Music April 1997 News

NEWS

April 1997

USA, April 30. FESTIVALFINDER CONTEST. From May 1 through June 15, the FestivalFinder web site presents its "Win a Summer Festival Spree" contest, sponsored by American Airlines, Canadian Airlines and TravelWeb. Winners will spend summer weekends jet-setting around North America with a pal, dropping in on festivals of their choice, and catching performances by favorite musicians. The FestivalFinder web site is a comprehensive, up-to-date guide to all genres of North American music festivals.

Spain, April 24. PSYKYA RELEASED. Psykya, the new album by Michel Huygen, has just been released. It consists in two suites lasting half an hour each, plus a seven minute theme. This is the twenty-fifth work by the artist. In this occasion the cover and the entire graphic design have been made by Huygen himself.

UK / Germany, April 18. CONCERT DATES (AD MUSIC).

Apr 25 / Chris Harvey - Vietgrove / Filley & Firkin, Nottingham, England
May 17 / Code Indigo / Duisburg Festival, Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord, Germany
May 31 / Bekki Williams / EMMA Festival, Assembly Rooms, Derby, England
Jul 06 / David Wright - Chris Harvey / The Electric Cafe, Kings Street, Derby, England
Oct 18 / David Wright - Robert Fox - Mario Schonwalder - Detlef Keller / Derby Cathedral, Derby, England

More info: AD Music Ltd.

USA, April 17. STAR'S END GATHERING XI TO FEATURE PURE GAMMA. Star's End Gathering XI on Friday, May 2nd, 1997, will feature live electronic space music by Pure Gamma. Opening for Pure Gamma will be Chapman Stick player Paul Mimlitsch. Sponsored by the 21-year-old radio program, Star's End, the concert will be held from 8:00pm-11:00pm in Houston Hall, 3417 Spruce Street on the University of Penn campus in West Philadelphia. Jeff Koepper and Kelvin Russell are Pure Gamma and perform regularly around their home-base of Baltimore, MD. They have released a four track 12" on Defective Records and contributed music to three anthology CDs: Electronic Music Project, Ambient Ceremonie and Defective Soundscapes. The Saturday, April 26th broadcast of Star's End will feature music by Pure Gamma throughout the show. Star's End can be heard every Saturday night/Sunday morning from 1:00am-6:00am on: 88.5 fm WXPN Philadelphia, 88.1 fm Harrisburg, 90.5 fm Worton/Baltimore, MD and 104.9 fm Allentown.

Europe, April 15. JEAN MICHEL JARRE ON TOUR (MAY).

07 / Valbyhallen / Copenhagen, Denmark
09 / The Globe / Stockholm, Sweden
10 / Spektrum / Oslo, Norway
11 / Scandinavium / Gothenberg, Sweden
13 / Messehalle / Leipzig, Germany
14 / Deutschlandhalle / Berlin, Germany
16 / Sportshalle / Hamburg, Germany
18 / Schleyerhalle / Stuttgart, Germany
20 / Hallenstadion / Zurich, Switzerland
22 / Stadthalle / Vienna, Austria
23 / Olympiahalle / Munich, Germany
24 / Arena / Oberhausen, Germany
25 / Festehalle / Frankfurt, Germany
27 / Arena / Geneva, Switzerland
30 / Ahoy / Rotterdam, Holland
31 / Forest National / Brussels, Belgium

USA., April 15. BOUD DEUN ON TOUR (MAY).

03 / Wilmer's Park / Brandywine, MD
09 / D & S Coffeehouse / Warrenton, VA
10 / Phantasmagoria / Wheaton, MD
14 / The Knitting Factory / New York, NY
17 / The Buttonwood Tree / Middletown, CT (with Forever Einstein)
23 / The Wine Cellar / Cumberland, MD

USA, April 15. PATTY LARKIN ON TOUR (MAY).

10 / Ashland, OR / SOSC Music Recital Hall
16 / Santa Cruz, CA / Kuumbwa Jazz Center
18 / Santa Barbara, CA / SoHo Night Club

USA, April 15. BIRDSONGS OF THE MESOZOIC / DAVID GREENBERGER: 1001 REAL APES. Duplex Planet Stories told by David Greenberger. Music performed by Birdsongs of the Mesozoic. May 3 (8 pm) & May 4 (3 pm). Cafe Lena, Saratoga Springs, NY..

April 15.

