New comics for Wednesday April 25th 200
Only 14 days and 12 hours left until Free Comic Book Day
WDET had a great article on Wednesday 04/18/07 featuring Marty Hirchak local creator of Pop Art Funnies. I got a couple of quotes in there also, and the producers of the show were nice enough to plug our store and our FCBD event.
Listen to the archived show @ http://www.wdetfm.org/rss/
(Drop down menus to Detroit Today and then Wed 04/20/07, the segment is about 35 minutes into the hour long show)
A SUPER FINALE TO DSO'S "SUPER SATURDAYS"
THE X-MEN™ MEET THE SYMPHONY!
DETROIT, (April 20, 2007) - Super heroes will help the Detroit
Symphony Orchestra close out the current season of "Super Saturdays at
The Max," when the X-Men™ join the DSO for the final National City
Young People's Concerts of the 2006-07 season. With the help of
powerful music, favorite X-Men characters will battle evil and show how
important it is to celebrate our differences. The concerts, led by
Lawrence Loh, Associate Conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra,
take place on Saturday, April 21 at 10 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. in Orchestra
Hall at the Max M. Fisher Music Center. Meanwhile, at 10:30 a.m. in
The Music Box at The Max, the Életfa Hungarian Folk Band will introduce
little ones, ages 3 to 6, to the rich culture of Hungary through song,
dance, narration and demonstrations. Youngsters attending any of the
concerts can participate in KidZone, a festival of fun kids'
activities, in the Atrium lobby of The Max.
X-Men Meet the Symphony is a unique, interactive,
theatrical concert with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra that will
feature many of the most popular X-Men heroes such as Wolverine, Storm
and Beast, as they battle against the evil mutant Magneto. The heroes
spend the concert trying to recover a magic "Mutant Reversal Ray" -- a
special conductor's baton -- that Magneto has stolen. The baton
harnesses the power of music to turn mutant X-Men into normal humans.
The X-Men, however, don't want to be "normal;" they appreciate the
things about themselves that make them unique, and encourage the
audience members to do the same. At the end of the show, all of the
audience members are inducted as "junior super heroes." Throughout the
concert, the X-Men are accompanied by great classical music, including
works by Debussy, Strauss, Shostakovich, Hindemith and more. The show
concludes with the Suite from the film X2: X-Men United.
Tickets for the Young People's Concert series range from $10 to $27.
A limited number of box seats are $46. Tickets to Tiny Tots concerts
are $12, general admission. All tickets include admission to KidZone.
Tickets are available at the box office at the Max M. Fisher Music
Center, 3711 Woodward Ave., Detroit, or by calling (313) 576-5111. All
tickets can be purchased on line, 24-hours-a-day, via the DSO's Web
site, www.detroitsymphony.com,
where information on all DSO educational programs can be found. For
discounts on group tickets, call Chuck Dyer at 313-576-5130.
of April 21 and 22 in Columbus Ohio. If you enjoyed SNAP! last year
consider making the day trip to check out this show featuring hundreds
of small press creators.
http://www.backporchcomics.com/space.htm
Insane Wrestling Federation comes back to Dearborn on Saturday April 28th - 8pm
at Elks Lodge 1945 25000 Michigan Avenue west of Telegraph
New IWF Tag Team Champions will be decided, and there will be an announcement about the recently vacated IWF Heavyweight Championship.
Tickets on sale at Green Brain Comics
More information at http://www.iwfprowrestling.com
Scott McCloud will be appearing on FCBD
http://www.scottmccloud.com
http://www.scottmccloud.com/makingcomics/tour.html
In conjunction with AlterEgo Management -
Detroit Techno Militia dj T. Linder and DJ Conspiracy will be spinning
at various times throughout FCBD.
http://www.myspace.com/detroittechnomilitia
http://www.myspace.com/tlinderdetroit
http://www.myspace.com/alteregomanagement
Jones Soda is participating in FCBD with a giant stack of their new
sodas featuring all natural cane sugar.
