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Novo Navigatio (New Journey) is the Abstractions' third release of innovative and cutting sonic landscapes. This is "Vision music" that consists of a colorful orchestration of vocals, saxophones, guitars, percussion, strings, electronics and more. Also included is the wonderful sinking commentary about the disillusioned atmosphere of the current political climate we live and breathe in today’s world. |
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This is the second release from The Abstractions entitled, ARS VIVENDE (the art of living) |
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The Abstractions named by poet/author C.J. Reaven Borosque, was created by Bay Area musician/producers Ernesto Diaz-Infante and Rent Romus. From that creation out grew the collective ensemble you see before you. Taking elements from a cross section of music genres and backgrounds, The Abstractions present an unclassifiable raw set of new sonic surreal textures forcing thought and feelings about life and culture in the real world. Drawing from an improvisational body of knowledge, the unspoken words transformed to music, history, and social insight make up the musical repertoire. "Psychotic and gorgeously bludgeoning take on improv death-jazz, with harrowing and paint-peeling vocals, careening, falling-down-the-stairs guitar..." -Cactus, KUSF Muzzle |
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Afternoon Dream is the debut solo CD release of Paradise Camp 23 director Erik Amlee. His previous solo sitar cd-r releases have garnered much acclaim in many quarters. Brad Rose of Foxy Digitalis declared “Amlee's skill is apparent. This piece delicately unfolds like a linear dream about the sun's daily movement in the sky. With little more than a hint of delay to push the movement along, Amlee's playing is like a slow waltz at the moment the last rays of dusk are extinguished. It is simple, beautiful, and timeless.” |
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From the San Francisco poetry underground comes the voice of Robert Anbian, backed by electronic percussionist E. “Doc” Smith and Bay Area sax legend Charles Unger, plus keyboardist Sam Peoples and bassist Mike Shea. UFQ makes its own magic inspired by the music of Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk, and Bobby Hutcherson, with infusions of Brian Eno, the Grateful Dead, and something else. Notes Anbian: “I call the post-fusion, world beat jazz these guys play ‘acid-bop’ – it’s got more possibilities for poetry than the typical verse-chorus cadences of popular music.” |
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Ashley Adams Trio Music after the 1925 novel by Virginia Woolf, adapted by Phillip Greenlief and co-created by the trio. |
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The debut release of Gustavo Aguilar's Get Libre Group brings together prominent creative voices in improvised music from Northern and Southern California. Destinations explores a variety of compositions designed to highlight improvisation. Their preservation exists neither on paper, nor even on the recording itself, but within the space, place, and time of their realizations. These compositions are a study in organic awareness in the sense that the trail they leave in their wake gives musical form to the resonance between order and disorder. |
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Music for Curt Haworth Dance Company performances at Danspace in New York. Composed by Jonathan Segel. |
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In October of 2006 the Bloom Project performed at the Sudden Sound Series presented by the Krannert Art Museum in Champaign/Urbana at the University of Illinois while on their first tour through the heartland of the United States. |
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'Bloom', a spirited and colossal collaboration between pianist Thollem Mcdonas, multi-saxophonist and electronician Rent Romus, instrument builder Steven Baker, and drummer and found-object player Jon Brumit. The CD features free group improvisations as well as interpretations of numerous textual and graphical scores offered up by Mcdonas and Brumit. The entire album is an organic construction and expression of solos, duos, and trios combining disparate and divergent stylistic histories with a sense of refreshing immediacy, intensity, and spontaneous inventiveness. |
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Saxophonist's newest album moves freely between moments of introspection and delicate interplay to intense exploration and cathartic abandon features collective improvisations with another all-star cast of musicians, including George Lewis, Anthony Davis, Bertram Turetzky, Robert Reigle, Andy Connell, and Circumvention artists Jason Robinson, Gustavo Aguilar, and Nathan Hubbard. |
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Massanetta Springs, the second release as a leader by saxophonist and composer David Borgo, explores a variety of ensemble configurations -- from intimate solo and duo moments to full-on sextet arrangements -- and a broad palette of colors, textures and emotions -- from the post-bop robustness of Only in My Dreams to the provocative interjections of Oddity, from the delicate romance of Duke's Ellington's Sound of Love and In This Life Till Now to the gregarious interactions of Conference of the Birds and Pomodori, and from the earthiness of Scomotion to the subtle complexities of Heron Pool and the title track. |
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Throughout the career of CJ Borosque she has offered up her noise-ventures as singular commentary of psychological states of being that come from the intersection of her consciousness with society and the tensions that arise from that conflict. This album in neither nihilistic nor dystopian, but is instead a celebration of the vitality of the animal world and the veracity of nature. These tracks represent the wanderings of a mad mind that is illuminated by understanding on the brink of twilight. With this album CJ embraces her fear of madness and her fear of death and brings the beauty of both within the reach of the listening observer. This album is about the reconciliation of the human mind with the powerful and dark forces of the unconscious, which rises up in rebellion and stuns those who would deny the power of its presence. This is an album of great depth that belongs in the mind of any lover of truly raw vital energy that pours forth from both the belly of the beast… |
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C.J. Reaven Borosque is a San Francisco Bay Area guitarist, writer, and abstract visual artist. Coming from a family of “jazz” musicians, she began playing violin at the age of five, moving to the saxophone in her teens. After a brief hiatus from music she found her true love, guitar. Her preferences lie in a multitude of genres, with emphasis on experimental music and noise, using both de-tuned, and prepared guitars. She has performed with Kaylee Coombs in the ambient experimental duo Swoon Doll, Rent Romus' Lords of Outland and John Berndt among others. Her recent noise CD, “Machine” has recently been released on Edgetone. This album is her solo debut as a noise artist. |
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“The general feeling is one of vitality struggling underneath a cold, decaying darkness…its dark metaphors are well-conceived and the imagery is evocative.” -Splendid |
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Boxes of Water With Cory Wright, reeds; Noah Phillips, guitar; Aaron Kohen, bass; Harris Eisenstadt, drums |
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Critically acclaimed oboist, electronic musician, and composer Kyle Bruckmann, a fixture in Chicago's thriving experimental music underground, teams up with San Francisco Bay Area luminary musicians Ernesto Diaz-Infante (acoustic guitar), John Shiurba (electric guitar) and Karen Stackpole (percussion). This CD combines the discipline of a classical foundation, weaving together American free jazz and European free improvisation, with the raucous sensibilities of Dada and punk in a dizzying variety of artistic endeavors. |
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Jon Brumit's composed and improvised music incorporating percussion, electronics, sampling, found objects, and signal processing has been labeled "physically debilitating" and "intellectually refreshing" by art critics, and his performances have been declared "disarmingly powerful" and "extremely adventurous and explosive [for ambient music]" by rock and noise musicians. Not bad for an artist whose last release was made entirely with garbage from the San Francisco Dump. If you would like to be part of |
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This album was recorded at the San Francisco Dump entirely from items collected at the dump. As an artist-in-residence at the San Francisco dump, for example, Brumit made a CD in 2002 called "Piledriver," which samples the sounds of discarded objects including clock radios, bowling balls and a 16 mm movie projector. |
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The Abstractions 
The
Abstractions
The
Abstractions
Erik Amlee
Robert Anbian
The
Gustavo Aguilar Get Libre Collective
Amnesia 
Bloom Project 
Bloom Project 
David Borgo
David Borgo
CJ Borosque + Robert M. / INSTAGON 
C.
J. Reaven Borosque
C.J.
Reaven Borosque with Lords of Outland
BRUCKMANN/DIAZ/SHIURBA/STACKPOLE
JON BRUMIT 
JON BRUMIT