BRIEF:

Univers Zero, newly reformed and performing for the first time in over a decade, will be appearing at the 14th annual Victoriaville Festival in Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada on May 18.
Doctor Nerve performing with the Sirius String Quartet will be appearing at the 14th annual Victoriaville Festival in Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada on May 19. This is the world premiere of the new work written for Doctor Nerve and Sirius String Quartet.
Synthese 97, the annual Bourges festival of electronic music, will be held from May 30 until June 8, in Bourges, France.
Eugene Friesen has been busy composing a new commissioned work called Grasslands which will have its debut performance in Kansas, USA, in June.
Jan Hanford is planning her next release in Spring 1998.
Karlheinz Stockhausen is working on the last scene of Wednesday from Light, Michaelion, which will be premiered in Munich on July 24th 1998. In addition, he is preparing a new version of Momente which will go on tour next year as one of the many events planned for the celebration of his 70th birthday.

France, April 10. FRENCH CONCERTS. April 10: Concert Cinéma pour l'Oreille at GMVL (Villa Gillet), in Lyon. Biogenesis by Eliane Radigue, Nameless Victims by Ralf Wehowsky, 10 petites compositions familiales by Dominique Petitgand, Deux Silences by Hervé Castellani, and Peinture by Bernhard Gunter.

April 8.

BRIEFS:

On April 10, The Tone Road Ramblers will give a live performance at Merkin Concert Hall, New York City, USA. TRR will freely improvise and play 1990s chamber music by Salvatore Martirano and others.
On April 12, Tom & Susan Wasinger will give a live performance at Unity Auditorium, in Boulder, CO, USA.
Birdsongs of the Mesozoic's saxophonist Ken Field will be performing Subterranea: An Evening of Live and Soundtrack Music, with animation by Karen Aqua. April 12 at The Bug, in Denver, CO, USA. April 25 at Outpost Performance Space, in Albuquerque, NM, USA.
Glen Velez's latest release, Rhythmcolor Exotica (Ellipsis Arts), is receiving enthusiastic reviews. The musician has been commissioned to compose a solo piece for Maya Beiser, cellist with the Bang-On-A-Can-All-Stars.
On April 16, a concert of Alvin Lucier's music, including Music for Gamelan Instruments, Amplifiers and Loudspeakers and Theme, based on a poem by John Ashbery, will be held at Weill Recital Hall (Carnegie Hall), New York City, USA.
On April 18, The Ensemble Modern will give a live performance with music by Elena Kats-Chernin and Benedict Mason at Grosser Saal, Konzerthaus, Vienna, Austria.
On April 20, Curandero will give a live performance at Bas Bleu Theater, in Fort Collins, CO, USA.
On April 20, Joy Harjo & Poetic Justice will give a live performance at University of South Dakota, in Vermillion, SD, USA.
On April 24, Harold Budd and Jon Gibson will give a live performance at Merkin Concert Hall, New York City, USA.

Japan, April 8. BENOIT MAUBREY AND DIE AUDIO GRUPPE ON TOUR.

April 11 / Sprial Hall / Tokyo
April 13 / Akihabara City / Tokyo
April 15 / in front of the Yokohama City Museum / Tokyo
April 17 / Milk Discothek / Tokyo
April 18 / Tokyo City Opera / Tokyo

(Premiere of The Audio Geishas).
(Maubrey designs body suits to control sound).

UK/USA, April 8. NÓIRÍN NÍ RIAIN ON TOUR.

3-13 April / Aberystwyth, Wales, UK (part of conference 'Giving Voice: an Archeaology of the Voice' being held at the Centre for Performance Research)
29 June-3 July / Ithaca, New York, USA

USA/Austria, April 8. GLEN VELEZ ON TOUR.

11 April / with Srinivas Krishnan / Capitol University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
12 April / Workshop sponsored by Sounds True, Boulder, Colorado, USA
12 April / with Coleman Barks, Eugene Freisen and Zuleihka / Boulder, Boulder Theater, Colorado, USA
15 April / Solo Concert, Interkult Theater, 8:00 p.m., Vienna, Austria
16 April / Workshops, Drum House, Vienna, Austria
18-20 April / Workshops, Drum House, Vienna, Austria
22 April / Workshop, Orff Institute, Salzburg, Austria
23 April / Solo Concert, Salzburg, Austria

USA, April 8. PAUL WINTER ON TOUR (JUNE).

13 June / Syracuse, New York
15 June / Norfolk, Connecticut
20-21 June / Summer Solstice, Cathedral of St John the Divine, New York

Spain, April 4. PSYKYA RELEASE, SOON. Psykya, the new album by Neuronium, will be released by late April all over the world by the label Tuxedo Music. This is album #25 of the band whose leader and only member, since many years ago, is Michel Huygen. This work consists in three suites with a total running time of 70 minutes. For the first time ever, the cover is a computer design created by Huygen himself. Sources near to the artist point out that this album marks the beginning of a new stage for Neuronium.