One free Jones Soda per person while supplies last.
http://www.jonessoda.com/
We are working with Gleaners Food Bank on FCBD for a canned food
drive. Bring in a non-perishable canned food item and get an extra
Free Comic Book Day comic.
http://www.gcfb.org/
There will also be a used book drive for the Friends of the Library
Dearborn. Bring in a gently used book (with pictures or without, but
please no stapled comics) and get an extra Free Comic Book Day comic.
http://dearborn.lib.mi.us/fold/fold.htm
(Stormy Records and Bohemian Home updates after new comics list)
New comics for Wednesday April 25th 2007
ACTION / ADVENTURE
DEVI #10 $2.99
LIBERTY GIRL #3 $2.99
LOST SQUAD #6 (OF 6) $2.99
PATH OF THE ASSASSIN VOL 6 TP (MR) $9.95
PLANETARY BRIGADE ORIGINS #3 (OF 3) $3.99
RIDE SAVANNAH (ONE SHOT) $4.99
SADHU #7 $2.99
STAR TREK KLINGONS BLOOD TELL #1 KLINGON LANGUAGE VAR ED $4.99
STAR TREK KLINGONS BLOOD WILL TELL #1 $3.99
STAR TREK NEXT GENERATION THE SPACE BETWEEN #4 (OF 6) $3.99
TRANSFORMERS CYBERTRON BALANCING ACT $9.99
TRANSFORMERS SPOTLIGHT KUP $3.99
TRUTH JUSTIN & AMERICAN WAY TP $14.99
USAGI YOJIMBO #102 $2.99
WALK-IN #5 $2.99
DC COMICS
52 WEEK #51 $2.50
ACTION COMICS #848 $2.99
AMAZONS ATTACK #1 (OF 6) $2.99
ASTRO CITY THE DARK AGE BOOK TWO #3 $2.99
BATMAN CONFIDENTIAL #5 $2.99
BLUE BEETLE #14 $2.99
CATWOMAN #66 $2.99
CONNOR HAWKE DRAGONS BLOOD #6 (OF 6) $2.99
FIRESTORM THE NUCLEAR MAN #35 $2.99
HAWKGIRL THE MAW TP $17.99
JSA CLASSIFIED #25 $2.99
JUSTICE #11 (OF 12) $3.50
JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA #5 please inquire for variant pricing $2.99
NINJA SCROLL #8 $2.99
OUTSIDERS ANNUAL #1 $3.99
RED MENACE #6 (OF 6) $2.99
SUPERGIRL AND THE LEGION OF SUPER HEROES #29 $2.99
SUPERGIRL AND THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES VOL 4 $14.99
THUNDERBOLT JAXON TP $19.99
WETWORKS #8 $2.99
WONDER WOMAN #8 $2.99
MARVEL COMICS
AGENTS OF ATLAS PREMIERE HC $24.99
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2ND PTG #539 $2.99
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN OMNIBUS VOL 1 HC $99.99
CABLE DEADPOOL VOL 6 PAVED WITH GOOD INTENTIONS TP $14.99
CIVIL WAR FANTASTIC FOUR TP $17.99
CIVIL WAR X-MEN TP $11.99
DAREDEVIL #96 $2.99
EXILES #93 $2.99
FALLEN SON DEATH OF CAPTAIN AMERICA AVENGERS $2.99
FANTASTIC FOUR #545 CWI $2.99
HEROES FOR HIRE #9 $2.99
NEW AVENGERS ILLUMINATI SECRET HISTORY $3.99
NEW EXCALIBUR #19 $2.99
POWERS #24 (MR) $2.95
PUNISHER PRESENTS BARRACUDA MAX #3 (OF 5) (MR) $3.99
PUNISHER WAR JOURNAL VOL 1 CIVIL WAR PREMIERE HC $19.99
RUNAWAYS VOL 7 LIVE FAST DIGEST TP $7.99
SILENT WAR #4 (OF 6) $2.99
SPIDER-MAN BLACK CAT EVIL THAT MEN DO TP $14.99
SPIDER-MAN POSTER BOOK $5.99
SPIDER-MAN VISIONARIES ROGER STERN VOL 1 TP $24.99
WISDOM #5 (OF 6) (MR) $3.99
WOLVERINE #53 $2.99
WOLVERINE BLACK AND WHITE VAR #53 $2.99
X-MEN FIRST CLASS #8 (OF 8) $2.99
VERTIGO / DC
CROSSING MIDNIGHT #6 (MR) $2.99
EXTERMINATORS #16 (MR) $2.99
