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October 2007: Interview with Horatiu Radulescu... Giuseppe Ielasi has an ear for transformative composition...English saxophonist Evan Parker's career reaches its fourth decade...Reedman Nathan Davis offers up a hard-swinging and rich sextet...it's not just about the music: tongue-in-cheek art proliferate on paris walls...Saxophonist and cornetist Joe McPhee recorded Soprano more than two decades after the powerful stamp of Tenor...Lacy-philes get caught up in how Monk was a vehicle to the "other side" and it's easy to forget what was so important about his fascination with the repertoire in the first place...This may very well be the year that puts Chicago guitarist Scott Fields firmly on the improvisational map...Opitope is resolute in their determination to find a personal language through melody and signal processes... You could call the El Gallo Rojo catalogue the latest return-serve in a game of cultural pingpong...Goold has devised an earbending approach that involves superimposing 12-tone series over conventional jazz changes...Hook, Drift & Shuffle was recorded in Brussels in February 1983, just a month after the Parker/Guy/Lytton trio's debut Tracks; both albums originally appeared on Incus...Hard to complain about Hess's sticking to a formula, though, since the sequence of CDs has gotten stronger with each entry...Brisbane's improvised music scene has been enjoying a surge of activity in recent months including Nervous Cattle (what a name, almost as good as Opitope)...Elliott Sharp once named a piece "Triumph of the Won't"...   

SUMMER 2007 : The End of an Ear ; Interview with GINO ROBAIR ; On Creative Sources: Grosse Abfahrt / MacDonald, Nakatani, Davidson, Nicholson, Fells / Rodrigues, Rodrigues, Davies, Bosetti, Ezaki / Kimmig & Schiller / Herman Muntzig / Nusch Werchowska / Wassermann & Barrett / Forsyth & Wooley ; VINYL SOLUTION: Raymond Dijkstra / Susan Alcorn / Uton / Vertonen / Demons ; Axel Dörner / Lucio Capece / Robin Hayward ; Reissue this.. Marion Brown in Europe ; and this! Joëlle Léandre / Irène Schweizer ; POST ROCK?!: Stars Of The Lid / Area C / Valgeir Sigurdsson ; JAZZ & IMPROV: Shoup, Burns, Radding & Campbell / Keith Tippett / Sun Ra / Korber, Weber & Yamauchi / Jim Denley / Dörner & Nakamura / phono_phono / Ellen Fullman & Sean Meehan ; CONTEMPORARY: Post-Minimalism / Klaus Lang / Annea Lockwood / Andrew Violette / Artefacts of Australian Experimental Music ; OTHERNESS: Otherness / Astro / Optrum / Wi77!n6

JUNE 2007 Editorial ; Interview with TOM JOHNSON ; Bruce Russell ; On Emanem: Freedom Of The City 2006 / John Russell / Terry Day / Lol Coxhill ; Aidan Baker ; Reissued: Noah Howard ; VINYL SOLUTION: Sun Ra / Jason Ajemian / Emil Beaulieau & Jason Lescalleet ; JAZZ & IMPROV: Frank Gratkowski & Misha Mengelberg / Tigersmilk / erikm (Ferrari) & Lehn / Ov / Bruce Eisenbeil / Antoine Chessex / Kahl Monticone / Memorize The Sky / Doneda, Ielasi, Zach ; CONTEMPORARY: Hanna Hartman / Iannis Xenakis / Jean-François Laporte / Lubomyr Melnyk / Philip Bimstein ; ELECTRONICA: Ilios / KK Null / Courtis & Wehowsky / Jazkamer / Tim Catlin / Coleclough & Liles / Heemann & Martin / John Watermann / Daniel Menche

