Dead Air Trio plus Dave Tohir and his Backbone

Got this from LA New Music: This Friday night some improvised magic will be happening in San Berdoo with the Dead Air Trio and Dave Tohir and his Backbone.

Dead Air Trio is:

Dan Clucas - trumpet
Jeremy Keller - guitar
Brian Christopherson - drum set

Dave Tohir plays the backbone a feedback trombone creation.

April 9, 2010
7:30pm to 9:30pm

Golden Avenue Church of Religious Science
2404 N. Golden
San Bernardino CA

Shadow Language and The New West Guitar Group 4-22-2010

Shadow Language, electric guitar quartet is coming to the west side for a show with The New West Guitar Group.

Shadow Language includes first rate guitarists:

Ken Rosser
Andre LaFosse
Ken Lasaine
Kevin Tiernan

The Shadow Language Electric Guitar Quartet is a contemporary chamber ensemble that plays music specifically written for electric guitars. Our program this time around will feature music by Paul Lansky, Betsey Biggs, Mick Goodrick, Fred Frith, Nick Didkovsky, Robert Wannamaker & a world premiere by Stefano Giannotti

Tickets are $10, available at the door or online at: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/106617


Thursday, April 22, 2010
The Electric Lodge, 1416 Electric Ave., Venice, CA 90291
8-11PM

Cort Guitar Workers Solidarity Concert Thursday, March 18

This is an important event that all musicians and humans with any sort of conscience should be concerned about. The Cort workers in Korea make most of the guitars in the world and were treated unfairly and poorly and then laid off when they tried to complain and unionize. Please plan on attending and help stop unfair business practices in the guitar industry:

At the beginning of the year, we asked you if you knew who made your guitars. What if you knew that Cort Guitar workers in Korea made your Fenders, your Ibanez, your G&Ls, and many more, in sweatshop conditions? What if you knew that hundreds of these guitar workers had been suddenly and abruptly fired for unionizing, losing not only their livelihoods but also their identity as artisans?

And you took action. You came out to support the Cort workers when they came to Germany, to Japan, and to the US - and with that support, we were able to have a meeting with Fender in January and show NAMM Show attendees and the general public something that we all know to be true: that guitars should not be a source of exploitation.

This year, after more than 1000 days of struggle in Korea, the fight for the Cort workers’ livelihoods has gone international like never before. This MARCH, we are going to have a second round in LA – with a second meeting with Fender and meetings with LA organizations and groups. This SUMMER, we are going to Japan's Fuji Rock Festival to tell hundreds of thousands of music fans the workers’ story. We are launching an e-petition, telling not only on Cort but also Fender and Ibanez, Cort’s two biggest business partners, that we believe cheap guitars don’t mean sweatshop and anti-union labor.

And we need you – artists and musicians, and community – to keep building awareness of this struggle. We want to put out the word about this petition. We want Fuji Rock musicians to proclaim from their stages that guitar workers should be treated with dignity, and the Cort guitar workers should have their jobs restored.

On Thursday March 18th, at SIPA (3200 W. Temple St, downtown LA), we will be having the second Cort Worker solidarity concert at 7pm --

"No Workers No Music, No Music No Life!"

Help push the momentum!

http://cortaction.wordpress.com

Solidarity Concert
$3, All Ages

Featured Performers:http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=6374199913352279728
David Tran aka applesauce
Sue-Jin Kim
Shin Kawasaki
Andrew Figueroa Chiang
Mistah Cookie Jar

With Johneric Concordia as your host and DJ ANT
See you all there!!!!


