Ordinary Fanfares

No Idea Festival 2012: Austin, Houston, San Antonio

2012-01-24T23:25:00.002-05:00

No Idea Festival 2012

Austin, Houston, San Antonio

February 2, No Idea Festival @ The Broken Neck, Austin TX 8pm

Premiere of a new work by Nick Hennies for ensemble and vibraphone

with Andrea Neumann, Bhob Rainey, Brent Fariss, Chris Cogburn, Gaute Solaas, Vic Rawlings

February 3, No Idea Festival @ The Broken Neck, Austin TX 8pm

with Andrea Neumann/Vic Rawlings

February 4, No Idea Festival @ The Broken Neck, Austin TX 8pm

with nmperign/Jason Lescalleet

February 5, No Idea Festival @ Art Palace, Houston TX 3pm

with Brian Eubanks

February 6, No Idea Festival @ SMART Art Project Place, San Antonio TX 8pm

with nmperign/Jason Lescalleet

Reading

2012-01-24T23:17:00.000-05:00

Reading:
Ken Bruen: Headstone (Mysterious Press)

Benjamin Black: Elegy For April (Picador)

John Gray: Heresies: Against Progress And Other Illusions (Granta UK)

Richard Mabey: The Perfumier and the Stinkhorn: Reflections on Natural Science and Romanticism (Profile)

Chuck Klosterman: The Visible Man (Scribner)

Eli Kezsler: Cold Pin LP (Pan)

2012-01-24T22:51:00.001-05:00

ELI KESZLER 'Cold Pin' (PAN 21)

Over two years in the making, Cold Pin is the new full length record by Eli Keszler. Both a composition and stand alone installation, 14 strings ranging in length from 25 to 3 feet are strung across a 15 x 40 curved wall, with motors attacking the strings, connected by micro-controllers, pick-ups and rca cables. Recorded in Boston's historic Cyclorama, a massive dome built to house the Cyclorama of the Battle of Gettysburg painting in 1884. The b side features in addition, a 'dry' version of the installation with motor attacks on metal squares rather then strings, creating dense percussive clusters. Cold Pin works within the frame work of left to right time and vertical structure. The installation acts as the architecture of the music, surrounding and immersing the live instruments into incredible density and sharp angular mass shapes, and functions alone as the performers stops. Rather then an individual sound the sustained horns, strings, drums and metallic attacks function as a singular unit, and continue too when they stop alongside the installation. Cold Pin features Eli Keszler (drums, crotales installation and guitar), Geoff Mullen (guitar), Ashley Paul (clarinet, guitar, greenbox) Greg Kelley (trumpet), Reuben Son (bassoon) and Benjamin Nelson (cello).

Eli Keszler is a composer, artist and multi-instrumentalist based in New York City. In performance, he often plays drums, bowed crotales and guitar in conjunction with his installations. In his ensemble compositions, he uses extended strings, motors, crotales, horns and mechanical devices to create his sound, balancing intense harmonic formations with acoustic sustain, fast jarring rhythm, mechanical propulsion, dense textures and detailed visual presentations. Eli has toured extensively throughout Europe and the US, performing solo and in collaboration with artists such as Phill Niblock, Aki Onda, Joe Mcphee, Loren Connors, Jandek, Roscoe Mitchell, Anthony Coleman, Joe Morris, Steve Beresford, C Spencer Yeh, Greg Kelley (Nmperign), T Model Ford, Ran Blake, Ashley Paul and Steve Pyne. He has recorded solo releases for labels such as hiw own REL Records, ESP-DISK' and Type (Red Horse). His installations have appeared at the Boston Center for the Arts and Nuit Blanche NYC and the Shreveport MSPC New Music Festival. He has most recently won the Mata composers competition for the 2012 season. Eli Keszler is a graduate of the New England Conservatory in Boston where he studied with Anthony Coleman and Ran Blake.

The Lp is mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, in a limited edition of 500 copies, pressed on 140g vinyl and comes in a poly-lined inner sleeve. It is packaged in a pro-press color jacket which itself is housed in a silk screened pvc sleeve with artwork by Kathryn Politis & Bill Kouligas.

http://www.pan-act.com/pages/releases/pan21.html
http://relrecords.net/catalog/1/PAN21

The BSC: Manual

2011-12-17T17:58:00.000-05:00

http://bhobrainey.bandcamp.com/album/manual

Note: There are 100 hardcovers available at the paperback price ($20 for book and music). A good chunk of these are already claimed with pre-orders. Once they're gone, they're gone.

Music by the BSC (with Pauline Oliveros)
Book edited by Bhob Rainey with contributions from Damon Krukowski, Aaron P. Tate, Ben Hall, and Mike Bullock
3 tracks, 65’30″
Hardcover and Paperback with Lossless Download (CD-r available on request): 5.8125″ x 8.25″, 112 pages
Published by NO Books

Manual is a combination full-length album and book focusing on the music and improvisational practice of the BSC, an eight-member electroacoustic ensemble formed by saxophonist and composer Bhob Rainey in 2000. More than just music with copious liner notes, Manual examines the process of improvisation from both within and outside the BSC, encountering topics ranging from genealogy to architecture, the boundaries of sense to the benefits of failure, flows of energy to bouts of guilt. The intersection and unfolding of ideas is often complex, but the writing in Manual is earthy and comprehensible, keeping jargon to a minimum without sacrificing the depth of the subject matter. Manual is not a monument to the BSC but rather an appreciation of improvisation from the perspective of an especially prolific community.

