Trummerflora presents
Other Ideas at Kava Gallery
Sunday October 11th 2009

Frank Rosaly - solo percussion/electronics
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Nathan Hubbard - solo percussion/electronics

Kava Gallery
2804 Kettner Blvd San Diego, CA 
7pm - $10-5 sliding scale

Please join us for a special Other Ideas featuring Frank Rosaly from Chicago. This will be a double CD release with Rosalys new Milkwork CD and Hubbards two solo EPs, Aegis II and Drive (for JS).


Frank Rosaly, a drummer and composer currently living in Chicago, is a staple of the Free Music and Free Jazz scenes. Currently active in many projects throughout Chicago, as well as New York and in Europe, Rosaly has been navigating a fine line between the vibrant improvised music, indie-rock, experimental and jazz communities for the past decade. He contributes much of his time to performing with groups too numerous to mention in full, but have included Matana Robert's Chicago Project, Rob Mazurek’s Mandarin Movie, The Rempis Percussion Quartet, Ingebrigt Haker-Flaten Quintet, Jeff Parker/Nels Cline Quartet, Josh Abrams Remindring, Fred Lonberg-Holm’s Valentine Trio, and performances with the likes of Ken Vandermark, Michael Zerang, Von Freeman, Tony Malaby, Peter Brotzmann, Anthony Coleman, and many, many others. While not attending to his national and international touring demands, Rosaly organizes the Ratchet Series, a weekly showcase of creative music at the Skylark in Chicago, and dedicates himself to his own compositions.

Milkwork is the resulting work of one of Rosaly’s solo drum ventures. Milkwork explores the process of free-improvisation with both acoustic and electronically manipulated percussion instruments to produce a wild and gorgeous panoply of sound. Rosaly has developed a personal and often visceral method and approach to drumming, whereby motion is the primary element to the creation of sound. Deliberate gestures that may or may not produce sounds often leads to surprising, exiting and raw discoveries both for the listener and for the performer. Though a large component of Milkwork is created through improvisation, the music is constructed using many compositional concepts such as the Song Form, Minimalist techniques (ala La Monte Young, Steve Reich, Terry Riley), and 'additive' or layering processes often heard in modern electronic music. Milkwork also draws inspiration from the likes of percussionists Milford Graves, Tony Buck and Billy Higgins. Using contact microphones, oscillators, effects pedals and analog synthesizers along side an acoustic drum set up, Milkwork navigates a wide sonic palette: Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, Jazz and non-idiomatic grooves using unconventional techniques, dense Free-Jazz vocabulary, heavy drones and feedback, as well as a soft, subtle percussive language that evokes a varied and colorful performance. Like a pointillist painting, Milkwork utilizes seemingly spare elements of music that result into a melodious whole.

Milkwork is to be released in a limited edition vinyl version as a split release between Rosaly’s own Molk Records, and Chicago-based Contraphonic, Inc. This will be Rosaly’s second release for Contraphonic, having teamed up with the label to produce Little Hell Vol I., Apathy of a Cow: Chicago’s Little Hell, the first installment in the Contraphonic Chicago Sound Series. A tour of venues and universities is to follow immediately upon Milkwork’s release, and will continue into the coming year, as Rosaly’s touring schedule allows.

http://www.frankrosaly.com

Nathan Hubbards solo music is an amalgam of his work as an improviser, composer and instrument builder. Using acoustic and amplified instruments and a wide range of electronics, Hubbard creates a soundworld of multiple layers, where the music changes definitions of form, shape and outcome. This music has been presented in a wide variety of contexts, from concert halls and festivals to freeway underpasses and desolate mountain roads, and is documented on the recordings Born On Tuesday (2004, Circumvention Music) and Blind Orchid (2007, Accretions Records).
Beyond his solo work, Hubbard collaborates with guitarist Noah Phillips, percussionist Curtis Glatter, the trio ARC Trio and the quartet Cosmologic, as well as leading his own quintet (Nathan Hubbard/Everything After), octet (Nathan Hubbard Octet) and the large ensemble Nathan Hubbard Skeleton Key Orchestra. Hubbard is a member of the Trummerflora Collective.

