Shonen Knife + Tonight @ Lee's Palace

greetings folks - last minute note: i love SHONEN KNIFE! (and so might you...) RC

SHONEN KNIFE
T O N I G H T ! ! !
Tuesday November 27
Lee's Palace

SHONEN KNIFE 11PM
Juliette Dagger 10PM
Verona Grove 9PM

The Knife And Dagger Tour

Lee's Palace 529 Bloor Street West Toronto 416 532 7383
$14.50 adv @ Ticketmaster www.ticketmaster.ca

Iconic Japanese Trio Continue World Domination
In Support Of 'Genki Shock' (Glue Factory)
+
Buffalo Noise-Pop Darlings Celebrate
The Release Of ŒHi-Ya¹ (Good Charamel Records)

"When I finally got to see Shonen Knife live, I was transformed into
an hysterical 9-year-old girl at a Beatles concert." ­ Kurt Cobain

"We are not old-style or new-style. We are always Shonen Knife-style", says founding member Naoko Yamano, set to embark from Osaka, Japan, for the band's second tour of North America in support of 'Genki Shock' (Glue Factory). Shonen Knife's current line-up includes founding sisters Naoko and Atsuko Yamano (the latter of whom switched from drums to bass following the departure of Michie Nakatani), and drummer Etsuko Nakanishi.

Sharing the stage with Shonen Knife will be friends and collaborators the Juliet Dagger. The co-ed indie-noisecombo hails from Buffalo, and have shared the stage with Wilco and My Morning Jacket. They are the first band to be featured in a Pez candy ad (!) and are celebrating the release of 'Hi-Ya' (Good Charamel Records). Produced by Robby Takec of the Goo Goo Dolls, 'Hi-Ya' features two tracks sung by Naoko and Erin, recorded during the recent Shonen Knife/Dagger tour of Japan. See the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FzTdlfmXrw

In the 1980s, sisters Naoko and Atsuko Yamano, and bassist Michie Nakatani instantly grabbed the attention of college radio and fanzines across the States. Following the releases of 'Burning Farm', 'Yama No Attachan' and 'Pretty Little Baka Guy', Indie rock¹s elite recorded the Shonen Knife tribute album, 'Every Band Has a Shonen Knife Who Loves Them', featuring Sonic Youth, Redd Kross and L7. Kurt Cobain handpicked the ladies as touring mates during 'Nevermind'. Frontwoman Noako Yamano has been hailed as "Japan's answer to Joey Ramone, only happier, and obsessed with food and cute, small animals." (Boston Globe) Shonen Knife is arguably the biggest rock band in Japan, along the way earning immense respect from the U.S. underground, and have continued to do their thing full-time for the past 25 years.

"In this ever-changing world in which we live, Shonen Knife is one of the few consistently enjoyable pleasures we have left... bless 'em!" (LA Weekly).

Nov 19 New York, NY Blender Theater at Gramercy
Nov 20 Philadelphia, PA North Star Bar
Nov 21 Buffalo, NY Town Ballroom (w/ Dinosaur Jr.)
Nov 23 Brooklyn, NY Luna Lounge
Nov 24 Washington, DC The Black Cat
Nov 25 Middle East Upstrs Boston, MA
Nov 27 Toronto, ON Lee¹s Palace
Nov 28 Cleveland, OH Grog Shop
Nov 29 Detroit, MI Magic Stick
Nov 30 Chicago, IL Reggie¹s Live
Dec 1 Minneapolis, MN The Triple Rock
Dec 2 Lawrence, KS The Bottleneck
Dec 4 Englewood, CO Gothic Theatre
Dec 5 Salt Lake City, UT Burt¹s Tiki Lounge
Dec 6 Las Vegas, NV Beauty Bar
Dec 7 San Diego, CA Casbah
Dec 8 Pomona, CA The Glass House
Dec 9 Hollywood, CA The Knitting Factory
Dec 11 San Francisco, CA Slim¹s
Dec 13 Vancouver, BC Richard¹s on Richards
Dec 14 Portland, OR Berbati Pan
Dec 15 Seattle, WA Chop Suey

http://myspace.com/shonenknife
http://myspace.com/thejulietdagger

For more tour info, contact:
Carla Parisi @ Kid Logic
kidlogic@nj.rr.com
973 563 8204

... to be removed, just let me know...

