For 6 days you can hear my song My Epoxied Rose from I'm in Crinoline played on Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone, BBC 6 Music

http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/freakzone/tracklisting_20090802.shtml

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Domenica ai Cantieri D'arte con il batterista Jimmy Weinstein e Debora Petrina, voce. ore 21 e gratis. 

Debora Petrina & 3/4 East Rodeo ore 22

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Domenica ai Cantieri D'arte con il batterista Jimmy Weinstein e Debora Petrina, voce. ore 21 e gratis. Debora Petrina & 3/4 East Rodeo ore 22

New Papershade Blogpost up re: Austrian and German Magic Squares




http://www.papershade.blogspot.com/

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Amy Kohn on iLike - Add iLike to your MySpace

Introducing my new blog: Papershade

 

 

Amy Kohn on iLike - Add iLike to your MySpace

Amy Kohn on iLike - Add iLike to your MySpace

http://www.nypress.com/article-19606-what-they-sing-about-when-they-sing-about-books.html

Night Life

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Amy Kohn announces her LUSTRETOUR UK ITALY FRANCE SPAIN SUMMER 09

solo piano/accordion/vox with songs from The Glass Laughs Back, I'm in Crinoline, and her upcoming extra-lustrous album

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Amy Kohn announces her LUSTRETOUR UK ITALY FRANCE SPAIN SUMMER 09 solo piano/accordion/vox with songs from The Glass Laughs Back, I'm in Crinoline, and her upcoming extra-lustrous album

I wrote/sang part of the vocal line for the fantastic Vincent Bergeron's title track to his forthcoming album. The song is called Automachie & you can hear it on his myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/vincentbergeron. You can read the lyrics & learn about the song on his myspace blog too. Working on this opened this Spring's musical window so wide for me.

In other news I just finished my new song about lizard-embossed floor tile, & I'm in the mood to Sing the Body Electric!! This summer I'm touring Italy/London/France, if anyone has venue suggestions.

Thank you! Amy

Dubbed a "Musical Devil in a Red Dress" by Legendary Producer Arif Mardin, Amy Kohn's new CD I'm in Crinoline has been receiving substantial on-air attention: BBC Radio 3's "Mixing It," BBC Radio 6's "Freak Zone," WNYC's "Spinning on Air," Kyle Gann's Postclassic Radio, the Netherlands' Concertzender, and stations in Germany, Macedonia, and throughout the US. Songs from the album were presented, recorded and in-studio on WNYC as part of a 2-hour program on Amy's music, which included her music-theater work 1 Plum Sq., recorded and broadcast for their American Music Festival. This Chicago-born pianist with a voice as "idiosyncratic as they come...which is all part of the fun" (Pitchfork Media Feature) gives us songs that are "not like much else you've ever heard" (- Three Weeks, Scotland).

The album, Co-Produced with Joe Mardin (NuNoise Records), features 13 songs composed, arranged and performed by Amy, leading her 7-piece band, a wind septet and an accordion quartet to melting ice-sculptures, epoxied roses, and seas of calligraphy. "I dig that Amy's lyrics are quite poetic, saying a great deal with so few words, just a couple of pearls to consider" says Bruce Lee Gallanter of Downtown Music Gallery. "Amy Kohn's new disc is one of those overlooked gems that most local hipsters might miss if they weren't so caught up in which trend looks cool this week." The album features photos by Merri Cyr and Design by D'steam. Sweden's Collected Sounds raves "I can't remember when I last heard something this special" and WNYC's David Garland describes it as "Boiling over with life. Instruments that you don't usually hear together playing melodies that aren't quite like anyone else's. You just dive in and enjoy."

Amy's first CD, The Glass Laughs Back is a starker debut, recorded on a 1904 upright, accompanied by harmony saxophone, cello, and water-bottles. The liner notes, written by Pianist Michael Jefry Stevens read "Listening to the music of Amy Kohn is like entering a very private universe of sound - something very intimate, special and beautiful…Her music makes uncommon demands on the listener moving between several parallel musical worlds (20th Century Classical - the Broadway Musical - modern jazz and of course the perennial singer/songwriter performing her own music). One can hear the influences of Charles Ives, Erik Satie, Carla Bley, George Gershwin, Stephen Sondheim, Laura Nyro and especially Kate Bush. These are quite eccentric influences yet somehow Amy is able to create from such a disparate palate her own exquisitely molded individual voice (as a pianist, singer and lyricist/songwriter). This is real music."

Living in a pink-painted Brooklyn apartment, but now with her Chicago-made Conover baby grand, Amy can be found playing her local avant-garde club (Barbes) and venues all over New York (Joe's Pub, Issue Project Room..), dancing around her place to Antonio Carlos Jobim like she did as a kid dining-room table, primping up for her house band stint with the wild Weimar New York cabaret, using her training in composition from Oberlin and NYU as a springboard to inspire neighborhood kids to write their own quirky songs, and gallivanting around Europe on tour, strapped to her motorcycle-tough accordion. In 2007, Amy played on a golden stage at the famed Klinker Club in London, and on a shiny Yamaha in a starry villa to peacocks and Italians, all of whom fell in love with Amy's joyfulness and sounds (UBI Jazz Festival, Mira Italy, in co-bill NientAltroKeDonne with pianist Debora Petrina). She and Debora also soared a fence after their dramatic show in the Festival Segnali all'Orizzonte, Padova). She's been back touring two times since, performing in festivals such as Woma Jazz in Modena, Geni Musicali in Vinci, and the artistic FoPA Festival of Performing Arts, set on the water in a former military zone in Pola, Croatia.

In 2005, Amy garnered great reviews of her solo shows at the famed Spiegeltent and Acoustic Music Centre at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and caused a stir at London's The 12 Bar and Ray's Jazz Shop: "Kohn is the kind of individual talent that the fringe is in danger of suffocating...Situated somewhere between Thelonious Monk's quirkiness and Suzzy Roche's sweetness, her music possesses, at once, a childlike innocence and a harmonically and rhythmically advanced sense of inquiry. Oddly Structured Beauty" – The Scottish Herald. Amy is honored to be a featured singer, along with Chaka Khan, Norah Jones, and Raul Midon, on a CD and DVD of legendary Producer Arif Mardin's music, coming out in 2009. Her compositions have been performed in the Women's Work Concert Series, Tribeca New Music Festival, and in the Flea Theater's Music with a View Series curated by Pianist Kathleen Supove. Her new piece: Cereza, commissioned by New York's adventurous string quartet ETHEL, premiered at the Winter Garden last December, and her piece Corset was just released with a short film on pianist Guy Livingston's DVD One Minute More. Amy is now lustrously arranging her new album, with songs about orange-shaped heartache, flight simulators, and Brazilian neon. 'It's great to be entertained by someone who is clearly so in love with music and sharing it with you.' (Three Weeks, Scotland)