This concert will be a special CD release concert for Hubbard, who is releasing two new EPs, both available from Castor & Pollux Music -
Aegis II - three noise tracks, extremely glitchy, focusing on single instruments. Good for scaring feral cats away.
Drive (for JS) - a rich, thick extended drone piece culled from field recordings, tea kettles and radios, in memory of Jesse Sanders.

http://www.castorandpolluxmusic.com/nmhsolo/

Trummerflora presents
Other Ideas at Kava Gallery

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Jason Robinson (saxophone) and Terrence McManus (guitar)

Sunday July 12, 2009

7pm | $5-10 sliding scale | all ages

Kava Gallery

2804 Kettner Blvd

San Diego, CA 92101



Trummerflora’s “Other Ideas at Kava Gallery” presents a concert by saxophonist Jason Robinson and New York guitarist Terrence McManus


                  San Diego, Calif. — The Trummerflora Collective and Kava Gallery present a rare appearance by two acclaimed American improvisers, saxophonist Jason Robinson and guitarist Terrence McManus.  The all ages concert begins at 7pm on Sunday July 12, 2009, at Kava Gallery in the Midtown area of San Diego (2804 Kettner Blvd, San Diego, CA, 92101).  The event is part of Trummerflora’s “Other Ideas” monthly concert series, now in 6th year.  Described by Bill Milkowski of JazzTimes as “a potent improviser…[with] thoughtful writing and bold instincts,” Robinson will perform set of compositions and improvisations from his recent album Cerberus Rising (Circumvention/2009).  A highly active member of New York’s experimental music scene, McManus will also perform a solo set and then join Robinson for a first time performance as a duo.

American saxophonist and scholar Jason Robinson is a Visiting Professor of Music at Amherst College in Western Massachusetts.  A long time resident of San Diego (1998-2008), Robinson performers internationally as a soloist (acoustically and with electronics), with groups he co-leads (Cosmologic and the Cross Border Trio), as a leader of varying ensembles performing his original music, and in a variety of collaborative contexts. His latest albums include his fourth release as a leader—Cerberus Rising (2009/Circumvention)—and the fourth release by Cosmologic, Eyes in the Back of My Head (2008/Cuneiform). He has performed at festivals and prominent venues in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Europe with a broad spectrum of acclaimed musicians, including Peter Kowald, George Lewis, Anthony Davis, Eugene Chadbourne, Earl Howard, Emily Hay, Jeff Kaiser, Toots and the Maytals, Groundation, Elijah Emanuel and the Revelations, Bertram Turetzky, Mark Dresser, John Russell, Roger Turner, Gerry Hemingway, Kei Akagi, Mel Graves, Liberty Ellman, Babatunde Olatunji, Mel Martin, Marco Eneidi, Lisle Ellis, Raphe Malik, Mike Wofford, Philip Gelb, J.D. Parran, Dana Reason, David Borgo, Nathan Hubbard, Michael Dessen, Contemporary Jazz Orchestra (at Pearl's, San Francisco), the La Jolla Symphony, SONOR (UCSD), and the San Francisco Mime Troupe, among others.

Described by Kermit Driscoll as “onto something new,” Brooklyn born Terrence McManus grew up in New Jersey and Connecticut. He has performed with Bill Frisell, Tim Berne, Ellery Eskelin, Herb Robertson, Mark Helias, Gerry Hemingway, Anthony Cox, Kermit Driscoll, Gene Bertoncini, Russ Lossing, Marty Eurlick, Matt Maneri, and Michael Sarin. He has performed at Carnegie Hall, the New York Guitar Festival, Ellis Island, and the inaugural month at John Zorn's The Stone. Terrence is a member of the Gerry Hemingway Quintet, the Kermit Driscoll Group, the Herb Robertson Ensemble, and the Hemingway/McManus duo. He leads several of his own projects, including the chamber ensemble The Dream of the Ants, with Ellery Eskelin and Gerry Hemingway, which recently premiered a new sixty minute, multi-sectional, through-composed work entitled, The Machine. Terrence's solo improvisations were featured in the New York City debut of the Fermin Cabal play Disappeared(Tejas Verdes). In 2006 Terrence formed Flattened Planet, a record label dedicated to the promotion of new, creative, and improvised music. In 2008 Terrence was featured in the book, State of the Axe: Guitar Master's in Photographs and Words, by legendary photographer Ralph Gibson. The book, published on Yale University Press, was produced in conjunction with The Museum of Fine Arts, in Houston, TX, where the book's images were on exhibition. Terrence has taught at William Paterson University, the University of Nebraska, and The New School in New York City.

For more information contact Jason Robinson at 858/204-8859 or jason@jasonrobinson.com. Additional information may also be found at www.trummerflora.com, www.jasonrobinson.com, and http://www.myspace.com/terrencemcmanus.



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A few artists for the upcoming Spring Reverb Festival will be performing live in studio with George Varga this Monday morning from 11:30am-12:30pm. The show is called "Fill In The Blank", and the performers will be Toni Pope (voice), Roger Aplon (poetry) and Nathan Hubbard/Nina Deering (vibraphone and voice). We'll also be playing tracks from other SR artists. You can also call in and ask questions at the number below. See you at the festival . . . . .

