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Category: Notes from the field

Svetlost w/Nilssen-Love & Vandermark pt. 4

Posted on April 30, 2025 by Ken Vandermark
Svetlost w/Nilssen-Love & Vandermark pt. 4

[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 […]

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

Posted on April 27, 2025 by Ken Vandermark
Damon Locks: “We Are Our People/Listen To This” exhibition at Goldfinch Gallery, Chicago

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’ “We Are Our […]

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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
Svetlost w/Nilssen-Love & Vandermark pt. 3

[pictured left to right: Vladan Drobicki and Kiko Novkovski] After a strong second concert in Sofia, Bulgaria at Club Singles on Thursday night, which pulled the new […]

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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

[photo by Can Inandim; left to right: Deni Omeragić, Paal Nilssen-Love, Ken Vandermark, Nino Spirovski, Kiko Novkovski, and Vladan Drobicki] Following a second rehearsal with […]

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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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Svetlost w/Nilssen-Love & Vandermark pt. 1

Posted on April 14, 2025 by Ken Vandermark
Svetlost w/Nilssen-Love & Vandermark pt. 1

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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  • Prime Cuts #4: “Love Power Peace” (Polydor, 1992), James Brown
  • Svetlost w/Nilssen-Love & Vandermark pt. 4
  • Damon Locks: “We Are Our People/Listen To This” exhibition at Goldfinch Gallery, Chicago
  • Svetlost w/Nilssen-Love & Vandermark pt. 3
  • Svetlost w/Nilssen-Love & Vandermark pt. 2

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