INFO:

Cort Guitar Workers Solidarity Concert
Thursday, March 18
7:00pm - 10:00pm
Temple Gateway Youth & Community Center (SIPA)
3200 West Temple Street
Los Angeles, CA

Text Of Light (feat. Lee Ranaldo, Alan Licht, & Ulrich Krieger) @ Cinefamily

This Wednesday night Text of Light in Los Angeles! This is a truly rare and incredible west coast performance:

Join Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Ranaldo, collaborating live with saxophonist Ulrich Krieger and guitarist Alan Licht, as he goes to the blasphemous extreme with live scores to the films of Stan Brakhage and other mid-century American cinema avant-gardists. According to Licht, Text of Light "does not perform soundtracks to the films of Stan Brakhage. Rather, it uses the films as a further element for improvisation, almost as [another] performer. While Brakhage intended for these films to be screened silently as films...[here] they are juxtaposed with the music, in a kind of real-time performance, mixed-media collage." But the evening doesn't stop there! The night also includes a screening of Parallel, an animation tour-de-force by mediamaker Huckleberry Lain, featuring music by Argentinean-born, L.A.-based electronic duo Languis.

3/10 @ 8:00pm & 10:15pm

Co-presented by NewTown and Los Angeles Filmforum

Tickets - $17

Cinefamily
611 N. Fairfax Avenue
Los Angeles, California 90036

Night of Radical Guitar: Janet Feder and Miroslav Tadic with Vinny Golia

Night of Radical Guitar: Janet Feder and Miroslav Tadic with Vinny Golia.

Amazing guitarists Janet Feder and Miroslav Tadic join up with multi-woodwind instrumentalist Vinny Golia to explore the outer limits of eclectic improvisation. This is a rare, one-time concert and should not be missed! Tuesday, March 9th 8PM.

South Pasadena Music Center and Conservatory
1509 Mission St.
South Pasadena, CA 91030
Phone: 626-403-2300

CD Release: Scott Heustis Group at Spincycle/The Trip March 4th 9:30PM

Come to the CD release of the Scott Heustis Group

These fantastic musicians play "Dangerous music. Improvised right before your eyes and ears, and without a net!!"

Scott Heustis guitar
Robert Leng sax
Jeff Schwartz bass
Breeze Smith drums

Only $5

Scott Heustis Group at Spincycle/The Trip

Thursday, March 4, 2010
9:30pm - 10:30pm
2101 Lincoln Blvd Santa Monica, CA 90405

Vinny Golia @ Asto Museum Feb.27th, 8PM

Los Angeles, musical legend, woodwind player/composer, Vinny Golia plays with his electric sextet this Saturday night @ The Asto Museum. The band features some of Los Angeles', best up and coming musicians. Not to be missed. Ensemble also includes:


Gavin Templeton-Alto Sax
Dan Rosenboom-Trumpet
Alex Noice-Guitar
Jon Armstrong-Bass
Andrew Lessman-Drums

February, 27th, 8PM

Asto Museum of Art
4505 Huntington Dr. South,
Los Angeles, CA 90032
tel.323 343 8607
www.astomoa.org

ALSO: So Cal Creative Music blog will issue it's first artist interview in the upcoming weeks featuring Vinny Golia. The series will continue with veterans and up and coming musicians from all around the socal area. Stay tuned!

Duodenum this Friday @ The WildBeast

Duodenum (Scott Collins, guitar & electronics; Carmina Escobar, voice & electronics) will be performing a live score to two silent films this Friday @ The Wild Beast @ CalArts, the new performance facility named after composer Morton Feldman. This is not to be missed as Collins and Escobar are two of the the most mature and interesting improvisers in the Los Angeles area and always deliver a great listening experience.

About the films: "Ménilmontant" (1925) by Dimitri Kirsanoff, a complex story about seduction, jealousy and prostitution completely narrated within intertitels; and Joseph Vogel´s "The house of cards" (1947) an avant-garde film noir about a man haunted by thoughts of murder and violence.


The Wild Beast is the newest performance facility @ Cal Arts

Time: 8:00-9:15PM
Address: 24700 McBean Parkway, Valencia, CA 91355-2340

http://www.calarts.edu

Thelonious Dub new home in Santa Monica

Avant/Reggae/Jazz band, Thelonious Dub takes up a new residency every Tuesday night at the Air Conditioned Lounge in Santa Monica! They offer up jazz standards/repertoire with an "Irie" sound.

