rock opera-like performance that promises "Sword fights, interpretive dance, special effects and more... as the Lord will be praised in song, drama, worship, and more." and more info here.

at radio bean the cleverly named 'white raag', a sitar tabla duo featuring tim sharbaugh, the drummer from deep soda performs at 9. but in radio bean time that means who the hell knows?

at dobra tea the alash ensemble, central asian Tuvan throat singers & musicians, perform at 8:30. according to there website, "Alash is carrying the proud traditions of Tuvan music into the future. They are among the first of a new generation of Tuvan musicians who have matured in the musically fertile and adventurous post-communist period in Tuva. Having been students not only of well-known musicians such as Kongar-ool Ondar, they are also recipients of the musical knowledge of their own families and regions"

huh- the le duo

sonny rollins, don cherry, henry grimes, billy higgins

my favorite comment:

'Quel bonheur de retrouver ce quartet unique regroupant musiciens free (Don Cherry, Henry Grimes) avec le Colosse du Saxophone Sonny Rollins poussés par un Billy Higgins irréprochable comme d'habitude.'

which, according to my handy google translate, means:

'Which happiness to find this single four-bit byte gathering musicians free (Don Cherry, Henry Grimes) with the Colossus of the Saxophone Sonny Rollins pushed by Billy Higgins irreproachable as usual.'

what is free improvisation?

a great essay written by christian munthe from stockholm university.

'Improvisation is the activity of, to some extent, creating and constructing a piece of music in the same time as it is being performed. Improvisation in this wide sense is a necessity in all performed music whether it is called arrangement, interpretation, ornamentation, reading or something else.'

read the rest here.

the instant composers pool (icp) in action:

shows at kriya

sunday night

tonight at kriya studio raccoo-oo-oon performed a loud, drum & guitar filled almost perfect set of music. i hadn't listened to much before- just half the youtube clip i posted earlier- and & was totally surprised & delighted by the band- i bought one of there albums, behold secret kingdom, & maybe i'll give a proper review after a deep listen tomorrow.

listening to geechee recollections by marion brown- a great album i download from jizz relics- where else? also, through jizz relics, i came across a similar site called invisible record archive that also offers downloads of all kinds of music- mostly jazz related i think but there was stuff on there from lord buckley so anything goes.

heres some electric miles for ya- featuring the one and only jack dejohnette:

music this weekend

dont forget

saturday night: banyan with "party star"
sunday night: racoo-oo-oon with evan miller & pink bacon



funky video courtesy of the art ensemble of chicago