UPDATE * MERCREDI AU TRANZAC NetherJazz/Wodwos/Sea of Song Trio/I/O Media 11/21

UPDATE *

ROUGHIDEA presents
NETHER JAZZ MEETS WODWOS
KAUFFMAN/GRATKOWSKI/DEJOODE MEETS ADJEMIAN/BRENDERS/BULIGAN/LUMLEY
TRANZAC THEATRE 292 BRUNSWICK TORONTO www.info@tranzac.org
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 21 8PM
Tickets: $14 : discounts for AIMT and MG members

NETHER JAZZ MEETS WODWOS
IN THE MAIN HALL/THEATRE
DOORS @ 8PM SHOW STARTS @ 8:15PM
KAUFFMAN/GRATKOWSKI/DEJOODE: Achim Kauffman (NL) - piano; Frank Gratkowski (DE)
- clarinets, alto saxophone; Wilbert De Joode (NL) - bass
WODWOS: Jonathan Adjemian (TO) - synthesizer; Kyle Brenders (TO)
- saxophone; Nick Buligan (TO) - trumpet; Aaron Lumley (TO) - double bass

This event is presented with support from The Royal Embassy of the Netherlands.
For artist details go to: www.roughidea.ca

WHAT THE DUTCH!

* UPDATE
* * This show will start ON TIME * *
* * * Thereby maximizing your listening pleasure. * *

ALSO * AT THE  
TRANZAC on WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 21

GEORDIE HALEY'S SEA OF SONG TRIO
IN THE SOUTHERN CROSS LOUNGE/FRONT ROOM @ 10:30PM

THE SEA OF SONG TRIO
Geordie Haley - guitar
Rob Clutton - bass
Brandon Valdivia - drums

(www.myspace.com/geordiehaley)
(www.vergemusic.com)

"... there's wondrous freedom in this masterful trio's playing that leads to some intense and exhilarating performances..." (vish khanna, exclaim nov 07)

"... smouldering intensity." (chris bolton, eye weekly july 07)

yers yers

ALSO * AT THE TRANZAC ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT:
I/O MEDIA
IN THE SOUTHERN CROSS LOUNGE/FRONT ROOM @ 7:30PM
I/O media is a collaborative collective of sound and video artists exploring real-time performance in an improvised construction that is reminiscent of 1960's free-jazz.The fluctuating group of participants utilize a wide variety of instruments to make their audio/video compositions, including homemade hardware, customized software applications, analog synthesizers, samplers, and video mixers. Members of the group also experiment with performance techniques such as live sampling, real-time sample manipulation, and audio/video interaction.

The Beaches Blues Festival is having it’s 14th Annual Showcase

The Beaches Blues Festival is having it’s 14th Annual Showcase of over 10 bands. Michael Hasek, Nitouk, Back Alley Ringers, Tight Like That, Single File to Freedom, Squalor, Mr Flowers and more! Between these bands we are introducing a new idea! A fashion show! The Beaches Blues Fest is a Non-Profit Corp http://www.beachesbluesfest.com/

Bands Start at 2pm Nov 25th (Sunday)
Berkeley Event Center 315 Queen Street East Cash Bar
Call 416-693-6325 or go to the web site and both hear and see the bands before you go.

It's free if you e-mail leroy@kriminalrecords.ca otherWize it's $20.00 at the door

Kaufmann/Gratkowski/DeJoode + WODWOS Wednesday November 21 @ Tranzac

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ROUGHIDEA presents

NETHER JAZZ MEETS WODWOS

ACHIM KAUFMANN (NL)     - piano
FRANK GRATKOWSKI (DE)   - clarinets, alto saxophone
WILBERT DE JOODE (NL)   - bass
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JONATHAN ADJEMIAN (TO)  - synthesizer
KYLE BRENDERS (TO)      - saxophone
NICK BULIGAN (TO)       - trumpet
AARON LUMLEY (TO)       - double bass

TRANZAC THEATRE
292 BRUNSWICK, TORONTO
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21 8PM
Tickets: $14 : discounts for AIMT and MG members
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The European trio of Kaufmann/Gratkowski/DeJoode initiated their union at Zaal 100, Amsterdam¹s famed underground improvised music centre. The Tranzac serves as an equally respected facility for creative music in Toronto. The band has released two CDs, "kwast" (Konnex) and "unearth" (Nuscope). Their third, entitled "palaë", was released by Leo Records in October, 2007.

