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ART
George Condo: La Civilisation Perdu - by Diego Costa
Arbol de San Pascuál Bailón y La Cocina - by Bernardo González

Virgen de la Soledad - by Bernardo González
Untitled I, II (Olive and Black Series) - by David Schestenger
Elvis Puccini - by Les Zakarin
MetBaby - by Les Zakarin
"Prenez Soin de Vous" Installation by Sophie Calle - Review by Diego Costa

CONCERTS
Freda Payne Tribute To Ella Fitzgerald, Iridium- by Steve Koenig
Jazkamer, Sunn O))) @ RADAR Festival - Review by Carlos Gómez
Kenny Drew, Jr.: "From Chopin To Ellington" - Review by Steve Koenig
American Opera Projects: Composers & The Voice: Six Scenes - Review by Steve Koenig

FEATURES
Outtakes 5 - Players and Listeners - by Steve Dalachinsky
Vaginal Creme Davis in an original Performative Lecture/Oratorio
Bette Midler and the Continental Baths - by Jeff Auer
Does Free Improvisation Have A Future? - Tim Hodgkinson
Ben u Sen: A Photographic Essay In Diyarbakir, Turkey - by Savas Boyraz
Brainwave Festival: Out of Body, Out of Mind - by Chris Chalfant
Auschwitz Is A Drag: Bowie, Mussorgsky and Heroes and Villains - by Steve Koenig
Irving Stone Memorial Concert 2003 - by Steve Smith

BEST OF THE YEAR
Acoustic Levitation's BEST OF 2021
Acoustic Levitation's BEST OF 2020
Acoustic Levitation's BEST OF 2019
Acoustic Levitation's BEST OF 2018
Acoustic Levitation's BEST OF 2017
Acoustic Levitation's BEST OF 2016
Acoustic Levitation's BEST OF 2015
Acoustic Levitation's BEST OF 2014
Acoustic Levitation's BEST OF 2013
Acoustic Levitation's BEST OF 2012
Acoustic Levitation's BEST OF 2011
Acoustic Levitation's BEST OF 2010
Acoustic Levitation's BEST OF 2009
Acoustic Levitation's BEST OF 2008

INTERVIEWS
The Harley Gaber Interviews - Part One - by Robert Reigle
Defragmented Sound: The Music of Germán Bringas - by Steve Koenig
Yoko Ono: Not Getting Enough: #1 Dance Hit, Two Virgins & Plastic Ono Band -
   A Second Conversation With Steve Koenig

Gunter Hampel: On Monk, Henze, & The Universe - A Conversation with Steve Koenig
Yoko Ono: Action, Peace, Dance Peace: A Conversation With Steve Koenig
Noam Chomsky on Terrorism - Interview by John Bolender

MUSIC
Musicians' Gifts: Free Downloads
Tom Djll –Scape 1 and Scape 2 (ElectroAcoustic)
Radio I-Ching - Live at Downtown Music Gallery January 2012
Catherine Sikora - solo sax Live at Downtown Music Gallery
Groupthink – Psych improv Live at Downtown Music Gallery
Dave Scanlon and Nonoko Yoshida - Live at DTMG d- guitar and saxophone duo
Sergio Rivas - The Weather Is Hot: Homenaje a Charles Bukowski
David Grollman, Brad Henkel and Valerie Kuehne Live at DTMG 2009 - percussion, trumpet, cello
Tony Malaby and Ben Gerstein Live at DTMG 2009 - tenor and trombone duo
Gato Loco de Bajo: Live at Downtown Music Gallery
Bassentric and Steve Dalachinsky Live at Local 269
Steve Swell's Nation of We with Steve Dalachinsky: What Matters Most
Marc Thorman: On The Road: A Kerouac Musicircus (ElectroAcoustic)
Chris Kelsey and François Grillot: Smells Like Free Jazz - courtesy of Chris Kelsey

Articles
George Enescu’s “Carillon Nocturne” A Bell-Ography - Robert F. Reigle
Outtakes 6 by Steve Dalachinsky: Shipp, Perelman, Fujiyama, Poetry Books
Conversations - by William Parker. Book Review by Steve Dalachinsky
Outtakes- Take 4: Walter Thompson with Anthony Braxton, Cecil Taylor's 80th, BOAC,
   RUCMA and more - Column by Steve Dalachinsky

Outtakes - Take 3: QBICO vinyl, new CDs, recent gigs, Ashley's operas, Blitzstein, and more:
   Column by Steve Dalachinsky

Elliott Carter and The New Merkin Concert Hall - by Steve Dalachinsky
Under the Radar - Reviews by Robert Reigle and Steve Koenig