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN HC (MR) $19.99
HORROR / SUSPENSE
30 DAYS OF NIGHT SPREADING THE DISEASE #5 (OF 5) (MR) $3.99
BLOODRAYNE TIBETAN HEIGHTS $3.99
HUNTERS MOON #1 (OF 5) $3.99
JOSH HOWARD PRESENTS SASQUATCH VOL 1 GN $24.95
PREY ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES TP $10.99
REX MUNDI DH ED #5 $2.99
SE7EN LUST #4 (OF 7) (MR) $3.99
SNAKEWOMAN #10 $2.99
TAG CURSED #3 (OF 5) $3.99
TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE #6 (MR) $2.99
UNIQUE #2 (OF 3) $2.99
WALKING DEAD #37 (MR) $2.99
WAR OF THE UNDEAD #3 (OF 3) (MR) $3.99
WORMWOOD GENTLEMAN CORPSE #7 (MR) $3.99
GRAPHIC NOVELS
COMICS JOURNAL #282 $9.95
EC ARCHIVES WEIRD SCIENCE VOL 2 HC $49.95
H EOFIGENDLIC LODRUNG GN $19.99
IMP #4 HISTORIETAS PERVERSAS $10.95
KING CAT CLASSIX HC (MR) $29.95
MICROGRAPHICA GN (MR) $10.00
PROFESSORS DAUGHTER GN $16.95
SHENANIGANS GN $14.95
TRUTH SERUM THE LONELY PARADE TP $15.00
HUMOR / DRAMA
CASTLE WAITING VOL II #6 $3.95
DORK TOWER #36 $3.49
JOHNNY HIRO #1 $2.95
KNIGHTS OF THE DINNER TABLE #126 $4.99
NIGHTMARES AND FAIRY TALES #19 (MR) $2.95
PS238 #22 $2.99
SUPER F$$$$$S #4 (MR) $5.00
KIDS / ALL AGES
BART SIMPSON COMICS #35 $2.99
BETTY & VERONICA #226 $2.25
BETTY & VERONICA DIGEST #174 $2.49
CARTOON NETWORK BLOCK PARTY #32 $2.25
LITTLE LULU VOL 15 THE EXPLORERS TP $9.95
SABRINA VOL 2 #84 $2.25
SIMPSONS CLASSICS #12 $3.99
SONIC THE HEDGEHOG ARCHIVES VOL 1 TP (O/A) $7.49
TEEN TITANS GO #42 $2.25
THE WAR IS ON GN $9.95
TINY TYRANT GN $12.95
UNCLE SCROOGE #365 $7.50
WALT DISNEYS COMICS & STORIES #680 $7.50
DIAMOND COMICS DISTRIBUTION
MARVEL PREVIEWS MAY 2007 $0.99
PREVIEWS ADULT VOL XVII #5 $0.75
PREVIEWS VOL XVII #5 $4.50
MAGAZINES
NEWTYPE ENG ED MAY 2007 $12.98
OVERSTREET COMIC BOOK PG VOL 37 SC $29.95
WIZARD MAGAZINE #188 $5.99
stormy update 4-17-07
hey all!!lots to report here this week, the least of which is that FREE COMIC BOOK DAY is less than 3 weeks away!! great stuff planned for the whole day! we've got sampler cds to give away from SADDLE CREEK, SOUTHERN LORD, TEMPORARY RESIDENCE, FATCAT, MATADOR, and lots more!! plus stickers, posters and music comic books too! so Green Brain is gonna have tons of cool stuff, and so will we! come by on Saturday May 5th and experience the madness and wonder of what is Free Comic Book Day (and now, Free Music Day at Stormy!!) plus in the evening we are having the Bjork Volta listening party from 5pm to 8pm !!! hooray for the day! we're gonna have fun.
and, in show news, the BOHEMIAN NATIONAL HOME is going to host the SUN RA ARKESTRA in early june!! how could you have any more fun that that? joel is working on ticket prices ans seating arrangements, and we will have that updated info for you as soon as we hear what's up. we may even get to sell pre-show tickets, which would be wonderful. scroll down to the bo house update and read who else is coming to the bo house - joel has LOTS of good shows on the horizon.
