abzu recordings
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(France)
Entropy Stereo
In Ann
Arbor, MI at Schoolkids (State St.) and Encore
(Liberty St.)
Abzu 1, 2, and 3 are also available for download on iTunes,
Emusic, Rhapsody and other music sites..
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NEWS
NEW RELEASES!
Shards
Sixteen duets for
violin and soprano saxophone
Mike
Khoury (v) & Piotr Michalowski (ss)
Friends
and Relatives Records
2006
available from Valiant
Death
For Charlotte Moorman
Mike Khoury (vio)
& Piotr Michalowski (ss)
Released
(May 2006) as Atlatl 4.
Available free
for download
on line or limited
edition floppy disc
Three PM duets (w. Mike Khoury (v), Joe Giardullo
(ss), and Hans Buetow (bass) can now be heard at:
http://myspace.com/sopranino1
The 2005 Edgefest performance by the Sublingual
ensemble is
now available on line at:
http://myspace.com/sublingualensemble
Piotr Michalowski (sopranino sax) with defenestra
can be
heard on line at:
http://myspace.com/defenestra
*MU7 from abzu 1 has been included in
an anthology, "The Best of Polish Jazz 2005,"
put out by the Polish Jazz
Network for the
IAJE conference!
UPCOMING & RECENT PERFORMNCES:
May 8—Piotr
Michalowski (soprano sax, alto clarinet)--Aurora Club, ul.
Dobra 33/35, Warsaw,
Poland,
(22) 498 45 65, 8:00 pm.
June 2—Mike
Khoury (vio)/ Hans Buetow (cello) Duet at the Bohemian National
Home, 3009 Tillman St., Detroit,
opening for Jessica Pavone/Mary
Halvorson/Robert Lee, 9:00 pm.
June 6—The
Sublingual Ensemble, The
Ark, 316 S. Main St., Ann Arbor
(opening for The Global Jazz Trio), 8:00 pm.
June 18—Piotr
Michalowski (reeds) with Mike
Hansen and Soressa Gardner (turntables,
electronics,
voice)--Sunday, June 18, Now
Lounge,
189 Church St.,
Toronto, ON.
5:00 pm.
ABZU RELEASES
abzu 001
close embrace of
the earth
Lenni Bukowski--contra-bass,
contra-alto, alto & bass clarinets, alto & baritone saxophones,
little instruments,
Mike Khoury--violin,
little
instruments
Piotr Michalowski--alto
&
bass clarinets, baritone, tenor, soprano & sopranino saxophones,
little instruments
"An extremely thoughtful, focused and well matched trio who
often remind me of Braxton/AACM style of cautious, spacious improv
spirits. Except for Anthony Braxton and his collaborators, we
rarely get to hear any contrabass, contra-alto or alto clarinets at
length, so this is indeed a treat. Those dry wooden tones and
quiet violin abstractions sound great to me. You can tell that
these cats have been at it for a while as there is a carefully crafted
thread that runs through it all and it sounds as if this is partially
charted material. Well thought out, nice use of space and no
screaming." Downtown Music Gallery newsletter
January 30, 2004 (NY).
Reviews:
Improjazz n°
106, June 2004
Review
in
JazzReview.com (January 2004)
JazzReview.com
(list of top jazz cd's of 2003)
Cadence
Magazine, January 2004
SEMJA, November
2003
Paris
Transatlantic, December 2003
Mike Khoury has
appeared a number of cd's and runs the Entropy Stereo label.
Lenni Bukowski appears together with the Faruq Z. Bey and the Northwoods Improvisers
on Ashirai Pattern (Entropy).
Piotr Michalowski & Lenni Bukowski also play as a duo on a
limited edition duo cd SKI
(Detroit Improvisation 4), which will be
available in September.
abzu 002
Babardah
James Ilgenfritz--bass
Mike Khoury--violin
Piotr Michalowski-sopranino,
soprano, and baritone saxophones, bass clarinet
Sarah Weaver--trombone
"a desert island disk!" (Improjazz,
in press)
"These
four musicians have garnered the seeds of creativity
from
multiple cultural sources, but
their amassed product celebrates all that is beautiful in the respective
origins"(Cadence,
March 2005)
Reviews:
Cadence,
March 2005
Paris
Transatlantic,
December 2004
Improvijazzation
Nation, 67
Touching
Extremes
Foxy
Digitalis
Jazz
Weekly
Piotr Michalowski and James Ilgenfritz also appear on Sarah Weaver's Weave:
Result One
just out:
abzu 003
As
the Cicada Breathes
The
Sublingual Ensemble
James Cornish-cornet, flute, violin,
percussion
Rob Crozier--acoustic bass,
chromatic harmonica, steel drum, percussion
Elijah Church--ba-hu, recorder,
whistles
Piotr
Michalowski--soprano & sopranino saxophones, bass clarinet
Michael G.
Nastos--drums & cymbals, hubkaphone, bells, wood whistles,
Tiger squeak
toy, voice, shakers, percussion
Review:
The
Sublingual Ensemble - AS THE CICADA BREATHES: This
CD features some very interesting improvised
works by a 5-piece you won't soon forget. James Cornish on
cornet, flute,
violin & percussion; Rob Crozier with bass (acoustic), chromatic
harmonica,
steel drum & percussion; Elijah Church doing ba-hu, recorder &
whistles; Piotr Michalowski playing soprano & sopranino sax &
bass
clarinet; & Michael G. Nastos on drums/cymbals, hubkaphone, bells,
wood
whistles, Tiger squeak toy, voice, shakers & percussion. I
don't
usually list all the instruments out, but in this case, you need to
realize the
breadth & depth these
guys cover with their
music. We've heard Piotr before (issue # 67), but not in this
context. The music will hold the listener intrigued from the
opening
bar. & that's "saying something" for music that's as
heavily improvised as this is... there's a sense of "body" on the
compositions that doesn't always come through on this kind of music...
that was
especially true on the opener (a nearly 16 minute epic), "Bone
People", my favorite piece on the CD, but (believe it or not), it also
holds true for "Sparse Glide Across A Fresh Field"... obviously, with
a title like that, you will anticipate the minimalist nature of it -
but it
still has a "fullness" that's very attractive to the ear. This
is one of the most interesting listens I've had this year, & gets a
MOST
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED from our ears.
Rotcod Zzaj (Improvijazzation Nation 71, in press)
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