Live
Recommendations for Tuesday, February 7, 2006
For
this week's New York Night Train show list - go
here
A couple
of listings have Psychic Ills' record release tonight. Social
Registry has not confirmed this - so I will omit them, but
if you look around my site, you'll find no shortage of information
about one of my favorite NYC bands.
Little
Annie & Paul Wallfisch - Dixon's Place. Little
Annie is one of the more compelling voices in
music today – or twenty-five years ago. Starting out
as a teen-screamer downtown in the late 1970s with Little
Annie and the Asexuals, she hopped over the big drink and
wound up singing with Wolfgang Press, Crass, Paul Oakenfold,
Current 93, Nurse with Wound, Coil, and made some really cool
dubby solo records with the ON-U Sounds. For the last few
years she’s been doing an unparalleled cabaret style
singer/pianist act that is, at the same time, organic, sad,
and funny. Her voice is in top form and her stories are the
stuff of great novels. Her upcoming LP The Coalmine Canary
was recently co-produced by Antony of Antony and The Johnsons
and Joe Buedenholzer of Backworld. Tonight she will be accompanied
by another underground superstar, Paul
Wallfisch – who’s worked with everyone
from Congo Norvell to Firewater to Love and Rockets to Stiv
Bators to his own band Botanica. Highly recommended
This
segment of the New York Guitar Festival is dedicated to one
of the most influential finger-pickers of the folk revival,
Elizabeth Cotton. The headliner is another towering figure
in the history of the American folk music, Taj Mahal - who
often toured and performed with Cotton. Mike Seeger, whose
family both employed and discovered Cotton, was an important
fixture in the revival as well. Jolie Holland is of the new
generation of folk players and Carla Kihistedt and Mark Orten,
the odd men out in this case, are of the folk-influenced chamber
jazz group, Tin Hat Trio
http://www.katohideki.com/
Tremolo of Joy is the project of Japanese bassist/composer
Kato Hideki (who’s not only known for his solo work
but projects with the likes of Yamatsuka Eye, Yoshida Tatsuya,
John Zorn, Mark Ribot) and another bandleader and prolific
sideman, saxophonist Briggan Krauss (who’s primary projects
have included Sex Mob and Wayne Horvitz's Pig Pen). The group
also includes classically trained guitar improviser Marco
Cappelli and the legendary downtown drummer Jay Dee Daugherty
of Patti Smith and Mumps fame.
Dave Soldier’s The Spinozas are an accomplished international
collective led by flamenco guitarist Dave Soldier. They explore
the music of medieval Andalusia – the birthplace of
the troubadour and Meistersinger traditions – or, in
a sense, the cradle of modern western pop and art song in
general. While the music is primarily original, the ensemble
borrows lyrics from medieval Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, and
Romance poetry.
Cecil Taylor plus 2:3 AHA with Albey Bagochian and Jackson
Krall – Blue Note $25. For the second night in a row,
one of the most important composers and improvisers of the
20th century, and one of the last great surviving bandleaders
of his era, Cecil Taylor has consistently rebelled against
currents in jazz and reached far beyond the rest of the pack.
More punk rock than any of you, he’s still a challenging
listen forty years later and, as he’s been playing with
larger ensembles of late, this is a great opportunity to check
out this uncompromising artist with a small band in an intimate
(albeit expensive) atmosphere. PS: Not the Scandinavian "Take
on Me" AHA.
Moroccan/Spanish Israeli vocalist Smadar Levi leads this accomplished
group that fuses of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern music.
Jazz violinist/composer Sam Bardfeld, of Jazz Passengers and
the Roy Nathanson Quintet, has collaborated with everyone
from the Boss to John Cale to John Zorn. Tonight his quintet
celebrates the release of their new CD Periodic Trespasses.
Magnetic Field brings you a pure-pop lover’s dream night.
Merge Records’ Annie Hayden is the former singer/songwriter/guitarist
for Spent and plays well crafted pop songs – as does
opener Andy Creighton and as do locals Great Lakes. I’m
not the biggest pop-head, but if I was, I’d definitely
be here.
This bill is all pop bands that fuse indie rock with electronics.
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