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Three King Crimson members unite for exclusive Two of a Perfect Trio tour this fall

2011-07-21T12:23:00.000-07:00

King Crimson members Adrian Belew, Tony Levin and Pat Mastelotto have combined the forces of their trios, the Adrian Belew Power Trio and Stick Men, for the Two of a Perfect Trio tour. This double trio will extensively tour the United States this fall with select Canadian dates.

“It's a rare treat, both for us in the band, and for the audience, for three King Crimson members to be together onstage,” says Levin. “And the supporting cast are excellent players in their own right.”

The performance will feature two sets with an extended encore of music all featuring King Crimson material. The show will kick off with sets by Stick Men, featuring Mastelotto on electronic and acoustic percussion, Markus Reuter on his self-designed Touch Guitar, and Levin on Chapman Stick; and the Adrian Belew Power Trio with Belew on guitar and vocals, bassist Julie Slick, and NYC drummer Tobias Ralph.

For the extended “Crim-centric” encore, fans will be treated to the three Crimson members Belew, Levin and Mastelotto, covering some of their favorite pieces from their work in King Crimson.

“King Crimson is an elite club,” says Belew. “There have only been seven members in the last 30 years. Having Tony, Pat and myself onstage, three legitimate Crimson players, will make this as close as currently possible to the actual thing.”

To make this concert even more colossal, the trios will combine to close out the show.

“Then the others will come out to join us as a double trio, fairly well covering what Crimson had in the 90's lineup,” says Levin. “It should be a big challenge, wild music, and great fun.”

I’m very excited at the sound I hear in my head of this particular ‘double trio,’" says Belew. “It’s monstrous.”

Confirmed tour dates are:

Sept 19 Atlanta, GA / Variety Playhouse 

Sept 20 Carrboro, NC / Arts Center 

Sept 21 Knoxville, TN / Bijou 

Sept 22 Annapolis, MD / Rams Head 

Sept 23 Phoenixville, PA / Colonial Theater

Sept 24 Vienna, VA / Jammin Java 

Sept 26 New York, NY / Iridium 

Sept 27 Boston, MA / Royale 

Sept 28 New York, NY / Iridium 

Sept 29 New York, NY / Iridium 

Sept 30 Fairfield, CT / Stage One 

Oct 1 Northhampton, MA / Iron Horse 

Oct 2 Montreal, QC / Corona 

Oct 4 Toronto, ON / Mod Club 

Oct 5 Buffalo, NY / Tralf 

Oct 6 Covington, KY / Southgate House 

Oct 7 Detroit, MI / Magic Bag 

Oct 8 Chicago, IL / Old Town School of Folk 

Oct 9 Minneapolis, MN / Cedar Cultural Center 

Oct 11 Boulder, CO / Boulder Theater 

Oct 12 Salt Lake City, UT / The Depot 

Oct 14 Portland, OR / Aladdin 

Oct 15 Seattle, WA / Triple Door 

Oct 17 Sacramento, CA / Harlows 

Oct 18 San Francisco, CA / Regency 

Oct 19 Solana Beach, CA / Belly Up 

Oct 21 Agoura Hills, CA / Canyon Club 

Oct 22 Santa Ana, CA / Galaxy 

Oct 23 Phoenix, AZ / The Foundry 

Oct 26 St Louis, MO / Old Rockhouse 

Oct 27 Indianapolis, IN / Birdys 

Oct 28 Nashville, TN / Belcourt 

Oct 29 Asheville, NC / Moogfest

John Wetton shows his support of District 97

2011-07-18T12:21:00.000-07:00

John Wetton (middle) donned his District 97 shirt proudly at the Sonisphere Festival in Madrid this weekend. Pictured here with Jordan Rudess (left) and Mike Mangini (right).

Mörglbl and Freak Kitchen announce US tour

2011-06-28T09:43:00.000-07:00

Blue Mouth Promotions, LLC (BMP) is thrilled to announce the return of the French jazz/metal fusion masters known as Mörglbl, (www.myspace.com/morglbl) the to the United States after a more than two year absence! Mörglbl returns with an updated catalogue of hard-driving and humorous metallic jazz to tease and tantalize audiences.

