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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Two works with Lacanian basics, online work notice, gig announcement
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:27:28 -0400 (EDT)
Two works with Lacanian basics, online work notice, gig announcement http://www.alansondheim.org/manimal.mp4 http://www.alansondheim.org/mold.mp4 Please note I will send out only once a week; at this point I don't think anyone's looking or reading these texts/media files; at once a week maybe someone will look at something. And if not it wastes a lot less of your time on delete. You can always check www.alansondheim.org for updates. I recognize I'm writing to myself here. Come to the gig below. - Alan, bad health. For God's sakes help support Tom Clark if you can. Gig announcement: Fire Museum Records presents: The Fire Museum Records/Majmua Music Label Showcase! Balcony @ The Trocadero 1003 Arch Street, Philadelphia Monday, April 21st 10PM Free Featuring: Alan Sondheim Dora Bleu George Korein Eric Carbonara Aditi Tahiti Fire Museum Records proudly presents the Fire Museum Records/Majmua Music label showcase. The evening begins with two artists whom have releases slated for release on Majmua Music. First up, vocalist & harmonium player Aditi Tahiti (joined this evening by Nasrudra on saxophone) sets the scene, performing music influenced by her upcoming release The Time Canvas (to be released later this year) and more. Recently relocated to New York, this will be Aditi's first performance in Philadelphia. Up next, Philadelphia's own Eric Carbonara has been winning rave reviews for his solo acoustic guitar music as heard on Exodus Bulldornadius (Locust Music). Carbonara's playing draws on the rich musical styles from Andalusian Roma-Flamenco to Hindustani & North African folk to form a kind of exalted pidgin style of playing that covers a wide emotional terrain from meditative calm to restless unease. Eric is also a member of the Psychedelic rock group Soft People; his release on Majmua Music is slated for later this year. George Korein has developed a reputation in the Philadelphia musical underground for being a true musical iconoclast. A frequent collaborator with Charles Cohen, Alex Nagle, Jesse Krakow and many others, George also produced and provided electronics on Helena Espvall's (of Espers) solo cd Nimis & Arx. Moving from no-wave moods to textured noise works to improvisation and catchy pop moments (sometimes in the course of the same song), we can't guarantee that George's set will resemble at all the sounds to be found on Another Corpse, which is the debut release on Majmua Music. Hailing from Montreal, Dora Bleu is the latest group led by Dorothy Geller, previously of From Quagmire (VHF Records) and Laconic Chamber (Camera Obscura). Her music can be considered "of folk" while not referencing traditional folk forms, anchored by a very explicative voice and guitar playing with an accompaniment that is alternatively unified song form or seemingly improvised depending on what is required in the moment. For this tour Dorothy is working with some of the brightest lights in the Montreal experimental music scene: Sam Shalabi (Shalabi Effect, etc) on electric guitar, Alex St. Onge (Et Sans, etc) on upright bass, and Gordon Allen on trumpet. The (Axa Hour of) Dora Bleu release Clones of Eros is available on Fire Museum Records. Alan Sondheim is perhaps best known in musical circles for his pair of recordings on the legendary ESP Disk label, but his first recording, The Songs was released on Riverboat Records in 1967 (and has been reissued on Fire Museum Records). The multi instrumentalist returned with his first proper release of new recordings in almost 20 years with the release of Skin/n in 2006 on Fire Museum Records. This recording of solo guitar and alpine zither pieces was highly acclaimed, earning the following accolade from The Wire Magazine: "(T)he music evokes an ethnographic hybrid of countless string instrument traditions, from koto to bluegrass, vigorously wiping past idiomatic technique as it does so. As a rough equivalent, you'd do equally well to imagine either David Fair or Derek Bailey punking out in imitation of Robbie Basho. The results are so compellingly idiosyncratic that any number of newly bearded Americans and brazen improv festival tryhards pale as extremely corny in compa rison." Appearing in Philadelphia for the first time, this year will also see the release of "Boojum", a recording of experimental lounge music.