Spain, April 4. AIR ON EARTH BY SANTI PICÓ. Santi Picó is finishing, with Michel Huygen's collaboration, the mixes for his album called Air on Earth. This is a selection of his best pieces gathered in a double CD, remixed and updated at Picó's studio, and mastered at the digital studio of Oniria International. The album includes a previously unreleased theme.

April 4.

BRIEFS:

Fascination is the new work by Trans-X, which is now almost ready for commercialization. The cover has been finished a few days ago.
Zero Times Infinity is almost finished with their latest demo work Collaborations with Chaos. A 90 minute series of sound experiments and compositions representing the current work that Zero Times Infinity is creating.
On April 6th, Nordan Group (Lena Willemark and Ale Möller) will give a live performance at Cedar Cultural Center, in Minneapolis, MN, USA.
The next event in the Son-Mu 97 festival, presented by the Groupe de Recherches Musicales, features a new composition by Pierre Henry. It will be held on April 7 at Maison de Radio France, Paris, France.
"1997 Electroacoustic Music Days in Montevideo". April 8, 9, 10 (two concerts daily) at the Goethe-Institut, Montevideo (Uruguay). Works by: Pierre Henry, Tamas Ungvary, Chris Chafe, Fernando Lopez Lezcano, Daniel Maggiolo, Ake Hodell, and others.

UK, April 4. DEREK WADSWORTH. TV series Seven Wonders of the World, with a soundstrack by Derek Wadsworth (composer of the famous music for Space 1999 TV series second season, among other innovative scores), is on the air from March 19 to April 30, on Wednesdays at 7pm, on BBC2. This science series, has each episode devoted to the matters that best inspire and excite some scientists. They are: Arthur C. Clarke, Aubrey Manning, Monica Grady, Thomas Eisner, Richard Dawkins, Allison Jolly and Steven Pinker.

USA, April 4. GRAMMY AWARDS. Pete by Pete Seeger and Friends, won the Grammy Award as Best Traditional Folk Album of 1996. Produced by Paul Winter, the album was released in April 1996 and is Seeger's first studio album in seventeen years. The Memory Of Trees by Enya won the Grammy Award as Best New Age Album of 1996. Santiago by The Chieftains won the Grammy Award as Best World Music Album of 1996.

Germany, April 4. NEW RELEASES BY GRASSOW. Mathias Grassow's new CDs are: Namakar (Amplexus, Italy), Lanzarote Spirits (title not definitive) (No-Cd Rekords, Spain), Arcanmum (with Rudiger Gleisberg and Amir Baghiri) (Monolith), and the sampler Lektronic Soundscapes by several artists. The musician also works on a project with Klaus Wiese.

USA, April 4. PAUL WINTER'S LATEST ACTIVITIES. During 1996, Paul Winter did most of the composing and recording for his new album. His touring schedule has taken him to Mexico and Croatia, as well as to many cities in North America. He has also won several prestigious awards, including the Music Advocate Of The Year Award from The Connecticut Music Educators' Association; The Alumni Merit Award from Northwestern University; The Promise To The Earth Award from The National Arbor Day Foundation; Honorary Doctor Of Humane Letters from Juniata College, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania; The Gold Medal Award from Penn State University, and The Governor's Distinguished Arts Award from the State of Pennsylvania.

USA, April 4. NEW RELEASES BY CHRIS FRANKE. The latest released albums by Christopher Franke are: Perry Rhodan Pax Terra and Babylon 5 Vol. 2, Messages From Earth. Babylon 5 Vol. 2 is the new soundtrack from the recent two seasons of Babylon 5 science fiction TV series. Franke just finished the score for Inheritance. This adaptation of the Louisa May Alcott (Little Women) story was directed by Bobby Ross and will air on CBS, April 6.

Europe, April 4. TANGERINE DREAM ON TOUR.

April 09 / Vienna / Museumquartier Filderstadt
April 10 / Stuttgart / FILharmonie
April 11 / Bonn / Beethovenhalle
April 12 / München / Circus Krone Bau
April 13 / Erlangen / Stadthalle Erlangen
April 15 / Hamburg / Musikhalle
April 16 / Berlin / Hochschule der Kuenste
April 17 / Hannover / Music Hall Neu-Isenburg
April 18 / Hugenottenhalle (Frankfurt/M)
April 19 / Brussels / Ancienne Belgique
April 20 / Amsterdam / Melkweg Max
April 22 / Budapest / Petofi Csarnok
April 23 / Zabrze (Poland) / Dom Muzyki i Tanca
April 24 / Prague / Sky Club Brumlovka
May 31 / Athens / Lycabetus Theater

On this european tour, the TD musicians on stage will be: Edgar Froese (keyboards & programming / guitar), Jerome Froese (keyboards & programming), Emil Hachfeld (electronic percussion & Codotronic), and Marc Alexej (guitars).

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