The toll-free studio number (where listeners can call in and ask questions) is - (866) 642-2468

here's link for the live telecast on Monday: http://www.amplifysd.signonsandiego.com/

and you can download the podcast here: http://www.signonradio.com/programs/fill-blank/

http://www.springreverb.com

Trummerflora presents the 8th Annual Spring Reverb, a festival of creative original music. Performers from across the US come together for this celebration of creativity. Performances will span across the wide vista of creative music, from the outer limits of jazz, free jazz and free improvisation, to underground hiphop, electro-acoustic music, noise, and beyond. The performances will be held at Museum of Making Music in Carlsbad on Friday, April 3rd, at Kava Lounge Gallery in San Diego on Saturday, April 4th, and at Soda Bar in San Diego on Sunday April 5th. Trummerflora continues to explore the theme of collaboration by hosting numerous improvisatory interactions between the collective and their invited guest artists during Spring Reverb '09.

Spring Reverb 09 is made possible through the support of:
Museum of Making Music

Kava Lounge Gallery
Soda Bar
Castor & Pollux Music

Accretions

Circumvention Music

The Trummerflora Collective is an independent group of music makers that embraces the pluralistic nature of creative music as an important means of artistic expression for the individual and the community, and provides an atmosphere that nurtures the creative development of its members.
"Trummerflora, or rubble plants and trees, are a special phenomenon unique to heavily bombed urban areas. The bomb acts as a plow, mixing rubble fragments with the earth which often contain seeds dormant for a century or more. These seeds come to light and those that can live in this new and special earth grow and flourish." 
- Helen and Newton Harrison

Venues:
Friday, April 3rd, 8pm
 Museum of Making Music
 5790 Armada Drive
Carlsbad, CA 92008
 Tel: 760-438-5996
Fax: 760-438-8964
$10 All ages

Saturday, April 4th, 3pm
Kava Lounge Gallery
2804 Kettner Blvd.
San Diego, CA 92101
(619) 543-0933
$10 general / $8 students
All ages.

Sunday, April 5th, 8pm
Soda Bar 3615 El Cajon Blvd. San Diego, CA 92104 619-255-7224
$5
 21+


Performers -
Roger Aplon

Author and Punisher
Borborygmus
Lisle Ellis (NYC)
Hans Fjellestad (LA)

Curtis Glatter (Detroit)
Half Monk (LA)

HING

Nathan Hubbard/Everything After

David Hurley

Steuart Liebig/The Mentones (LA)
Samuel Lopez
Robert M

Jim McAuley (LA)
Moment Trigger (LA)
Toni Pope

Marcelo Radulovich
DJ Tenshun

Bert Turetzky
Scott Walton

Ellen Weller

Trummerflora:
Marcos Fernandes (Japan)

Hans Fjellestad (LA)

Curtis Glatter (Detroit)

Damon Holzborn (NYC)

Nathan Hubbard
James Ilgenfritz (NYC)
Samuel Lopez

Robert Montoya
Joscha Oetz (Peru)

Marcelo Radulovich

Jason Robinson (MA)
Al Scholl (CO)

Scott Walton

Ellen Weller


Schedule -
Friday, April 3rd, 8pm
Museum of Making Music

8pm Ellen Weller + Bert Turetzky
9pm Jim McAuley + Scott Walton

Saturday, April 4th, 3pm
Kava Lounge Gallery

2pm HING + Toni Pope
3pm Student Ensemble led by Ellen Weller
4pm David Hurley
5pm Ellen Weller + Lisle Ellis
6pm Moment Trigger
7pm Nathan Hubbard/Everything After + Curtis Glatter + Roger Aplon
8pm Hans Fjellestad solo
9pm Steuart Liebig/The Mentones
10pm Borborygmus