And joining Mörglbl on select dates for their very first US tour will be Sweden’s own Freak Kitchen (http://www.freakkitchen.com) featuring Mattias ‘IA’ Eklundh. Freak Kitchen’s long awaited presence in the U.S. is sure to leave unaccustomed audiences wondering what hit them.

MÖRGLBL DATES

Thursday, August 25 Fountainhead - Florence, SC

Friday, August 26 Uncle Slayton’s - Louisville, KY

Sunday, August 28 46^th Annual Orton Park Festival - Madison, WI

Tuesday, August 30 Atlanta Institute of Music – Atlanta, GA

Wednesday, August 31 Atlanta Institute of Music – Atlanta, GA

Thursday, September 1 Boone Saloon - Boone, North Carolina

Friday, September 2 Canyons - Blowing Rock, NC

Saturday, September 3 Prog Day - Chapel Hill, NC (http://www.progday.net)

FREAK KITCHEN

Thursday, September 1 Double Door – Charlotte, NC

Friday, September 2 Prog Day Pre-Show at Local 506 – Chapel Hill, NC

Saturday, September 3 The Hangout – Florence, SC

MÖRGLBL AND FREAK KITCHEN

Monday, September 5 Lincoln Theater - Raleigh, NC (with Andy Wood)

Tuesday, September 6 Jewish Mother - Norfolk, VA (with Andy Wood)

Wednesday, September 7 Venue TBD - Philadelphia, PA

Thursday, September 8 The Drom - New York City (with Consider the Source)

Friday, September 9 NJ Proghouse – TBD (http://www.njproghouse.com/)

Saturday, September 10 Orion Studios - Baltimore, MD

Sunday, September 11 The Hangout - Florence, SC

Wobbler's Rites of Dawn makes the old new again

2011-06-16T13:15:00.000-07:00

In a time when progressive rock is experiencing a strong renaissance, and countless bands namedrop the genre, it is ironic that not a single contemporary band has so far managed to recapture the thrill and excitement '70s teenagers experienced when the first thundering Rickenbacker notes and mellotron washes hit them as they drooled over Roger Dean gatefolds back in the day. Maybe it has to be that way. You can only hear Close to the Edge or Brain Salad Surgery for the first time once, and 1970something is a long time ago.

The whole proposition of a resurgent progressive movement in music is a troublesome one. Since prog has solidified into a genre since the early '70s heydays, don't you have to play by the rules of that genre to properly be "prog"? But if you play by the rules, are you truly progressive? It's all a big one-hand-clap, a conundrum wrapped in an endless enigma.

Norway's kings of symphonic prog, Wobbler, arrogantly sidestep the whole debate of "prog" versus progressive. Since it's dubious whether rock has anywhere left to progress anyway, they have instead chosen simply to celebrate the rainbow-colored fireworks, the airy-fairy themes, the danger and the drama and the joy of pure music that made prog what it really was, and still can be: An exhilarating musical spectacle, a gladiator match of major chord crescendos and mini-moog glissandos.

Wobbler's third album, Rites at Dawn, is a case in point. It's a no-holds-barred declaration of love to the progressive giants. It's all here - Lars Fredrik Frøislie's overblown arsenal of every analog synth known to man, played with Wakemanesque flair and Emersonian hubris. Andreas Prestmo's soaring vocals, delivering at times delicate, fragile melodies and at times joyous, triumphant multi-part harmonies that would make CSN proud. The vibrant, stinging guitar of Morten Eriksen, the - you guessed it - thundering Rickenbacker bass of Kristian Hultgren, and finally Martin Kneppen's drumming, which manages that neat and esoteric 70's trick of making even impossible time signatures swing and swagger.

Rites at Dawn is a major step forward for Wobbler. As songwriters they have matured. Even though the music is as complex as ever, it flows and breathes in a whole new way, and the addition of Andreas' vocals adds a very human, and dare we say emotional, element to the songs. The album somehow pulls off being both challenging and adventurous, but at the same time accessible and downright infectious. Even though this is the kind of prog connoisseurs will stroke their beards appreciatively to, it is also prog their girlfriends will like. And you really can't ask for more than that.

Riverside returns to the Laser’s Edge with its 10th anniversary release

2011-05-13T09:41:00.000-07:00

For the band’s 10th anniversary, Riverside has prepared a special three song EP entitled Memories In My Head. The release marks the band’s return to the Laser’s Edge, which will release the EP throughout North America on June 28.