Joe Bartone-guitar
Kyle O'Donnell-sax
Brandon Schmidt-bass
Sean Rainey-drums

No cover and drink specials.

Tuesday nights 9PM-12AM
Air-Conditioned Lounge
2819 Pico Blvd
Santa Monica, CA 90405

Open Gate Theatre presents: Cosmologic and Pask/McAuley Duo

Open Gate Theatre Presents:

Sunday Evening Concert Series
Sunday January 3, 2010

Eagle Rock Community Cultural Center
2225 Colorado Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90041

7:00 – 10:00pm

$10 General // Students, Seniors, and Series Performers $5

Featuring:

Cosmologic
Jason Robinson - tenor Saxophone
Michael Dessen - trombone
Scott Walton - bass
Nathan Hubbard - drums

Jim McAuley - guitars, various bowed and plucked instruments
Andrew Pask - clarinets, audio processing



About:

Open Gate Theatre was founded in 1982 by Artistic Director Will Salmon. They are dedicated to opening the gates between music, dance, and drama; between cultures; between the unconscious and the conscious; between emotion, mind and spirit. Open Gate is both an ensemble and a creative collective, combining image with sound, voice with movement, and poetics with light; Open Gate strives for a theatre that is both passionate and numinous. Open Gate is a unique approach to theatre; unified in its expression and impulse, diverse in its sources and disciplines. For more information, contact Artistic Director Will Salmon at ogtwills@hotmail.com or 626.795.4989.

Brad Dutz Quartet Live@ CYCLEWAY COFFEE

B.Dutz/J.Findley/R.Shaw/J.Dutz (perc/guit/bass/windz)

Wednesday, December 16, 2009
6:30pm - 9:00pm

Cycleway Coffee
5526 monterey rd, 90042 hermon (LOS ANGLES) right off the 110 exit ave 60, near Highland Park/South Pasadena/El Sereno/Montery hills/Montecito Heights

CAFEMODE presents EARTHWORKS 06 : 50 / 50 SHOW w/ music by GE Stinson & Steuart Liebig

This final Earthworks show for 2009 will feature 50 artists with work priced across the board at $50. This is a CASH & CARRY show and the pieces will go home with the buyer. Great opportunity for original holiday gifts !

LIVE PERFORMANCE BY
G.E. STINSON [ guitar + electronics ] + STEUART LIEBIG [ electric bass + electronics ]

curated by Kio Griffith

opening @ SHOJIN. December 15 @ 8-11pm. 333 S. Alameda St. Suite 310 (3rd Floor) Los Angeles, CA 90013 show runs from December 15 to February 15, 2010 www.cafemode.com

424-785-0303

WORKS BY 50 ARTISTS* + LIVE PERFORMANCE BY L.A.'S CUTTING EDGE MUSICIANS

EARTHWORKS started as a bi-monthly showcase of original art created by Los Angeles' leading designers / painters / musicians / photographers / fashion designer / illustrators / performers / dancers / actors + professionals from diverse backgrounds. *Current shows include artists from Japan and Europe. The shows' themes are freely interpreted by each artist. The collective experience of fine foods, art and music is open to the public at SHOJIN organic + natural foods restaurant.

Dead Air Trio @ the Arroyo Arts Collective

Reposted from http://jeremykeller.posterous.com:

Dead Air Trio , with Jeremy Keller-Guitar, Dan Clucas-Trumpet, and Brian Christopherson-Drums, will be performing at the space of artist J Michael Walker as part of the Arroyo Arts Collective's annual self-guided tour, the "Recovery Discovery Tour". Tickets for the whole tour must be purchased, the address of the artist's space will be provided at that time. The Dead Air Trio will perform at approximately 2 PM.