Pianist/composer Achim Kaufmann is based in Amsterdam, and has played and/or recorded with musicians such as Han Bennink, Michael Moore, Jim Black, Mark Helias, Tristan Honsinger, Lê Quan Ninh, Wolter Wierbos, Paul Lovens, and Joost Buis' Astronotes. Kaufmann previously released 'kamosc' (Red Toucan) with Michael Moore (clarinet, alto saxophone) and Dylan Van der Schyff (drums). He also performs solo.

Composer/multi-reedist Frank Gratkowski leads a quartet with Wolter Wierbos, Dieter Manderscheid, and Gerry Hemingway. He recently performed at various festivals with his Double Quartet and has worked with Georg Graewe, Joëlle Léandre, Hamid Drake, Peter Kowald, Misha Mengelberg, Michiel Braam, and many more. Both Gratkowski and Kaufmann have received the renowned German SWR award.

Wilbert de Joode, the veritable research scientist of bass pizzicato and bowing techniques, is a self-taught musician, and currently one of the most sought-after bassists in the world of contemporary jazz and improvised music. He is a member of the Ab Baars Trio, the trio Fuhler/Bennink/DeJoode, Apa Ini, and various groups led by Michiel Braam. He has played with Steve Lacy, Fred Frith, Derek Bailey, Peter Brötzmann, Sunny Murray, The Ex, and the Schlippenbach Trio, and completed a solo North American tour earlier this year, which included an AIMToronto Interface session.

www.achimkaufmann.com
www.gratkowski.com
www.doek.org/wDeJoode.html

Wodwos is a local quartet whose music combines the controlled focus of composed forms with the raw spontaneity of free improvisation. Utilizing limitations suggested through composition, the band members seek to push past their own habitual musical tendencies and individual syntaxes. Since its formation Wodwos has performed original compositions, free improvisations, and music by Webern. They have performed in diverse settings from bars and lofts to a below-ground plaza, a giant tent on the shore of Lake Ontario, and under a Parkdale bridge. Wodwos are planning to record and release their first record in the early months of 2008.

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Please note that this performance demands the use of a grand piano. For the very first time, a grand piano will be placed on the premises for this one-time-only installation. Piano pirates may grab yours if it is not chained down!
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This event is presented with support from The Royal Embassy of the Netherlands.
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IAN TAMBLYN cd release HUGH'S ROOM thursday november 22

IAN TAMBLYN

Superior: Spirit and Light
CD RELEASE

HUGH'S ROOM Thursday November 22

$16 advance $18 at the door
open for dinner from 6pm
show starts at 8:30pm

Hugh's Room
2261 Dundas St W
416 531 6604

Ian Tamblyn
Fred Guignion
Anne Lindsay
Rebecca Campbell

On November 22, I'll be singing with my old friend and colleague Ian Tamblyn, to celebrate the release of his most recent recording, Superior: Spirit and Light.

I'll be racing back from Kitchener/Waterloo, where I've got a rehearsal with the University of Waterloo Orchestra, so I'll be a little late, but don't let that slow you down.

Ian is one of the most eloquent evocateurs of the Canadian spirit, with an uncanny ability to describe our external landscape. He expresses "Canada" from its most ephemeral and elusive, to its most craggy, vast, and windswept. If you don't know his work, or have never been to a show, I guarantee you'll enjoy his well-travelled perspective, his humour, his poetic imagery, his storytelling, and his musical breadth. Fred Guignion and I played together for a decade with our band Fat Man Waving - he is one of my favourite guitar players. He and I have performed extensively with Ian, over many miles and many years. And Anne Lindsay is a great, much celebrated player. The four of us were most recently together a year ago August, in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, where we conducted our second music workshop for kids there.

News from Ian's website: www.tamblyn.com July 2007

I am pleased to announce the release of Superior: Spirit and Light, the first of four CDs called the Four Coast project. Lake Superior and Northwestern Ontario is the focus of this first CD in the series. In the next two years, I will look at the Pacific Northwest coast, The Arctic, and the Labrador/Newfoundland coast.