The music portion of Manual consists of three extended improvisations covering a six-year period in the BSC’s history. The most recent piece, a vividly captured concert highlighting some of the more elegant aspects of the BSC’s unique musical lexicon, was recorded in 2009 and includes renowned composer Pauline Oliveros on accordion. The earliest piece was recorded in November 2003 at the end of The BSC’s only extended tour and contains some of the noisiest, most unhinged work the ensemble has ever released. 2007′s “23% Bicycle and/or Ribbons of the Natural Order”, recorded in Somerville, MA, provides a balance between the other two tracks, illustrating the BSC’s strong formal control amidst chaotic conflagrations of feedback, tape degeneration, and general instrumental instability. Stage plots and recording notes are included for each track.

The book portion of Manual contains contributions from five writers. Bhob Rainey (director and founder of the BSC) provides an introduction in which he engages with the book’s other contributors while reflecting on failure, adaptable dispositions, and the upside to being oblique. Damon Krukowski (musician, poet, half of Damon & Naomi, one-third of Galaxie 500, and one-fourth of Magic Hour) contributes a series of prose poems aimed at evoking certain effects the BSC’s music has on him. Aaron P. Tate (classicist at Cornell University whose areas include ancient and contemporary improvisation), through extensive research and interviews, pieces together and examines the BSC’s early history and rehearsal practices. Tate uses this information, along with recorded documentation, to approach the music with great insight from a dynamic, open-ended perspective. Ben Hall (percussionist, gospel archivist, and restaurateur) unravels ideas about genealogy, community, politics, and authority as they present themselves in the tradition from which the BSC emerges. And Mike Bullock (audio/visual artist and bassist for the BSC) develops two metaphors for evaluating music like that of the BSC, applying these metaphors to an analysis of the 2009 performance with Pauline Oliveros featured in this release.

Bhob Rainey: soprano saxophone, director
Mike Bullock: contrabass, amplification
James Coleman: theremin
Chris Cooper: guitar and electronics
Greg Kelley: trumpet
Vic Rawlings: amplified / prepared cello, open circuit electronics
Howard Stelzer: tapes
Liz Tonne: voice

Pauline Oliveros plays accordion on Track 1.

Greg Kelley/Olivia Block: Resolution CD (Erstwhile)

2011-12-10T19:30:00.001-05:00

Greg Kelley: trumpet

Olivia Block: electronics, piano

Pinholed and perpetual light, part 1 (11:08)
Looking through bone (9:28)
How much radiance can you stand? (8:06)
Some old slapstick routine (8:24)
Pinholed and perpetual light, part 2 (9:05)

This CD is out now on Erstwhile Records and available via all your favorite distributors of recorded music, including Mimaroglu Music Sales who had these kind words to say about it and from whom I stole the above scans (thanks!):

november 2011 release ; ... long in the works (i remember dropping greg off at olivia’s place in chicagoaround the time of the first neon marshmallow fest way back when) collaborative work between musique concrète composer olivia block & trumpeter / composer / connoisseur greg kelley ...

... largely involving olivia’s prepared piano crackle & greg’s metal tube-resonance air-movement this relates to similarly-aligned through-composed sub-aquatic piano renderings (such as g*park’s “one hour as bernel & hofmann”) while keeping a leg in the purely improvised-music sphere ... the results are incredibly rich, dense,multi-layered, and as complex & rewarding as you can possibly imagine ...

one of my favorite discs of the year thusfar & a perfect complement to the style / sound / conceptualframework of lambkin & lescalleet’s discs for the label ; highly recommended !!!

Duo with Bill Nace This Sunday 12/11/11

2011-12-08T23:46:00.000-05:00

CHICAGO

2011-12-01T22:57:00.001-05:00

I will be in Chicago tomorrow night, Friday December 2, 2011, and Saturday December 3, 2011.

On Friday, Olivia Block and I will be recording at WNUR. This will be broadcast on Saturday at 4pm. http://airplay.wnur.org/?p=1799

On Saturday, I will be performing a new piece, Soft Delete/Purgative Dryness for amplified trumpet and pre-recorded electronics as part of the Lampo series at the Graham Foundation. http://gregkelley.eventbrite.com/

The solo show will be streaming live (8pm CST) via http://numbers.fm/

Upcoming shows

2011-10-02T10:26:00.004-04:00

Oct. 10 [Mon], Weirdo Records, Cambridge MA 8pm

Duo with Luke Moldof

Oct 16 [Sun], Homegrown Fest III, Villa Victoria, Boston (South End) MA 5:05pm

Quartet with Bill Nace, Ryan McGuire & Curt Newton

also Major Stars, Blues Control, Noise Nomads, Taps, Rotten Apples, Cave Bears, and many many more

~The quartet plays from 5:05pm to 5:25pm~

http://www.homegrownfestboston.com/

Oct 27-29 [Thu-Sat], The Kitchen, NYC NY 8pm

Anna Sperber: FOREVERANDADAY

Dance piece with music by Nate Wooley with Peter Evans & me

http://www.thekitchen.org/event/276/0/1

December 3 [Sat], The Graham Foundation, Madlener House, Chicago IL 8pm

Solo "Soft Delete/Purgative Dryness"

FREE Reservations required; RSVP info soon.

http://www.lampo.org/

Reading

2011-10-02T10:19:00.003-04:00

Reading:

Dan Fante: 86'd (Harper Collins)

Steve Martin: An Object of Beauty (Grand Central)

Ken Bruen: The Devil (Minotaur)

Michael Connelly: 9 Dragons (Vision)

Charles Willeford: The Burnt Orange Heresy (Black Lizard)
Brendan Brazier: Thrive: The Vegan Nutrition Guide to Optimal Performance in Sports and Life (Da Capo)
John Joseph: Meat is for Pussies (Crush)
Malcolm Lowry: Under The Volcano (Picador)
Ernst Jünger: The Glass Bees (NYRB)

June 2011 Shows

2011-05-29T17:36:00.002-04:00

9pm Friday June 3, 2011

CARVER AUDAIN (NYC)

Acousmatic computer music from Brooklyn

TYLER WILCOX/ANDY HAYLECK/PAUL NEIDHARDT/GREG KELLEY

(Seattle/Baltimore/Somerville)

Sop sax, amplified gong+wire, percussion and trumpet

ANDY HAYLECK (Baltimore)

amplified gong+wire

@ Whitehaus

Jamaica Plain, MA

II.