Memories In My Head contains 33 minutes of fresh music. “This new material, concerning (for obvious reasons) the themes of the passing time, will be a pleasant surprise for those who have missed the specific kind of melodies and space known from the band's early releases,” says Mariusz Duda, lead vocalist and bassist. “We have consciously gone back to our beginnings to create a certain kind of a circle. This mini-album will contain three longer compositions most resembling those from our first two albums. The result is a quite interesting, spacious, film-soundtrackish, nostalgic, and most of all rock mixture, summing up our career's first decade quite well.”

Riverside has performed at all the major progressive rock festivals in North America and Europe. Its extensive touring as a headliner and as a support act for Dream Theater has solidified the band’s place in the progressive rock pantheon while establishing a foothold with metal fans as well.

For further information, visit www.lasersedgegroup.com.

Melodic rock legends Pendragon release new CD

2011-05-06T14:15:00.000-07:00

Pendragon formed in 1978 and over the past 30 years have built up a fanatical fanbase around the world, releasing eight albums along with countless EPs, live and mini-albums, most of which have been available via their own Toff Records label. Their recent studio album, 2008’s Pure was named Album of the Year by Classic Rock Society and described by Classic Rock magazine as “Pendragon’s finest hour so far without a doubt” and they have returned this spring with their new album Passion, out now on Madfish, a division of Snapper Music.

Frontman Nick Barrett explains the decision to work with a label after all these years: “After the success of the last album, the obvious next step was to sign to with a label who could continue this success. Snapper/Madfish are currently the best in the field at releasing and promoting creative rock music so signing up with them seemed like the perfect option and it’s something I am very excited about.”

Passion promises to build on the exciting foundations created by Pure and further expand the band’s sound, following and profile. Nick explains: “Our new album is again another step forward for us musically, the mixes sound amazing. There has been so much activity since Pure and there are a lot of new fans now but I really think Passion will reach even more new fans too.”

The album, which will be packaged in a deluxe digibook, is accompanied by a DVD featuring a behind-the-scenes ‘Progumentary’ filmed by the band themselves while recording the album.

Following two weekend-long launch events in UK and Holland, the band will be embarking on an extensive European tour in April which will see them playing 38 dates in Germany, Poland, Switzerland, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Belgium and the UK.

Jakko Jakszyk, Robert Fripp and Mel Collins to release new King Crimson ProjeKct

2011-03-30T12:45:00.000-07:00

DGM/Inner Knot Records announce the upcoming release of A Scarcity of Miracles, a new release in the King Crimson ProjeKct series. The ProjeKct features Robert Fripp, Jakko Jakszyk and Mel Collins with a rhythm section of Tony Levin and Gavin Harrison.

A Scarcity of Miracles will be released on May 30, 2011. Information and merchandise for the release can be found at www.dgmlive.com.

When Fripp (King Crimson founder and guitarist) and Jakszyk (Level 42) got together in February 2009 neither expected that their initial sessions of guitar-only improvisations would result in a full-blown album, or that it would ultimately be deemed to be a King Crimson ProjeKct. As the material from those first sessions developed, it was obviously becoming much wider in scope and scale. The arrival of sax player and former King Crimson member, Collins, added further colour and texture to the emerging songs. The line-up was completed with the addition of bassist Levin and Porcupine Tree’s drummer, Harrison (both members of the 2008 incarnation of King Crimson), adding their parts to the material in their respective studios.

What had begun as an exchange of ideas grew into an album of heartfelt songs, an album that is immediately accessible on first hearing but reveals fresh detail and depth with each subsequent play, as one might expect from musicians of this calibre.

A Scarcity of Miracles (A King Crimson ProjeKct) features artwork by PJ Crook and will be released simultaneously as a CD/DVD-A package, a 200gm limited edition vinyl album with a gatefold sleeve and a standard CD. The CD/DVD-A pack features the album mixed in 5.1 surround sound, the album in high definition 24/96 stereo, an album’s worth of alternate mixes, improvisations from the original sessions and the video for the title track, along with the CD album in a slipcase.