MAY 2007 : Interview with TUXEDOMOON ; Editorial ; In Concert: Orgelpark ; Anthony Braxton ; Reissue This: Gunnar Lindquist GL Unit ; In Concert: i and e Festival, Dublin ; On Public Eyesore: Jorge Castro / Amy Denio / Bill Horist & Marron / Emily Hay & Marcos Fernandes ; POST ROCK: Walter & Sabrina / Circle / Valet / The Need For A Crossing / Xedh ; JAZZ & IMPROV: Scott Fields / La Pieuvre / Spontaneous Music Ensemble / ZMF Trio / Cold Bleak Heat / Charles Cohen & Ed Wilcox / Eagle Keys / Graham Collier / Graham Halliwell & Tomas Korber / Malcolm Goldstein & Barre Phillips / Rafael Toral ; CONTEMPORARY: Alvin Lucier / Rhys Chatham / Toru Takemitsu / Jim O'Rourke ; ELECTRONICA: Maurizio Bianchi / Mark Templeton / Ezekiel Honig / Matt Shoemaker / Andrew Chalk / Organ Eye / Phillip Pietruschka / On / Raglani

APRIL 2007 : Interview with PHILL NIBLOCK ; Editorial: Musicora 2007 ; Radu Malfatti ; Reissue This: New Phonic Art ; Fred Frith ; Richard Lerman ; Charlemagne Palestine ; Spontaneous Music Ensemble ; JAZZ & IMPROV: Exploding Star Orchestra / Talibam! / Flower & Corsano / Sugimoto & Unami / Minton & Weston / Bauer, Lehn & Rose / Eugene Chadbourne / Cor Fuhler / Traw & Rhodri Davies / Furt / Otomo Yoshihide / Günter Müller / Ingar Zach / Korber & Schurer ; CONTEMPORARY: Dimitri Voudouris / Stephen Scott / John Cage ; NOISE & ELECTRONICA: Damion Romero / Sixes / Roman Torment / The Rita / Evenomist / Mike Shiflet / Daniel Menche / Jason Kahn / Mecha Orga

MARCH 2007 : Editorial ; In Concert - New York: Robert Ashley / Essa-Pekka Salonen ; In Concert - Paris: Misha Mengelberg / Tobias Delius Quartet ; Vinyl Solution: Black to Comm / Kuupuu / Mouths / Haptic / Hal Rammel ; Manuel Mota ; Jason Lescalleet ; Michel Henritzi ; JAZZ & IMPROV: Jack Wright / Schlippenbach Trio / Abrams, Lewis & Mitchell / Kahn, Korber & Weber / Michael Dessen / Topias Tiheäsalo / Gary Smith / The Fell Clutch / Mark Helias / Mick Barr / Uncle Woody Sullender & Kevin Davis / Spider Trio / Lindsay, Looney, Robair / John Shiurba ; CONTEMPORARY: Glenn Branca / Richard Garet / Heribert Friedl / Bernhard Günter / "Blue" Gene Tyranny / Olivia Block / Compositions for Harp and Sho ; ELECTRONICA: Ben Frost / David Daniell / Jim Haynes / Loren Dent / Richard Chartier / The Alps / Jefre Cantu-Ledesma / Mattin / Aemae

FEBRUARY 2007 : Editorial ; Alexander von Schlippenbach ; In Concert: LMC Festival 2006 ; Fred Lonberg-Holm ; Ralf Wehowsky ; Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza ; Reissue This: Afro Soul Drum Orgy ; JAZZ & IMPROV: Andrew Hill / Rudresh Mahanthappa / The Reveries / Joe McPhee & Paul Hession / Oluyemi Thomas / Patrucco, Honsinger, Mengelberg, Baars & Bennink / The Electrics / Fernandez, Guy & Lopez / Baars & Henneman / Joëlle Léandre / Mark Wastell / Tammen, Harth, Dahlgren & Rosen / The International Nothing / Jay Crocker & Chris Dadge / Mike Pride / Tsukasa, Yukie, Hiroshi / Monotract / Iconoclast ; CONTEMPORARY: Peter Zummo / Tom Johnson / Natasha Anderson / Giacinto Scelsi ; ELECTRONICA: Rosy Parlane / Marc Behrens & Paulo Raposo / John Duncan / Asher