with Robert M playing between sets

Sunday, April 5th, 8pm
Soda Bar

8pm Half Monk vs. DJ Tenshun
9pm Marcelo Radulovich
10pm Author and Punisher



Bios -
Roger Aplon
Born in Chicago, Illinois. No siblings. Raised on the southeast side near Lake Michigan and Jackson Park. Attended multiethnic, multicultural Hyde Park High School. Early memories include summers in the small lakeside town of Glenn, Michigan; swimming alone; growing apart from the family; Herbie Mann at the Stage Lounge, The Jazz Messengers at the Crown Propeller on Sixty-Third, Miles Davis at the Southerland Hotel, John Coltrane at McKee's on Cottage Grove, Billie Holiday at the Blue Note in 'The Loop' . . . Attended the University of Illinois-Urbana and the University of Chicago. Began writing poems. Married Judith. Founded CHOICE Magazine with Aaron Siskind and John Logan. Attended Roosevelt University (completed Bachelor of Arts degree twenty-five years later). Son, Jason, born. Worked many years as a bartender and restaurant manager. Divorced. Moved to California. San Francisco - eighteen years. Published Stiletto and By Dawn's Early Light at 120 Miles Per Hour. Father dies. Moved to San Diego to care for mother. Married Ellen. Published It's Mother's Day. Moved to Barcelona, Spain. Published Barcelona Diary. Returned to US. Widowed. Scattered mother's ashes in 2002. Returned to Barcelona where in 2006/07 The Man With His Back To The Room Poems 2000-2005  and Intimacies Prose Poems & Stoies were designed and published. 2007/08 saw the publication of three 'chapbooks:' After Goya: Disasters of War / Escapades / Improvisations. 2008 - No longer living in Barcelona having returned to San Diego to teach and write. Most recently was awarded a two month fellowlship (summer 2009) to The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico.
http://www.rogeraplon.com

Author & Punisher
I am a mechanical engineer (RPI, BS), sculptor (UCSD, MFA), musician (doom band Author & Punisher) and creator of the Drone Machines (and now Dub Machines) industrial sound controllers. Alongside fabricating machines and composing sound for performance, I work at the National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research (NCMIR.ucsd.edu) at UCSD as a mechanical engineer.

Drone Machines are custom made machines fabricated from raw materials and utilizing open source circuitry. The devices draw heavily on aspects of industrial automation, robotics and mechanical tools and devices, focusing on the eroticism of interaction with machine. The machines require significant force from the performer, aligning he or she with the plodding drone and doom influenced sounds that are created.
http://www.myspace.com/authorandpunisher
See: http://www.authorandpunisher.com/DroneMachinesCatalog.pdf for more details

 
Borborygmus
Borborygmus first rumbled onto the San Diego music scene at the dawn of the millenium as the performing unit of the newly formed Trummerflora Collective. The ensemble's energetic live performances can be heard on "No Stars Please" (2001 Accretions). The Wire described it as "collective improvising: a pool of players immersed in the unfolding of a continuous present, egos submerged in the sound stream. The stream's currents tug towards free jazz, the extremities of rock, the 20th century chamber avant garde and electroacoustic strangeness." Though active originally for about a year, the group's rumbling effects can be heard on many of Trummerflora's consequent releases. After nearly five years, Borborygmus reared its multitudinous head once again at Spring Reverb '06 to cast forth the gurgles and growls from the belly of the musical underground, and has continued to perform and record since that time. This set is usually the main collaborative set for Spring Reverb, with multiple guests joining in the music making.

Hans Fjellestad
Los Angeles musician and filmmaker Hans Fjellestad tours and records extensively as a solo artist and in collaboration with numerous players on the experimental music scene in over a dozen countries. A "mad scientist improviser" (International DJ Magazine) and "master of analogue synthesis" (The Wire), his music has been described as "unbridled sonic freedom... raw, almost shamanic energy that embodies the true essence of unrestricted music" (XLR8R). As filmmaker, Hans directed the feature documentaries Frontier Life (2002) and Moog (2004).
http://www.hansfjellestad.com
http://www.myspace.com/hansfjellestad

Curtis Glatter
Curtis Glatter is an American composer, improviser and percussionist born on February 20, 1972. Glatter was raised in Dearborn Heights, Michigan and began performing at the age of eight. In 2000, Glatter graduated with a B.A. in Music Composition from Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. In the past ten years, members of the Trummerflora Collective, Detroit Symphony, Pontiac Oakland Symphony and Camarada Ensemble have premiered his compositions. Glatter relocated to study in Vienna in 1999 and later the following year he was invited to study at Carnegie Hall. He has studied composition as well as classical and African percussion techniques at Henry Ford Community College, Interlochen Arts Academy and Oakland University thus affording him the luxury to utilize a wide variety of possibilities when composing and improvising. In the past 6 years, Glatter has been an invited guest to the Edgefest-Ann Arbor, Big Sur Experimental Music Festival, Spring Reverb (2005 and 2008) and December Nights Concert at Balboa Park and a featured guest on WCBN, WKPBS, WHFR, KSDS as well as given lectures on music at Coronado School of the Arts and San Diego Community College. The list of collaborators and improvisers Glatter has collaborated with includes James Cornish, The Dearborn Percussion Ensemble, Lisle Ellis, Hans Fjellestad, Marcos Fernandes, Emily Hay, Nathan Hubbard, Mike Khoury, Piotr Michaloswski, Jason Robinson, Justin Grinnell, Jules Ryan, DJ Tenshun, Al Scholl, Ellen Weller, Will Sonderberg/Defenestra, Tracy McMullen, Mark Ephram (NYC Shorebirds), Detroit's Climax Divine (1995-2000) and Joscha Oetz. Glatter is currently an active member ASCAP, a member of the TRUMMERFLORA COLLECTIVE, Founder and Co-Artistic Director for the new music concert series NEW SOUNDS DOWNTOWN in San Diego, California, a composer/performer in the collaborative ensemble Glatter/Hubbard, a member of both Nathan Hubbard Skeleton Key Orchestra and the splinter group Skeleton Key Percussion Ensemble, an affiliated member of the Center for the Promotion of Contemporary Composers and has written for the San Diego New Music Newsletter. Recordings of Glatter can also be found on the distinguished Circumvention Music, Accretions Records, White Rose, Cohort Records and the Castor And Pollux Music record labels.
http://www.castorandpolluxmusic.com/CG/
http://www.myspace.com/curtisglatter