okay, call or email if you need anything! and have a good week!
windy
stormy records
13210 michigan ave
dearborn, mi 48126
313-581-9322
Anderson, Fred & Hamid Drake- From the River on Thrill Jockey $13.99
...To the Ocean"
There they set out to show just how much they’d grown, how beautifully their work together has evolved. This is an especially varied outing, feat. Malachi Thompson, Harrison Bankhead, Josh Abrams & Jeff Parker. If the individual is a small receptacle of expressivity, a mountain spring if you will, then it is in ideal settings like this one that the springs join forces, turning into streams, then bigger & bigger tributaries, finally swelling into rivers that open into the oceanic creative waterways.
Architecture in Helsinki We Died, They Remixed on Bar/None $16.99
US version is a limited edition tour-only, digipak CD that didn't leave the plant in time for their tour. Lucky us and you! Features EXCLUSIVE remixes of every track from "In Case We Die" from DAT POLITICS, HOT CHIP, ISAN, QUA,, MOUNTAINS IN THE SKY, JEREMY DOWER, MOCKY, NEW BUFFALO, SAFETY SCISSORS, more
Badgerlore We Are All Hopeful... on Table of Elements$16.99
...Farmers, We Are All Scared Rabbits"
The supergroup features Rob Fisk (DEERHOOF, 7-YEAR RABBIT CYCLE) & Ben Chasny (SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE, COMETS ON FIRE), w/ Tom Carter (CHARALAMBIDES), Pete Swanson (YELLOW SWANS), Glen Donaldson (BLITHE SONS, JEWELED ANTLER) & Liz Harris (GROUPER). Together they proceed w/ masterful nuance & inexorable tension; it's the sound of effigy mounds slowly rousing from prehistoric slumber
Dead Meadow Howls From the Hills on Xemu $14.99
The reason for the resurgence of heavy psychedelic rock brings us their lush 2nd release in freshly detailed & remastered form. The catalog revisit of this seminal guitar-driven band forces us to connect the dots of recent musical history. All 3 releases will include updated artwork & photos. This is the 2nd release in a 3-part reissue series & includes a bonus enhanced video of a 2001 TV performance
Deerhunter Fluorescent EP on Kranky $8.99
4 new songs recorded while mixing "Cryptograms". A snapshot of what direction the band might explore next? Probably not. This functions in many ways as an epilogue to both the LP & the accompanying well-reported anxiety surrounding it's creation. The band now has a clean slate to explore something entirely new in the future. Video for "Strange Lights" directed by James Sumner
Earth Hibernaculum on Southern Lord $16.99
NOW ON LP! The audio material consists of 3 classics redone in a different, stark & clean tone (akin to the "Hex"material) plus the track "A Plague of Angels" which was previously available on a rare tour only split (w/ sunn 0)))) 12". The lineup assembled by Dylan for this album compliments the aesthetic & direction perfectly. The video material on the 2nd disc is an Earth documentary filmed by Seldon Hunt
Jah Wobble Heart & Soul on Trojan $16.99
The new album from one of the most respected & unique musicians in the UK. The album is an eclectic mix of dub, world & electronic grooves sure to please fans of the legendary bassist
Lesbians on Ecstacy We Know You Know on Alien 8 $13.99
The much anticipated sophomore release delves deeper into some of the cliches of iconic lesbian music. More melodic than the previous release with hooks that might remind you of campfire sing alongs at some mythical womyn's event in the 70's, with several tracks featuring a chorus backing. A danceable album that is at moments uplifting and at other moments very dark, but all with a sense of humor and fun . Their sound bridges the gap between electro/techno with punk rock and occasional flirtations wiht the clamor and thud of industrial music
Original Silence First Original Silence $15.99
A monster is born, a clash of the the titans! The new band of THURSTOSuNp MerOjaOzzRE (SONIC YOUTH), TERRIE EX (THE EX), JIM O'ROURKE, MATS GUSTAFSSON (THING), PALL NILSSEN-LOVE (THING), & MASSIMO PUPILLO (ZU). Recorded live on the OS Italian tour, September 2005 in Teatro Arisoto, Reggio Emilia, Italy, to be more specific. This is the first in a series of recordings from OS. Musically one can hear the obvious influences from early Sonic Youth & The Ex mixed with the Scandinavia free-jazz. But you can hear their many influences from Black Flag, to drone rock, to Albert Ayler, to Boredoms, to noise, punk, Dead C, Merzbow & 60s minimalism. This is 100% improvised rock. A monumental, raw and harsh beautiful out-rock masterpiece. Artwork by Kim Hiorthoy