Many fans have read about the evolution of this King Crimson ProjeKct through Fripp’s widely read online diary at www.dgmlive.com - where he has updated progress on the recording, mixing and mastering of the album at regular intervals.

“JFC [Jaksyk, Fripp, Collin] is a superb album. I have not heard stereo quite like this since the early 1970s, and much of that was not of this quality, “ writes Fripp in his December 15th entry to his online diary. “JFC is one of my favouritist albums, of those where I am a determining element. It has the Crimson gene, but is not quite KC [King Crimson].”

Markus Reuter releases digital download of his contemporary classical composition ‘Todmorden 513’

2010-12-09T09:30:00.000-08:00

Producer, musician, composer and sound designer Markus Reuter has just released the first performance of his contemporary classical piece ‘Todmorden 513’. The piece is an algorithmic composition for live instruments and electronics. This recording of the piece is available for digital download (and on CD, see below) at http://www.markusreuter.com.

‘Todmorden 513’ is an hour-long composition based on a cycle of 513 evenly spaced chords that were strictly derived from systematic combinations of pitches and recursive definition (i.e. the repeated application of a set of rules).

As Henry Warwick explains in the liner notes, “It is a continuous movement and sequence of five hundred and thirteen harmonies and triads generated by a combinatorial compositional technique of Reuter's own design.

The notes of each harmony or triad is then fed back into the same algorithm, resulting in a progression of chords and note clusters of highly varied density, ranging from simple two note harmonies to dense twelve note chords spread across several octaves. Starting on an A flat, the sequences of pitches form a kind of melodic or thematic line throughout. The rhythms of the performing instrumental trios and quartets were derived from the chord sequences themselves, which were looped across the whole piece, mapped to the notes of each chord, then mixed together. From there it was split into three or four independent voices respectively. The result is a shifting set of harmonic densities -- at times quite spare -- ranging from a harmony of two instruments to other moments of thick and lush instrumentation."

Critically acclaimed composer Nik Bärtsch says of the piece, "The composition sounds like a totally liberated Richard Wagner after an intense week of meditation in a space station behind Mars in the year 2050."

This performance of ‘Todmorden 513’ features a string and recorder ensemble and is intended as a starting point as Reuter intends for many more performances of the work in the future.

Personnel for this original recording include Reuter, Tobias Reber, Karina Bellmann, Uta Maria Lempert, Wiebke Tschöpe, Juliane Gilbert, Ulrich Pollmann, Frieder Zimmermann, and Robert Rich.

Todmorden 513 is also an experiment in distribution: for a minimum price of 4 EUR for the download from Bandcamp, a CD hardcopy (signed if requested) will be sent to the buyer. The small cost covers shipping and handling of the CD to anywhere in the world.

Punk Sanderson is locked inside Facebook

2010-10-06T11:03:00.000-07:00

PUNK SANDERSON,
creator of THE VICAR CHRONICLES,
locks himself in FACEBOOK

In a bizarre feat of online dexterity, Punk Sanderson, creator of The Vicar Chronicles, has locked himself in his FACEBOOK page, ranting about his boss, the enigmatic record producer, The Vicar, and trying to escape.

The Vicar Chronicles - “whodunits about the music industry” - encompass Videoblogs, Novels, Audiobooks, Graphic novels and music, based on the adventures of the mysterious, English record producer, The Vicar - “Sherlock Holmes meets Spinal Tap.” Surreal tales of lip-syncing
singers, concert sabotage, villains with Orange Eyebrows, groupies with ghosts in their bedrooms, and CDs flying out of shops.

The Vicar’s assistant, Punk Sanderson, has been squirreling away writing these stories for seven years. The first Vicar Chronicle - The Mysterious Case of Billy’s G String - was serialized online with about 7,000 readers, but, despite promises from large literary agents, two
more books, three film scripts, a proposed Channel 4 TV show, powerful music managers, album deals... absolutely nothing has happened.

So The Vicar has locked Punk into Facebook, where he will be spending the coming weeks until he has collected 10,000 fans to watch his Videobooks, the first stage in a wider launch this autumn.

Footage of Punk's Facebook lock-in can be seen at http://on.fb.me/agu2VR or via Youtube at http://bit.ly/bdDjhA.