I chose to begin with Superior because that is, in many ways, where my creative and musical journey began, and the reference point for all subsequent journeys. I grew up in Fort William and camped on the shores of Thunder Bay, and had a relationship with the lake, but I rediscovered its power, its vastness, beauty, and spirit when I began canoeing the north shore in the early 1970¹s. This was also the time when my musical journey began.

Now, some thirty­five years later, I am going back. I think it is time to present a body of work that has emerged regarding the big lake and its surrounding environs. Though I will continue to present other journeys - both inner and outer - I feel a compulsion now to gather together this collection of songs that have dotted various albums and CDs, but never together. As I wrote these songs over the years, they were always part of an ongoing story, connected chords, and plotlines. It was also a chance to re- record some tunes that have grown or morphed over the years, present some of my favourite work on the topic by others, and also bring several new songs to the studio.

The second reason for presenting Superior: Spirit and Light, at this time, is to focus attention on the lake and its surrounding communities .These communities are suffering from the depletion of natural resources, fluctuating lake levels, a continued neglect of First Nation reserves, in fact, a general neglect of Northwestern Ontario. At times, I feel this stunning part of Canada seems far more remote and removed than anywhere else in the country. It seems to me many of the towns along Superior¹s north shore will soon be ghost towns. It makes me sad and angry to bear witness to these events.

When I grew up in Fort William (Thunder Bay), I came to believe it was one of the most dramatic and dynamic towns in the world . There were all kinds of comings and goings, it was in the centre of North America, it was at the head of the Great Lakes, and it was an international port; ships from all over the world visited its waters. It had a dynamic history, and it was at the centre of Northwestern Ontario¹s seemingly endless natural resources. It hummed with a rough industrial energy. It was also in the middle of nowhere - long stretches of highway and rail - days from other towns of any size. This isolation also contributed to the creative dynamic I felt existed there. It still does, though the dynamic now threatens to be more entropic as Fort William fades and withers.

And then there was the lake - at first threatening, dark, and dangerous - but as I came to know its shoreline - powerful, awe inspiring, inspirational, and spiritual. As I explored further, I came to realise that others had also found power and inspiration in what Glenn Gould came to note as this "Idea of North" ­ reverence of the lake by First Nations, the voyageurs, the Group of Seven, Bill Mason, Wayland Drew, Norval Morrisseau...  What was the haunted quality of Superior¹s north shore, and why was it so compelling? Was there some spirit of north that simply existed in the rock and trees, lakes and vistas of the north shore?  In the mid­seventies I started playing folk festivals, and discovered kindred spirits in Northern Ontario in the likes of Andre Paiement, Marcel Aymar, Robert Pacquette, Robert Dixon, Daisy DeBolt, and CANO. They were writing about the same spirit, the same energy. All these things lead me on a long journey, seeking out the places where the spirits of the north and their attendant stories seemed to burst from the rocks, lakes, and trees. 

From Lake Superior, the journey continues to the Northwest coast of British Columbia, Haida Gwaii, the Gulf of Alaska, the Bering and Chukchi Seas, the Northwest Passage, Ellesmere, Baffin, Hudson Bay,  Greenland, Swalbord, Spitsbergen, Franz Josef Land, Torngats, and the Labrador coast. Chasing the north is what this four coast project is all about. I hope you will enjoy the journey.

Ian Tamblyn
Chelsea, Quebec - 2007

Songs                                                   
The Gift Left on the Shore                                        
Woodsmoke and Oranges
Black Spruce
Northern Journey
Slate Island Song
Higher Plane
That Boxcar in Algoma
Northlands of Ontario -David Altic
Northern Town
Fly with your Heart
All That Remains -Rodney Brown
Hometown
The Birch Canoe
Campfire Light

BILL WOOD of EYE EYE releases solo album

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Toronto-based singer/songwriter BILL WOOD has traveled
a long and winding road to pop stardom and back again.
With his second solo album just released, he has come full-
circle as a musician and a staple on the Canadian music
scene. Here's a little history lesson for the young 'uns:

BILL WOOD rose to prominence in the mid-1980s with the pop
rock band EYE EYE, garnering two Juno nominations and radio
hits across the country. Over the course of 30 years, Wood has
maintained one foot in the proverbial music industry door, constantly
writing songs, while raising a family, starting his own home renovation
business and running a homeless shelter and food bank for street
kids in the "real world."