Rollins, Henry Talk Is Cheap Vol. 4 $12.99
This set documents his 2004 tour. This show happening at San Jose State in N. California. Disc 2 being the show at the University of California @ Bakersfield, Oct. 21, 2004
Torn, David Prezens on ECM $14.99
One of the best guitarists around, in and outside of the jazz aquarium, is joined on his first ECM recording in 21 years by the genius of the HARD CELL/SCREWGUN leading lights TIM BERNE (alto sax), CRAIG TABORN (Fender Rhodes piano, Hammond organ, mellotron, bent circuits), & TOM RAINEY (drums). As you would expect from this group, it's a sonic voyage that defies categories & blurs boundaries. Multi-layered textures, thick chords, disruptions, distortions & hypnotic loops. Torn has collaborated w/Bowie, Sting, DJ Logic, David Sylvain, Tori Amos, KD Lang, Jeff Beck, Don Cherry & many oThers.
Valet Blood is Clean on Kranky $14.99
Debut release by HONEY OWENS under the name Valet. The songs were formed out of a natural & spontaneous process as separate incidents of recording over a 5 month period from Jan. to May of 06. They were recorded by & large in single, live takes w/ minor additional tracking added here & there. The results are at once spare & expansive; exploratory, yet deceptively simple
MIKKEL METAL:Brone and Wait CD $16.99
This is Copenhagen-based producer Mikkel Meldgaard's (aka Mikkel Metal) third full-length release, and second for Echochord. Mikkel started his music career more than 10 years ago as a guitarist in various noise-rock bands. In the mid-'90s his focus changed to electronic music, inspiration coming primarily from breakbeat music, particularly drum'n'bass. It's during this period that gave Mikkel his nickname "Metal," due to his fondness for hard, metallic drum'n'bass cuts. Around 1999, Mikkel changed focus towards genres like click'n'cuts, IDM, techno and dub, and started releasing under the Mikkel Metal moniker. He has primarily released on Danish label Echochord and German label Kompakt: the former with a dubby, grainy sound, the latter focusing on a more melodic and 4/4-based sound. These ten brand new tracks range from 4-to-the-floor deep minimal tracks to dubby abstract ambient. Once again, Mikkel excels at bringing a modern twist to electronic dub and techno that ranks him in the same league of such luminaries as Deadbeat, Vladislav Delay, Pole and Maurizio.
AMBARCHI, OREN: Lost Like A Star LP on Bo Weavil $29.99
Limited vinyl by the great experimental guitarist Oren Ambarchi from Australia. A Touch label recording artist, Oren has been making music since 1986, creating sounds from the guitar that one would not expect to hear. On this LP, two long tracks one per side, start from minimal low frequency sounds to ever growing drones of manipulated guitars... staggeringly beautiful! Limited to 650 hand numbered copies!
DOPPLEREFFEKT: Gesamtkunstwerk CD $18.99
DOPPLEREFFEKT: Gesamtkunstwerk 2LP $23.99 2LP version
The brilliant releases from Gerald Donald aka Heinrich Mueller aka Rudolf Klorzeiger aka Der Zyklus (aka 1/2 of Drexciya etc.). Originally released on the obscure Dataphysix records from Detroit in 1995, and now available again on Clone Classic Cuts. The three 12"s bundled together on one double album/CD as Gesamtkunstwerk (previously limited availability on Gigolo records). Including amazing tracks like 'Scientist,' 'Pornoactress,' 'Sterilization,' 'Rocket Scientist,' 'Cellular Phone' and 'Speak & Spell.' This is one of those releases which completely went against all musical trends in the mid-'90s when everybody was doing banging techno and uptempo house. Dopplereffekt (and Drexciya) brought us one of those releases which changed our thoughts on dance music. They showed us that techno music is not about the most effective banging beats. These Dataphysix releases started the electro revival of the late '90s early 2000 and influenced many producers including Daftpunk, DJ Hell, Miss Kittin, I-f, Dave Clarke, Erol Alkan, 2manyDJs, and many others. This is some kind our Computerworld or Autobahn for the '90s generation! And finally available again after being out-of-print for a couple of years.