halfmonk aka g.e.stinson

birthplace: kingfisher, oklahoma. early musical influence: mother and her family who were gospel musicians. after moving to chicago, began playing blues and hanging with cash mccall, hound dog taylor, willie dixon, hubert sumlin, etc. over many years mutated into jazz - world music. eventually co-founded shadowfax. relocated to los angeles, recorded and toured extensively in the u.s.. europe, japan and south america from 1982 - 90. success and eventual dissatisfaction. began exploring LA's outsider - improvised musical landscape. numerous collaborations followed including nels cline, miya masaoka, steuart liebig, alex cline, jeff gauthier, vinny golia and many others. curated the new music monday series created by nels cline and hosted at the alligator lounge in the 90s. at present, constructing laptop pulses, electronic texture and extended technique guitar noise mostly under the moniker, "halfmonk." file under jalapeno glitch candy from the pacific rim.
http://www.codedsource.com
http://www.myspace.com/halfmonk


HING
 
hING is a loose-knit but committed 3-7 piece ensemble of musicians from the San Diego area. Their goal, roughly, is to engage the high ideals of the Avant Garde with the musical aptitude and attitude of a Saturday night bar band. Their various members have roots in Pop, Punk, Metal, Blues, Country, and even Polka- strains of which can often be heard in their spontaneous, and sometimes chaotic, improvisations.


Nathan Hubbard
Nathan Hubbard is getting old, isn't worried about it, continues to spend late night at Termite Studios mixing the new Skeleton Key Orchestra record, hasn't cut his hair in over three years, continues to learn new things every day, enjoys absinthe, electric organs and cactus. Is gleefully awaiting the arrival of Elliott. Is happy this year to present his long-standing vocal quartet Everything After. Continues to dream music and write dreams. Enjoys writing bios that sound like they should belong in a high-school musical program. New CDs - Cosmologic - Eyes in the Back of my Head (Cuneiform), Nathan Hubbard - Blind Orchid (Accretions), etc. Praise the sunshine, the transition and brooklyn.
http://www.castorandpolluxmusic.com/nmhubbard/
http://www.myspace.com/firecliffs


Nathan Hubbard/Everything After
Nina Deering - voice
Nathan Hubbard - vibraphone, scribbling 
Justin Grinnell - acoustic bass
Jeanette Kangas - drumkit, percussion

Everything After is creative music ensemble led by Nathan Hubbard performing original music. An indepth look into traditional harmony, the music offers slow melodic movement based around the long ringing tones of the vibraphone. The group sets the vibraphone with melding timbres, from the beautiful doubling of voice to the woody resonance of the acoustic bass and percussion. 
EA is excited to collaborate with percussionist/electronic musician Curtis Glatter and poet Roger Aplon for Spring Reverb 2009.
http://www.castorandpolluxmusic.com/everythingafter/


