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The Bottesini Project : Double Trio

Band:

Paul Riola: Saxophones
Doug Anderson: upright Bass
Scott Amendola: Drums

Mark Harris: Alto Saxophone
Roger Green: Guitar
Antwon Owens: Drums

Date and Location:

Friday July 10th 8:00 PM

The Bug Theater
3654 Navajo St
Denver, CO 80211-3037
(303) 477-5977

Brief Synopsis:
The guiding principle of this ensemble is to create a collective of Denver and International musicians dedicated to free improvisation. Every Bottesini performance will be an entirely unique musical experience which will draw upon a multitude of musical genres and landscapes. In each coming performance various instrumentation and personnel changes will become the norm. You can expect to see some of the most talented and proficient musicians from around the world in all future Bottesini performances.

Each performance of Bottesini will focus strongly on a programmatic approach to free improvisation. The intent of this approach is to create musical landscapes with inherent form and structure; thus, lending the impression of composed rehearsed music.

Past Performances and recording sessions have included some of the finest improvisers from around the country including:

Paul Riola: Saxophones/Leader Nels Cline: Guitar (Nels Cline Singers, Wilco) Ron Miles: Cornet (Bill Frisell) Janet Feder: Guitar (Fred Frith) Vinny Golia: Woodwinds Fred Frith: Guitar (Naked city) Carla Kihlsted: Violin (Tin Hat) DJ Olive: Turntables (Sonic Youth, MMW, John Zorn) Scott Amendola: Drums (Nels Cline Singers, Primus) Jeff Parker: Guitar (Tortoise, Isotope 217) Tony Jefferson: Drums (Lonnie Smith, Lou Donaldson) Mark Harris: Saxophones (Hamster Theater, Fred Hess) Doug Anderson: Bass (County Road X, Art Lande, Erik Deutsch) Glenn Taylor: Pedal Steel (Ginger Baker, County Road X) Eric Moon: Keyboards (Bjork) Greg Harris: Vibes (Future Jazz Project) Keenan Wayne: Bass (Sutro) Richard Von Foerster: Cello (Colorado Ballet Orchestra) Dave Devine: Guitar (Ron Miles, The Czars) Roger Green: Guitar (Ron Miles, The Czars) Justin Gitlin (CacheFlowe): Laptop Art Lande: Piano and Drums (Jan Garberek, Joe Henderson, Woody Shaw) Colin Bricker: Laptop and Guitar (Cowhause, Glenn Taylor Orchestra, Birdy) Farrell Lowe: Guitar Ernie Crews: Drums Michael Vlatkovich: Trombone Mark Clifford: Vibes (The Playground) Serefin Sanchez: Saxophones and Electronics Chris Lee: Drums (Joe Henderson, Gary Peacock) Carrie Beeder: Violin Antwon Owens: Drums James Hoskins: Cello (County Road X)

–coming soon to Bocumast Records: Naima’s Grass Pajamas by The Bottesini Project.

This is gorgeous. I couldn’t keep it to myself.

Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party from William Castleman on Vimeo.

Thanks Heather (I am Fuel, You are Friends) for the warmth and comfort. Check out her music blog here.

and enjoy this picture of a porcupine.

Jenny The Porcupine

this is what little girls are made of...

Forget Religion. This show will provides you with at least 5 new deities to worship…and all their phone numbers.
Again, here is the information:
Basshaters (members of Ettrick…)
The Peninsula Project
Aenka
The Carnivores
Take Up Serpents
at Rhinoceropolis
Monday June 1, 2009
9pm show time.
Thanks Dad!

Natural Selection Travels Through Time.

Dave Herrera and the nice folks at Westword have announced our announcement of the 2nd Annual Bocumast Music Showcase.
CLICK HERE TO READ ABOUT WHAT THEY SAID ABOUT WHAT WE’VE SAID
Soon you will see the posters around town…and here too actually.
Anyway, thanks for helping to spread the word, Westworders. Perhaps you can come and bring most of your friends. We’ll provide fingernail polish for you and ice cream sammies made from bowling ball innards.

Married In Berdichev

Married in Berdichev’s Britney Gould builds boulders with her sound. Her voice shines through textured layer upon mysteriously flailing layer pushing all the way through and at times holding back with powerful firery restraint. A single layer tells a story, like long white gowns covering an army of cave dwelling women, content with their own songs, separately singing, but somehow fitting together. Some are chained, enchanted and drugged, held in cages like birds, masked or blindfolded as they make a long trek toward their own nearing demise.

Subtle bouts of ghostly machinery crawling, bending and scraping among overgrown vegetation, planting seeds for rapid regrowth, building new patches of life left to rid the planet of virus through immediate strength and rest. Sadly, the sudden feminine revival set forth by the machines leaves little heart and no tongue at all. Britney’s ballooning rustic howls and beautiful trance-seething vocality are simultaneously a response to a dying call to stand up to the machines while accepting their presence, kneeling, but secretly, with all her might, never giving into surrender. Give a listen and you will totally get that.

We recommend a listen.
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Kindergarten Cop will help you with the trivia.

Here is a bit of Westword showcase 2009 voting trivia: Answer all 12 questions correctly and win an Iuengliss Album download package & a forward thrust from Tom Metz of Iuengliss:

1. 3 out of the 5 bands nominated in the Funk Category actually have the word “funk” in their titles. Can you name them? They must be in correct order.
2. What Death/Grind Metal group is the most approachable? which is the least? which can you whittle with?
3. When he isn’t playing music, Ellison Park is a pilot for which airline? (hint: not delta)
4. True/False? Bad Luck City is also a nickname for Black Hawk.
5. The always amazing Dormir was snubbed in which category?
6. Fill in the blank. Elin Palmer has really hot______________________.
7. Out of all the bands nominated this year, how many of them start with the letter P?
8. Built to Spill, the showcase headliners, formed in which decade? (hint: not this one)
9. In the jazz category, what was John Coltrane’s nickname?
10. 25 bands are nominated in the Indie Rock category. (It seems to me that wouldn’t that then become Rock and Rock would then become something else. When a sub-category becomes more popular than the lead category does that not mean that the sub-category take over said head category..?)
11. True/False? Jam is NOT the same as Improv.

To be eligible to win, you must submit all answers to
BOCUMAST@BOCUMAST.COM
Your answers will be handled with care by our trivia department.

Speaking of the White Album…
I was always curious about this:

The album’s sleeve was designed by Richard Hamilton, a notable pop artist. The artist intended the cover to resemble the “look” of conceptual art, an emerging movement in contemporary art at the time. Hamilton’s design was in stark contrast to Peter Blake’s vivid cover art for Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, and consisted of a plain white sleeve.

The album’s inside packaging included a poster, the lyrics to the songs, and a set of photographs taken by Richard Avedon during the autumn of 1968 that have themselves become iconic. This is the only sleeve of a Beatles studio album not to show the members of the band on the front.

"Just What Is It" by Richard Hamilton

Much of Hamilton’s work consisted of painting and collage.