Mab Lab will be entering the studio to record in late May 2010.  the songs are selected pre-production is in the works and the lab will be in full effect going forward. 

In the meantime you can get a little lab fix by checking out Kate’s new album  “After the Traffic”  available March 22nd on i-tunes/ amazon MP3/ Rhapsody etc.. And her release party is march 27th at the earth house. http://earthhousecollective.org  You’ll be able to pick up a limited edition CD copy of “After the Traffic” at that show.

You can catch Mab Lab’s E. Brown April 3rd doing an experimental live PA/Dj set at the 2nd annual Blank Slate improv music festival which is also at the Earth House. 6-11 pm

You can rock with multi-instrumentalist Ande Shaul be checking out his band Picture Yes around Indianapolis.

And you can catch Dj Dicky Fox around the art scene or various DJ gigs around Nap.

We still have copies available of the new limited edition CD “New Year Revolution”  holla!

JANUARY-

• Jookabox Remix Project  featuring Ligyro, Nomar Slevik, Amtrak, Id Obelus, Yeti-One, Brad Dujmovic, and Whois Louis
• New Release–s.a.i.n.t. RECON on the 26th
• Amtrak to perform at half-way to Forecastle Festival Show w/ Kid Sister and many more.

FEBRUARY-

MAB LAB / Jookabox / Twin Monster  LIVE at the Vogue on 2/5/09

MARCH-

Kate Lamont – “After the Traffic”

And there is a slew of artists with new projects in the works including MAb LAB, Whois Louis,Id Obelus, and e. Brown.

Kate Lamont, Mab Lab/Blueprintmusic vocalist

Versatile vocalist Kate Lamont describes her decade as one of “musical education and collaboration.” In 2001, she emerged as the silky-toned chanteuse of trip-hop act Mab Lab. In 2004, Lamont shifted gears to become the bracing voice of banjo-and-mandolin group Blueprintmusic. “I’ve floated through so many styles,” says Lamont, who also worked with the percussion-centric Undefeatable Beats. “Different ways of rehearsing and writing.”

 Now: Lamont will issue her first solo album, “After the Traffic,” in 2010. She refers to the project as a minimalist collection of piano-based songs. “I’m excited to finally put together a show of stuff I came up with,” she says. A March 27 record-release event is planned at Earth House Collective, the Downtown activist haven where Lamont works as operations manager.

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 ”After the Traffic” coming March 2010 only on Audio Recon digital!!!!  GO KATE!

Saturday, Jan. 23rd

music (3 stages).

• Kid Sister
• LA Riots
• Trash Yourself (DJ set)
• Jesse Jamz
• Lady Foursquare
• Kid Color
• DJ Amtrak
• OK Deejays
• Jason Clark (of SKL)
• Laylow
• Sam Gracie

art and activities.

• Nautical Fashion Show
• Live Graffiti Artists
• Ice Sculptures
• Break Dancing
• Poster Signings
• Light and laser shows by Video Artist Benji Ramsey

activism.

• An evening silent auction and raffle will be held for signed merchandise, signed poster from artist Jeff Gaither, a copy of DJ Hero, and a pair of VIP and after-party passes to the 2010 Forecastle Festival. All proceeds will benefit
• The Surfrider Foundation ~ an environmental non-profit dedicated to the protection and enhancement of the world’s beaches and oceans through conservation, activism, research, and education.

TICKET INFO

Tickets at eTix.com and ear-X-tacy Records (map)
18+ | $15 in advance | Very Limited Capacity

VENUE INFO

The Electric Blue (map)
835 E. Main Street
Louisville, KY 40206

 present Ken Aldcroft with special guests LA Jenkins (columbus,oh) and the Neil Cain Eric Brown duo http://www.kenaldcroft.com/

The Canadian composer/improviser/jazz guitarist will make his Indianpolis debut performance at the Indy Hostel on Nov 7th With Special Guests LA JENKINS and the Neil Cain Eric Brown duo. With a rigorous and pan-idiomatic approach to both composition and improvisation, guitarist Ken Aldcroft is a key practitioner in Toronto’s dynamic creative music scene. After establishing himself as a compelling new voice in the jazz scene of his hometown, Vancouver, Ken moved to Toronto in 2001 and quickly made connections with like-minded collaborators. Since then, his own multi-faceted development as an improvising guitarist, bandleader, composer, producer, and organizer has corresponded with the re-emergence of Toronto as an important centre for creative improvised music-making. As a guitarist, Ken extends the jazz tradition that lies at the core of his music education. Through his commitment to a wide-open field of musical influence and to forging new collaborative ties, Ken has systematically sought new and challenging contexts in which to improvise. As a result, his playing reflects the breadth of his interests, from the extended bebop of a jazz repertory project like Hat and Beard to the languages of European improvisation and noise music that he explores in collective improvisation settings like Aldcroft/Oswald/Snow/Valdivia. This variety comes into its fullest view on Ken’s brand-new solo project, Vocabulary (TRP-SS01-008), a passionate musical reflection on his ongoing development as an improvising guitarist. As a bandleader, Ken’s projects have provided increasingly nuanced contexts in which his compositional and ensemble-related ideas find voice.