Record Reviews
Ella Fitzgerald - Someone To Watch Over Me - Steve Koenig
New Zion and Rudd-Saft-Dunn-Pandi - by Craig Nixon
Jeff Davis : Dragon Father – by Craig Nixon
Dane Rudhyar - Four Pentagrams, Paeans, Granites, Prophetic Rite - by Robert Reigle

David Kappy, French horn - Gone - by Robert Reigle
Billy Hart - All Our Reasons + Gig - by Craig Nixon
Gubaidulina - Canticle of the Sun - by Steve Koenig
Handel - Acht Grossen Suites by Lisa Snirnova - by Steve Koenig
John Vanore & The Abstract Truth: Curiosity - by Craig Nixon
Yusef Lateef and Adam Rudolph Concertos: Towards The Unknown - review by Steve Koenig
Adam Rudolph and Ralph Jones: Yčyí - by Steve Koenig
Son of Gunnar, Ton of Shel - by Steve Koenig
Najma Akhtar and Gary Lucas: Rishte - by Steve Koenig
John Adams: Doctor Atomic Symphony - by Steve Koenig
Alarm Will Sound: a/rhythmia - by Steve Koenig
Label Report: nonClassical Records - by Steve Koenig
Michael Daugherty: Metropolis Symphony - by Steve Koenig
Jon Irabagon with Mike Pride: I Don't Hear Nothing But The Blues - by Steve Koenig
Freddy Cole: The Dreamer In Me - by Steve Koenig
Mementos: Modern Orchestral Works - by Steve Koenig
Radulescu String Quartet Nr. 4 - by Robert Reigle
Machaut Motets: Hilliard Ensemble - by Robert Reigle
Textile Orchestra: For the Boss - by Steve Koenig
Reimann's opera Lear- by Steve Koenig
Reimann: Works for Clarinet - by Steve Koenig
Quatuor Molinari: Concours Molinari 2005-2006 - by Steve Koenig
Antón García Abril: Madre Asturias: A Collection of Asturian Songs - by Steve Koenig
Bright Sheng's The Phoenix - by Steve Koenig
Modern Jazz Quartet DVDs: 35th and 40th Anniversary Tours - by Steve Koenig
Wagner's Das Rheingold: Weimar, St. Clair, DVD - review by Steve Koenig
Mark O'Connor: Double Violin Concerto - by Steve Koenig
Mesut Cemil: Turkish Instrumental Improvisations, Vocal and Instrumental Compositions
    & Cairo Eastern Congress Recordings, 1932 - Yoram Arnon

Igor Stravinsky: The Robert Craft Edition: The Ballets - by Steve Koenig
Martyn Bates/Troum: To A Child Dancing In The Wind - by Steve Koenig
Viktoria Tolstoy: My Russian Soul - by Steve Koenig
Marcus Roberts Trio: New Orleans Meets Harlem vol. I - by Craig Nixon
Bipolar: Euphrates, Me Jane - by Steve Koenig
Dave Brubeck Quartet Featuring Paul Desmond, On The Radio: Live 1956-57
    - Review by Stefan Pohlit

Sonny G. (Salvatore Guagliardo): I'll Be Laughing Tonight - by Steve Koenig
DRG Records: A Label Report - by Steve Koenig
Drone Records: A Label Report - by Steve Koenig

Savina Yannatou. Primavera en Salonico: Songs of An Other - Review by Steve Koenig
Vassilis Tsabropoulos, Anja Lechner, U.T. Gandhi: Melos - Review by Steve Koenig
The Barry Sisters: Our Way (Tahka-Tahka) - Review by Steve Koenig
Fujiya & Miyagi: Lightbulbs - Review by Steve Koenig

STAGE | DANCE
Stage

Outtakes - Take 3: Ashley's operas, Zorn/Foreman, The Living Theater/Jack Gelber, Blitzstein:
   Column by Steve Dalachinsky

The Living Theater vs. HAIR - by Steve Dalachinsky

Dance
Paris Butoh Festival: Unwounded by Gravity - by Diego Costa
Outtakes- Take 4: Dean Moss/Yoon Jin Kim, Karole Armitage and Sally Silvers
   - Column by Steve Dalachinsky

Dance: Strings Attached: Joe Goode Troupe's Wonderboy - by Diego Costa

DVD | FILM
Bodies Being Bodies: Mackenzie's Spread with Kutcher and Heche - by Diego Costa
Origin of The World: Bressane's Herb of the Rat - by Diego Costa
The Torturing Cure: Lars von Trier's AntiChrist - by Diego Costa
'Tis Autumn: The Search For Jackie Paris, dir. by Raymond de Felitta - by Steve Koenig
Otto, or Up With Dead People, dir. by Bruce LaBruce - by Diego Costa
Outtakes - Take 3: Finnish film by Tuevo Tulio: Column by Steve Dalachinsky
Inside Out In The Open: An Expressionist Journey Into The Music Known As Free Jazz:
    A documentary by Alan Roth - by Steve Koenig
J'aimerais Partager Le Printemps Avec Quelqu'un - by Diego Costa