9pm Sunday June 12, 2011

BORBETOMAGUS

HEATHEN SHAME

DUCK THAT!

PEACE, LOVING

@ O'Brien's

Allston, MA

May 2011 Shows

2011-05-04T11:12:00.003-04:00

5/6/11 [Fri] PAs Lounge, Somerville MA
Duo with Bill Nace*
also Major Stars, Vile Bodies
* Bill Nace had to cancel due to illness, so Jason Lescalleet filled in. The duo with Bill will be rescheduled and special thanks to Jason for filling in on hours notice.

5/16/11 [Mon] Charlie's Kitchen, Cambridge MA
Heathen Shame
also Life Partners, Bugs & Rats, Mary Staubitz/Vic Rawlings

05/20/11 [Fri] The Whitehaus, Jamaica Plain MA
Solo
also Horaflora (SF), White Limo (Chris Cooper/Jess Goddard/Josh Vrysen), Brian S. Ellis

Ordinary Fanfares 2001

2011-04-19T22:18:00.000-04:00

10 years ago, I had a short-lived radio show on WMFO, 91.5 FM, Medford MA (Tufts University). With no streaming and a pretty low bandwidth, here's what no one heard...

ordinary fanfares playlist #1 - february 20, 2001
wmfo 91.5fm, medford massachussetts

1. kent tankred: ps 3 [ordinary things CD - fylkingen]
2. linda perhacs: parallelograms [parallelograms CD - the wild places]
3. the shadow ring: the wallet of wasps [the music of the shadow ring 7" - dry leaf discs]
4. ghedalia tazartes: part 2 [une eclipse totale de soleil CD - alga marghen]
5. black dice: track b1 [10" - troubleman unlimited]
6. angry hate: blinking blue lights [7"]
7. muddy waters: she's alright [electric mud CD - chess]
8. loren boyer: au peche mignon [des parasites risquent de se produire CD - intransitive]
9. jason lescalleet: part 1 [another example of parkinson's law 7" - freedom from]
10. sunn o))): richard [00 void CD - hh noise industries]
11. bhob rainey: part 2 [6 standing desert LP - fringes]
12. the frogs: the longing goes away [hopscotch lollipop sunday surprise CD - scratchie]
13. walter marchetti: coma vigile [antibarbarus CD - alga marghen]
14. heimir björgulfsson: track 2 [discreet journey digitalis CD - ritornell]
15. steve martin: funny comedy gags & closing [let's get small LP - warner bros.]
16. per svensson: cosmic trip circle & dirt [energy loop/element II CD - firework edition]

ordinary fanfares playlist #2 - march 20, 2001
wmfo 91.5fm, medford massachussetts // www.wmfo.org

1. the beach boys: the night was so young [love you CD - capitol]
2. david behrman: runthrough [wave train CD - alga marghen]
3. vashti bunyan: diamond day [just another diamond day CD - spinney]
4. coyle & sharpe: three-ism [audio visionaries CD - thirsty ear]
5. the bill dixon orchestra: metamorphosis 1962-1966 [intents and purposes LP - rca victor]
6. kevin drumm: organ [comedy CD - moikai]
7. john frusciante: the first season [to record only water for ten days CD - warner bros.]
8. brion gysin: b [the pool k iii CD - alga marghen]
9. franz hautzinger: w.m. [gomberg CD - grob]
10. mauricio kagel: hallelujah [hallelujah LP - deutsche grammophon]
11. philus: koentsyymi/tutkat [tetra CD - sahko]
12. don rickles: some good friends [speaks LP - warner bros.]

ordinary fanfares playlist #3 - april 3, 2001
wmfo 91.5fm, medford massachussetts // www.wmfo.org

1. neil hamburger: the x-rated hot dog vendor [america's funnyman CD - drag city]
2. dark noerd: smokin' husks [gummo soundtrack CD - innerstate/london]
3. sun ra: the wind speaks [my brother the wind volume 2 CD - evidence]
4. stephen p. mcgreevy: 3, 4, 5 [auroral chorus ii: music of the magnetosphere CD]
5. bruce haack: program me/chant of the unicorn [hush little robot CD - q.d.k. media]
6. wolf eyes: black rows [wolf eyes CD - bulb]
7. burzum: burzum [filosofem CD - misanthropy records]
8. atsuhiro ito: voltage [atsuhiro ito CD-R - omega point]
9. augst/carl/korn: polke [blank CD - fmp]
10. george perkins and the silver stars: crying in the streets [down & out: the sad soul of the black south CD - trikont]
11. iggy pop & james williamson: sell your love [kill city CD - bomp!]
12. mats gustafsson: success in dromme ii [the education of lars jerry CD - xeric]
13. fennesz: 010 [plus forty seven degrees 56'37" minus sixteen degrees 51'08" CD - mego]
14. robert ashley: she was a visitor [automatic writing CD - lovely]
15. jpt scare band: king rat [sleeping sickness CD - monster records]
16. ol' dirty bastard: i can't wait (acappella) [got your money CD-single - elektra]
17. willem breuker: continuous c sharp [lunch concert for three barrel organs LP - icp]
18. bernard parmegiani: et apres.. [pop eclectic CD - plate lunch]
19. muller/sugimoto: snow pocket [i am happy if you are happy CD - for4ears]

ordinary fanfares playlist #4 - april 17, 2001
wmfo 91.5fm, medford massachussetts // www.wmfo.org