Born in Montreal, he picked up a guitar at age 10 after seeing
The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show. Wood moved to Burlington,
Ontario, for high school, forming a glitter band called Palace Laundry
with Wayne Cass (now a noted jazz musician) and Mark Caporal,
who would later go on to play drums in Eye Eye. After high school, he
toured with a cover band then traveled to England and witnessed the
punk movement first-hand. He came home and put together a group
called the Oh-Nos, who came in second in Q107's very first Homegrown
battle of the bands contest. Touring alongside other local talent like
Teenage Head in the early '80s, the Oh-Nos spent 3 years on the road.

From there, Wood started a band called Billy Club, who opened regularly
for Eye Eye, a project that Wood's former band-mate Caporal and
guitarist
Andy Ryan had put together. In 1985, Wood joined Eye Eye as the singer
and landed a record deal with Duke Street Records. In 1986, they were
nominated for Most Promising Group and their producer, Terry Brown, was
nominated for Producer of the Year for their debut album, Just In Time
To
Be Late. The songs "Out On A Limb," "X-Ray Eyes," "My Sensation," and
"Endless Night" became ubiquitous on Canadian household radios, and
Eye Eye toured with Glass Tiger, Honeymoon Suite, Gowan, Images in
Vogue and Platinum Blonde, which Wood says was akin to touring with
The Beatles in those days!

When Eye Eye broke up in the late '80s, Wood launched a successful
home renovation business, married and raised two daughters, worked
on other people's albums, released two albums with his early '90s
group Ghosttown, then put out a solo debut in 1996.

A decade later, Wood began writing again and bartered with his friend
Tim Abraham, who owned a recording studio. In exchange for installing
an exhaust fan and some carpet, Wood was able to demo a couple of
new tunes. And they haven't stopped flowing since. His new album,
Take It, is an alt.country pop rock piece of Canadiana, based on Wood's
personal experiences of love and life. "I'm in all of these tunes, but
they're not all about me," says Wood. "I wanted to have that classic
'70s rock vibe with a full band. I like Joe Cocker's Mad Dogs and
Englishmen, The Faces, The Band... that sort of energy."

Featuring Abraham on guitar, Mark Duff (Atomic 7) on drums,
Rob Clark (Rizdales) on bass, Dennis Kelde on organ and
accordian, and Bob Egan (Blue Rodeo, Wilco) on pedal steel and
lap steel, it's easy to compare BILL WOOD's new solo album to
Canadian icons like Blue Rodeo, Neil Young or Bruce Cockburn.
His songwriting is timeless, he has a knack for a great melody line,
and his voice is comfortable and confident, not forcing you to listen,
but bending your ear with his laid-back tone and that thing that only
comes with age: experience.

"I'm not on any great mission," he says. "It's just that the songs keep
coming and I wanted to do something about it! There's definitely some
mojo at work when we're gigging and it's fun!"

BILL WOOD celebrates the release of Take It with a residency at
GRAFFITI'S in Kensington Market on the last Thursday of every month.

Please plug the following gigs with a mention in your around-town
listings:
BILL WOOD live at Graffiti's, 171 Baldwin St., Toronto
Thursday, November 29th - 9:30 p.m.
Thursday, December 27th - 9:30 p.m.
Thursday, January 31st - 9:30 p.m.
No cover.
<http://www.myspace.com/billwoodmusic>

To request a photo, a review copy of Take It or an interview with Bill
Wood,
please contact Karen Pace at Pacemaker Productions.
416-918-6525 <karen@gokarenpace.com>

Yvan Pedneault & Giorgia Fumanti join the CANADIAN TENORS

Please let me know if you are interested in talking to any of the
Canadian Tenors
about the upcoming November 30th show.

Also, please let me know if you would like a photo for a featured
listing, or if you can
plug the November 30th gig with a mention in your listings.

Cheers,
Karen

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

THE CANADIAN TENORS are pleased to announce the
addition of two wonderful singers to three of their Christmas
shows in November.

