September 27, 2012 | Posted in Uncategorized
Trio, our eleventh release has been a long time coming but here is the worthy new disc from Henceforth. Kui Dong, Christian Wolff and Larry Polansky have been a long standing improvising group at Dartmouth and they now find it's time to bring their music, full of beauty and power, into the world. We agree.
September 11, 2012 | Posted in Review | Tagged cities and eyes
Made of rugged digital fragmentation, melancholy acoustic bursts, and an intense voice, wavering between blues and jazz drives / avant.
September 11, 2012 | Posted in Review | Tagged dither
Canadian trio devoted to contemporary art with passion, Toca Loca in the "Shed" face four works selected from the repertoire of fairly old lions of the vanguard (Heinz Hollinger, Frederic Rzewski) and new rising stars of the classical experiments (Dai …
September 11, 2012 | Posted in Review | Tagged dither
Rocking out and breaking boundaries: A genre-bending amalgam.
September 11, 2012 | Posted in Review | Tagged SHED
There is in these recordings a sort of respect of order, that the grades very enthusiasts of Gregory Oh, equally boss of orchestra of the body, do nothing to break.
September 11, 2012 | Posted in Review | Tagged SHED
Adventurous Canadian trio Toca Loca’s cryptically titled new album Shed is a strangely captivating, grippingly energetic, strikingly rhythmic collection of new and older avant garde music.
July 13, 2012 | Posted in Fresh Sound
James Chute has promoted the new Fresh Sound season in the new issue of the San Diego Union Tribune and we've updated our site with our info. And now you have this info. It’s all good for Bonnie Wright’s fall …
May 16, 2012 | Posted in So Forth
May 8, 2012 Art of Elan San Diego Museum of Art Art of Elan was founded by Demarre McGill, flutist, and Kate Hatmaker, violinist, a few years ago when they were both new members of the San Diego Symphony. An …
May 16, 2012 | Posted in So Forth
May 5, 2012 Samantha Baker La Costa Coffee Roasting Back in San Diego. What to do? What to do? There’s some good stuff but I am coming down off New York and that takes some doing. I went to the …
May 9, 2012 | Posted in So Forth
May 1, 2012 City Winery Bang on a Can Benefit This was the last event of my two-week stay in New York (I’ll be back mid-June). It was a grand event honoring Adam Wolfensohn, President of the Board for ten …