Oteri and Laczko release next WD-41 project

2010-07-07T09:43:00.000-07:00

Willie Oteri and Dave Laczko’s

WD-41+2

Temi Per Cinema

Following their critically acclaimed and well received 2009 release, WD-41, the duo of Willie Oteri and Dave Laczko, have teamed with the talents of beat jockey and multi-instrumentalist Dino J.A. Deane (John Zorn, Jon Hassell, Bill Frisell) and drummer Scott Amendola (Nels Cline, Charlie Hunter) for an extension of their exploratory sonic trip.

The readers of All About Jazz, the largest and most quoted Jazz publication in the world, voted WD-41 to the number 24 spot in the “Top 50 Most Recommended Reviews of 2009.” WD-41 also has reached 55 and climbing in the “Top 100 Most Recommended Reviews of All Time,” also at AAJ.

The new release, Temi Per Cinema, brings us another exciting, totally improvised, exploratory journey based on live loops by Willie Oteri with live trumpet and effects created by Dave Laczko. It will be released digitally on July 13, 2010 with the CD release following on August 24, 2010. Temi Per Cinema was recorded direct to two tracks in Oteri’s home with Deane and Amendola’s improvised tracks added later while still retaining that “live vibe.” Editing is kept to a minimum, a fade in here, a fade out there, leaving a raw energy and excitement that can only happen in an improvised setting.

Glenn Astarita at All About Jazz wrote about WD-41; “…a spacey trip; chock full of loops, streaming synth noises, and fractured sojourns into the cosmic void. The musicians fuse maniacal psychedelia with free-form improvisation. Oteri makes his guitar weep in concert with otherworldly implementations…”

Temi Per Cinema promises to take the listener even farther on this journey.

Willie Oteri’s musical versatility and talent has propelled him to collaborations and performances with J. A. Deane, Scott Amendola, Tony Levin (Peter Gabriel, King Crimson, John Lennon), Pat Mastelotto (King Crimson, XTC), Mike Keneally (Frank Zappa), Jerry Marotta (Peter Gabriel), Stu Hamm (Joe Satriani, SteveVai) Ronan Chris Murphy (producer/mixer), Brannen Temple (Sheena Easton, Robben Ford, Eric Johnson), Chris Maresh (Eric Johnson, Abra Moore, Mitch Watkins), Mike Malone (Jimmy Smith) and Ephraim Owens (Erika Badu). In recent years, it is Oteri's role as an improviser, composer and band leader which has garnered him increasing notoriety, coupled with his notable unique style on guitar.

WD-41 and WD-41+2 Temi Per Cinema are available at CDBaby, iTunes, Discipline Global Mobile (DGM), and Abstract Logix.

Band web site: www.myspace.com/wd41music

EPK and downloads for review at: www.reverbnation.com/wd41

Publicity: www.pr4music.com

American Idol alum delves into progressive rock with Chicago’s District 97

2010-05-11T10:27:00.000-07:00

District 97 just signed to premier prog rock label Laser’s Edge

Ken Golden, President of Laser’s Edge Group, announces the addition of Chicago’s District 97 to the Laser’s Edge label. The label will release the band’s debut album Hybrid Child in Fall 2010.

Featuring 2007 American Idol finalist Leslie Hunt, District 97 mixes adventurous musical prowess with accessible catchy vocal melodies. The band features exceptional musicians including Chicago Symphony Orchestra cellist Katinka Kleijn.

District 97 was formed in the Fall of 2006 by drummer Jonathan Schang, keyboardist Rob Clearfield, bassist Patrick Mulcahy and guitarist Sam Krahn. The foursome from Chicago honed a no-holds barred style of Liquid Tension Experiment inspired Instrumental Rock before deciding to add the right vocalist. They found their vocalist in Hunt, a 2007 American Idol Top 10 Female Finalist. With a look, sound and stage presence comparable to a young Ann Wilson from Heart, Hunt's dynamic performances pushed the band into a new direction. After attending a show and being highly impressed, Kleijn joined the band. She was followed shortly thereafter by one of Chicago's finest young guitarists, Jim Tashjian. With this new lineup of peerless musicianship in place, District 97 began wowing crowds and establishing a devoted fanbase through packed shows at legendary Chicago venues such as House of Blues, Schubas and Martyrs'. 

For further information, go to www.lasersedgegroup.com or www.district97.net.

