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Month: April 2025

Svetlost w/Nilssen-Love & Vandermark pt. 4

Posted on April 30, 2025 by Ken Vandermark
Paal Nilssen-Love and Kiko Novkovski

After arriving in Skopje, Macedonia on April 12th to begin work with Svetlost (Kiko Novkovski [drums], Deni Omeragić [electric bass], and Nino Spirovski [Bb clarinet, tenor & […]

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Posted in Notes from the field, Performances

Damon Locks: “We Are Our People/Listen To This” exhibition at Goldfinch Gallery, Chicago

Posted on April 27, 2025 by Ken Vandermark

Thankful to be back in Chicago after the project with Svetlost and Paal Nilssen-Love (more on the second half of that tour shortly) and in time to see Damon Locks’ […]

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Posted in Notes from the field, Observations

Svetlost w/Nilssen-Love & Vandermark pt. 3

Posted on April 20, 2025 by Ken Vandermark
Vladan Drobicki and Kiko Novkovski

After a strong second concert in Sofia, Bulgaria at Club Singles on Thursday night, which pulled the new material into sharper focus, the group set up and recorded […]

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Posted in Notes from the field, Performances, Recordings

Svetlost w/Nilssen-Love & Vandermark pt. 2

Posted on April 16, 2025 by Ken Vandermark
Svetlost w/Nilssen-Love & Vandermark pt. 2

Following a second rehearsal with Deni Omeragić, Nino Spirovski, and Kiko Novkovski on Monday afternoon, Paal Nilssen-Love joined the project on Tuesday after flying from Chicago […]

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Posted in Notes from the field, Observations

Album coverage: “Broadcast Transformer” and “This Is Not A Holiday”

Posted on April 15, 2025 by Ken Vandermark
Album coverage: "Broadcast Transformer" and "This Is Not A Holiday"

The process of creating new work and documenting it has been essential to me for decades, driven by periods early on when both were difficult and the knowledge that Herbie […]

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Posted in Notes from the field

Svetlost w/Nilssen-Love & Vandermark pt. 1

Posted on April 14, 2025 by Ken Vandermark

Rehearsals with Deni Omeragić, Kiko Novkovski (pictured above), and Nino Spirovski of Svetlost began in Skopje on April 13th.  We were able to work through four out of […]

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Posted in Notes from the field, Observations

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