JANUARY 2007 : Editorial ; REISSUE THESE : Barre Phillips / Marion Brown / Tony Oxley / Roscoe Mitchell / Material / Gil Mellé / John Benson Brooks ; On Clean Feed: John Butcher & Paal Nilssen-Love / BassDrumBone / Roswell Rudd & Mark Dresser / Lisbon Improvisation Players / Amado, Kessler, Nilssen-Love ; Walter & Sabrina Group ; Francisco López ; On DVD: Akira Rabelais & Stephen Mathieu / Blank Plays Duden / John Cage ; JAZZ & IMPROV: Iskra 1903 / Chadbourne & Fox / Mattin, Conrad, Barnes / Mattin / Christian Weber / Rob Reddy / Carnival Skin / Dave Burrell / Brötzmann & Zerang / Keith Rowe & Oren Ambarchi / Paul Hubweber & Philip Zoubek / Jim Denley & Peter Blamey / Howlin' Ghost Proletarians / Alan Purves / Sabine Ercklentz / Tilt ; CONTEMPORARY: Iannis Xenakis / Charlemagne Palestine & Tony Conrad / Morton Feldman / Women in Electronic Music ; ELECTRONICA: Deluxe Incinerator / Bhob Rainey / Strotter Inst. / Un Caddie Renversé dans l'Herbe / Janek Schaefer

DECEMBER 2006 : Editorial ; Interview with WEASEL WALTER ; In Print: Rock, Pop ; On Creative Sources: Ernesto Rodrigues, Guilherme Rodrigues, Mathieu Werchowski, Joseba Irazoki, Wade Matthews, Bechir Saadé, Punck, Christine Sehnaoui, Sharif Sehnaoui, Neil Davidson, Ricardo Arias, Günter Müller, Hans Tammen, Sabine Vogel, Neumatica ; In Concert: Dancers on a Tightrope: Beyond Shostakovich ; Reissued: Masayuki Takayanagi ; On DVD: Harry Partch / AVVA ; JAZZ & IMPROV: Roscoe Mitchell / Mattin & Axel Dörner / Free Zone Appleby / Nels Cline / Peter Evans / Roswell Rudd / Nafta / Quintet Avant / EKG + Giuseppe Ielasi / Scott Fraser & Bruce Friedman / Jeff Kaiser & Tom McNalley / Empty Cage Quartet ; CONTEMPORARY: David Tudor & Gordon Mumma / George Cacioppo / Tod Dockstader / Manfred Werder / Helena Tulve / Walter Marchetti ; ELECTRONICA: Eric La Casa / Vertonen / KTL / Chris Watson & BJ Nilsen

NOVEMBER 2006 :Editorial ; Interview with MARK WASTELL ; In Concert: Erstquake 3 ; In Concert: Strotter Inst. ; In Print: The Future of Modern Music ; In Concert: György Kurtág 80th Birthday Celebration / Wolfgang Rihm ; On Kranky: Chihei Hatakeyama / Keith Fullerton Whitman / Bird Show / Gregg Kowalsky / Jessica Bailiff / Benoît Pioulard / Boduf Songs / Chris Herbert /Christina Carter ; From Canada: Keith, Oswald & Turner / Rob Clutton / Nimmons & Braid / Lisa Miller / Carsick / François Houle / Jesse Zubot / Fond of Tigers ; JAZZ & IMPROV: ONJO / ONJQ / Akiyama, Ambarchi & Licht / Temperamental Trio / Aaron Siegel / Steve Lacy / Steve Lantner / James Beaudreau / Flaherty, Corsano & Yeh / Randy Sandke / Art Ensemble of Chicago / peeesseye / Elliott Sharp / Frank Wright / Adam Lane / Zlatko Kaucic ; CONTEMPORARY: Earle Brown / Brian Ferneyhough / Julian Anderson / Christian Wolff / Virtual Rhythmicon ; ELECTRONICA: Astra / Fhievel / Post / Biphop Generation