Victor Micallef, Remigio Pereira, Fraser Walters and Jamie
McKnight will welcome to the stage for several songs two
diverse and celebrated performers: YVAN PEDNEAULT
and GIORGIA FUMANTI.

YVAN PEDNEAULT is a French-Canadian stage actor who
graduated from L'Ecole supérieure de théâtre in Montréal in
2004. As a newcomer to the stage, he caused a sensation
with starring roles in the French-language productions of
Rent, Beauty & The Beast and A Chorus Line. Yvan toured
Europe and Québec with the folk opera Un Eternel Hiver
produced by Lydia Lemay. He takes time off from his coveted
lead role as Galileo in the classic rock opera We Will Rock You
in Toronto to join THE CANADIAN TENORS for three shows
in Québec City, Montréal and Toronto.

GIORGIA FUMANTI is an Italian opera singer who now makes
her home in Montréal. She was chosen to sing at the Closing
Ceremonies for the Special Olympics in Shanghai, China, last
week immediately after finishing a mini-tour opening four shows
for Zucchero in Canada. Giorgia is a soprano whose voice will
add a beautiful texture to some of the Christmas classics with
THE CANADIAN TENORS.

The Times Colonist in Victoria, BC, said after the group's first show
of the tour in October that, that "these four fine-voiced fellows are
appealing because they're funny, relaxed, and spending the
evening with them is like hanging around old friends - who can
really sing!"

The CANADIAN TENORS will be releasing their debut album
in December, and it will include the song "Because We Believe,"
co-written by David Foster and Andrea Bocelli, and performed
by THE CANADIAN TENORS for the first time at the opening
of the new Crystal Wing of the Royal Ontario Museum in June.

Reserve your tickets to see them now before they're gone!

THE CANADIAN TENORS
November 26th - Quebec City, QC at the Capitole Theatre - 8 pm
Tickets go on sale September 25th at 10:00 a.m. at
<http://www.admission.com>
November 28th - Montréál, QC at Théâtre Outremont - 8 pm
Tickets go on sale September 25th at 10:00 a.m. at
<http://www.ticketpro.ca>
November 30th - Toronto, ON at the Winter Garden Theatre - 8 pm
Tickets go on sale September 25th at 10:00 a.m. at
<http://www.ticketmaster.ca>

For more information on the performers, please visit:
<http://www.canadiantenors.com>
<http://www.yvanpedneault.com>
<http://www.giorgiafumanti.com>

To request a photo or an interview with the Canadian Tenors,
contact Karen Pace at Pacemaker Pro. (416) 918-6525
<karen@gokarenpace.com>

roughidea + music gallery > THE NEWS < thursday november 8

Rough Idea + Music Gallery
present
THE NEWS (Amsterdam/Chicago)

Eric Boeren (NL)    ­ cornet
Cor Fuhler (NL)     ­ piano
Nate McBride (US)   ­ bass
Mike Reed (US)      ­ drums

MUSIC GALLERY
st george-the-martyr anglican church
197 john st at stephanie
next THURSDAY NOVEMBER 8 8PM
$12 (two for $20)

THE NEWS is a new name for a new band assembled for the EUROPEAN JAZZ MEETS CHICAGO component of the 2007 Umbrella Music Festival in Chicago. Percussionist, presenter and curator Mike Reed (who was at the Guelph Jazz Festival in September with Exploding Star Orchestra) has invited Nate McBride to join him in collaborating with Boeren and Fuhler at the Chicago Cultural Centre where they share the bill with five other acts, including Czech Republic¹s Iva Bittova who precedes them by two nights at the Gallery in Toronto. The NEWS' Rough Idea/Music Gallery performance in Toronto is part of an eastern NA tour; upon their return in December, they will tour Holland.

