What's
happening now.
New
release!
After ten years, and rejection by 37 record companies,
Asynchronous Records is proud to announce the release of
Page of Madness.
Phillip Johnston's original score for Teinosuke Kinugasa's
1926 Japanese silent film masterpiece Kurutta Ippeiji (A
Page of Madness)
was commissioned by the Film Society of Lincoln Center,
and premiered at Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theatre in 1998,
performed by Phillip Johnston's
Transparent Quartet.
It has
subsequently
toured in the US, and most recently was performed to acclaim at the
2008 Sydney Film Festival.
You can buy the CD of the score to Page of Madness from:
CD Baby
The Downtown Music Gallery
NorthCountry Distribution
Upcoming performances:
New York, December
Saturday Dec 5th 2009: The Microscopic Septet, at 92Y Tribeca
Thursday Dec 10th 2009: The Spokes, at Barbes
Friday Dec 11th 2009: The Microscopic Septet, at Barbes
Wednesday Dec 16th: The Spokes, at The Stone
The Spokes is a new group featuring Andy Biskin, clarinet, Phillip
Johnston, soprano saxophone, and Curtis Hasselbring, trombone. These
will be out debut performances.
(see this page for further information to come)
No further performances in Sydney scheduled for at present.
Other recent releases:
Waxed
Oop (an impetuous stream bubbled up):
The second Fast
'N' Bulbous CD on
Cuneiform
Records features further meditations of the music on Don van
Vliet, a/k/a Captain Beefheart.
In addition to our first arrangements of music from
Lick My Decals Off,
Baby, a solo version of "Sure 'Nuff 'N' Yes I Do," by Gary
Lucas on
Mississippi National Steel Guitar, and new arrangements by trombonist
Joe
Fiedler,
the CD includes a bonus track featuring guest vocalist Robyn
Hitchcock
performing China Pig with Gary at a recent
tribute to the music of Captain Beefheart at the Knitting Factory in
2008.
Lobster
Leaps In:
Cuneiform
Records recently released the first new
Microscopic
Septet CD since to be recorded since 1988.
In the wake of the
success
of 2006's reissue of early Micros recordings,
Seven Men in Neckties, and
Surrealistic Swing,
and following a string of club dates in New York and Europe, The Micros
went directly into the studio
to record some of the never-before released favorites, and obscure
materpieces, from the voluminous Micro book.
Visit the Microscopic Septet website for
further details.
Visit the Microscopic Septet Myspace.com
page
Henry Bean's film Noise,
starring Tim Robbins,
William Hurt, Bridget Moynihan and William Baldwin and is currently in
video stores.
The New Yorker called it, "a soul journey posing as a comedy" and the
Village Voice called it "an action comedy of ideas."
Noise
features an original score by Phillip
Johnston.