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Please join Larry Ochs & The Fictive Five on their first European Tour this coming March. Wildly imaginative stories in sound, by a quintet of veteran improvising musicians: Nate Wooley trumpet; Larry Ochs compositions, tenor and sopranino saxophones; Ken Filiano double bass; Pascal Niggenkemper double bass; Harris Eisenstadt drums.

Many will remember the music Reasons for Moving made for the Polish Label Not Two Records. A decade later, this early November, the core players of trumpeter Darren Johnston, guitarist Fred Frith, and saxophonist Larry Ochs, together with Frith's regular trio companions French bassist Sebastien Jeser and Swiss drummer Samuel Duehsler, are launching a week-long European tour at the Music Unlimited Festival in Austria.

Rova's tour kicks off November 8th at Sound In Motion, in Antwerp, Belgium, with a unique concert of the Rova Special Sextet: Rova Plus Belgian percussionists Jakob Warmenbol and Eric Heestermans. Below is a full list of upcoming shows!

Dear friends and colleagues, it looks like the New Year is off to a great start! We are delighted to welcome Rova to the Kato Bookbird family with two fantastic projects: The Rova Saxophone Quartet and the Electric Ascension! We met Rova member Larry Ochs at the Konfrontationen Festival last year and we think he's pretty awesome and couldn’t be more excited to present and share the projects with the rest of the world!