Trey Gunn announces new CD Modulator

2010-03-15T09:55:00.000-07:00

Modulator is Trey Gunn with uber-drummer Marco Minnemann; but with a gigantic twist. This entire recording was composed and produced over the top of a 51 minute, live drum solo by Minnemann. Modulator is scheduled for release May 18 through 7dMedia.

Minnemann has enlisted several different musicians to create a full cd, each, from the same drum solo. No editing of the drum performance was done. All the music had to fit with what Minnemann played and, ideally, make it seems like only this drum performance could go with this music.

"This was the hardest recording I have ever taken on," says Gunn. "The challenges of this process prove the old adage that 'with great restrictions come great creative leaps'."

Watch Trey's website for updates.

Laser’s Edge signs Germany’s Eloy for 40th Anniversary Release

2009-10-20T14:25:00.001-07:00

Ken Golden, President of Laser’s Edge Group, announces the addition of historic German Progressive Rock band Eloy to the Laser’s Edge label.

Laser’s Edge Records will exclusively release Visionary in North America, the band’s first studio album in over 10 years, on January 12, 2010. Visionary celebrates the 40^th Anniversary of Eloy, Germany’s most successful and prized progressive rock group.

Eloy was formed in 1969 by Hanover guitarist Frank Bornemann. The band has released numerous albums but are best known for 1977’s Ocean, which remains its best selling album. Although Eloy have not been active as a band since 1998, the demand for their music is still remarkable. Their work has had a significant impact on the history of rock, and many a journalist, as well as numerous fans, consider them to be one of the best progressive rock bands ever.

The band’s music continues to be rediscovered. It fascinates and touches many fans with its emotional, complex symphonic rock-music with atmospheric sound creations, pulsating rhythms and massive guitars, combined with lyrics which escape irrelevance, performed in a way to transport the listener to another world.

The strong feedback from all parts of the world eventually reached the musicians themselves. It encouraged Bornemann, lead singer, guitarist and producer of ELOY, to bring the band together again for a 40th anniversary reunion. After a break of eleven years, they have launched the new album Visionary, which recaptures the spirit of the early years.

For further information, go to www.lasersedgegroup.com or www.eloy-legacy.com.

Ronin Rhythm Records announces June 1 Digital Releases

2009-05-29T10:14:00.000-07:00

Ronin Rhythm Records brings its complete back catalog to the digital download platform in collaboration with Iapetus Distribution/Unsung Records.

Seven titles are being released digitally on the June 1, 2009 via most major download stores such as iTunes, emusic, Amazon, etc.

Ronin Rhythm Records is a platform for new creative music covering New Minimal, Funk and Ritual Groove Music. The label was founded in 2006 on the base of pianist and composer Nik Bärtsch’s pre-ECM albums and is dedicated to releasing music from stylistically-related young musical acts, such as Sha’s Banryu and more artists to be announced.

Swiss pianist, composer and producer Bärtsch is known for his solo work as well as his ensembles Mobile and Ronin.

“RITUAL GROOVE MUSIC, the title of my first CD, also points to the fundamental concept of my musical thinking,” explains Bärtsch. “The music shows a close affinity to architecturally organized space and is governed by the principles of repetition and reduction as well as by interlocking rhythms. A piece of music can be entered, inhabited like a room. It moves forward and transforms through obsessive circular movements, superimposition of different meters and micro-interplay. The listeners attention is directed toward minimal variations and phrasing. The band becomes an integral organism - like an animal, a habitat, an urban space. One must think with ears and hands.”

“Repetitive rhythms are so fundamental to Bärtsch's aesthetic that he even overdubs his Piano Solo album, one of six albums of ‘Ritual Groove Music’… the fifth [Rea], is sublime, its simple, shifting rhythmic figures building imperceptibly to gratifying climaxes.” Tom Hull, The Village Voice

The following titles will be digitally released on June 1:

Sha's BANRYU, Chess Boxing Vol. 1

Nik Bärtsch's MOBILE, AER

Nik Bärtsch's RONIN, REA

Nik Bärtsch's RONIN, LIVE

Nik Bärtsch, HISHIRYO, Piano Solo

Nik Bärtsch's RONIN, RANDORI

Nik Bärtsch's MOBILE, RITUAL GROOVE

More label releases to be announced later in the year.

http://www.roninrhythmrecords.com

http://www.iapetus-media.com

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For further information or to request a digital download for review, please contact Lori Hehr at LHPR at runbox.com.