OCTOBER 2006:Editorial ; Interview with MALCOLM GOLDSTEIN ; In Concert: Guelph Jazz Festival ; On Room40: Friedl & Vorfeld / Davis & Jerman / Lloyd Barrett / DJ Olive / Samartzis & English / Samartzis & Inada ; Luciano Berio ; On DVD: Misha Mengelberg ; VINYL SOLUTION: Chen Yi / Verfassung / Noxagt & Ultralyd / Park Attack / Trockeneis / Gendreau & Lopez ; JAZZ & IMPROV: Rose, Abrahams & Thomas / Robin Hayward / Carchesio & Craig / Sun Ra / PdConception / Spin Marvel / Kaufmann, Moore, van der Schyff / Bullock & Rawlings / Doug Theriault / Filip & Nakamura / Chang & Howard / Will Guthrie / Charles Mingus ; CONTEMPORARY: Matt Rogalsky / Nico Muhly / Dan Joseph / Tim Hodgkinson / Morton Feldman / Hervé Boghossian ; ELECTRONICA: Daniel Menche / Hampton & Hess / Biffplex / Ethan Rose / Surface10 / Forest Jackson / Coincident

SEPTEMBER 2006: Editorial ; Interview with JIM MCAULEY ; From The Chantels to Milford Graves: The Music of Joe Rigby ; On Slowscan: Henning Christiansen / Al Hansen ; In Print: Blocks of Consciousness and the Unbroken Continuum ; On Clean Feed: Dennis Gonzalez / Whit Dickey ; Formed / Cut: Bruckmann, Dafeldecker, Hauf / Jason Kahn & Jon Mueller / Jason Kahn & Gabriel Paiuk / Seth Nehil & jgrzinich ; JAZZ & IMPROV: Frequency / ROVA / Dijkstra & Hollenbeck / Paul Flaherty / Lytton, Vandermark, Wachsmann / Vinny Golia / Bobby Zankel / Joëlle Léandre / Irène Schweizer / Braxton & Frith / Rowe & Wastell / Möslang & Müller / Adam Linson / Michael Renkel / Okura, Müller, Yoshida / Moebius, Mueller, Schoenecker / Sunshine is Blown / La Grieta ; CONTEMPORARY: Barbara Lüneburg / Peter Lieberson / Pierluigi Billone / Robin Holcomb ; ELECTRONICA: Main / Philip Samartzis / Giuseppe Ielasi / Darren Tate / Peter Wright / Coleclough & Murmer

AUGUST 2006 :Editorial ; Interview with JOHN ROCKWELL ; Between the Notes: Tristan Murail ; Reissued: Robert Fripp ; Reissued: The Topography of the Lungs ; On Die Stadt: Aidan Baker / Asmus Tietchens / CM von Hausswolf / Fovea Hex ; nmperign / Jason Lescalleet ; JAZZ & IMPROV: Harry Miller's Isipingo / Eneidi, Kowald, Smith, Spirit / The Mentones / Aaron Moore / GOD / Alfred Harth / Bruce Russell / Wright, Djll, Rainey, Feeney / Hans Tammen & Christoph Irmer / Spiderwebs ; CONTEMPORARY: Ben Johnston / Pioneers of Electronic Music ; ELECTRONICA: Maurizio Bianchi / Jorge Haro / Ronnie Sundin / Sudden Infant / M. Holterbach

JULY 2006 :Editorial ; Interview with BRICE PAUSET ; From the Archives: The Sound Of Silence: The Music and Aesthetics of the Wandelweiser Group ; Going Fragile: Mattin / Malfatti ; Scott Walker ; In Concert: MaerzMusik 2006 ; In Concert: David Robertson at Carnegie Hall ; JAZZ & IMPROV: Trio 3 / Thomas Chapin / Bruise w/ Derek Bailey / Tetuzi Akiyama / Nels Cline & Jeremy Drake / Howard Riley / Brand, Perkis, Robair, Shiurba & Sperry / Joe McPhee / Eddie Prévost / Henry Kaiser / Sextessence / Lacey, Vogel & Wastell ; CONTEMPORARY: Warren Burt / Arditti Quartet / Musica Futurista / Icebreaker ; ELECTRONICA, POST ROCK ETC: Kiyoshi Mizutani / Afflux / John Duncan & CM von Hausswolf / Crawling With Tarts / Function / Loscil / Nightmares on Wax / Vetiver / Sleeping Moustache / Arastoo

