Playlist for the Week of February 27, 2017

Tomas Fujiwara Trio – Variable Bets (Relative Pitch, 2014) Mat Maneri Quintet – Acceptance (Hat Hut, 1998) Quentin Tolimieri – Piano (pfMentum, 2016) Collective 4tet – Orca (Leo, 1997) Sandy Ewen, Damon Smith, Weasel Walter – Live in Texas (2016)

Review: David Buddin – The City of God

Dave Buddin The City of God (Dick Move Records, 2016) My interest in electronic music was ignited after seeing the science fiction thriller, Forbidden Planet. Life was never the same after hearing those alien sounds by Louis and Bebe Barron. I was first introduced to David Buddin during my tenure with Cellular Chaos. Buddin carries

Playlist for the Week of February 20, 2017

Jake Wark, Drew Gress, Phil Haynes – Tremor (Corner Store Jazz, 2016) Alvin Fielder/Damon Smith Duo – Song for Chico (Balance Point Acoustics, 2015) Paul Hartsaw, Kristian Aspelin, Damon Smith, Jerome Bryerton – Ausfegen: Dedicated to Joseph Beauys (Balancing Point Acoustics, 2008) Steve Swell – The Loneliness of the Long Distance Improviser (Swell Records, 2016)

Review: Sirene 1009

Sirene 1009 Han-Earl Park (Guitar) Caroline Pugh (Vocals/Tape Recorder) Dominic Lash (Bass) Mark Sanders (Drums) Sirene 1009 is a radical improvisational quartet made up of vocalist Caroline Pugh, bassist Dominic Lash, drummer Mark Sanders, and guitarist Han-Earl Park. Their self-titled debut is a colorful, sometimes violent and revelatory listening experience that infuses modern aesthetics with

February Artist Feature: Weasel Walter

Weasel Walter is a Brooklyn-based multi-instrumentalist, composer and improviser best known for leading the seminal punk-jazz/no-wave/brutal-prog band The Flying Luttenbachers between 1991 and 2007 on 16 full-length releases. Seamlessly uniting the intensity and abstraction of improvised music with the nihilist aesthetics of extreme rock forms, Walter is committed to violent momentum, idiomatic unpredictability and rapid

Steve Swell’s Nation of We with Strings Live at the Stone 2015-11-27

Band: Steve Swell‘s Nation of We: Jason Kao Hwang, Jake Sokolov-Gonzalez, Rosie Hertlein, Sarah Bernstein, Stephanie Griffin, Darius Jones, Chris Pitsiokos, Ras Moshe Burnett, Michael Foster, Dave Sewelson, Lewis Barnes, Matt Lavelle, Vincent Chancey, Joe Daley, Todd Nicholson, Chad Taylor Videographer: Don Mount