The evolution of the Ken Aldcroft Convergence Ensemble reflects his development in these regards as well as the expanding scope of music played by groups under his leadership. While his Group, Quartet and Trio + 1, his trio of projects during the early 2000s, synthesized models from jazz and derivative musical traditions, the Convergence Ensemble expands the frame of stylistic reference and conceptual depth considerably. Three recordings by the Convergence Ensemble, The Great Divide(2006), Trolleys(to be released December 2008), and Our Hosptality (to be released Spring of 2009), all on Trio Records, are clear testimony to this fact. Concurrent with this trajectory as a performing musician is Ken’s commitment to supporting the scene of creative music in Toronto as an organizer and producer. He was a founding Board member and the first President of the Association of Improvising Musicians Toronto. AIMToronto’s formation in 2005 was instigated in part by concert and series programming that Ken had been doing with Joe Sorbara, with whom he founded the Leftover Daylight Series, a weekly series of creative music that is approaching its fifth anniversary in late 2008. Since then, AIMToronto has helped to bolster the reputation of Toronto’s creative music scene locally, nationally, and internationally. For his integral role in organizing AIMToronto collaborations with artists like Anthony Braxton, William Parker, Jean Derome, Joe McPhee, Eddie Prévost, Michael Moore, and Malcolm Goldstein, Ken has ensured that the world-class calibre of Toronto musicians has gained considerably wider recognition.

 LA Jenkins  http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/musician.php?id=18050

Style of playing/ creative endeavor: modern jazz, / free improvisations, ambient/ experimental and first generation jazz/rock. L.A.’s influences and playing experience are diverse. He grew up in Columbus Ohio performing with funk and rock groups in several major market cities. L.A.’s major endeavor as an artist is first the creative style of avant-garde music. L.A. decided to play this style of music after hearing the “Art Ensemble of Chicago”, “Live in Berlin”. Sun Ra was L.A.’s, Jimmy Hendrix. Residing in the mid-west L.A. followed the prerequisite learning of popular music due to the limited access and peer instruction of creative avant-garde music. L.A. studied performance music at Eastern New Mexico University; but by his own assertion he is primarily a self taught guitarist.

L.A. has studied the “Harmolodic” approach to harmony/theory as developed and performed by Ornette Coleman. L.A. stated, that he mainly sees himself as a composer primarily and an explorer of new sounds.

The guitar is his voice for his musical expression and aspirations, and his instrument is the implementer for his musical sojourns. Over the last several years L.A. has released several CDs. Noted musical releases are: “Fade to Go”, “Unknown Man,” “Persistence of Vision”, “Momentum into Nothingness” and two new 2009 releases: “Man Danced Funny” and “Inability to Fly.” In the last few years L.A. have performed and recorded with many creative musicians and some of his major collaborators are: drummer /percussionist Ryan Jewell, bassist Tom Abbs and sound sampler /drummer Chris Murray just to highlight a few of these very creative artists. L.A. is currently in the process of working on several new projects and collaborations. These new projects are with Gary Thompson on saxophone, programmer Bryan Stewart, trumpeter Martin Ripple and multi instrumentalist drummer/synthesist Adam West.

A great benefit for Breast Cancer Research.

DO NOT MISS  2nd Annual ROCKERS for KNOCKERS Concert.
 
All Ages. Continental Ballroom. 920
Millbrook Ln. Kokomo, IN.  $5 @ Door. 6pm-
 
Rockers for Knockers MENU
by Rozzi’s Catering
Available for purchase ALL night, So come have dinner with us too!
 
Pulled Pork
Chicken Philly’s
Nachos with cheese
Hot Dogs (kids love them and adults too)
Chips
Popcorn
 
PLUS Full bar and soft drinks!!

LIVE EVENTS coming up
MAB LAB w/ Twin Monster OCT 2nd at the Melody Inn
MAB LAB at the Vogue Broadripple Music Fest kickoff party w/ Johnny Socko
Children of the Corn CD RELEASE SHOW OCt 29th at the Melody Inn