1. clark-hutchinson: improvisation on a modal scale [a=mh2 CD - repertoire]
2. afrika bambaataa: looking for the perfect beat [looking for the perfect beat 1980-1985 CD - tommy boy]
3. brainbombs: anne frank [singles CD - load]
4. yoshimitsu ichiraku: machine headz [the music of surround panner CD - zero gravity]
5. sven-ake johansson: rasche achtel [six little pieces for quintet CD - hatOLOGY]
6. bethlehem: schatten aus der alexander welt [dictius te necare CD - red stream]
7. hasil adkins: i need your head (...this ain't no rock & roll show) [out to hunch LP - norton]
8. mark bain: skowhegan bridge [vibronics 3" CD - staalplaat]
9. fushitsusha: thought it went so well? [a death never to be complete CD - tokuma]
10. sandro gorli: requiem (ensemble vocal europeen de la chapelle royale/philippe herreweghe) [gesualdo/gorli CD - harmonia mundi]
11. hawd gankstuh rappuhs mc's wid ghatz: mind if i fart? [2hype 2wype CD - wordsound]
12. rodney dangerfield: no respect [no respect LP - casablanca]

Nmperign/Lescalleet: Texas

2011-03-03T17:20:00.005-05:00

3/4/11 [Fri] Oak Cliff Cultural Center, Dallas TX 7:30pm
Nmperign with Jason Lescalleet
also Shawn David McMillen, Zanzibar Snails

3/5/11 [Sat] The Up Gallery at Starving Art Studios, Austin TX 8pm
Nmperign with Jason Lescalleet
also Vanessa Rossetto, Shawn McMillen's Mancat House Band (C. Cunningham & J. Ronsen)

3/6/11 [Sun] labotanica, Houston TX 8pm
Nmperign with Jason Lescalleet

3/7/11 [Mon] Avant Garden, Houston TX 7pm (must be over by 9pm)
Greg Kelley, Bhob Rainey, Jason Lescalleet and guests

Upcoming Shows

2011-02-14T21:59:00.024-05:00

2/25/11 [Fri] Cyclorama/BCA, Boston MA 10pm

Solo with Eli Keszler "Cold Pin" installation

Quintet with Eli Keszler, Ashley Paul, Geoff Mullen & Reuben Son with Eli Keszler

"Cold Pin" installation

"large scale 14 string motorized and activated installation. strings range from

3 1/2 feet to 25 feet in length----"

3/4/11 [Fri] Oak Cliff Cultural Center, Dallas TX

Nmperign with Jason Lescalleet
also Shawn David McMillen, Zanzibar Snails

3/6/11 [Sun] labotanica, Houston TX

Nmperign with Jason Lescalleet

3/12/11 [Sat] Third Life Studio, Somerville MA

the undr quartet

also Sean Meehan solo, Liz Tonne/Tim Feeney

3/25/11 [Fri] Eisenberg Loft, Boston MA

Trio with Wally Shoup & Chris Corsano

also Skinny Vinny, Eli Keszler & Ashley Paul, DJ Wayne Rogers

3/26/11 [Sat] Flywheel, Northampton MA

Quartet with Wally Shoup, Chris Corsano & Thurston Moore

also Nace/Flaherty, tba

4/2/11 [Sat] Third Life Studio, Somerville MA

We Love You Greg Kelley (Gross/Hanson/Bullock + me)

also David Kendall, Straus/Dijkstra/Leonard w/ EMMI robotic instruments, Landis/Schoster

Recent

2011-02-14T21:55:00.004-05:00

Reading:

John Banville: The Sea (Vintage)

Pete Dexter: Train (Vintage)

Mike Richardson & Rick Geary: Cravan: Mystery Man of the Twentieth Century (Dark Horse)

Knut Hamsun: Victoria (Picador)

Listening:

Drudkh: Autumn Aurora (Season of Mist)

Sun Kil Moon: Admiral Fell Promises (Caldo Verde)

Recent

2011-01-04T01:25:00.002-05:00

Reading:

Pierre Guyotat: Coma (Semiotext(e))

Paul Auster: Invisible (Picador)

Charlie Huston: A Dangerous Man (Ballantine)

Charlie Huston: Six Bad Things (Ballantine)
Charlie Huston: Caught Stealing (Ballantine)

Denys Turner: The Darkness of God: Negativity in Christian Mysticism (Cambridge)

Denis Johnson: Rescuscitation of a Hanged Man (Perrenial)

Joe Boyd: White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s (Serpent's Tail)

David Zeltserman: Pariah (Serpent's Tail)

Listening:

Akitsa: Au Crépuscule De L'espérance (Hospital)

Fleetwood Mac: Mirage (Warner Bros.)

Heinrich von Meissen: Frauenlob [perf. Sequentia] (Deutsche Harmonia Mundi)

New (and not so new) Releases

2011-01-04T00:51:00.008-05:00

I'm on some tracks on the following releases. Alpha/Omega is from earlier 2010, but the other two are relatively new.

