Articles by Nilan Perera

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  Peter Zummo

  Lateral Pass

  PUBLISHED Apr 18, 2014

  Peter Zummo's work has flown under the radar of most "serious music" cliques but contributes significantly to the canon of American art mus...

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  Henry Grimes / Aurochs

  Music Gallery, Toronto ON, April 11

  PUBLISHED Apr 13, 2014

  Two bands played tonight. The first was Toronto's Aurochs, who started out with the promise of Paul Bley and Jimmy Giuffre but then morphed...

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  Jamie Saft

  Plymouth

  PUBLISHED Apr 7, 2014

  The roster of musicians on this release reads like a who's who of contemporary avant improv heavies. Guitarists Joe Morris and Mary Halvors...

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  Nels Cline Singers

  Macroscope

  PUBLISHED Apr 2, 2014

  To say that Nels Cline (guitar), Trevor Dunn (bass) and Scott Amendola (drums) hit the rock floor running with this release would be an und...

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  Various

  Musics In The Margin Volume 3

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2014

  Music is a vehicle for expression. While that statement seems to be a complete no-brainer, when one is confronted with 23 tracks of blazing...

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  Otomo Yoshihide / Sachiko M / Evan Parker / John Butcher / Tony Marsh / John Edwards

  Otomo Yoshihide / Sachiko M / Evan Parker / John Butcher / Tony Marsh / John Edwards

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2013

  This music comes out of a residency featuring noise sculptors Otomo Yoshihide and Sachiko M at a club in Munich. As luck or serendipity wou...

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  C. Spencer Yeh, Okkyung Lee, Lasse Marhaug

  Wake Up Awesome

  PUBLISHED Nov 11, 2013

  This is music that bounces between sombre, beautiful string passages that seem to linger in fjords, to cartoonish jump cuts pinballing fren...

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  Boban I Marko Marcovic Orkestar

  Gipsy Manifesto

  PUBLISHED Nov 8, 2013

  Well, it's a breakneck, crazy slab of gipsy music, that's for sure. Speed metal tempo meets Zappa-like precision, as the father/son trumpet...