Monday, November 22nd, 2010
Dear Friends & Colleagues:
We realize we’re a little late to the punch, but if you haven’t already put the finishing touches on your 2010 year-end lists for jazz or other eclectic non-mainstream music, please consider the wonderful projects we’ve worked on in one way or another this past year.
I would like to acknowledge all of you in the media and the industry for helping us make 2010 another successful year for Fully Altered Media. And of course we couldn’t do it without our amazing clients, listed below.
I would also like to especially acknowledge former staffer Stephen Buono, all-around utility man Nick Venti and my new assistant Maribel Gil, who recently joined the Fully Altered team part-time, as well as day-to-day helpers Russ Flynn, Andy McGhie and Will Martina.
If you haven’t yet finished your year-end Top 10 or Top 20 or Top 50 lists, please consider the albums below. I hope that my eclecticism and open ears will continue to show through in the music we send your way.
To a Healthy & Productive 2011 and Beyond,
Matt Merewitz & Maribel Gil
Here are all the records we worked in 2010 for your consideration (in chronological order by release date):
Dave Rempis
& Frank Rosaly
Cyrillic
(482 Music) |
Colorist
A Square White Lie
(482 Music)
|
Sam Sadigursky
The Words Project
III: Miniatures
(New Amsterdam) |
Steve Colson Trio
The Untarnished
Dream
(Silver Sphinx) |
Thomas Savy
French Suite
(Plus Loin) |
Dan Weiss Trio
Timshel
(Sunnyside) |
Allison Miller
BOOM TIC BOOM
(Foxhaven) |
Nels Cline Singers
Initiate
(Cryptogramophone) |
Adam Rudolph
& Ralph Jones
Yeyi
(Meta) |
Adam Rudolph
& Yusef Lateef
Towards the
Unknown
(Meta) |
Mike Reed’s
People, Places
& Things
Stories &
Negotiations
(482 Music) |
Jacky Terrason
Push
(Concord) |
The Claudia
Quintet
Royal Toast
(Cuneiform) |
Pete Robbins
sILENT Z – Live
(Hate Laugh Music) |
Ideal Bread
Transmit: Vol. 2 of
the Music of
Steve Lacy
(Cuneiform) |
David Weiss &
Point of Departure
Snuck in
(Sunnyside) |
Rafi Malkiel
Water
(Tzadik) |
Barry Harris
Live in Rennes
(Plus Loin) |
Billy Bang
Prayer for Peace
(TUM) |
Vijay Iyer
Solo
(ACT) |
Blue Cranes
Observatories
(Self-released) |
Eddie Gomez
& Cesarius Alvim
Forever
(Plus Loin) |
Rudresh
Mahanthappa
& Bunky Green
Apex
(Pi) |
Kellylee Evans
Nina
(Plus Loin) |
Nels Cline
DIRTY BABY
(Cryptogramophone) |
Mike Reed’s Loose
Assembly Featuring
Roscoe Mitchell
Empathetic Parts
(482 Music) |
Scott Amendola Trio
Lift
(Sazi) |
Dan Tepfer
Five Pedals Deep
(Sunnyside) |
The Dymaxion
Quartet
Sympathetic
Vibrations
(Self-released) |
Jason Stein’s
Locksmith Isidore
Three Kinds of
Happiness
(Not Two) |
Jerome Sabbagh
I Will Follow You
(Bee Jazz) |
|
Look for some excellent new projects for January and beyond from:
• Trumpeter Taylor Haskins to release new album Recombination on Nineteen-Eight Records in February 2011
• Debut album, Steampunk Serenade by Honey Ear Trio Featuring Erik Lawrence, Rene Hart & Allison Miller to be released in March 2011
• & much much more
For more information, contact Matt Merewitz at Fully Altered Media/
matt@fullyaltered.com / 215-629-6155
Tags: 2010, 482 Music, A Square White Lie, ACT, Adam Rudolph, Allison Miller, Apex, Barry Harris, Bee Jazz, Billy Bang, Blue Cranes, BOOM TIC BOOM, Bunky Green, Cesarius Alvim, Colorist, Concord Records, Cryptogramophone, Cuneiform, Cuneiform Records, Cyrillic, Dan Tepfer, Dan Weiss Trio, Dave Rempis & Frank Rosaly, David Weiss, DIRTY BABY, Eddie Gomez, Empathetic Parts, Five Pedals Deep, Forever, Foxhaven, French Suite, Fully Altered Media, Hate Laugh Music, I Will Follow You, Ideal Bread, Initiate, Jacky Terrason, Jason Stein, jazz, Jerome Sabbagh, Kellylee Evans, Lift, Live in Rennes, Locksmith Isidore, Meta Records, Mike Reed, Mike Reed's Loose Assembly, music, Nels Cline, Nels Cline Singers, New Amsterdam, Nina, Not Two, Observatories, People, Pete Robbins, Pi Recordings, Places & Things, Plus Loin, Point of Departure, Prayer for Peace, Push, Rafi Malkiel, Ralph Jones, Roscoe Mitchell, Royal Toast, rudresh mahanthappa, Sam Sadigursky, Sazi, Scott Amendola Trio, siLENT Z, Silver Sphinx, Snuck in, solo, Steve Colson Trio, Stories & Negotiations, Sunnyside Records, Sympathetic Vibrations, The Claudia Quintet, The Dymaxion Quartet, The Untarnished Dream, The Words Project III: Miniatures, Thomas Savy, Three Kinds of Happiness, Timshel, Top 10 Albums, Towards the Unknown, TUM Records, Tzadik Records, Vijay Iyer, Vol. 2 of the Music of Steve Lacy, Water, Year in Review, Yeyi, Yusef Lateef
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Tuesday, June 8th, 2010
Since our last post, Pete Robbins record siLENT Z Live came out on the alto saxophonist’s own imprint, Hate Laugh Music. Pete had two consecutive CD release shows at The Tea Lounge in Park Slope, Brooklyn and at Cornelia Street Cafe in Manhattan which received nice preview coverage from The New York Times who called siLENT Z “a willfully progressive outfit” and Time Out New York who wrote “In saxist Pete Robbins’s siLENT Z project, highly developed harmony, complex meter and searing improv merge with a world of experimental loops, ambient soundscapes, hard beats and general abandon. The ’70s term jazz-rock doesn’t cut it, so the best description of this outfit is probably the artist’s own: Brooklyn prog-modern (post)jazz.”
A few nice things have come out so far for Pete.
- Pete was interviewed and played live in studio at WBGO by Josh Jackson for their new music program, The Checkout.
- There was a nice review by All About Jazz-New York’s Elliot Simon.
- There was a nice review by Derek Taylor on his new blog Master of a Small House.
- Phil Freeman reviewed the record for his excellent new webzine, Burning Ambulance in his 31 Days of Jazz Reviews series.
- Pete was featured in the November issue of Down Beat – as a “Players” feature by John Ephland.
- Pete was the subject of a feature interview on AllAboutJazz.com by Gordon Marshall entitled “Balance Dream.”
- Composer/blogger George Grella wrote a fantastic review of siLENT Z Live back in June.
- About.com concert review by Jacob Teichroew.
Stay tuned for more updates on Pete. You can follow his goings-on with his new blog as well as through the regular channels: Twitter, Facebook and MySpace.
Tags: All About Jazz, allaboutjazz.com, alto saxophone, Brooklyn, Hate Laugh Music, John Ephland, New York, NY Times, Pete Robbins, siLENT Z, Time Out New York
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