The Tenses: Cosmic Dust CDr (NEUREC)

Ehnahre: Taming the Cannibals CD (Crucial Blast)

Ehnahre: Alpha/Omega LP (Fun With Asbestos)

http://www.lafms.com/

http://www.crucialblast.net/ehnahre_taming.html

http://ehnahre.tumblr.com/

Upcoming show

2010-11-23T09:33:00.004-05:00

12/4/10 [Sat] Operatheque, Providence RI
Duo with Seijiro Murayama
also Bill Nace, Geoff Mullen, Chris Forgues/Sakiko Mori/Scott Reber

Jewell-Kelley-Rawlings Tour: NY-NY-NY-MA-MA

2010-10-15T14:00:00.007-04:00

RYAN JEWELL percussion GREG KELLEY trumpet VIC RAWLINGS cello,electronics

BASIC:

Thu Oct 28: Brooklyn NY @ Issue Project Room 8pm $10

Fri Oct 29: Troy NY @ Spooky Day Night, 51 3rd, Troy NY 9pm

Sat Oct 30: Red Hook NY @ Bard Hall, Bard College 6pm $free

Sun Oct 31: Easthampton MA @ Dubious Liftings Festival, Flywheel 7pm $7

Mon Nov 1: Boston MA @ Mobius 8pm $10

DETAILS:

Thu Oct 28: Issue Project Room, Brooklyn NY 8pm $10

also Josh Abrams/Michael Avery, C. Spencer Yeh/Brian Chase

http://www.issueprojectroom.org/2010/08/10/josh-abrahms-c-spencer-yeh/

Fri Oct 29: "Spooky Day Night: a haunted house party", 51 3rd, Troy NY 9pm-12am also Peace,Loving, Ghoul Poon, Denim&Diamonds, Disposable Rocket Band

Sat Oct 30: Bard Hall, Bard College, Red Hook NY 6pm

RJ/GK/VR 7-8pm Foster/Bordreuil 6:40-7pm; White 6:20-6:40pm; Silberberg 6-6:20pm

http://www.bard.edu

Sun Oct 31: Dubious Liftings Festival, Flywheel, Easthampton MA 7pm $7

RJ+GK+Chris Cooper, VR w/ Moshi Moshi I Am The Decider

also AM Frank, Exusamwa, Peace,Loving, etc.

http://www.flywheelarts.org/calendar.php

Mon Nov 1: Mobius, Boston MA 8pm $10

also Chris Cooper solo

http://mobius.org/events/ryan-jewell-mobius

WEBSITES:

http://www.myspace.com/ryanxing

http://ordinaryfanfares.blogspot.com/

http://www.vicrawlings.com/vicrawlings.com/Improvised_Music.html

RECORDINGS:

http://www.mimaroglumusicsales.com/artists/ryan+jewell.html

http://www.mimaroglumusicsales.com/artists/greg+kelley.html

http://www.mimaroglumusicsales.com/artists/vic+rawlings.html

Upcoming shows

2010-09-26T22:41:00.003-04:00

10/2/10 [Sat] PAs Lounge, Somerville MA

DUPUY_STOCK
with Heathen Shame
also
Life Partners, Baba Yaga, Vic Rawlings, Puppy Mill

paslounge.com

Ryan Jewell/Greg Kelley/Vic Rawlings Tour

10/28/10 [Thu] Issue Project Room, Brooklyn NY 8pm

also Josh Abrams/Michael Avery; C. Spencer Yeh/Brian Chase

http://www.issueprojectroom.org/2010/08/10/josh-abrahms-c-spencer-yeh/

10/29/10 [Fri] tbd Philadelphia PA

10/30/10 [Sat] tbd Bard College, Red Hook NY 2 shows

10/31/10 [Sun] Flywheel, Easthampton MA 6pm

Dubious Liftings Festival

(Jewell & Kelley with Chris Cooper; Rawlings with Moshi Moshi)

http://www.flywheelarts.org/calendar.php

11/1/10 [Mon] Mobius, Boston MA 8pm

http://mobius.org/calendar/2010-11-01

more info tbd

Still Upcoming

2010-07-28T13:39:00.003-04:00

8/14/10 [Sat] Starlab, Somerville MA
with Heathen Shame
also
Justice Yeldham, Wolves and the Radio, The Vomit Arsonist, James Lindsey

http://existest.org/ee_v3/?p=1394

8/19 & 21/10 [Thu & Sat] Viaduct Theater, Chicago IL
Neon Marshmallow Festival
Solo [Thu]
also Dave Phillips, Slither, Keith Fullerton Whitman,
Work/Death, Caboladies, Cowards, Fossils, etc, etc, etc...

with nmperign/Jason Lescalleet [Sat afternoon]
also Regression, Astral Social Club/Carlos Giffoni, R.
Jencks (aka Sixes), Tom Carter. Crank Surgeon, Cornucopia,
etc, etc, etc...

http://www.neonmarshmallowfest.com/

Recent

2010-07-28T13:27:00.007-04:00

Reading:
Peter Handke: My Year in the No-Man's-Bay (FSG)
Cormac McCarthy: The Road (Knopf)
W. G. Sebald: The Rings of Saturn (New Directions)
John Connolly: The Lovers (Atria)
Dave Zeltserman: Killer (Serpent's Tail)
Thomas Bernhard: The Loser (Vintage)
Michael Connelly: The Scarecrow (Grand Central)
Ken Bruen: Sanctuary (Minotaur)
Robert Liparulo: Deadlock (Thomas Nelson)
John Leake: Entering Hades: The Double Life of a Serial Killer (FSG)

