Sometimes one simply takes on too much in an effort to be constructively busy. And sometimes one simply doesn’t have enough time (or mismanages it) to work on priorities. This is how I was feeling last week after two shows where it felt like I wasn’t at my best.
The recent Sonic Demons Pt I group [...]
After much free improvised work the past few years, I am careening back into the realm of more structured music. It is a necessary yin and yang balance, but pendulum always swings…and to that end, I am working several angles.
One is becoming a better musician and player – more practice, learning, listening, theory, etc. [...]
The Overdub Club is proud to announce the completion of the HD video version of Nightsoil. We have worked long and hard to bring this former performance piece to a place where it can be screened. The premier is slated for Sept 30 at the The Exploratorium in San Francisco.
Nightsoil is a single channel video [...]
is the modern improvised music/noise trio of David Grollman, Valerie Kuehne and Lucio Menegon. Prehistoric Horse plays a very intense and dynamic form of improvisational music that sometimes borders on sheer noise but also incorporates the dramatic and absurd. The sound is a mashup of Paal Nilssen-Love/Han Bennink drumming with Fred Frith/Sonic Youth guitars [...]
…played the Boise Creative And Improvised Music Festival this past weekend. Did one set as Strangelet (with John Hanes on electronics) and another as Prehistoric Horse (a new collaboration with John, LM, drummer David Grollman and cellist Valerie Kuehne). The Horse did a lot of wandering about Boise and had a lot of fun just [...]
Albany CA is a sleepy little city that is part of the East Bay just north of Berkeley. A mostly ‘middle class’ (for the SF Bay Area) kinda place where people raise kids without the fears of many modern urban dwellers. It has a conservative 1950s feel to it, and from what I hear the [...]
Lisa Mezzacappa and Jon Brumit are running Community Music Sound Project/Gold Record Studios – a free recording studio every Sunday through mid-May at the Laney College flea market in Oakland. They have an antique record cutter and are inviting YOU, the public, to join them and weekly special guests (me, Joe Rut and John [...]