STARS OF THE LID: Stars of the Lid and Their Refinement of the Decline 3LP on Kranky $22.99
comes with free poster!!
Triple vinyl version, deluxe fold out package. "While most albums of this length would be considered tedious at best, SOTL are arguably the only contemporary composers who can seemingly alter the time-space continuum simply through the playback of their organized sound. Perhaps the best references for this current work would be found in the score to the film Le Mepris by Georges Delerue, the orchestral works of Zbigniew Preisner, or the 1958 CSO/ Fritz Reiner recording of Hovhaness' Mysterious Mountain, specifically the third movement. But in the final analysis, such comparisons are superfluous at best, as Stars of the Lid have created a musical universe in which they are the sole inhabitant. Simply put, this album is a masterpiece.
MIKAMI, KAN: Kanryu: Debut Live in Korea 2006 CD $21.99
Kanryu: Debut Live in Korea 2006 sees Mikami reunited with the masterful Korean komungo player and vocalist Shin Heyon, who played together with him on the Fukon group release. Eight years on that epochal cross-cultural meeting, Mikami journeyed to Seoul for two nights of concerts. Shin's stringed komungo brings a thick and knotted presence to the overall sound, while Seoul resident Japanese musician Sato Yukie tosses in swirling metallic blats of electronics and guitar. There's a gorgeous languorous, slow-motion flow to the proceedings as Mikami revisits classics from the full span of his back catalog, including a spine-tingling version of 'Kid with a Gun,' his once-banned ode to teen-murderer-turned-death-row poet Nagayama Norio. Limited edition of 1000 in gatefold digipack
TOMORROW: Tomorrow LP $27.99
Grey-area repro. Wonderful reissue of this prime slice of UK late '60s psychedelia. Originally released in 1968 and featuring such classics as 'My White Bicycle,' 'Real Life Permanent Dream' or 'Auntie's Dress Shop.' Gorgeous repro with the silvered cover artwork. A true classic!
MIKAMI, KAN: Barking Practice///White Lines CD on PSF $21.99
Two new heavy-hitting blasts from Japan's indefatigable master of the psychedelic, surrealist blues. After a recent European tour and an hour-long special on Japanese television, the wonderfully titled Barking Practice /// White Lines finds Kan Mikami back in the studio in one-take guitar and vocal mode. There's a depth of song spirit on display here that beggars belief - the guitar bites in all the right place, and Mikami's voice is tuned to a new pitch of hard-won soulfulness, in turns bristle-harsh, lush, fractured, deep as all hell. Staggering work. Includes English lyrics and some fabulously atmospheric photos by Paolo Patrizi.
SENKING: List CD on Raster $17.99
Is there beauty in the threatening? With List Senking introduces 40 minutes of the darkest matter and reckons: yes. On List he varies and experiments with a - for Raster-Noton - frightening diversity of sounds. He reveals the pieces as sound-collages, as quotes, which seem to refer to splatter movie and film noir. Following the tremendous plot of his endtime-subject, he persistently welds together sound spaces in order to compress them later into overwhelming drone-sounds. These as such, then go to serve a fundamental purpose, as an environment for minimalistic themes and melodies, always to be driven by the ever present slow-beat of the pieces. Nonetheless, the syntax, the destiny of each single piece is highly varied and has the appearance of a much more mature composition, compared to his earlier works. Remarkably the technical aspect does not take a leading role in Senking's anti-utopia visions. It's about substantial and age-old patterns, about impulses and the inevitable.