Listening:
Lindsay Buckingham: Law and Order (Reprise)
Lindsay Buckingham: Go Insane (Reprise)
Lindsay Buckingham: Out of the Cradle (Reprise)
Milton Nascimento: Clube Da Esquina (World Pacific)
Pan Sonic: Gravitoni (Blast First)
X.O.4: Exile (En/Of)

Upcoming shows

2010-06-21T10:21:00.004-04:00

6/26/10 [Sat] Nom D'Artiste, Boston MA
Nom D'Artiste Benefit
with Paul Flaherty, Bill Nace, Chris Corsano
also Fat Worm of Error, 99 (Ben Hall, Chris Riggs)

8/14/10 [Sat] Starlab, Somerville MA
with Heathen Shame
also Justice Yeldham, Wolves and the Radio, The Vomit Arsonist, James Lindsey (unconfirmed)

8/19 & 21/10 [Thu & Sat] Viaduct Theater, Chicago IL
Neon Marshmallow Festival
Solo [Thu]
also Dave Phillips, Slither, Keith Fullerton Whitman,
Work/Death, Caboladies, Cowards, Fossils, etc, etc, etc...

with nmperign/Jason Lescalleet [Sat afternoon]
also Regression, Astral Social Club/Carlos Giffoni, R.
Jencks (aka Sixes), Tom Carter. Crank Surgeon, Cornucopia,
etc, etc, etc...
http://www.neonmarshmallowfest.com/

New Release: The BSC: 23% Bicycle and/or Ribbons of the Natural Order

2010-04-28T01:03:00.004-04:00

"The BSC's first release since 2003's Good on Grob Records is now available in FLAC, Apple Lossless, MP3, and OGG formats. The cost is one Tweet (more on that, later).

23% Bicycle and/or Ribbons of the Natural Order captures the BSC shortly after an intense series of performances at the Phoneme Festival, a three-night event in Philadelphia featuring members of the band in a series of small groups followed by full BSC sets each evening. In one sense, the music is tight and controlled, maintaining a sustained tension as events peel from one to the next, not so much moving forward as revealing increasingly buried layers. But, from the very first sound, it is clear that everything teeters on chaos. The familiarity between the musicians is apparent, as is their willingness to undermine that familiarity, to send each other to unlit corners and map whatever sublime beauty or horror is found there. To say that the resulting music is dark is to miss its jubilance. It is complex and visceral, the work of an ensemble committed to both its refinement and unravelling.

As mentioned above, this is a free download, provided you Tweet about it. You'll just need to follow the download link below, which will bring up a default Tweet (you can change it). Twitter will ask if it's okay for this application to access your account (We're not harvesting info, just confirming your Tweet. None of your data is saved to our server). If you agree, you'll be taken to the download page. And if you don't have a Twitter account, it is ridiculously fast and easy to sign up (and equally simple to cancel your account). You can do it during the download process.

The BSC was formed in 2000 and has remained an integral part of Boston's improvised music scene. Good, their release with Axel Doerner and Andrea Neumann, still remains a touchstone of modern large group improvisation. In addition to improvisations, they have performed a number of contemporary compositions, including Christian Wolff's Edges, which they recorded with the composer for Mode Records."

http://bhobrainey.net/tft/index.php

There is now a Facebook option:

http://bhobrainey.net/tft/fb/index.php

An interview with all.about.jazz

2010-04-23T11:27:00.003-04:00

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=36100

Upcoming

2010-04-14T10:40:00.002-04:00

4/29/10 [Thu] Twisted Village Records, Cambridge MA 8pm

Tyler Wilcox, soprano saxophone (Seattle WA)

Paul Neidhardt, percussion/friction (Baltimore MD)

Vic Rawlings, cello/electronics (Cambridge MA)

Greg Kelley, trumpet (Somerville MA)

~Wilcox & Neidhardt are currently on tour. A hat will be passed to help them with such luxury items as gas & food.~

ALSO: Mr. We (aka Tyler Wilcox) may spin a little house, disco and B'more club after we're all improv'ed out, but still have some beers to finish.

http://twistedvillage.com/

Recent:

2010-04-08T22:02:00.006-04:00

Reading:

Elfriede Jelinek: Wonderful, Wonderful Times (Serpent's Tail)

William Styron: Darkness Visible (Random House)

Pete Dexter: Brotherly Love (Penguin)

George Bataille: Literature and Evil (Urizen)

Michael Taussig: Walter Benjamin's Grave (University of Chicago)

Pete Dexter: The Paperboy (Delta)

Listening:

Sade: Soldier of Love (Epic)

Sade: Lovers Rock (Epic)

Sade: Love Deluxe (Epic)

Sade: Stronger Than Pride (Epic)

Sade: Promise (Epic)

Sade: Diamond Life (Epic)

2010-04-08T21:42:00.000-04:00

Upcoming shows

2010-03-10T22:30:00.002-05:00

3/17/10 [Wed] Outpost, Cambridge MA

with Seijiro Murayama & James Coleman

also Geoff Mullen/Keith Fullerton Whitman

http://zeitgeist-outpost.org/

3/30/10 [Tues] P.A.'s, Somerville MA

with Heathen Shame

also Sword Heaven, Keith Fullerton Whitman

http://paslounge.com

New Release: Nmperign with Jake Meginsky: Selected Occasions of Handsome Deceit

2010-01-27T21:02:00.003-05:00

"REL012 is the recorded debut of the trio Nmperign with Jake Meginsky. Pressed on 160 gram copper plate mastered vinyl, REL012 features Nmperign in an energized, turn-on-a-dime form. Prodded by Meginsky into unnamable, angular textures, the trio is agile and unpredictable, occupying many angles of musical extremes. REL012 is a one-sided LP cut to 45 for Maximum Dynamic range. Featuring a striking cover, designed by Eli Keszler, printed by Ashley Paul. A light blue fold-over paper is integrated in to a heavy picture disc sleeve, labeled with a color sticker. Screened notes are featured on the inside. REL012 is a one-time, hand-numbered edition of 300 copies."

