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He's got two discs on his own Pine Ear label which are both worth getting. Plus the new Billy Stein disc is great with Radding & Rashid Bakr. (Reuben tells me he was incredibly sick during that session & feared he'd wrecked it; when he received the CD he didn't listen to it for ages, then got up the nerve & was pleasantly surprised how well it worked out. It's actually a terrific date, one of the best & most overlooked releases of 2006.)

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Just got this announcement in an email. I'm not familiar w/ their music. Any opinions??

Ars Nova Workshop presents:

Sunday, March 4 | 8pm

BORBETOMAGUS

with Don Dietrich, saxophone; Jim Sauter, saxophone; Donald Miller,

guitar

+ RAVI BINNING, harmonium & electronics

+ ALUMBRADOS (featuring members of BARDO POND)

International House Philadelphia, 3701 Chestnut Street

$8 General Admission

Read the excellent CityPaper feature:

http://www.citypaper.net/articles/2007/03/01/over-the-line

The words loud and aggressive only begin to scratch the surface of this

proto-punk free jazz band; Borbetomagus sets forth a sonic squall that

obliterates and has been described as "a huge, overpowering,

take-no-prisoners mass of sound." While participants on the downtown

New

York free improv scene have long thrived on chaos and extremes in

volume and

timbre, none of them got there before this upstate New York ensemble.

Borbetomagus has been pursuing their noisy muse since the late 1970s.

They

have collaborated with Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, Tristan Honsinger,

Peter Kowald and others, and have been influential on many American

free

jazz and noise musicians. Please join us for this very rare visit.

Complimentary earplugs will be provided.

eFlyer: http://www.arsnovaworkshop.com/BORB.gif

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For $8 I would see Borbetomagus out of curiosity but I would definitely make sure I saw Alumbrados. I just finished listening to a self-released album of theirs and really enjoyed it.

I'm not sure why they would be on a bill with Borbetomagus, though.

"Much different than the lumbering jams of Alasehir are the drenched ethno-drones of Alumbrado. Featuring Bardo Pond's John & Michael Gibbons on guitar, sitar, cumbas and various percussive instruments as well as Michael Zanghi and Aaron Igler with additional electronics and percussion. Alumbrados is a beautiful, rhythmic and tremendously arranged psychedelic experience. "

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Just got this announcement in an email. I'm not familiar w/ their music. Any opinions??

Ars Nova Workshop presents:

Sunday, March 4 | 8pm

BORBETOMAGUS

with Don Dietrich, saxophone; Jim Sauter, saxophone; Donald Miller,

guitar

+ RAVI BINNING, harmonium & electronics

+ ALUMBRADOS (featuring members of BARDO POND)

Loud wall of noise. Horns blow harmonics with microphones jammed in bell of saxophones, guitar is played with distortion, files and ebow. Bring ear plugs.

I also got this:

Fellow Travelers & Lowly Companions:

Please Take Note of the Following Concert Event!

Donald Miller: electric guitar (1st NYC performance in a year, 2nd in 3.5)

Tatsuya Nakatani: percussion

Michael J. Schumacher: electronics

Thursday, March 8

8:30 pm

Diapason Gallery

1026 Avenue of the Americas

(between W.38th & W.39th Sts.)

Subways: 1, 2, 3, 9, B, D, F, Q, N, R, W to Times Square/42nd Street

$10

And PLEASE pass the word on.

I might check this out. :rfr

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