David Hurley
Forward thinking drummer, multi-instrumentalist David Hurley exercises a thoughtful ear to bring a fresh and unique approach to improvised situations and compositional music. A contemporary artist, Hurley incorporates a wide variety of melodic and ethnic percussive instrumentation conveying eclectic vocabularies and coloring his sensitive organic approach to drumming which is why his latest album, Outer Nebula Inner Nebula, has been hailed as a “resounding breath of fresh air” by jazzreview.com.
For David Hurley music becomes a glue between past genres and new ideas transcending all too familiar archetypes. Born in 1978 he has had over a decade of experience contributing to a diverse variety of groups from punk rock to jazz-fusion, Progressive rock, dub, free-jazz, and world percussion music. Both Astra and Seesaw Ensemble, Hurley’s psychedelic progressive rock band and free-jazz collective, have been celebrated as best of in their categories in San Diego City Beat magazine. Astra is scheduled to release a much-anticipated debut on Rise Above Records (UK) in May of 09. Seesaw Ensemble has finished recording with Philly jazz veteran Elliott Levin to be released this year on Porter Records. A recent collaboration with Preston Swirnoff aka Prince Zohar of Habitat Sound System has produced acclaimed original dub music with and an album praised and mastered by Mad Professor. Outer Nebula Inner Nebula, Hurley’s November of 08 debut as a leader has already been breaking ground rapidly working its way into the ear of the jazz community.
Los Angeles’s Whisky a Go Go, the Roxy, and the Avalon, as well as San Diego’s Sports Arena, Casbah and Soma, and San Francisco’s Elbow Room are among the long list of notable venues Hurley has played since the mid 1990’s when he began his musical pursuit. Notably Hurley prides himself as an avid “street performer” setting up on busy urban streets with all percussion groups and sax and drum jazz duets which he states brings a whole new perspective to live improvisation. An extensive musical background with many years of experience, add confidence to David Hurley’s music and ability to crate and improvise with impressive vigor. Hurley plays music with a sharp emphasis on being a performer. He introspectively shines with lively expressions and a talent for his craft.
http://www.myspace.com/davidhurleymusic

Steuart Liebig/The Mentones
“A raucous mutation of Muddy and Ornette, the compositions are bi-tonal aberrations of classic blues lines and grooves. The melodies are a collage of beautifully malformed chromatic blues licks. The tunes feel vaguely familiar, but are rarely comforting.”

Tony Atherton: Alto Saxophone
Bill Barrett: Chromatic Harmonica
Joseph Berardi: Drumset
Steuart Liebig: Contrabassguitars/Tunes

Formed in 1999, The Mentones is made up of four members of the Los Angeles music with diverse and overlapping experiences. The members have played with Les McCann, Julius Hemphill, Billy Childs, Dianne Reeves, Ann Magnusson, Stan Ridgeway, The Fibonaccis, Rufus Wainwright, Lydia Lunch, James White and the Blacks, Motor Totemist Guild, Kraig Grady, Mike Watt, Joe Baiza, Greg Ginn, Mark Ford, Hazmat Modine, Eugene Chadbourne, Elliot Sharp, Nels Cline, Alex Cline, Vinny Golia . . . In other words, a wide array of disparate folks.

An exploration of american roots music fused with avant garde jazz practice. rocking tunes, concise solos and hard-edged grooves . . . with a little bit of california "outsider music" aesthetic thrown in for good measure . . . the music draws on a number of cultural touchstones:
Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Ornette Coleman, Anthony Braxton, Charles Mingus, Roscoe Holcomb, Dock Boggs, Hank Williams, George Jones, Albert King, Elmore James, Harry Partch, George Crumb, James Elroy, Raymond Chandler, Walter Mosely, Nathaniel West, John Fante

"(The Mentones) . . . will burn your tail. First off, this is an instrumental quartet that grooves, no matter what kind of cross-eyed time signature is spinning. Second, the manfully constructed compositions tug at your guts as well as your gray matter. Third, lawdy mama, can these knuckleheads play. – L.A. Weekly
"There’s a 21st-century blues current flowing through this overheating hybrid. Including many strains of American popular music, the Mentones weave them together to expand the language of each.". – Jazz Weekly

http://stigsite.com/mentones1front.html
http://www.myspace.com/steuartliebigthementones

Samuel Lopez
Sam’s mortally versatile ability in music can range from Free Jazz, to Avant-Garde Noise Music, to Extreme Metal. His multifarious talents allow him to literally turn anything into a musical instrument.  Sam’s diverse musical background combined with his progressive way of thinking can make for largely undomesticated performances with sounds and images that make nerves twitch, and emotions run wild.
http://www.myspace.com/ilovezsazsagabor 


Robert M
robert m has been active in the San Diego music scene for the past two decades as a percussionist, improviser and sound artist. In recent years, his work has focused on sample-based electronic music, creating complex, subtly-evolving soundscapes which can be heard on his eponymous solo release on the Accretions label and in his ensemble projects: Wormhole with long-time collaborator Marcos Fernandes and mrlectronic with Lisle Ellis and Fernandes. He is a founding member of Trummerflora, a musician's collective dedicated to creative music. A Tijuana native, he has performed in Japan, Hong Kong, Mexico and the U.S. He has performed and/or recorded with members of Trummerflora, the Nortec Collective, George Lewis, Le Quan Ninh, Mike Keneally, Ernesto Diaz-Infante, Rent Romus, Eric Glick Rieman, Michael Dessen, David Gould, Scott R. Looney and Ultra 7. http://www.myspace.com/robertm2006
http://www.myspace.com/robertm2006