JUNE 2006 :Editorial ; Interview with FRANK DENYER; Loren Connors ; Jason Kahn in Japan: Where do we go from here and how do we get there? ; Ned Rothenberg ; Joseph Holbrooke ; JAZZ & IMPROV: The Contest of Pleasures / Mersault / Trio FO / VHF / Brian Allen / Evan Parker / Fred Hess / Wade Matthews & Ingar Zach / (N:Q) / Office-R(6) / Silo / Dominic Lash & Bruno Guastalla / Safe & Danny McCarthy ; CONTEMPORARY: Lionel Marchetti / Belinda Reynolds / Joseph Waters ; ELECTRONICA: Francisco Lopez / Daniel Menche / Lukasz Ciszak / Alan Courtis ; ?????: Morpho / Hans Grusel's Krankenkabinet / Travis Just / The Beige Channel / Ed Chang & Han Degc / MechaOrga

MAY 2006 :Editorial ; Interview with BORBETOMAGUS ; Rune Lindblad ; Reissue this: John Tchicai ; Maurizio Bianchi ; In Print: Resonance Vol.10 No.2 ; In Concert: Burkhard Beins, Lucio Capece & Rhodri Davies ; JAZZ & IMPROV: Dom Minasi / Reuben Radding / Rudi Mahall / Chiesa, Guionnet, La Casa & Petit / Agnès Palier & Olivier Toulemonde / Tom Djll / Terry Day / Paul Hood & Michael Rodgers / Pascale Labbé & Jean Morières / Mattin & Cremaster / Stern & Guerra / Eugene Chadbourne ; CONTEMPORARY: Vinko Globokar / Phill Niblock / Roland Kayn ; ELECTRONICA: Anthony Pateras & Robin Fox / Howard Stelzer & Giuseppe Ielasi / Sébastien Roux / Fhievel

APRIL 2006 : Editorial ; Interview with HARRIS EISENSTADT; Splinched: Pascal Battus / Ferran Fages ; 'Pataphysics ; On Charhizma: Serge Baghdassarians & Boris Baltschun / Kai Fagaschinski & Bernhard Gal / Michael Thieke ; In Concert: Six Months in New York ; Reissue This: Mirror ; Stefan Wolpe ; JAZZ & IMPROV: Available Jelly / Out of Context / Josephson, Léandre, Smith & Blume / Malcolm Goldstein & Masashi Harada / From Between / The Same Girl / Freedom Of The City 2005 / Mike Cooper / Braam, DeJoode, Vatcher / Hal Singer / Chas Smith / John Tilbury & Marcus Schmickler ; CONTEMPORARY: Thanos Chrysakis / Tony Conrad & Faust / Bruno Canino / Richard Trythall ; ELECTRONICA: Le Dépeupleur / KK.Null / Luigi Archetti / Yannick Dauby / Joe Colley & Jason Lescalleet / Andre Goncalves & Kenneth Kirschner / Mouthus / Gart & Seekatze

MARCH 2006: Editorial ; Interview with THOMAS ANKERSMIT ; On Tompkins Square: Ran Blake / Charles Gayle ; On Recorded: Susan Alcorn / Todd Whitman ; Hugh Davies ; On Non Visual Objects: Roel Meelkop / Richard Garet / Dale Lloyd / Jos Smolders / Ubeboet / Richard Chartier ; Reissued: News from the Shed ; Billy Bao ; JAZZ & IMPROV: Ab Baars / Talibam / Wade Matthews / MTKJ Quartet / Vinny Golia / Roland Ramanan / Hamid Drake & Assif Tsahar / John Butcher & Eddie Prévost / Lou Gare / Marit Schlechte / Civil War / Dropp Ensemble / Anla Courtis / John Clair & Andrew Sosis / Joel Stern & Jim Denley ; CONTEMPORARY: Luca Miti / David Monacchi / Morton Feldman / John Hudak ; ELECTRONICA: Dion Workman & Mattin / Robin Fox & Clayton Thomas / Steinbrüchel / John Duncan & Paolo Parisi / Will Montgomery / Falter Bramnk / Black to Comm / Pimmon / Tim Coster

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