New Blog ......

After creating a website that links to this blog, I realize that if I make a new post here or on the website they won't update each other.  So for the sake of convenience, I'll most likely get rid of this thing.  Try going to adamformanpercussion.virb.com which will hopefully soon be adamformanpercussion.com.  Stayed tuned.

New Music Showdown at JACK

Come check out this concert.  Also, I have a new website.  And I think because they want complete control over all social content, I can no longer update my blog and have it automatically update my website.  So, I will probably post everything twice for a while until it gets too annoying and I just discontinue this blog.

ShapeShifter Lab and the music of Joe Fee

Please come down to ShapeShifter Lab in Brooklyn this Thursday night for a real special event.  The art work of Giulia Leonelli will be presented in collaboration with the music of my good friend Joe Fee.  I'll be there playing some things along with a bunch of great musicians.  More info Here.

Yeah, It's Been A While

I kind of fell off the grid for a bit there.  I had about a month and a half stretch where I had either a rehearsal or a gig everyday.  Then I had all these random gigs that I wanted to post about but they came up real fast I didn't get around to it.  Recently I've been trying to make a website and somehow include this blog but I've just been getting frustrated and not making progress on anything.

So instead of posting about gigs and things, there has been a lot on my mind recently and I'll just mention a few.

1.  Alvin Lee's death went almost entirely unnoticed.  He was my favorite guitarist in high school and my de facto rebuttal to "who's a better guitar player than Jimmy Page?"  While I have million memories of listening to Ten Years After, I'll spare anyone reading and just direct you to their biggest hit (with a great solo by Lee).  Also, go to alvinlee.com and go listen to the short brilliant solo/obligato playing under the vocals from Spider in My Web from 1968.

2. Richie Havens.  What can be said about the man who opened Woodstock?  The great interpreter of The Song.  Making you feel good even with sad songs.  He was beautiful.  If you haven't heard this, I suggest checking it out.

3.  Lastly, I'm deeply saddened by the passing of Dean Drummond.  Perhaps solely responsible for the continued reverence of Harry Parch, but also the genius inventor of micro-tonal instruments/compositions.  I was fortunate enough to meet him a few times.  I helped him unload a truck-full of Partch instruments and put them together.  He felt bad that he could only pay me like 40 bucks.  But I was student and would have done it for free.  I saw him conduct the Newband at Montclair State many times, and recently, saw a beautiful memorial concert there, put on by his former students.  Without expanding upon everything that Dean was to music and to many musicians whose lives he enriched, just listen to a classic:

Iktus at Galapagos

definitely come check this show out tomorrow

i'll be performing Okho by Xenakis at Galapagos in brooklyn

Butterscotch in Fredonia 3/22-24/13

  

Elevator Rose, QCNMG

Come down to Queens College tomorrow night for a cool concert of new pieces.  Should be fun.  Info

Pictures of Elevator Rose at Suburbia

Van Cliburn

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/28/arts/music/van-cliburn-pianist-dies-at-78.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0


The Times has a nice obituary for Van Cliburn who passed away today.  There's a video in there that documents the importance of his winning the Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in 1958.  Although i never saw him perform in person, I did see him interviewed live at the NYPL a few months back.  It was strange to be in the presence of a man who was about as famous and influential as a classical musician can be in the American culture.  A young pianist played some Chopin for him and as he started to praise her performance, he began to cry.  Have you ever seen an old man cry from beauty, and not from pain?  He was an incredible person.

  

Rock Shop Review

http://alonglosthero.tumblr.com/post/44006758935/long-island-roots-blossom-in-brooklyn-butterscotch

Butterscotch at the Rock Shop

Come down and support Butterscotch Stanley tomorrow night at 8pm. Playing with some great bands a the Rock Shop.

Also, great review of the Elevator Rose/IKTUS show last Monday here.

OKHO!

Here's a link to a  performance of Xenakis's Okho, for three djembes, from a few months back.

http://vimeo.com/42069940

Elevator Rose, Itkus, others!

Come on down tonight to JACK in Brooklyn for a night featuring a bunch of great new-music groups in NYC.  I'll be playing with Elevator and as a member of IKTUS.

Two Shows This Weekend

Outpost

Playing with Iktus Friday night in Brooklyn.

CANCELLED

Suburbia

Playing with Elevator Rose Saturday night in Brooklyn.

Hurel, continuing to amaze

Got a chance to see Hurel's Localized Corrosion tonight.  My friend Chris started curating a new-music series at The Firehouse Space in Brooklyn and performed this insane piece with Iktus +.  I think I'm playing with them there in March.  Here's an Israeli group performing it with the first bit of the score.

Trash Bar Pics/Upcoming Events

Also lots of shows coming up with Butterscotch and other bands.  I'll post about that stuff soon.

Butterscotch Stanley in Brooklyn

Come check out Butterscotch this Sunday the 13th, 9pm, at Trash Bar.  Info can be found here.  7$ gets you three bands and an open bar from 8-9.  Come on down.

Elevator Rose and friends from JACK in Brooklyn