Jim McAuley
Jim McAuley is a Los Angeles-based guitarist/composer/improviser. His solo acoustic work is "pan-idiomatic," incorporating elements of jazz, blues, folk, contemporary classical and "world" musics. He has performed with many of LA's improv legends, including John Carter, Horace Tapscott, Nels & Alex Cline, Rod Poole, and many others. His solo CD debut--"Gongfarmer 18" (2005)--was hailed by The Wire as "great stuff". His most recent album ("The Ultimate Frog", 2008) is a 2-CD set of duets with the late Leroy Jenkins, Nels Cline, Alex Cline and Ken Filiano. The New York Times (Jan. 4, 2009) wrote of this album: "Mr. McAuley's precise writing and playing is full of blues figures and rich-toned, acoustic-folk resonance. It's peaceful and rigorous music." An live album of the Acoustic Guitar Trio, comprising McAuley with Nels Cline and the late Rod Poole, will be released this Spring by LongSong Records.
http://www.youtube.com/jimstonecowboy

Moment Trigger
LA's premiere noise duo. Epic in scope, metal in feel, and harsh from beginning to end. Well WRITTEN noise pieces that shake the room pierce your ears just the way they want.
http://momenttrigger.com/
www.myspace.com/momenttrigger  


Toni Pope
Defying convention is common among "break-out" artist...singers and musicians who make quantum leaps into a virtual "twilight zone" of harmony and resonance, but once in a great while, an unconventional artist's work is so profound that connoisseurs of the truly different worldwide sit up and take notice. Toni Pope is such an artist! Toni Pope is an amazing vocal artist and sound healer who invokes sounds ranging from Tuvan throatsingers to Tibetan monks. She began her career in San Francisco and met with larger audiences in Europe, playing large halls and Berlin's Philharmonic. While in India she experienced night-long meditations in the caves of the Siddha sound yogis. Friends and associates describe the youthful Toni as an "old and gentle soul" who channels ancient harmonics from the deepest part of her being. Toni continues to perform a limited number of concerts annually but has lately turned her attention to the art of healing...or "vocal tone and meditative sound therapy. - Dave Powers 2007
http://www.myspace.com/tonipopemusic


Marcelo Radulovich: voice, various instruments
Born in Santiago, Chile, raised in Costa Rica and California, Marcelo is a musician / visual artist / producer currently residing in Cardiff, CA. Marcelo has performed and/or collaborated with Neil Carlill (Me Me The Moth), Merry Go Down, Gunther's Grass, Mike Keneally (Frank Zappa), David J (Bauhaus, Love & Rockets), japanese chanteuse and sound artist Haco and others.
http://www.myspace.com/marceloradulovich

DJ Tenshun
http://www.myspace.com/10shun

Bertram Turetzky
Turetzky has been a featured contrabass soloist in the music centers of the United States, Europe, Latin America and Australia. The response to his many concerts, recordings, lectures, writings and his unique sonic vocabulary has taken the contrabass from it's traditional role to assume the position of a major solo instrument. More than 300 compositions have been written for, performed by, and recorded by Turetzky, making him one of the few performers, in all of music history, to have created a large and impressive repertoire of music for his instrument.
He is is a prolific recording artist and has recorded for Nonesuch, Finnador, Son Nova, Desto, Music and Art, Incus, 9 winds, Advance, Vanguard, New World, and others as soloist, improvisor, chamber player, Jazz player, orchestra player, and Klezmer artist. He is also an acclaimed scholar/researcher in the fields of Jazz History, 18th Century Chamber Music and the author of many reviews, articles and the now classic book "The Contemporary Contrabass."
After the success of his book, Turetzky was named co-editor of "The New Instrumentation Series" [UC Press]. He is also a published composer, editor, transcriber and arranger of music for his instrument. His compositions are published, reviewed and recorded. Turetzky has also received many awards for composition from ASCAP plus grants from the NEA and Meet the Composer as well as many commissions.
Turetzky has been a distinguished clinician and pedagogue for over three decades, giving master classes, seminars, and workshops nationally and internationally. His knowledge of repertoire, performance style, and his unique approach to technical, psychological, and physical problems has made him a highly sought-after teacher. His master classes have been referred to as "life-altering."
http://www.myspace.com/turetzky
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertram_Turetzky


Scott Walton
Scott Walton has performed with luminaries from across the stylistic spectrum of jazz and improvised music. Active projects as a bassist include Cosmologic, the Alex Cline Ensemble, and the Isbin/Gauthier/Walton trio. As a pianist he has commissioned and premiered works by numerous composers, and has an interest in works for piano and mixed-media. Walton is featured on recent CD releases by Alex Cline (Continuation), Cosmologic (Eyes in the Back of My Head), and Ibsin/Gauthier/Walton (Venice Suite).  He is a member of the San Diego-based Trummerflora Collective.