The Arroyo Arts Collective/“The Recovery Discovery Tour”
Starts at the Lummis Home
200 E. Avenue 43
Highland Park CA 90031
9:30 AM to 5:00 PM (length of whole event)
$10 provides access to all artist spaces

Monte Carlo 76 playing the new Gold line opening

Los Angeles based guitarist/composer/improviser, Jeremy Keller is a member of the fantastic band Monte Carlo 76 and they will be playing a free show on Sunday 11/15 for the opening of the brand new Gold Line in East LA.

BIO: Monte Carlo 76 was born in 2003 from the remains of keyboardist Gomez Comes Alive and guitarist Jeremy Keller’s former group Slowrider. Rooted in Chicano soul but inspired by the mellow electronica of Air and Stereolab, their debut album, The Monte Carlo Fantasy (TMCF), was critically acclaimed and garnered them an L.A. Weekly Music Awards nomination as Best Latin Alternative Band.

Much of the material for TMCF came from stories of people and experiences in Gardena, CA. Likewise, Marisela was influenced in part by the time the band spent rehearsing in an East L.A. neighborhood called City Terrace – a barrio so full of characters that stories just wafted in through the alleyway beyond the open doors of their studio. With the combined talents of co-producer Martha Gonzalez and luminous vocalist Marisa Ronstadt (second cousin of Linda), Marisela has a definitive feminine perspective, providing a subtle yet distinct departure from the previous album.

Marisa is a South Phoenix native trained as a mariachi singer with a love for R&B, while Martha is a veteran of the East Los scene as a founding member of seminal band Quetzal. The addition of seasoned producer Quetzal Flores, also of Quetzal, lends the new album a fresh sound. Harmonica player Tex Nakamura (formerly of funk band, WAR) further solidifies the slow and low sound of Monte Carlo 76 without typecasting the band into the oldie but goodie set.

SCOTT HEUSTIS TRIO @ CYCLEWAY COFFEE

Guitarist, Scott Heustis' trio will bring their exciting sounds to Cycleway Coffee every third Monday night of the month

• Scott Heustis -guitar
• Breeze Smith -drums
• Paul Spence -bass

Next Show is November 16th. Be sure to catch it!

Cycleway Coffee
6:30pm - 9:00pm
5526 MONTEREY RD. HERMON (LA) 90042
(right off the 110 near Highland park/South pasadena/Montecito Heights)

Performance: Cryptonight @ MONA Presents: Daren Burns' Onibaba

Daren Burns' ONIBABA performs post Jazz/Rock explorations featuring:

Ulrich Krieger (Lou Reed, Lee Ranaldo, Andrew W.K., Merzbow) - Woodwinds
Daren Burns (Vinny Golia, John Drumbo French, Wadada Leo Smith)- Fretless Bass
George McMullen (Tom Waits, Vinny Golia, Stevie Wonder)- Trombone
Eric Klerks (The Magic Band, John Drumbo French)- Guitar
Craig Bunch (John Drumbo French, Vinny Golia, The Magic Band)- Drumset
Kio Griffith - Live Video

INFO:

Daren Burns, fretted and fretless electric bass player, composer, and improviser has been playing and composing music for over twenty years. Much of his musical interest lies in the area of improvisation and how to make new systems for developing improvisation in new ways. In the last few years he has also become interested in Indian rhythmic and melodic systems.

His ensemble, Onibaba exists between composition and improvisation and is described as being somewhere between the light and the dark, the ethereal and the earthly - Creative Music. Created by Daren Burns in 2006, the band synthesizes its sound by using elements of the Chicago avant-garde, jazz, rock, world, techno, noise, and classical, to create a new type of fusion that is definitely not the smooth, funky jazz of the 80's and 90's, but a new living music.

In live performance, the band is also committed to the use of live video images to expand the ensemble from sound to sight. The video doesn't act as a narrative or as a background, but as a sixth element and contributor to the performance.

Museum of Neon Art
136 4th Street
Los Angeles CA 90013
Tel: (213) 626-0775
Web: www.neonmona.org
Cover: $10 at the door

Onibaba website

Urban Nerds Website