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Released June 13, 2017
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July
EDT-4184
Released June 13, 2017

Animals and Giraffes is an ongoing collaboration between writer/performer Claudia La Rocco and saxophonist/composer Phillip Greenlief. The project explores the intersection of text and sound, and features a changing roster featuring some of the finest bay area improvisers.

  • Phillip Greenlief - reeds
  • Claudia La Rocco - text & voice
  • David Boyce - voice, tenor saxophone, electronics
  • Nava Dunkelman - percussion
  • Jeanie-Aprille Tang - electronics
  • Tara Sreekrishnan - piano
  • Evelyn Davis - prepared piano
  • Aurora Josephson - voice
  • Tim Perkis - electronics
  • Jon Raskin - baritone saxophone
  • John Shiurba - guitar
  • Karen Stackpole - gongs, percussion
Press Quotes

The poetry itself is inscrutable to me, a patchwork of mostly immediate images: settings and actions taking place now or in recent memory. But it doesn’t follow a linear flow, feeling more like stream-of-consciousness.

Craig Matsumoto, Memory Select

claudia la rocco’s voice is a quiet snarl: calm, measured, sometimes provocative, always defiant. – remember the way her legs spear and thrust – each track finds her accompanied by a different set of bay area musicians. – put the mountain in a box, put the box in a dumpster – rumblings and rattlings, abrasive synths, extended techniques galore, the sounds are sometimes with and sometime against, but always underneath. – your skin looks buttery and delicious – it’s la rocco’s voice that dominates, telling stories about ballet, the body, poisonous relationships, and sexual violence.

Phil Phactor KFJC FM 89.7

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