Ellen Weller
Multi-winds/Pianist/Ethnomusicologist/Improvisor/Composer Ellen Weller divides her musical performance activities between improvisation, jazz, klezmer and classical music. An active member of San Diego's Trummerflora Collective ( www.trummerflora.com ) and one of the original members of Maiden Voyage, an all-female big band out of Los Angeles, Weller has performed with George Lewis, Vinny Golia, Lisle Ellis, Anthony Davis, Muhal Richard Abrams, Jason Robinson, Nathan Hubbard Skeleton Key Orchestra, Lesli Dalaba, Carla Kihlstadt, Ernesto Diaz-Infante, Hans Fjellestadt, Vanessa Tomlinson, Marcos Fernandes, Michael Dessen, Michael Friedman, Second Avenue Klezmer Ensemble and the Weller Family Jazz Quartet. She has recently appeared at several festivals, including the SF Alt Festival, the Spring Reverb 04 (San Diego), and the Big Sur Sound Shift. Her compositions have been performed in New York, Detroit, San Diego and Los Angeles, and include music for the 1996 UCSD revival production of Terminal directed by Joseph Chaiken.
Ellen received her Masters in Music Composition from Queens College of the City University of New York and the Ph.D. in music (Critical Studies and Experimental Practices) from the University of California San Diego. She has taught music at all levels, from kindergarten through college, currently teaching World Music courses and a course she designed entitled "The Music of War: Patriotism, Propaganda and Protest" at the University of California, San Diego. Her past research has focused on multicultural performance in San Diego, public arts funding and cultural tourism.
http://wellermusic.com/
http://www.myspace.com/ellenweller

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Trummerflora presents
Other Ideas at Kava Lounge Gallery

Burr-Weller-Kangas-Hubbard

PEA

Sunday, March 8th 2009, 7:00pm
Kava Lounge Gallery
2804 Kettner Blvd
San Diego, CA
$10-5 sliding scale

for more information visit - http://www.trummerflora.com/


Burr-Weller-Kangas-Hubbard
Ellen Burr - flute, alto flute
Ellen Weller - flute, soprano sax, clarinet, various stuff
Jeanette Kangas - percussion
Nathan Hubbard - percussion

A meeting point of two flute players and two percussionists. Or two musicians from LA who have played together a lot, and two musicians from San Diego who have played together a lot. Either way, it will be fun. We'll be doing several improvisations, several of Ellen Burrs graphic notation pieces, and new pieces by Ellen Weller and Jeanette Kangas.


PEA - Free improvisation by the people for the people. Total of 14 core members but averaging around ten at a time, some of whom know music theory, some who do not. A strong jazz influence played by those who aren't jazz musicians in any traditional sense. Rhythm and variation. Outer space soundtracks. Sudden snippets of lyricism and spontaneous space key harmony. It is not jazz, nor is it rock, funk or pure noise. Each rehearsal contains a new combination of instruments which each member is allowed to switch between to give all they can give with every new sound. Performances generally contain an brief epilogue featuring those who aren't core members (friends and non-musicians familiar with the band) taking over the instruments one at a time. We hope to show a new people's sound in that anyone can begin playing, feeling the music and learning to add the sounds they want to hear. The end of all music.

Main Members -
Brian Ellis - keyboards, tenor sax, electric bass, synth guitar, various
Russ Cobbe - drums, percussion, world instruments, various
Jerry Scott - trumpet, keyboards, xaphoon, various
Zach Hogan - drums, electric bass, various
Matthew Ripley - Alto sax, soprano, clarinet and trumpet, various
Ben Johnston - synth, alto sax, clarinet, electric bass, piano, various
Pericles Pipinos - clarinet, drums, various
Zac Coleman - trombone, keys, various
Tony David - tenor sax, soprano sax, flute, various
Josh Frarie - drums, acoustic bass
Moses Constable - electric and acoustic bass
Austin Reitz - alto sax, bass clarinet, bass, tape loops, and electronics
Phil Macnitt - tenor sax, clarinet and electric organ
Bryan Fultz - drums, various

PEATHEBAND.COM (under construction)
MYSPACE.COM/PEATHEBAND


Trummerflora
Musicians collective dedicated to creative music.
http://www.trummerflora.com/

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RUBBLE 2 - Trummerflora
Now available from Accretions / Circumvention Music

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