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Featured CD:
Firestorm is an intense and musically assaultive release of killer, balls-out free jazz that will appeal to those who long for the most bombasic works of Broetzmann, Ayler, Takayanagi and Cecil Taylor! This release reveals many shades of intensity and mood while remaining frenzied and inventive at all times. Featuring Taylor alumni Marco Eneidi (alto), Marc Edwards (drums), Lisle Ellis (bass), Elliott Levin (tenor), Sun Ra Arkestra legend Marshall Allen (alto), bassist Damon Smith and manic Austrian reedist Mario Rechtern, Firestorm is a delerious concoction of new energy music that pushes beyond the stratosphere of sound!
You can send a paypal for $15 pp to damon@balancepointacoustics.com If you would like one.
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A few copies of "Healing Force" are available
You can send a paypal for $15 pp to damon@balancepointacoustics.com If you would like one.
Vinny Golia-reeds
Aurora Josephson-voice
Henry Kaiser-guitar
Mike Keneally-piano, guitar and voice
Joe Morris-guitar and double bass
Damon Smith-double bass
Weasel Walter-drums
Seven major figures from the art-punk, free-jazz, brutal prog, improvisational and modern jazz world come together for a ROCKING tribute to the unfairly ignored, misunderstood and vilified late period works of Albert Ayler. These late period songs have always seemed to me like they may have been some of the most personally spritually resonant for Ayler, but the musicians and the culture of the late 1960s were possibly not able to successfully translate and perform his concept of spirituality, free jazz, boogaloo, nursery rhythms, marching bands, blues and r'n'b, and certainly the free-jazz following public was not ready to accept it. Now, 40 years and many stylistic mash-ups later, perhaps these works can be better enjoyed.
“Albert Ayler's later works (Love Cry, New Grass and Music is the Healing Force of the Universe) seem to be generally reviled. Through meditations, dreams, and visions, the players on this project were given the message to once again attempt to send the people of earth a message of love, peace, and spiritual understanding. We selected a representative set of tunes for this material and essentially let it play itself through us. We hope you will be as surprised as we still are by the results of this invocational experiment. We hope you will like this record.”
- Henry Kaiser, producer and guitarist
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Limited copies of the "Noisy People" dvd are available here. It is a Film by Tim Perkis featuing Damon Smith and other Bay Area Musicians. Includes footage of Gratkowski/Bryerton/Smith and Wolfgang Fuchs' Six Fuchs Project.
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Improvised music form Oakland and Tel Aviv from the Jerusalem based Kadima Label.
Aurora Josephson - voice
Ariel Shibolet - soprano saxophone
Jen Baker - trombone
Scott R. Looney - piano
Damon Smith - double bass Buy This CD
"Ghetto Caylpso" Peter Kowald/Marco Eneidi/Damon Smith/Spirit out now on NOTTWO records. Buy This CD
New from Nuscope Records: Biggi Vinkeloe, alto saxophone, flute; Damon Smith, double-bass; Kjell Nordeson, drums, vibraphone Buy This CD
Forthcoming CD's
BPA 013 "Pepper Spray" Ariel Shibolet/Jen Baker/Damon Smith/Jerome Bryerton
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2006-05-06
2-4pm
1510 8th st.
Joe Morris Improvisation Workshop
Sat. May 6th @ 1510 8th st. performance space. west oakland. 1block from w. oakland bart.
Afternoon 2:00 - 4:00 pm: Workshop (Details below) $25
Workshop
Guitarist, bassist, and composer Joe Morris will provide a workshop about improvised music, conducted with the use of graphic scores. The scores are maps containing cells with written word directions/suggestions taken from Joe's glossary of terms that he uses to describe subtle, and not so subtle, approaches to sound, rhythm, dynamics, form, groupings, and thematic material. The group will also use graphic scores that can be interpreted as gestural suggestions. Please RSVP to morriswrkshp@balancepointacoustics.com
Musicians of all levels of ability are encouraged to attend.
Bio:
Originally from New Haven, Conn., guitarist and composer Joe Morris began playing in 1969 and is self-taught. He considers Cecil Taylor, Eric Dolphy, Leroy Jenkins, Thelonious Monk, Jimi Hendrix, and West African string music as major influences. He has performed and/or recorded with Matthew Shipp, William Parker, Joe Maneri, Ken Vandermark, Mat Maneri, Rob Brown, John Butcher, Eugene Chadbourne, DKV Trio, Dewey Redman, Lawrence "Butch" Morris, Andrew Cyrille, Ivo Perlman, Andrea Parkins, Hamid Drake, Thurman Barker, Fred Hopkins, Bern Nix, Joe McPhee, Billy Bang, Lowell Davidson, Peter Kowald, Raphé Malik, Whit Dickey, Mats Gustufsson, Aaly Trio, Roy Campbell Jr., Han Bennink, and many others. He currently leads the Joe Morris Trio and Quartet, the electric sextet Racket Club, and Many Rings Ensemble; and performs solo, in duos, and as a freelance guitarist. He is featured on 30 recordings, many of which have been named among Writer's Choice (best of the year) in the Village Voice, Chicago Tribune, Wire, Coda, and Jazziz. He was among those listed in the "Best Guitarist" category in the 1999 and 2000 Down Beat Critics Poll; listed in the "Best Guitarist Talent Deserving Wider Recognition" category in the 1998 and 2000 Down Beat Critics Poll; was nominated "Best Guitarist" at the 1998 New York Jazz Awards; and nominated for the Cal/Arts Alpert Award in 2001. He has recorded for the following labels: Riti Records, AUM Fidelity, Knitting Factory, Okka Disc, OmniTone, Clean Feed, Soul Note, Avant, Incus, Hat Hut, ECM, Leo, Homestead, NoMore, and About Time.
He has taught guitar and improvisation privately since the early 1970s and has performed and conducted workshops in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. He is a former member of the faculty of Tufts University Extension College and is currently on the faculty at New England Conservatory in the jazz and improvisation department.
He began playing acoustic bass in 2000 and has since performed and recorded with Daniel Levin, Whit Dickey, Rob Brown, Steve Swell, and Steve Lantner. In addition, he leads the trio Natural History. |
2005-10-01
12pm noon
1510 8th st., Oakland CA
Ken Filliano Workshop
Mr. Filiano will present a workshop for bass players, focusing on his extended study and research into all areas of the instrument, as well as a workshop open to all instrumentalists. Both workshops will deal with his wide range of experience and study with master musicians such as John Carter, Bobby Bradford, Bertram Turetzky, Vinny Golia, Barre Phillips, Joelle Leandre, Carlos Zingaro, Roswell Rudd, Warne Marsh, ROVA and many others.
time/fee:
12pm bass workshop $25 includes both
2pm all instruments $25
Please rsvp to filiano@balancepointacoustics.com
Concert:
8pm sun. oct. 30th @ 1510 8th st. performance space. $6-10 west oakland. 1block from w. oakland bart. $6-10 improvised music with food.
8pm
Ken Filiano's workshop Bass Ensemble
8:30
Phillip Greenlief - reeds
Ken Filiano - double bass
Scott R. Looney - piano and electronics
9:30
Ken Filiano's workshop ensemble (all instruments)
http://members.aol.com/ninewinds/BIOS/filiano.html
http://www.evandermusic.com
http://www.bayimproviser.com
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