Hip-O Select has reissued all four Emitt Rhodes albums circa 1969-1973 in a deluxe, limited-edition 2CD set. Long out of print in the U.S. and largely unknown, being tipped by the likes of director Wes Anderson and others has likely helped these classic recordings of melodic pop music make a reappearance. They are a welcome sight in a new, completely thorough package.
We have two videos to feature today from a performance Lubomyr Melnyk gave in Toronto in 1985 that was captured on Betamax videotape. The two videos contain excerpts from his solo-piano performances of “Sonnet no.4 (1982)” and “Islands (1984)” as well as a few bonus snapshot-like moments of the composer.
In advance of the piano works retrospective we are working on with Elodie Lauten comes this performance, June 13th, 2009 at Issue Project Room in New York. Elodie Lauten will perform works of her own selection from the past 25 years including:
Revelation
Adamantine Sonata
Alien Heart
Cat Counterpoint
Sonate Modale
Reason and Blue
Variations on the Orange Cycle
Habanera (mp3)
Tango (mp3)
Please don’t miss this special event. Performances start at 8pm with Bing and Ruth opening.
Blue Gene Tyranny has recently updated his website with a brief video section containing a more recent live piano excerpt, a tune from CBCD, and this piece from 1976, “Taking Out the Garbage,” a sort of music of chance, visual score with a soundtrack.
Jim O’Rourke I’m Happy and I’m Singing and a 1,2,3,4 (2009 edition)
Fenn O’Berg Magic Sound and Return of… (2009 edition)
Editions Mego is re-pressing some of their classic titles in new, expanded editions. Perhaps most notably is Jim O’Rourke’s post-minimalist cum 21st-century-digital masterwork I’m Happy and I’m Singing and a 1,2,3,4. The album is indeed classic and this new set offers a bonus disc containing a digital version of the limited-edition, one-sided-LP track “He Who Laughs”, originally issued by NEON Gallery of Sweden, as well as the period pieces “Let’s take it again from the top” and “Getting the Vapors”. Of course, the Japanese are never to be easily outdone in the bonus department and one can find yet another bonus track – “ts baby” – on the P-Vine label’s edition.
Also, keep a look out for the Christian Fennesz, Jim O’Rourke, Peter Rehberg collaboration collection as Fenn O’Berg coming in June. Their second album, The Return of Fenn O’Berg, included in the 2CD set in remastered form also comes highly recommended.
I’m Happy and I’m Singing and a 1,2,3,4 is available right now via Forced Exposure.
Renowned flutist Andrew Bolotowsky will be performing “ORANGE: Modular Music from the Deus Ex Machina Cycle” by Elodie Lauten as part of his Where are the Women? concert program on Saturday, May 9 at 3:00 PM at the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, 135 Broadway at the corner of Bedford, right next to the Williamsburg Bridge in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York. Admission is $10.
Other composers on the program include Ruth Crawford Seeger, Jennifer Post, Joyce Suskind, Sorrel Hays, Tui St. George Tucker, Deborah Sandival Thurlow, Lenore Von Stein, Beth Anderson, Lynn Wilson, Judith Sainte Croix and Anne Tardos.
Find a copy of the now out-of-print Deus Ex Machina Cycle on 2CD via Amazon.