$18 plus postage

look/listen/order @: http://www.relrecords.net/Nmperign.html

And get the new Usurper LP, too! http://www.relrecords.net/usurper.html

January 14, 2010: Live on WZBC by Susanna Bolle

2010-01-27T20:56:00.000-05:00

See the whole set here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rarefrequency/sets/72157623090472233/

Rare Frequency

2010-01-11T21:51:00.003-05:00

I'll be playing on WZBC's Rare Frequency this Thursday, January 14th, ~8pm EST.

Pre-show interview: http://www.rarefrequency.com/2010/01/greg_kelley.html

Listen online: http://www.rarefrequency.com/radio/index.html#listenonline

Upcoming shows

2010-01-05T22:27:00.004-05:00

2/4/10 [Thu] PAs Lounge, Somerville MA

with Chris Corsano & Bill Nace

also Noise Nomads, Needy Visions, Cotton Candy

http://paslounge.com

2/5/10 [Fri] Goethe Institute, Boston MA

with Birgit Uhler & Forbes Graham

http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/bos/

2/20/10 [Sat] Issue Project Room, Brooklyn NY

Fragments Shoring Ruin

Premiering "Bursts in ultraviolet air" for 15 speakers

also Chris Brokaw, Matt Heyner/Sean Meehan

http://issueprojectroom.org/2009/12/15/the-new-roratoria-greg-kelley/

3/6/10 [Sat] Mobius, Boston MA

The BSC

http://www.mobius.org/

3/17/10 [Wed] Outpost, Cambridge MA

with Seijiro Murayama & James Coleman

also Geoff Mullen/Keith Fullerton Whitman

http://zeitgeist-outpost.org/

Happy New Year!

2010-01-05T22:17:00.002-05:00

Heathen Shame, New Year's Eve, 2009 by Ashley Payne

Upcoming shows

2009-11-17T09:03:00.003-05:00

12/13/09 [Sun] Grey Matter Books, Hadley MA
with Liz Tonne & Vic Rawlings
also AM Frank, Cave Bears

12/31/09 [Thu] Hynes Convention Center, Boston MA 7:30pm to 11pm
Intransitive & Boston First Night present:

Heathen Shame 10:30pm to 11pm

also Jessica Rylan, Oneohtrix Point Never, Kyle Bobby Dunn, Skeletons Out
http://www.firstnight.org

2/5/10 [Fri] Goethe Institut, Boston MA
with Birgit Uhler & Forbes Graham
http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/bos/

Nmperign Foxy Digitalis Interview

2009-11-10T22:32:00.003-05:00

http://www.digitalisindustries.com/foxyd/features.php?which=434

November 6, 2009: Sons of God; Greg Kelley @ MassArt by Susanna Bolle

2009-11-10T22:19:00.007-05:00

See the whole set here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/non-event/sets/72157622756633200/

Hair Police: Our Minds Problems Vol. 4 quadruple c30

2009-11-10T22:01:00.010-05:00

"september 2009 release ; epic 4-tape box (covering 2 hours of music !!!) from mike connelly, robert beatty, and trevor tremaine’s hair police, continuing their “our minds problems” series of archival issues covering jams, gigs, and blowouts culled from 8 years of their existence & featuring work from former members matt minter & ross compton as well as outsiders greg kelley, c. spencer yeh, and john olson

...

this set was manufactured as a “fundraiser” for their fall 2009 european tour ; mms received half of the tinypressing to help the guys out (i.e. this is only available here & out on the ‘ol lonesome road) ... naturally, it comes highly recommended !!!"

Recorded 2001-2009

All Sides: Beatty, Connelly, Tremaine

Collaborators: John Olson (2), Greg Kelley (3), C.S. Yeh (4)

Former Accomplices: Matt Minter (1), Ross Compton (1)

Order now: www.mimaroglumusicsales.com

New Release: nmperign "Ommatidia" CD

2009-11-01T11:32:00.005-05:00

"nmperign are one of the most celebrated and influential bands in contemporary improvised music. Yet surprisingly, more than a decade after their debut, Greg Kelley (trumpet) and Bhob Rainey (soprano sax) have never recorded a studio album as an unaccompanied duo… until now!

The music is spare and peerlessly inventive as always, but the mood remains light and joyful, with a subtle undercurrent of absurd humor. While improvised music can sometimes seem airless and precious, Ommatidia opens the window on a sunny afternoon… the album’s gusts of breath, percussive splatter, and controlled explosions form six succinct pieces that feel alive and vital, while still speaking in nmperign’s utterly unique sonic language. A perfect way in for newcomers and a revelation for long-time fans,Ommatidia is the essential nmperign.

Previous nmperign albums have employed guest musicians – notably close collaborator and tape loop saboteur Jason Lescalleet, but also luminaries such as Gunter Mueller, Axel Doerner, Andrea Neumann, and Burkhard Beins – and subversive or dodgy recording techniques; their 2xLP on Siwa was recorded entirely to micro-cassette and cassette walkman, while an early CD on Selektion was edited from live mini-disc recordings. Intransitive is proud to present the nmperign album that fans have been waiting for: the core duo, beautifully recorded in an actual studio with excellent microphones.