http://www.doek.org/artists.html
http://www.umbrellamusic.org/2007fest.html

Eric Boeren made his first steps in music with the brassband of Ulicoten, a small village in the south of Holland.  He played solo euphonium, then moved over to the Eb tuba. He liked the bizarre look of a sixteen year-old carrying that immense horn at the rear of the band. Being lazy and not willing to count out the multiple bars of having nothing to play, he started to listen to the interplay of melody and counter melody for cues to come in on time. At eighteen, after attending his first concerts of improvised music, he switched to cornet, his first love. He attended workshops at Amsterdam¹s Bimhuis, and developed his interest in melodic shapes, musical cues, texture and sonority. In the following ten years Boeren played with the Maarten Altena Ensemble, Willem van Manen¹s Contraband, Ab Baars Tentet and the Paul Termos Tentet. He joined Available Jelly, and became a member of J.C. Tans and his Rockets, Sean Bergin¹s MOB and Frankie Douglas' Sunchild. He holds the chair of second trumpet and soloist in Michiel Braam's Bik Bent Braam since 1990. He formed the Eric Boeren 4tet which features Ornette Coleman¹s compositions alongside Eric¹s own pieces. As a composer, Boeren has contributed to the repertoires of Available Jelly, Bik Bent Braam, Big Band Nieuwe Muziek, JC Tans and his Rockets, Sean Bergin's MOB and Mobette and of course his own quartet.  He is also composes for special proejcts, such as Eric Boeren Double Quartet and Eric Boeren Guitar Band.

Cor Fuhler began playing the piano, organ, and self-made instruments at the age of six and graduated in '89 from the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam.  He began exploring music in groups such as Carduelis Carduelis and Wayang Detective (a combination of improv, gamelan and shadow puppets).  He formed the trio Fuhler-Bennink-de Joode that is still active.  Another important project was Olympicnic:  a theatrical concert about technological extremes: super 8 films, live  finger cameras, powerbook, modular synths, shadow play inside the grand piano and turntables. ConundrumCD, a mini label, provides an alternative avenue for exploring compositional ideas by "computer dubbing" of various musical materials. The Corkestra and Cortet are two of his most recent initiatives. His interest in the possibilities of extending the piano sound has led him to collect and build various acoustic instruments (keyolin), and to work with electronics. Depending on the situation, he mixes these in different installations and scenarios. Groups with which he is involved include Palinckx, Mimeo (with Jerome Noetinger, Keith Rowe, Peter Rehberg, Phil Durrant, and many others...), the Flirts (with Gert-Jan Prins), Monitor (with Michael Moore and Tristan Honsinger), and Delius-Lovens-Fuhler (with Tobias Delius and Paul Lovens).

Nate McBride has played the bass for nine years. He did some formal study, and taught himself a good deal. He leads his own rock and jazz groups and records and performs regularly with some of the standard bearers of  second-century jazz and improvised music. Among the musicians with whom he has worked in close association are Joe Morris, Pandelis Karayorgis, Mat Maneri, and Ken Vandermark. Nate has performed or recorded with many others, including Joe Mcphee, Foyd Standifer, Clark Terry, and Paal Nilssen-love. HIs latest band release is the Engines out of Chicago with Dave Rempis, Jeb Bishop and Tim Daisy. http://www.okkadisk.com/releases/od12057.html

Mike Reed is a musician, composer and presenter based in Chicago. As a drummer, Reed has been part of the vibrant Chicago jazz and improvised music community since 1997. He has performed regularly with David Boykin, Nicole Mitchell, Jeff Parker, Axel Doerner, Josh Abrams, Jim Baker, Rob Mazurek and others. As a leader Reed has released two critically acclaimed albums by his cross-genre group The Treehouse Project, and, more recently, the debut recording of his quintet Loose Assembly and a record of improvised duets. He currently is a member of The David Boykin Expanse , Rob Mazurek¹s Exploding Star Orchestra and Josh Berman Quartet. For nearly a decade Reed has also established himself as a presenter of musical performances. In 2001 Reed founded the Emerging Improvisers Organization, a not-for-profit whose weekly series of jazz and improvised music has been lauded as one of the finest in the Midwest. In December 2005 Reed was named among the Chicagoans of the Year by The Chicago Tribune for his work as lead organizer of the Intonation Music Festival.

"Boeren played a long narrow cornet, rather like the first trumpet that Louis Armstrong played after changing from cornet, and he got an exceptionally clean bright sound - so clean and bright that it sounded silvery, like the plating of his instrument - which was deployed at times in the kind of pond-skipping skittery interval jumps we associate with the late Don Cherry. It jumped at times to impressive heights and seemed to glance down at us from up there for a moment, like a mirror flashed in the sun." John Clare, the Age.