Articles by Nilan Perera

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  Drums and Tuba

  Battles Olé

  PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2005

  Drums and Tuba have made a leap from being an instrumental sonic assault to rock song art headbanging. Not your three-minute whine, however...

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  The Guelph Jazz Festival

  Guelph ON - September 7 to 11, 2005

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2005

  Community-based music organisations were the theme of this year's Guelph Jazz Festival. Featured were Chicago's Association of the Advancem...

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  Drumheller

  Drumheller

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2005

  Drumheller’s release marks the ninth for the Toronto based Rat Drifting label. It also marks the first jazz release that the label has take...

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  Phil Minton and Veryan Weston

  Ways Out East, Ways Out West

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2005

  In between Veryan Weston’s piano and Phil Minton’s voice lays two bodies of text. Ways Out East is based on the life of Russian anarchist N...

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  Oetz/Wagner/Stuart

  Permanent Flow

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2005

  The title of this CD gives you a fairly good idea of what goes on in the music. This grouping — led by Jascha Oetz on contrabass with Andre...

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  Martin Tetreault/Otomo Yoshihide

  Ahhh

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2005

  Ahhh is the last of a trio of live electronics and noisework recordings by Tétreault and Yoshihide. While it’s predecessors Grrr and Tok ex...

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  Christian Wallumrød Ensemble

  A Year from Easter

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2005

  This release is one where music fully inhabits the space where silence exists. Wallumrød’s compositions drift with such purpose and clarity...

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  Tod Dockstader

  Aerial #1

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2005

  I will confess to not knowing anything but a name in terms of Tod Dockstader and his music. That being said, I was immediately fascinated b...