Articles by Nilan Perera

• 

  Jean Martin and Justin Haynes

  Freedman

  PUBLISHED Jan 28, 2009

  One of the true measures of artistic and creative ability is the discipline of limited means — what to do with a ukulele, a suitcase...

• 

  Les Poules

  Phenix

  PUBLISHED Jan 28, 2009

  Joanne Hétu, Diane Labrosse and Danielle Palardy Roger have been making music for over a decade in various groupings but retaining t...

• 

  David S. Ware

  Shakti

  PUBLISHED Jan 28, 2009

  While the blues has long morphed and changed the face of modern music, its feeling and ability to shape shift according to expression conti...

• 

  Lou Reed/Zeitkratzer

  Metal Machine Music

  PUBLISHED Jan 28, 2009

  When Metal Machine Music (subtitled The Amine ß Ring) crashed into the scene in 1975, it was received almost universally with shock a...

• 

  Tribute

  Noises On

  PUBLISHED Jan 24, 2009

  When Lou Reed released Metal Machine Music in 1975 he not only almost ended his career but created one of popular culture's first steps int...

• 

  Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky / Michael Greiner

  The Salmon

  PUBLISHED Nov 19, 2008

  The sax/clarinet/flute/drum duet of Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky and Michael Greiner expand less on the transcendent flip-outs of free jazz than...

• 

  Willie "The Lion" Smith / Don Ewell

  Stride Piano Duets: Live In Toronto 1966

  PUBLISHED Nov 19, 2008

  Toronto in 1966 must’ve been an odd place, musically, with rock’n’roll jostling the last holdovers of jazz for space in the bar scene just...

• 

  Zbigniew Karkowski / Tetsuo Furudate / Zeitkratzer

  World as Will III

  PUBLISHED Nov 19, 2008

  This release, performed by Zeitkratzer, is the third part of a series of compositions by composer Zbigniew Karkowski and noise artist Tetsu...