Articles by Nilan Perera

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  Guelph Jazz Festival 2010

  Guelph ON, September 8 to 12

  PUBLISHED Sep 13, 2010

  The Guelph Jazz Festival has, once again, paid homage to the incredible diversity of sound and form that the word jazz has come to mean. Al...

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  David S. Ware

  Saturnian: Solo Saxophone Vol. 1

  PUBLISHED Jul 19, 2010

  This CD is a live recording of Ware's return to the stage after a serious illness, which resulted in a kidney transplant. Interestingly, th...

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  Nicolas Collins

  Devil's Music

  PUBLISHED Jul 19, 2010

  This re-released slab of cut-up on air, pre-Clear Channel America is a landmark in the history of contemporary audio art. Collins basically...

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  Wadada Leo Smith

  Spiritual Dimensions

  PUBLISHED Jul 19, 2010

  A double-CD of music from someone like Wadada Leo Smith is something not to be taken lightly. The man's history in music is replete with gr...

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  BurningStar Core

  Papercuts Theater

  PUBLISHED Jul 19, 2010

  What to do with a mass of live recordings done over a period of a few years and 60 gigs? Well, you could make a turgid box set of anal-rete...

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  Inhabitants

  A Vacant Lot

  PUBLISHED Jul 19, 2010

  This music launches from the speakers like Leonard Cohen's bad dreams of jazz immortality. And post-rock is way too simple a concept to lar...

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  Cosa Brava

  Ragged Atlas

  PUBLISHED Jul 19, 2010

  Fred Frith could've been a master editor in film, had he the inclination. This CD from his Cosa Brava ensemble clicks and whirrs like a wel...

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  Willisau

  PUBLISHED Jul 19, 2010

  No, not the metal duo, but four of Europe's most skilled improvisers rekindling their initial '70s ECM/Japo forays into free-rock and putti...