Articles by Nilan Perera

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  Furt

  Omnivm

  PUBLISHED Feb 26, 2007

  Imagine sitting in a medium-sized room filled with 100 or so tiny sound emitting robots tweaking merrily on E and mushrooms. No, not you, t...

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  My Cat is an Alien

  Il Suono Venuto Dallo Spazo

  PUBLISHED Feb 26, 2007

  This release falls into the psychedelic path cut by everyone from early Pink Floyd and "The Pot Head Pixies”–era Gong to the tribal noise/r...

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  William Parker & The Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra

  For Percy Heath

  PUBLISHED Feb 26, 2007

  Percy Heath was the bassist for groundbreaking jazz/classical ensemble the Modern Jazz Quartet. Their primary focus was to somehow bring to...

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  Sten Standell Trio

  Oval

  PUBLISHED Feb 26, 2007

  As music ensembles go, piano/bass/drum trios manage to evoke a wariness born out of a long and varied history. The question is: "what’s new...

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  X Avant New Music Festival

  Music Galley, Toronto ON - September 21 to 24

  PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2007

  The one thing that sets apart festivals from stand-alone gigs is the concept of programming. In some ways, the whole aspect of what perform...

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  Steve Reich

  Phases: A Nonesuch Retrospective

  PUBLISHED Feb 15, 2007

  Steve Reich can arguably be called one of the most influential and creative composers of the 20th century. This rather huge prop can also b...

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  Giancinto Scelsi / Marianne Schuppe

  Incantations

  PUBLISHED Feb 15, 2007

  Every once in a while a piece of music comes into your sphere of listening and you wonder how in the world this stuff ever came into being...

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  Marcos Fernandes, Hans Fjellestad, Haco, Jakob Rii

  Haco, Hans, Jakob, Marcos

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2006

  This CD reads like a "how to” on making electronics and acoustic drums/voice/toys live together, and the key seems to be about making music...