When not making nmperign music, Greg Kelley performs with the aggressively psychedelic noise unit Heathen Shame (along with Wayne Rogers & Kate Village of Major Stars), minimalist chamber group The Undr Quartet, and raucous rock band Life Partners. Rainey regularly tours with folk/pop duo Damon & Naomi and leads The BSC, an eight-piece electro-acoustic improvising ensemble. They live in Boston and New Orleans, respectively.

Limited edition CD comes in full-color digipack designed by Mike Shiflet.

Praise for Ommatidia:

“nmperign have never sounded better!” – The Wire

“The pieces, relatively short, are assembled for maximum impact and, to these ears, carry a higher concentration of mass and solidity than before… more active, guttural…louder than one might expect, but the distribution of weight in each is almost compositional in character, really impressive how balanced they are. Great dynamic and, dare I say it, emotional range is covered over the course of “Ommatidia”’s 38 minutes. Excellent recording.” – Just Outside

“Like with their previous work, Nmperign show they are true masters…The six pieces on this CD are great. Very refined playing, highly free and improvised, but very open, fresh and spacious… Excellent!” – Vital Weekly

Praise for nmperign’s previous albums:

“(nmperign’s) attention to the architecture of improvisation, control over a huge palette of sonic material, and ability to explore the extremes of music-making with subtley and wit mark them as two of the most original thinkers in free improvisation today.” – The Boston Phoenix

“There’s an everlasting debate on just what to call the type of improv nmperign practice, and there’s no one term that seems to please everyone… whatever you might want to call it, nmperign have been at the forefront of the style for years.” – Dusted Magazine
“nmperign is one of the brightest stars in the increasingly splattered experimental/improv/noise/whatever constellation. Both open-eared and tirelessly self-critical, Kelley and Rainey create uniquely restless, spiny microcosms from rusty sputters and metal-on-metal scrapes, guided by an aesthetic as open to Wolf Eyes’ graveyard lurch as it is to Lachenmann’s atomized instrumentalism.” – Stylus Magazine
“They are an East Coast duo pushing the envelope of the genre to the end of the earth and flicking it off the edge… “ – Tiny Mix Tapes

“It would be nonsense to call this music ‘minimal’; on the contrary, their way of making music refines our senses and gives precision to a double movement of internalization and openmindedness. So space is opened and landmarks disappear.” – Improjazz"

Order now: http://intransitiverecordings.com

Upcoming shows

2009-09-25T09:59:00.007-04:00

10/8/09 [Thu] Knitting Factory, Brooklyn NY
with Alan Licht & Sean Meehan
also Chris Brokaw 12 string guitar trio, Wrekmeister Harmonies

10/10/09 [Sat] Nom D'Artiste, Boston MA
with Jaime Fennelly
also Vic Rawlings, Chris Peck

10/24/09 [Sat] Festival Densités, Fresnes-en-Woëvre FRANCE
with Jason Lescalleet
also Oren Ambarchi, Peter Brotzmann, Toshinori Kondo, Barre Phillips, Lionel Marchetti, Jérôme Noetinger, Jazkamer, Phil Minton, etc....

Full Densités Schedule:

Friday October 23
Barre Phillips / Emmanuelle Pepin (dance)
Eric La Casa
Sophie Agnel / Lionel Marchetti / Jérôme Noetinger
Burkhard Beins
Jazkamer (John Hegre, Lasse Marhaug, Nils Are Dronen)

Saturday October 24
John Tilbury
Isabelle Duthoit / Phil Minton
Birgit Uhler / Heddy Boubaker
Natacha Muslera/ Damien Schultz
Robbie Avenaim
Greg Kelley / Jason Lescalleet
Eddy Kowalski / Alain Sallet (dance)
Bertrand Gauguet / Thomas Lehn / Franz Hautzinger
Oren Ambarchi / Robert Piotrowicz

Sunday October 25
Burkhard Beins (installation POR)
Peter Brotzmann, Toshinori Kondo, Massimo Pupillo, Paal Nilssen-Love
Natacha Muslera/ Damien Schultz
Sebastien Coste / Shadi Fahti
(12h-13h) Charlie O. trio

More info: http://vudunoeuf.asso.fr/densites/index.html

11/6/09 [Sat] Mass Art, Boston MA
Solo
also Sons of God
http://nonevent.org/

2/5/10 [Fri] Goethe Institut, Boston MA
with Birgit Uhler & Forbes Graham
http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/bos/

New Release: Life Partners "Men Are Talking" LP

2009-09-25T09:44:00.002-04:00

LIFE PARTNERS "MEN ARE TALKING" LP

"Put needle to vinyl, and singer Dave Dougan manages to take vulgarity to new heights, exchanging his 7-inch-era potty mouth for more abstruse lyrical satire. Musically, the mating of riffs between trumpeter Greg Kelley and guitarist Mike Dupuy is something really special, akin to the savant aspects of “idiocy.” If it’s possible for abrasiveness to be compelling, clever and refined, Life Partners achieve all of the above on Men Are Talking. And somehow, in combination it’s beautiful."

Order now: http://www.ridethesnakerecords.com/

Upcoming events

2009-07-17T17:13:00.001-04:00

7/30/09 [Thu] Outpost, Cambridge MA
with Bill Nace & Jake Meginsky
also Frederick Farryl Goodwin

8/1/09 [Sat] Wire Sounds Loft, Boston MA
with Jason Lescalleet
also Graveyards, Ghost Grass