Virtual JFK: Vietnam if Kennedy Had Lived - by Diego Costa
The Politics Of Dancing: Tony Manero dir. by Pablo Larrain - by Diego Costa

POETRY
Barry Wallenstein - Framed Photographs, Instructions, The Walker
David Messineo - Nostalgia For, Returning To A House, Game of Tomes
Pamela Laskin - In Newspaper Sheets
Patricia Carragon - Almost Blue (trumpet and vocals by Chet Baker), The
   Handkerchief

Austin Alexis – Pandemic, Protesters, Safe
Ruth Ward – Jazz
Here Come The Orishas – by Marc Thorman
The Doll God and Us-ward – by Dean Kostos
Voices From The Dust Cloud (9/11/2001) – by Paul Sohar
Ask Later, Sir: for Ornette Coleman - Michael Jay Price
He Dreamed Mercurial Dreams… for Griffin and Lockjaw- Michael Jay Price
Steve Dalachinsky- Heavy Sleep
Steve Dalachinsky- Foundations

Steve Dalachinsky- Stuttering Napkins (For Paul Blackburn)
Outtakes 6 by Steve Dalachinsky: Shipp, Perelman, Fujiyama, Poetry Books
Nick Johnson at the Cornelia St. Cafe' 2011

Concept Score #31 - by Jake Marmer
Steve Dalachinsky - Poems for Butch Morris
Michael Jay Price – for Gilbert Sorrentino, Ben Webster and Pee Wee Russell
Concept Scores - by Jake Marmer
Reaching Into The Unknown - by Steve Dalachinsky
Window and Doorway - by Steve Swell
Eugenia Macer-Story - Calculations from Scratch
Elizabeth Veldon – Three Works
Tribute to Adrienne Rich: An Audio Celebration of Her Writings
Poems by Eugenia Macer-Story: Odessa Café, Bastille Day, Fitna 9/11
I Remember and The Passenger Seated Next To Me and
   – by Robin Small-McCarthy

Michael Jay Price - Tradition Trade Tragedy and other poems
Hilary Sideris - Four More Keith Richards Poems
Castled - by Susan Maurer
Agoraphobia and City Vision - by Austin Alexis
Back To Jack! An Audio Celebration of Jack Kerouac
Howl Yowl Redux: An Audio Celebration of Allen Ginsberg
William S. Burroughs Bash at the Yippie Museum Café
Hilary Sideris - Four Keith Richards Poems
Hands of Escher - by Jack M. Freedman
Linda Lerner - Four Poems
Avant-garde - by Patricia Carragon
Eye Sense - by Patricia Carragon
Guernica Revisted - by Jack M. Freedman
Generation Beat at the Yippie Museum Café
Cindy Hochman - Love and Medicine and other poems
Jungle Music - by John J. Trause
Playing - by John J. Trause
Matthew Shipp so/lo @ tribes 3/13/10 - by
Steve Dalachinsky
White - by Bruce Weber
No - by Bruce Weber
sometimes willy coos up to rhyme - by Bruce Weber
Sleep - by Barry Wallenstein
Seeing Charles (For Charles Tyler) - by Barry Wallenstein
In New Orleans - by Barry Wallenstein
Beat Angel Blues, for Harold Norse - by Valery Oisteanu
Steve Dalachinsky and Bassentric Live at Local 269
Harold Norse: Celebration of His Life at Cornelia St Café
Steve Dalachinsky with Steve Swell's Nation of We: What Matters Most.
For Michael Jackson (1982) - by Steve Koenig
The Ballad of the Bark - by Steve Koenig
For Miko - by Jim Ryan
Elves - by Jim Ryan
Can't Get There - by Jim Ryan
Just A talk about exCept - a mesostic poem composed and performed by Marc Thorman
McCoy ... McCoy (Tyner) - by Len Fraser
Score #1 for Synthesizing # 2 - by Vernon Frazer
Punkboy Blues - by Steve Koenig
1998 - by David Messineo
Grito Verde at Teatro Amazonas - by David Messineo
Uplift - by David Messineo
Paris - by Eve Packer
blue horn - by Eve Packer
for John Hicks - by Barry Wallenstein
Stones and Pillows - by Michael Jay Price

BOOKS
Conversations - by William Parker. Book Review by Steve Dalachinsky
It Still Moves: Lost Songs, Lost Highways, and the Search for the Next American Music
    by Amanda Petrusich. Review by Evrim Hikmet Özler



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