ALVA NOTO: Xerrox Vol. 1 CD on Raster $17.99
Originals are unique, be it genetic codes or image and sound documents. Their copies are mere means of distribution. To secure these originals from misuse is the main issue today. The essence and potential of the copy mostly is disregarded. We live in a world of constant reproduction where only the replication counts as original, the single object is a sheer copy of the prefiguration, which is abstract and becomes an icon. The uncountable number of multiplied images confirm the original, but immediately the copy withdraws and assesses its own value. By the technique of copying the copy also often contains mistakes and abstractions, that differ from the original. These simplifications and deformations inherent to the copy process lead to a gradual loss of its connection to the original and results in a substantial change of meaning. Although there is still a rest of the actual source, the original message disperses in the white noise of reproduction. At the end the observer cannot hardly differentiate if the origin is part of the information transferred. If there is still a integral material component of the original or this can only be projected - this question remains unanswered. What finally remains is the process of copying itself. It becomes a creative tool by analytically accomplishing something new. The mutating copy provides space for development - the copy becomes original again. Xerrox is the new, self-contained project of Alva Noto, which like his 'Transall' series (Transrapid, Transvision and Transspray) is intended to be released in five parts during the next years. On Xerrox, Alva Noto works with samples from muzak, advertising, soundtracks and entertainment programs. These sounds we hear randomly in everyday life and thereby they become an always present and available public domain. With Xerrox Alva Noto manipulates these recognizable melodic (micro) structures by the process of copying. He alienates them beyond recognition so the results manifest their connection to the original only suggestively. In this respect: the original is copied to the original. Alva Noto used several samples from these sources: Narita airport Tokyo, in-flight program Air France, telephone wait-loop Lufthansa, hotel Apollo Paris, Suizanso hotel Yamaguchi, Seven-Eleven Tokyo, Forma London, Reaktor, www.kkmovie.com.
ALVA NOTO: Xerrox Vol. 1 2LP on Raster $26.99
Double vinyl version, gatefold sleeve.
BO HOUSE UPDATE!!
4/25 The Thing
Some of northern Europe's finest improvisers. Free jazz, energy-music and covers of Lightning Bolt and The White Stripes! Gustafsson is one of Sweden's primary musical exports, playing with great musicians like Joe McPhee (an occasional member of The Thing), Ken Vandermark, Derek Bailey and Hamid Drake. Flaten and Nilsen-Love are Norway's heaviest rhythm section and the choice of any improviser who hits the country.
Mats Gustafsson (Sweden):REEDS
Ingebrigt H. Flaten (Norway): BASS
Paal Nilsen-Love (Norway): DRUMS
4/28: CD release for Frank Pahl's "Songs of War and Peace"
Some of you may know the side of composer/inventor Frank Pahl that has a weak spot for protest songs from a few of his recent, frenetic acoustic performances. His new CD "Songs of War and Peace" features some of this material, but in settings that bear a closer resemblance to the pretty and challenging music he's best known for. With a couple great send-ups of patriotic songs opening and closing the record, you'll be all set for this year's Fourth of July. Doors at 9 pm; $5-10.
Coming Soon:
JUST ADDED! 5/2: White/Litchens
JUST ADDED! 5/4 Dave Shettler Presents
5/5: Willowz
5/8: Sightings
5/18 The Old Haunts/Bad Thoughts
6/3 Rob Brown 3tet with William Parker and Gerald Cleaver
June 8th & 9th: 2nd Annual FESTIVAL OF JAZZ AND IMPROVISED MUSIC
Currently confirmed to perform!
Friday, June 8th:
THE SUN RA ARKESTRA!
Noah Howard/Hakim Jami/Calyer Duncan
The Raw Truth (Michael Carey, Skeeter Shelton, Ali Allen Colding, Greg Cook)
Thollem McDonas (solo)
Saturday, June 9th:
SABIR MATEEN/DANIEL CARTER/ANDREW BARKER
Engines (Dave Rempis, Nate McBride, Tim Daisy)
Hakim Jami/Salim Washington/Pamela Wyse/Sean Dobbins
Lotte Anker/Gerald Cleaver/Craig Taborn
Triochrome (Charles Waters, Andrew Barker, Nate McBride)
Kyle Bruckmann's Wrack
Keenan Lawler (solo)
More TBA shortly
6/23 Fibreglass Freakout 2007
10/19 Trevor Watts and Jamie Harris
Bohemian National Home
3009 Tillman (22nd)
Detroit 48216
313 737 6606
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