by Adam Hopkins on July 13, 2011
Our friends at the High Zero Foundation are at it again, presenting experimental and improvised music at this year’s Artscape Festival. For the past five years they’ve presented music under the title Exotic Hipnotic in the University of Baltimore Student Center (5th floor). The concept is the same this year but the name has changed to Worlds In Collusion. It is, in my opinion, one of THE things to check out at Artscape, and it doesn’t hurt that the Student Center is air conditioned. So get out of the heat and check out something a little different. Full lineup:
Friday July 15:
2pm K. S. Resmi • Indian Carnatic Singing
3pm Alex Strama • Theatrical Apocalyptic Rock
4pm Effervescent Collective • Experimental dance & music
5pm Ear Monsters • Free Jazz by Elementary Schoolers
6pm N. Scott Robinson • World Percussion
7pm The Westsiders (Baltimore Marching Band) • Exalted Baltimore spirit
8pm Sam Garrett • Modern Classical compositions
9pm Andy Hayleck and Dan Conrad • Hypnotic light performance with experimental music
Saturday July 16:
12pm Holy Ghost Party • Chillingly weird pop music
1pm Rum Raisin • Cathartic noise music
2pm Spaceships and Insects (Liz Downing and Nathan Bell) • Cosmic Banjos & Songs
3pm HEARTON (Dan Bren and Friends) • Unpredictable improvised madness
4pm Neil Feather • Visionary invented instruments
5pm Peabody Early Music Ensemble • Music from Ancient Times to the Renaissance
6pm Geist • Japanese Heavy Metal
7pm Samuel Burt Ensemble • Contemporary Compositions for Reeds, Strings, and Electronics
8pm Soumya Chakraverty • Gorgeous Indian Classical Music
Sunday July 17:
12pm Parallel Octave • Experimental Greek chorus sings unusual texts
1pm Jesse Heffler & Allen Mozek • Spoken Word / Experimental Performance
2pm Whoarfrost • Explosive experimental rock
3pm Composer Will Redman • Avant-garde classical music featuring improvisation
4pm Ahmed Borhani • Persian Classical Music
5pm Horselords • Hypnotic rock influenced by North African music
6pm Jimmy Joe Roche • Live electronic music
7pm Wrhatnala USA Gamelan Ensemble • Traditional Balinese music
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by Adam Hopkins on March 2, 2011
Thanks to everyone who made our two-year anniversary a success last night. The three sets were all great, and it was a pleasure to have Andrew come down to perform with the groups. As always an enormous thank you to Russell de O’Campo at the Windup Space who lets us do our thing there every Tuesday (and has for two straight years!) Thanks to Mat and Emily of NOVO…hope the rest of the festival is awesome. Thanks to Andrew and everyone else who played last night for throwing down. And another huge thanks to everyone in the collective for performing regularly, for free, week after week. It wouldn’t happen if we didn’t have an amazing pool of musicians who are committed to the cause. And a personal thanks to Matt for being so awesome to work with. And one more to the people who come out to support us by being in the audience week after week, and for the people who donated to the kickstarter cause. Woooo.
Upcoming stuff: The first podcast is complete! We’re just tweaking the sound, but it should be ready in a day or two. This will highlight the performances from January 2011, and February 2011 will be right on it’s tail. I’ll announce that again when it’s ready. Also, new schedule will be posted soon for the March/April Tuesday night shows at Windup. Thanks!
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by Adam Hopkins on February 25, 2011
Nels Cline is currently my favorite guitar player. His band the Nels Cline Singers, which now includes Trevor Dunn (of Mr. Bungle, Fantomas, etc.) on bass in place of Devin Hoff, is the perfect mix of rock, jazz, and improvised freak-outs for my taste. It is really, really difficult to see Nels with this group due to his heavy touring schedule with the band Wilco, so I’m very excited to announce that Bernard Lyons of Creative Differences is bringing him to Baltimore this Sunday at the Windup Space. The concert will be a collaboration between the Singers and the ROVA Sax Quartet. This is the do-not-miss event of the year so far in Baltimore music. Speaking of don’t miss, don’t forget that we’re bringing Andrew D’Angelo to the Windup Space next Tuesday, March 1 for FREE to perform with the collective. See you there as well…it’s a good week for music in Bmore. Straight from Bernard, about the Nels show:
Sunday February 27 @ 7.30pm (doors at 6.30)
ROVA Saxophone Quartet meets Nels Cline Singers – The Celestial Septet
@ The WindUp Space,
12 W.North Ave Baltimore MD
www.creativedifferences.us
410 244 8855
Tickets are $20 http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/140980
An all-star AvantJazz suoergroup performs its final concert!
The distinguished avant-garde sax quartet ROVA joins forces with the wild free jazz trio Nels Cline Singers (in which nobody sings, in case you wonder) to perform The Celestial Septet.
Concerts by this all star group are rare (in part due to Nels Cline’s hectic schedule with Wilco). Tonight they finish off a 5 date U.S. tour with this exclusive area appearence. Fans of free-jazz,modern classical and out-rock should not miss this one! Advance tickets are advised.
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by Adam Hopkins on February 13, 2011
It’s been too long since I’ve updated here, but there’s a lot of exciting stuff happening with the collective. Thanks to our generous fans and supporters we reached our Kickstarter goal (easily!) to fund the second installment of our Guest Artist Series on Tuesday March 1, which is also our Two-Year Anniversary, which also kicks off the week-long NOVO Fest at The Windup Space. Whoa. We’re really excited to be bringing alto saxophonist Andrew D’Angelo to Baltimore for the performance. He is without question one of my favorite improvisers from any scene anywhere today, and I can’t wait to hear him with the bands we put together of our collective members. That lineup is coming very soon…Matt and I are sitting down this week to hash out the details. We’re also putting the finishing touches on the first podcast which will feature excerpts from all of our January 2011 performances.
Also, we now have OOYH t-shirts. The order form is not functional yet, but with a tweak or two this week you’ll be able to order your very own OOYH t-shirt in standard or American Apparel. It bears our logo designed by local Baltimore artist Matt Bovie. A HUGE thank you to Leslie Craine (sister of OOYH superstar Blake Cramer) for helping us make this happen. She’s been awesome, and you should support her company Animal Right Stuff anytime you have t-shirt or printing needs.
Also new video posted in the Media section of the 1.25.11 performance featuring Mike Cerri-trumpet, pocket trumpet; Susan Alcorn-pedal steel guitar; Dustin Carlson-guitar; and Ethan Snyder-drums. Direct link to just that set of video is right HERE. As always, the sound quality is bad because I shoot these on an iPhone (anyone want to buy me a sweet camera) but the playing is really great. Enjoy!
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by Adam Hopkins on January 19, 2011
Couldn’t wait to get this video up. This is the band from last night’s OOYH featuring John Dierker-reeds; Matt Frazao-guitar; Will Redman-drums. John Dierker was stepping in last minute for Colin Renick, who’s whole family was sick. They were on it for pretty much the whole night, and the video is just a small representation of that. You can see the video (three clips) in the Media section or go straight HERE. Sound quality isn’t awesome because I only have an iPhone, but the spirit is awesome. Punk rock.
Also, please remember to help us bring Andrew D’Angelo to our One-Year Anniversary on March 1, 2011. See post below for more details. You can contribute to the cause by going to our Kickstarter campaign HERE. Thanks to everyone who has already supported. We’re only $90 away as of this post.
QUICK LINK TO DONATE
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