New Reviews online

2009-05-18T11:04:00.000-07:00

Thanks Tommy Hash at Ystejam for new reviews on:

Crimson Jazz Trio

The Aurora Project

KTU

Ricky Flake at the Sun Herald says It's Better Late than Never to discover Danny Brill and tells prog fans to pick up The Aurora Project.

Gooner at Prog Archives gives the Ozrics' new one 4 stars.

New Bill Bruford article

2009-05-15T09:35:00.001-07:00

Eric Deggans at the St. Petersburg Times takes a look at Bill Bruford's career. Here's the link. Thanks Eric!

Ozric Tentacles Summer Tour

2009-05-06T11:39:00.000-07:00

Here's the dates so far for the Ozric Tentacles Spring/Summer Tour:

May 21 Fort Collins, CO Aggie Theatre
May 27 San Francisco, CA The Independent
May 29 Portland, OR Club 2140
May 30 Seattle, WA El Corazon
June 5 Boulder, CO Fox Theatre
June 11 Madison, WI Memorial Union Terrace
June 12 Chicago, IL The Abbey
June 18 Cleveland, OH Beachland Ballroom
June 19 Pittsburgh, PA Club Café
June 20 New York, NY BB King’s Blues Club
June 21 Burlington, VT Club Metronome
June 23 Philadelphia, PA Johnny Brenda’s
June 25 Baltimore, MD 8 x 10 Club
June 26 Falls Church, VA The State Theatre
Sept. 6 Chapel Hill, NC Prog Day

Manooghi Hi at SXSW

2009-03-04T13:17:00.000-08:00

If you're going to SXSW, schedule yourself to check out Manooghi Hi at Spiro's Nightclub on Saturday, March 21 at 7 p.m. A spectacular blend of rock with Indian music, the band features Indian pop star Mehnaz. Check out their myspace page to hear some samples. Really unique music with awesome musicianship.

More reviews

2009-03-02T10:04:00.000-08:00

Tommy Hash writes a great review of the completely original the Season Standard on Ystejam.com today.

The California Guitar Trio's show was a hit in Dallas this weekend. Read John Meyer's show review.

Chris Homer muses about the many styles of the Coyote Poets of the Universe in his review over at Musikreviews.com.

E. "Doc" Smith writes a nice article on Bill Bruford and his retirement at the San Francisco online daily BeyondChron.

Bill Bruford on All About Jazz

2009-03-02T09:53:00.001-08:00

Thanks to John Kelman who gives us a great review of Bill Bruford's biography today on All About Jazz. Also, a nice video link of an Earthworks performance at the bottom of the review. Also featured is an excerpt from the book. Review copies are available.

Crimson Jazz Trio -- Volume II

2009-02-27T11:52:00.001-08:00

For the curious, here's the song list on the upcoming King Crimson Songbook Volume II by the Crimson Jazz Trio:

The Court of the Crimson King
Formentera Lady
Sailors Tale
Heartbeat
Inner Garden
Lament
One Time
Pictures of a City
Frame by Frame

The music was recorded before Ian Wallace's passing (R.I.P. Ian) and features Wallace on drums, Jody Nardone on pinao, Tim Landers on bass and Mel Collins on saxophone.

Coming this spring!

Outsight Radio Podcasts

2009-02-27T10:21:00.000-08:00

Thanks to Tom Schulte for his Outsight Radio interviews. He now has his interview with Paul Richards of California Guitar Trio available as a podcast here. Also, available as a podcast is his interview with Danny Brill.

Listen to Bill Bruford on Echoes

2009-02-27T10:04:00.001-08:00

Bill Bruford will be featured on Tuesday, March 3 on John Diliberto's Echoes Program. It is syndicated to 130 stations across the country. Check out www.echoes.org for your local affiliate.

New Website

2009-02-11T09:43:00.000-08:00

I took some time this week to revamp my website and start a blog (finally). I hope to keep everyone up to date with news and scuttlebutt here. We’ll see how I do. ;) If anyone has suggestions for the site, etc., let me know. This side of things remains very new to me.